December 5, 2022 • 46 mins
Will is live at the Fan Expo in San Francisco where he is joined by the legendary voice over actor Steve Blum!
Steve talks about his Guinness World Records, Wolverine and how free pizza started his voice acting career.
Plus, Will and Steve have some fun doing impressions with members of the audience.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wilferdel huge round of applause, San Francisco. Thanks for coming
so early on a Sunday morning too, I Hear Voices.
Unfortunately Christy is not here, but we're really excited for
a number of reasons. One because everybody's packing up here,
and because the idea that everybody gets to be a
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voice over actor is really exciting to me. Um. So
I'm gonna start by, Uh, you know, we've talked about
this on the podcast quite a bit, but we're really
starting to announce the super awesome contest to become the
next big voice actor. So if you listen to I
Hear Voices, we have partnered with I Heart and we
are doing a straight up American Idol style search for
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the next big voice over actor in the country. Unfortunately, UM,
we couldn't get an awesome voice over actor to sit
with us today UM and talk as our guest. We
are stuck with some guy named Steve. Um. I don't
know anything about him. Frankly, Um. They they threw him
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on me yesterday. They're like, what do you what do
you think of Steve? And I'm like, who's Steve Burg? Um?
So yes I am. I am going to bring up
our guests because he's pretty awesome and an old and
close friend of mine and a multi Guinness Book of
World record holder. That's the truth and we will get
into that. So can you please help me Welcome the
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amazing Steve Bloom. Thank you so much. I love that
you said that they threw me on you like that
was a bad thing, and it was in the first time,
by the way. So I was trying to first of all, welcome,
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uh you. You are here for two wonderful reasons, because
the live shows are awesome. You're gonna get to see everybody,
and they're incredible voices, and nowhere else to go. You
have nowhere else to so um, it's like you get
these amazing things to come and join us. Uh okay.
I was trying to figure out last night. Do you
remember the first time we've actually met? Uh? I think
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it was you were pole dancing? Yep, correct. Do you
remember the name of the place? It was Wheezies. It
was good memory and that's the sound he makes on
a pole, which is really odd. I am the out
of shape pole danswer we met. I do know where
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it was. It was on a Transformers thin was we
were at Mark Rouse studio with your son, with my
son who who came, and I think we were watching
what they liked. For some reason, you and I had
to both watch a Transformers thing we did to then
jump into the next thing. It was weird and we
like screen something, and I remember just trying to keep
it cool because I was such a fan of yours.
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At it was just like, no, man, it's whatever, I'm
hanging out like. It's just totally well. You were star
Scream first of all, which is the greatest thing, in
arguably the greatest Transformer since jan One, which is prime. Yes,
don't break the table. I'm not too We're excited there.
So yeah, this is all a rental um. So okay,
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well we're gonna get into Transformers, we're gonna get into Wolverine.
We're going to get into all the amazing things you've done.
But I want to take it back to the beginning.
How did you realize this is what you wanted to do?
I didn't. I didn't know before I do that though,
I have to tell you that when when me and
my son encountered him, he was bumblebee. He was speaking bumblebee.
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It was weird, right, It was so exciting for both
of us. I had known your history anyway, so I
was I was super excited, and I, well, you're a
fan of yours. Yeah, you are also a regular wheezy.
But I was trying to hold it together in that
come on, and so was my My son didn't told
it together, as I recall. Yeah, um, anyway, that was.
That was amazing, and our relationship is blossoms. It has well,
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we're D and D buddies. We'll get into all that
lay yes, yeah, um, but no, I had no idea
that I was going to do this. I really even
think it was a viable job. And neither did my parents.
Uh and and they still didn't for many, many years
until I brought them to some convention and I was
on stage and my dad was asking my sister why
all these people were there because they're not there to
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see him? Are there? She said, yeah, Dad, shut up
and watch. It was great. Um, but I did it
for fun. I did just did it for fun. For
years and years and years, I was playing in an
R and B band, and that's what I wanted to do.
So you wanted to be a musician, you want You
didn't want to be an actor? At all, Not at all.
I hated the whole idea of acting. I worked at
a film studio for my day job, and everybody at
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the studio wanted to be an actor. And the head
of the mail room where I was working, his name
was Victor Garcia. He was casting a japanimation program and
he just needed bodies in the room to audition for
this thing. Nobody knew how to do it back then,
and he knew that I had the deepest voice in
the mail room and he needed somebody could roar, which
I did all the time. So he brought me into
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a studio on the weekend. And the only reason I
showed up is because it gave me free pizza. Are
you kidding me? That's literally the only reason I showed up.
I had no intention, I had no desire to do
this stuff, but once I saw what they were doing,
I thought, oh, this is kind of fun. And how
old are you at this point. I was in my twenties.
I guess I'll probably late twenties, maybe early thirties, something
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like that, So this might be a first on I
hear voices because normally the guests that we have on
are like, oh, I never I didn't think I was
going to be a voice over actor. I thought I
was just going to be a regular actor, or I
was going to be on camera, And you no desire
to be an actor. I'm no desire. I didn't even
know I was acting until many, many years later we
did Cowboy Bebop. And seriously, I didn't know. I didn't know.
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I just did it because it was fun. I went
even know I was acting. I swear I would go
into the studio and I'd be the idiot whould just
be going up to the microphone, going and I could
do that, and I could match the movements on screen.
But I didn't know that that was considered to be acting.
And then it wasn't until later on we did Cowboy
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beeB Up. Nobody really cared it first, and then finally
years later Mary Elizabeth, Mary Elizabeth mcglint and my wife
who directed Cowboy Bebop wife, his D and D wife.
So let's let's be let's be honest. It's a thing. Yeah,
it's a little bit of a triad going on, but
mostly there. Um. Yeah, they're actually in love. I have
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to roll for love. It's a big does he does,
but he always rolls twenties every single time loaded Loaded
Fredell Dice for Dice, we're hashtagging that. We're also hashtagging
I didn't know I was acting, which is the T
shirt that I want to get. It's true. It's really true. Though.
So we were sitting on a stage not unlike this,
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with a whole bunch of people doing some panel about Bebop,
and everybody on the stage was a trained actor. They
had all gone to school for it. They've done theater,
they've done film, and so it came to me and
they were talking about our origin stories, and I said, well,
I'm not really an actor. I just kind of fell
into this accidentally, and I don't know what I'm doing.
And Mary just goes stop, She goes, what the hell
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do you think you've been doing for the last ten years,
you idiot, And that was the beginning of our relationship.
It was, oh my god, it was amazing. So I
didn't I really, it didn't occur to me that voice
acting was acting until much later on. Wow. Yeah, And
I just did because it was fun. It was the
only thing I really enjoyed doing everything else in my life.
So apparently the band wasn't any good. No, the band
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wasn't good. I was the only one with the job,
so I had to It was all paid to play
back then we were playing the Troubadour in the rocks
in all those places, but we had to pay in advance.
We had to buy all the tickets in advance and
then try to sell them, and we go door to
door selling the tickets. But I was the guy who
had to put up all the money. I had the truck,
so I had to haul all the equipment. It was.
It was terrible, and it's just terrible. Our music wasn't
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really good. Were the only R and B band in
talent at that time, was all hair and heavy metal band.
So we got our our equipment sabotaged, and people hated
us because we had a better job, because we were
better at knocking on doors. It was ridiculous. It was
fun when we were on stage, but that was the
only time. So glad I gave it up. How many
of the first projects that you did were just like noises,
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like you just said, like you kind of were just call, well,
here's some pizza. Actually I've done that. I'm pretty much
every job, but that very first job, it was called
the Geiver. It was a japanimation program and anime back then,
and I came in doing creature voices at first, but
I was able to match the lip flaps and and
I showed up, and so they eventually gave me showed up,
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They gave me speaking roles, and I ended up playing
the main bad guy on that show. Did you love
it right away even though you didn't know you're acting?
Did you enjoy what you were doing? Okay? I thought,
oh my god, people get paid for this. Besides the pizza.
They actually they actually paid us by the line. They
paid us even dollars a line back then, which is,
so you want to be the lead in the thing. Yeah, yeah,
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oh man, I didn't have to memorize anything, which is
that's still a mystery to me. I don't know how
he does this. I don't know how any on camera
actor or theater person does that. I have no memory
for that sort of thing. So if I if I
see a line, I can I can hold on to
it for a couple of seconds, and then I have
to spit it out and get rid of it, which
is so odd because when we play D and D,
you remember everything, like our whole campaign stuff. You were
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doing really opious notes, did you okay, cope, you faked
that really well? Because I'm at I was gonna say,
much like the start of your career, you faked that
very well. So okay, So then you're you're you were
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in again Japanimation. We're doing that because it's since become
anime and we're going to get into how anime is exploded. Um,
when your first real Western style animation, did you jump
into superhero stuff or was it smaller stuff to start with?
I don't remember what the very first thing was. I
think it started with video games for me, so that
was my gateway. I started with what was that called?
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It was a Lucas Arts thing. I did a couple
of Lucas Arts things. There's a thing called the Dig
and a couple of the old, old old games back then,
and so that how old old like were you that?
It was? Right after that, you just you were the
sound of okay, exactly exactly. It's just Pitfall where the
guys just running one direction. Um, I got to play
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Pitfall Harry in the second incarnation that once he started speaking,
which is where I don't know that. Yeah, no, nobody, nobody, no,
of course not. There was one person that that knew Pitfall,
my version of Pitfall, and like the last five conventions,
so I don't know, and it was the probably the
guy who wrote the game. It probably was, and it
was just thrilled that I showed up again. Now, So
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when you okay, we're gonna start video games, and since
you just started talking about video game, when you started
in video games, was it you got a script? You
when you read the script, that's all you had. You
didn't have to cover every way the player might go,
had they jumped to that the player is in charge,
so you've got to record nine thousand possibilities or were
you still just here's the script recorded for the video game.
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I don't remember. I really were just talking about this
is a great interview, Steve, when you don't remember anything about. No. No,
we did have to cover stuff because there were efforts
and reactions from that sort of thing. And in the
original games, and that the very first game I did,
I can't remember what it was called right now, but
I played a biker who was having a fist fight
with another biker on the road at like eighty miles
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an okay, and so we had to do a lot
of efforts and reactions for that. So we did do
a full sound set for that sort of thing. That's
when there's still just the A and B button. That's
that's when I liked video games. They added the X button.
I was out me too exactly too much, probably Frogger
I can handle frogs right exactly. That that kind of
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stuff is amazing. Okay, So then video games versus uh,
standard animation, do you have one that you prefer. I, well,
I prefer standard animation, original animation, just because well, it
used to be that we could be in the same
room together working and I love that chemistry and and
actors are funny and it was fun and there was
an alchemy that happens in the room when you're working
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with another actor, as you know. Um, But that said,
video games was kind of my staple. I've done more
video games that have done anything else. That world record
that you mentioned, isn't that one of your world records
most voices in video games, which was such a weird
thing because I'm not a gamer. I didn't keep track
of it. I had no idea that was happening. Do
you know how many it is? I don't know. How
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many it is. It's like four hundred something, is it now?
I don't think so, it's like four hundred something. And
you hold one of four Guinness Book of World Records.
That's what Gwen told me. I love other people telling
you about your Swendolin King. Right, did you one of
one of those Wolverine playing Wolverine things? Most prolific, most
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obnoxious voice over, worst memory of a voiceover actor everts, most,
most pizza eaten for jobs? Yeah? Now here's my question,
because apparently you didn't even know you were in the
guinnesst Prokel World Record. So no, Guinness doesn't call you
and go like, hey, you won something. They did for
the first one. But what they did was they called
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from England. They called my agent, and I had to
sit with my agent for like four months going through
my own IMDb to make sure that everything on there
was correct because I didn't know. As you know, when
we're working on games or any projects, many times they
code them the different code names and stuff, and I
don't play them, so I had no idea what they
were called. Once they came out, and so somebody else
post that stuff on IMDb and we had to go
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through I guess I did that once. She had to
call producers and and we had to actually verify every
one of those insane and when they presented the award
they actually came out for It was a video game conference,
I forgot what it was called, a big one though,
one of the very first three. And I wasn't invited
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to the con. They wanted to present it to me
at the con, but it was all development people, wh whatever.
I couldn't get a ticket to go to the con
to accept my awards ads the most prolific actors. So
I was working at Nickelodeon at the time. We were
working on Legend of Cora and they were so nice.
That was I think our last recording session and they
let the Guinness people come there and they were going
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to present the award in the studio, but they were
running an hour and a half behind. So we're all
sitting in the in the lobby just waiting for the
studio to open up. And finally at one point they
just said, well we got to get to the convention,
so on behalf of Guinness Records. Here you go, snapped
the picture and ran off and that was it so anticlimactic,
So you just you also got the award for most
awards never actually given to you. Exactly, Yeah, exactly, which
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is which is which is great? Exactly? Yeah, that's and
the other three they didn't contact me at all. I
didn't even know until gwent well yeah, because they're like, oh,
Steve one again, I'm not going through that whole thing
trying to give this guy an award, and I'm not
calling Nickelodeon the begging again because welcome there. Okay. So
I think one of the people one of the things
people want to talk about, myself included is Wolverine. Yeah,
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so so cool, so cool. Now, a lot of times
in voiceover, you don't know who you're reading for, Like
when I was doing, like you said, Bumblebee until the
day they gave it to me, I thought I was
reading for something called Blue Streak because they didn't want
anybody to know. Did you know you were going in
and reading for Wolverine or was it like, just come
in and read for this thing. No. The first time
I played Wolverine was in a game, and it was
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X Men Legends, and so for that incarnation of it,
I knew it was Wolverine, Okay, And from that point
forward as they brought me back for each project. I
had to read for every single time I played Wolverine.
You had to audition every single time you played Wolverine.
That you won an award for the most times people
have played Wolverine, you still had to audition for it,
nobody cares. Yeah, so no, they It's always a different
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production team, and everybody wants to put their own stamp
on it, and so they want to make sure, first
of all, that I can still do it because I'm old. Yeah,
in all fairness, Wolverine was like a hundred and seventies Well, yes, yes,
that's what That's what I'm saying. But he doesn't speak
that way necessarily. It sounds like he's still virile and
that sort of thing. So they want to make sure
I could at least fake that. Um, you've been faking
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virility for you, faking everything. I don't tell Mary, don't
tell Mary. Yeah, that's so fun. You're not still auditioning
to play Wolverine, that's yeah to me. Yeah, I've auditioned
for Wolverine three times in the last year, and I
think somebody else has been booking Wolverine for certain things.
Actually called Dodd booked Wolverine for for something, okay, and
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I'm celebrating him because he was one of the originals. Yeah,
but still it's it's so weird to me that there
they you still have to audition for kind of helped create. No,
I did not think the persona the voice. Sure, there's
like you think of you think of certain characters, God Resting,
Kevin Connroy, I think a Batman. I hear Kevin, you know, yeah,
he's so there are certain characters that are certain actors
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that are connected with characters. And when I'm reading a
comic book or whatever, I hear you as Wolverine when
I'm when I'm reading something, So there are certain people
that are identified. There's also that one book that said
you did it the most I forget because they didn't
show up the hand of you. That's right, record. Um.
But so I guess it just shows the nature of
the business though, doesn't Yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't. I
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like having to prove myself constantly, and that's the life
of voice actor. We audition and then if we get
the job, we're lucky. But but the audition really is
the job. And I've never I've never deviated from that philosophy,
and I think that that served me really really will
and I and there have been some things in the
press lately with actors who have been replaced by other
voice actors for various reasons, and they get this. This
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one in particular instance, I won't call it out, but
in this one particular instance, this actor said publicly that
I created this role. No, you didn't know. The person
who created the role created the role. We get to
voice it and we get to put our interpretation of
it out there. But Wolverine is not my role. I
didn't create it, So I'm just grateful every time they
bring me in to do it. That's an awesome philosophy
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to have you have to and go crazy. I create
all the roles I do. I know you do well
that you're the exception. They're all mine. You are the exception,
and anybody who who does that after me is just bad. Yeah,
that's all fight him. That's that's how I look at
I will fight him. Even characters that were around way
before I ever started to become an actorate those are
still mine as I agree. Yeah, that's yeah, that's how
I am. Um, okay, very sorry, that's all that the
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role of Jesus, Jesus that I created. That's created. That's it.
You are my Jesus. Well, that's interesting. Another hashtag of Sunday.
Sunday we can be reverent in here. Um, here's something
I was like. This is just I'm getting off. First
of all, it never goes. The only good thing about
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this is that Christie is not here. Thank god. She
just bring a room right down, low energy. She's great.
Now we missed Christie. But um, some something I always
like to ask, because then I want to get into
why you think anime for something that you've done a
lot of why why that has exploded? But before we
get into that, um, is there a role you would
love to play that you haven't yet? No? Uh, well,
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thanks for coming. The only exception to that might be
like an uh studio ghiblie things or something like that.
If I've always wanted to work on one of those,
that would be really cool. But there's never a superhero
that you've really wanted to do, or the villain you've
wanted to play, or somebody who haven't gotten shot at
the only exception to that would have been Batman. Okay,
but then I heard Kevin Conroy do Batman, and I've
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heard you do Batman and it's like, oh, well I
can do a Batman, but it's not going to be
the good Batman. Well, nobody's Kevin again. I always say
that I had the easiest, the most difficult, easiest job
in the world because I didn't have to play Bruce,
so I wasn't It was like, whatever I did, I
was going to be the best Terry. Yes, you know,
because nobody had ever done it before. So it wasn't
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like you had to jump in and beat bruced. But
everybody puts their own spin on whatever they do. I
mean like Dietrich's Batman was was phenomenal, and Roger Craig
Smith's was terrible. Yes, um Jesus Troy Baker awful Smith.
O yea, Roger Kreigsmith, is he's here, bad actor in
a terrible human being? Is he in the room? He's
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probably here somewhere. Follow your nose there, Roger Craigsmith is here,
Lady is there the background? Have another Batman here, Ladies
and gentlemen, Thank you the amazing Roger Kreigsmith. Okay today
you're my Batman? Alright, fine, fine, yes you are. I
created that role. Why not both Batman, Jesus exactly, jazz Man.
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You don't even want to see the cosplay for jas Man. Yeah,
soberribly round kids, cover your ear. It's going to go wrong, uh,
anime very quickly, and then we're going to throw it
to everybody because this is where the fun happens. Um.
I know that. I have my theory that the pandemic
kind of some for some reason, people were drawn to
anime and it's just since exploded. Do you think that's
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what it is. I think that's what it is, because
you need time to go through seven episodes of Narrow too. Yes, Yes,
that's what it is. It's all of a sudden, it's like, well,
I've got two years, I might as well check something out.
So people are rediscovering anime and they're there are There
are lots of anime that were re released also, and
crunchy Rolls put a whole bunch of stuff out there,
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so it's a lot more accessible than it was before.
Plus people were homebound. So yeah, and nothing else is doing.
So do you prefer recording Western animation or anime? Um? Wow,
that's a tough question. These days, it's it's almost the
same thing because I record everything from home, so which
is the way anime was always done before, is always
not from home. But it was a solo experience. Is
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just us in the booth with a director and an engineer,
maybe a couple of people there. Uh, which is the
way video games were. It's it's now the way most
original animation is when we used to work in groups.
So it's very similar experience. And I'm so used to dubbing.
I was gonna say, are you still at your home studio?
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Are you still map? You know, you're still matching the
mouth flaps and everything, which is which they changed. Pipe
it through to me and I just match whatever is.
I always had a slightly difficult time in that I
did a video game back in the day, and I
remember they were dubbing it from Japanese to America to
American to English to American to English as we're kind
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of sitting in the room and because they somebody hadn't
done it properly. And I remember sitting there at one
time and the line was literally, I must take the
Golden Sword to the ship because if I don't, the
princess will die. And the Japanese was dah, Yeah, that
was it, and so they had to sit there because
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that was a mouth flat was one word, and it
was like, how do you get that entire sentiment into
one or two words? So you're the master, Well, Roger
Craig Smith has mastered that, and he would do that
as near out. He's done. He's done his own vlogs
about that sort of thing. That's why I learned everything
not familiar. I learned everything from Roger. Everything not familiar
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with anything? Um well, well, I was a writer for
years to an enemy. Where did this script adaptation? So
must know how to make it work? I didn't. I
didn't know how to make it word And that's why
I got hired a lot for Animal because I was
cheap and I would I would write it doesn't get
cheaper than pizza, No, it doesn't, well, actually does in
the game. Just the crust. Let's talk about topping, shall we.
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That's not cheese. Where did this go so awfully? I
went awfully wrong when we met that first time doing transforms.
It's been down. I'm so proud to share that space
with you. I know it is. It's brilliant. I love
you so much. I'm so glad that you were able
to do this, and you're throwing me out. No, No,
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you're staying here. If you will, if you'll, if you'll
stay with us to play, you don't have to. Roger
craigsm is going to jump in. Yeah, he's really good
at No. If you if you would like to stay,
because now we get to have a lot of fun
where everybody here gets to become the voice actor. I
would love to do that. It's really really cool. Yes, partially,
it's awesome. No, but we do want to invite somebody
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to the stage who helps us out here. If Mrs
Joe Boes will come up and join us. Joe is
an absolutely phenomenal artist who you probably know who gave
us Charlie the darks Tuna. It's the coolest thing in
the world. Um, and Joe is going to draw incredibly quickly,
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and then uh you're you're all going to line up
here at the microphone and you're not gonna know who
you're gonna voice until it pops up on the screen.
Um right here. Uh, so we get to play, which
is a lot of fun. So if everybody wants to
some people want to step up to the mike, whoever
wants to play here. He's drawing me like one of
his French girls. I didn't know I looked like that.
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That was me. It was my costume at Wheezies. Alright,
we're ready. That's amazing, So here we go. Are you ready? Yeah? Now,
remember you can't we're going quick. I can't think. We
gotta jump ready. Here's first one. Wow? Wow? Did that
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come out of your mouth? I got nothing. Normally I
say something, but I got nothing after that. That's that's
the weirdest thing I've ever heard come out of a
man's Yeah, cong in my mouth. But it was something
that was just pretty impressive. I usually have to be
lactating to make that noice. That was I got nothing.
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Congratulations you win? That was everybody else? Can just sit down,
all right, here we go, Thank you very much. As
we go. That's the thing that's amazing. How do I
follow that up? Exactly right? And now it's it's now
the monkeys that come on. It was that there were
monkeys at road bikes that came on after the Beatles
on the Ed Sullivan Joe, remember that. Yeah, you're not them.
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You're awesome. We talked yesterday and you're gonna nail it. Ready,
here we go. I left my my my little umbrella
on the groom there. Could you pick that up for me?
It's hard to see. My eyes are sevens, eyes are sevens.
(26:56):
I was born with a rare genetic disorder that makes
my eyes numbers some that's awesome. What's it? What's it?
What's your name? Sir? My name is dinkle Dinklespield's forget
my name sometimes. Okay, hey, Steve, yes, very quickly. What
would this guy sound like if you did him? Uh,
(27:19):
I'm putting the guests on the spot too. Saturday night
at the con is not treating me? Well? Thank you? Yes,
this is fun because the faster we go through him.
I used to watch Joe is just like, ready, here
(27:42):
we go, chiming got a night class. Get out stopping that.
I want to put this ruler would see? It was
such a reat nice? You know what it sounded like
(28:04):
at the beginning. It sounded like the voice in the
Pink Floyd the wall. If you don't eat your meat,
that's where that? How can you happy if you don't
eat your meat? Oh, here's another one. There we go, Oh,
here we go. Ready, this is gonna be great. Oh
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oh well, my name is is Bester and I'm just
wandering rambles this. You're gone and I'll just get my Carol.
That's amazing, this is great. The only thing going through
my head was my eyes are zeros. Ready terror Fine,
(29:00):
it's gonna be terrifying awful. Ready, here we go. I'm
gonna go take over that village over there, and then
I'm gonna go take a night. Wait did you say
(29:23):
you say you haven't? I got something for that. This
is what happens when Roger Greig Smith kisses you on
the lips. I'm never letting up, never, I have to say,
very quickly. So Roger came to the con yesterday and
he put on a cosplay and I got to see
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this video. It was the most wonderful thing in the world.
And he stood and waited in line for Steve with
a mask on. And he walks up and there's Steve
being very nice to me, and he says, you know,
is it possible? Can I can I get an autograph?
Can do this with the with the mask on and
doing a different voice, And so Steve he goes, yeah,
can we take a picture, And then you see Roger
stand next to Steve. Steve is looking right at the
(30:04):
camera and he lifts up his mask and he does
this behind Steve, and then he puts the masks out
and he it goes and he shows Steve the pictures, like,
oh my god, it was great. It was a great punk.
I can't I can't say out loud what the word
was that came out of me at that moment. Wheezy, wheezy. Yeah.
It was the cheapest, crappiest costume I've ever seen it too.
(30:26):
But he he changed his whole body structure. I don't
know how he did it. He inverted him acted Steve.
He knew he was acting. That's the difference. That's what
it is. That's what that's how you know. Are you ready?
Are you sure? Yes? Here we go. What's your name?
By the way, my name is Darren. I should have
asked everybody's names before, so we're just gonna say everyone
(30:47):
before was Mark, Steve, Mitch, and Connie. Yeah, shout him
out all at once, You're ready? Yeah? Here we go?
He how was the real one? Like my monster costplay?
I'm supposed to be a purchass though, but no one
seems to get it. I like that. That's great. Yes,
(31:11):
and his nose is a number. My nose is an
upside down yeah or sideways three, which is how I'm
feeling right now. Oh, this is fun. Well, Oh, I
already have one in my head for this. Do I
love when they just pop into your head? You get
that a lot where you they give so you'll you'll
get a character in front of you and just literally
the only thing I know how to do. It's that
(31:32):
fact be does it happened that fast time? That's great? Involuntary?
What's your name? Brandon? All right, Brandon? Here we go. Hello,
Welcome to my bony. I have so many drinks and
lily sus and pustions to make. That's kind of what
I had to That's great. We all saw, we all
(31:55):
heard the same kind of thing. He's got the tes
like try the to you dust like he's he's selling
you a car. Exactly. How often do you when you
(32:16):
see a character, do you play against type where you'll
see it in the voice of pop in your head
and go, you know, I want to do something exactly
the opposite. I just try to do that as much
as possible. But most of the time they don't let
us you know it's true. Yeah, right. I always have
a second version of it in my head, and sometimes
I'll record it and they get really mad at because
they take up time to do that. I've got another idea. No,
it's he's year old man. Why are you doing a
(32:38):
four year old girl? That's just that though, By the way,
they make him auditions for everything and they get really
mad at him when you record stuff. Voiceover isn't all
like this. People just don't like Steve. Yeah, that's true.
So when when you join us, the winner joins us
for the Super Auesme contest to become the next big
voice actor. Um, it's gonna be a great world, don't
Yeah about just be nicer than me? That helps, Yeah,
(33:01):
be nicer than Steve. Can't do that. Oh this is
fun a magic right? Are you ready? What's your name? Dino? Yep?
Here you go, Dino? Ready? You got it? Does anyone
have some veto by? Skit is all clammy, that's everybody
(33:30):
is so good and they bring their own thing to
the table and no rehearsal. That's the thing I also
love is it's all instantaneous and no rehearsal, which is beautiful. Ready,
here's a fun one. What's your name, Robin? Robin? Here
we go. Ready, Oh, does anyone see my friend? He's
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kind of tall. Did a costplay? You gotta looks like
Vandalaian Dave's Craig trying to find your cosplay friend, Robin.
I love it. That's great. These are so much fun.
(34:15):
What's your name? Felix? And now I'm terrified by the
way you're all confident until you see Steve going like,
oh yeah, good luck with that one. It's gonna be fun. Betty,
I can't believe I got this like five minutes ago
and now it's gone. I just I thought it would
(34:37):
be over my head and be okay, But my horn
hit it. You popped it with your own horn. I
didn't even think about that. That's so sad. It's because
you've had a privileged life. That's so sad. Most of
us have popped it with our own horn. Hello. Hey,
(35:02):
I've known you forever. What's your name? Eva? We all
know that? Ready, Ava, this sounds funny. Who I'm never
going to work again? This is right. This is why
(35:24):
I am convinced we are going to be able to
find an incredible voice actor. That's going to be able
to join us, you know, on the team. A replace
me so I can get some exactly, ladies and gentlemen,
the next wolverine's that was the one? That was that one?
What's your name? Martin? Martin? Ready? Not even a little bit?
(35:45):
Oh no, it looks like Joe. M wrong? Am I wrong?
It looks like Joe? Um? Has anyone seen my friend Brendan?
Like for I'll and you find his weapon just a
little bit. My friend's heading for battle and forgot his weapon.
(36:12):
Never got your sword? Nice? Sounded just like sod Just
like Joe too, That's all. Anyone seen my friend? You
forgot his weapons? Great? Ready? What's your name? All right? John?
Oddly familiar? Well, I was jetting my apple, but then
(36:37):
I popped out that you have there at anyone around?
But nothing much? Oh my god, everybody was so good.
Anybody else stepping up? Anybody now? All right? I have
a question for you, Roger. Now, Roger's like, I'm not
coming up. I'm not going. I have a question for you, Steve.
(37:01):
What would the apple sound like? Uh? Well, everything I
can think of is not appropriate for this room. Oh geez,
wait a second. Sibilants I'm Wolverine. That's it, Roger Craig Smith,
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Ladies and gentlemen, everybody. Uh, Steve, So what was it
like when you used to play Wolverine and now it
belongs to somebody else? Roger is just you know, it
was a good run. And I think we're in pretty
good hands. I think as long as he wears pants
to his sessions, why would he start now? No, he's
(37:58):
he really shouldn't have gotten used to him. Exact that
the way it is. By the way, um, we have
a little bit of time left, so not let you
off the hook. What is the apple sound like? Uh?
I girl? A hole in a very strange place. Yeah,
and something's coming out of it. And I don't think
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it's mccore that worked. It worked Jesus unbelievable. So this
is my favorite question, asked a voice over actor because
they can't answer at the time. What have you been
working on? And what can we see? And that's coming out?
This is it? This is all? Literally have no asking
(38:44):
voice over. They're like, I have ninety three things, but
I can't tell you about any of them. No, I
can't tell you about most of them. Yeah, there's a
show I didn't. And it's an on camera show that
I did a voice for for Disney called Villains of
Valley View, and I play this character called Onyx, the
bad guy in this show. I had no idea what
I was working on when I did it, and it's
it's really fun to now is it really on camera?
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Because for some reason I made air quotes and I
don't understand what that well, because there is an actor
on camera. I just voiced it after the fact. Because
you often say that to me, You're like, well, you're
an on camera I do say that to you. What
is the whole different connotation? Well, no, it's just I
don't do a lot of characters that are live action. Yeah,
unless you know it's it's background voices for movies and
(39:26):
things like that, But for TV shows, I really haven't
done that before. So it was kind of fun to
to step in and work, especially on a kids show
that is popular for a demographic that I normally don't
wrap into. It was just kind of fun to do
something a little bit different. So do you do you
want to do on camera? Works? None? So somebody comes
(39:47):
up to you and says, man, I got this great movie.
I want you to come and be, you know, come
starr and be the funny guy with me. You'd say no.
I would say no because I am too lazy and
I am seriously I am too lazy hot behind it.
It's not like i'd be I'd be scared of it. Nope,
too lazy, am I am? I'm really, I'm really lazy.
I don't like memorization. I'm I'm singing in a choir
right now, and I'm living in Hawaii and I'm singing
(40:08):
in this community choir with eighty year olds. They want
me to memorize like three lines because we're doing a
little Christmas production and I'm struggling doing that because I
haven't done it in so many years. So there are
so many things about the last sentence you just said
that I want to unpack. I'm singing in a choir
in Hawaii with eighty year olds and they want me
(40:32):
to memorize three lines, and I'm having trouble. I don't
know where to start. I'll be honest with you. That's
that's really all there is. Oh my, well, thank you
for coming joining us. You got roped into it, really
may Well. We have friends that Mary's father is a
very fine singer. He's sing with acapella groups. Well, Mary
(40:52):
is Mary is an amazing professional singer. Yeah, and he's
sang with this, uh, this acapella group from Princeton. They've
been doing it for years and years and years. Did
they have a cool name like chock full of Notes?
They there are lots of them like that. There are
called the Nassoons. They have the best and they performed
all over the world. And one of his really good
(41:13):
acapella mates, who's he's been singing with forty fifty years,
happens to be our neighbor in Hawaii. He introduced us
to him and they asked us to come and sing
in the choir with him. And I haven't done that
in forty five years, so I thought that would be
a fun challenge. That's really excite singing and everything. Everybody's
really good. So it's it's like that, can we can
we see that anywhere? Is there is there a YouTube
video anywhere? We did our first concert last year and
(41:38):
it was show tunes And I'm not a big theater
fan and like musical theater fan and not either. Oh god,
it was it was a struggle. If if you have
never seen octogenarians singing raw ra the ga thing. Oh
really yeah, I want your what was it? I want
your ugly I want your disease. You see eighty five
(41:59):
year olds trying to make sense out of that. It
was fantastic. Just being a fly on the wall was
good enough to do that. That is amazing. Well, where
can everybody find you? Social media is all that I'm
on at bloom spew on Twitter until it crashes, uh,
same thing on Instagram. You can also find us at
bloom Box Studios dot com where we teach voiceover. Will
(42:22):
was one of our guest teachers on that. By the way,
that was a bad week for the students. We have
a free master class there, So if you're interested in voiceover,
go to bloom buck Studios dot com or stop by
our table and we have a free master class that
will kind of orient you on how voiceover actually works
and see if what we're offering is something that you
guys might be interested and if not, we'll guide you
in the right direction. It is so worth it. It
(42:44):
is phenomenal. If this is something you're thinking about doing,
you you can do no better than this man right
here guiding you through it. Really is absolutely phenomenal. Well
you can do better, but but not for the price.
Probably won't, not for the price. Not for the price.
Pizza and pull dancing, now, yeah, it always devolves to that,
it does. I'm just remembering those nights at Wheezies. Um, crazy, crazy, crazy.
(43:10):
Thank you so much for joining us. Go see Steve
at his table, Go watch everything he's been in because
he's phenomenal, unbelievable. Um, I love you so much. Thank
you for lowering your standards again, you were just throwing up.
This is everybody, Joe woes everybody. I mean, well, I'm
(43:35):
gonna everybody. I have a I have a TV show
on PBS called Cartoon Academy. New season just dropped, and
we want two Emmys. H show, so multiple Emmy award.
And you have your books out too, and yeah I have.
My latest book is called Amazing Peanuts, which features Charlie
brown Snoopy in the Whole Gang. I was actually just
(43:55):
up the Charles M. Schultzzim for Shultz is on birthday
and so yeah, check it out. I have a new
book coming. And Thursday Nights on performing at Wheezies. Yes exactly,
not just great, He's the Thursday Night line up. I
have a new book coming out. It's called Great Peanuts,
and it's just pictures of peanuts, that's all. It's not
as good a book as yours, Joe. But thank you
(44:16):
once again for joining us. Think I appreciate that. And
uh yeah, everybody, don't forget the super awesome contests become
the next voice actor. So like I said, you got
a year long contract with an agent, you get phone
nut to Los Angeles, you win a thousand dollars. But
the there are some other prizes that I'm not allowed
to talk about yet, which are awesome v I P
passes for Wheezy. No, trust me, the v I P
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section isn't better than the regular section. Every I exactly exactly.
I just want to say I am so proud of
all of you stepping up to the mic ye with
that now, having no idea what they're gonna voice, no
idea what they're gonna see in front of a whole
bunch of people. It takes some serious gun Sunday morning.
(45:02):
It is the coolest thing ever. So thank you everybody
for joining us. Thank you Steve, thank you Joe, everybody
for joining us up here, and thanks for listening to
I Hear Voices or wrapping it up for myself and
for Christy who could not be here. Uh we thank
you all for joining us and remember if you think
you got what it takes to step up to the mic,
then put your voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody.
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Unfortunately Christy is not here, but we're really excited for
a number of reasons. One because everybody's packing up here,
and because the idea that everybody gets to be a
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voice over actor is really exciting to me. Um. So
I'm gonna start by, Uh, you know, we've talked about
this on the podcast quite a bit, but we're really
starting to announce the super awesome contest to become the
next big voice actor. So if you listen to I
Hear Voices, we have partnered with I Heart and we
are doing a straight up American Idol style search for
(00:42):
the next big voice over actor in the country. Unfortunately, UM,
we couldn't get an awesome voice over actor to sit
with us today UM and talk as our guest. We
are stuck with some guy named Steve. Um. I don't
know anything about him. Frankly, Um. They they threw him
(01:03):
on me yesterday. They're like, what do you what do
you think of Steve? And I'm like, who's Steve Burg? Um?
So yes I am. I am going to bring up
our guests because he's pretty awesome and an old and
close friend of mine and a multi Guinness Book of
World record holder. That's the truth and we will get
into that. So can you please help me Welcome the
(01:25):
amazing Steve Bloom. Thank you so much. I love that
you said that they threw me on you like that
was a bad thing, and it was in the first time,
by the way. So I was trying to first of all, welcome,
(01:50):
uh you. You are here for two wonderful reasons, because
the live shows are awesome. You're gonna get to see everybody,
and they're incredible voices, and nowhere else to go. You
have nowhere else to so um, it's like you get
these amazing things to come and join us. Uh okay.
I was trying to figure out last night. Do you
remember the first time we've actually met? Uh? I think
(02:15):
it was you were pole dancing? Yep, correct. Do you
remember the name of the place? It was Wheezies. It
was good memory and that's the sound he makes on
a pole, which is really odd. I am the out
of shape pole danswer we met. I do know where
(02:36):
it was. It was on a Transformers thin was we
were at Mark Rouse studio with your son, with my
son who who came, and I think we were watching
what they liked. For some reason, you and I had
to both watch a Transformers thing we did to then
jump into the next thing. It was weird and we
like screen something, and I remember just trying to keep
it cool because I was such a fan of yours.
(03:00):
At it was just like, no, man, it's whatever, I'm
hanging out like. It's just totally well. You were star
Scream first of all, which is the greatest thing, in
arguably the greatest Transformer since jan One, which is prime. Yes,
don't break the table. I'm not too We're excited there.
So yeah, this is all a rental um. So okay,
(03:22):
well we're gonna get into Transformers, we're gonna get into Wolverine.
We're going to get into all the amazing things you've done.
But I want to take it back to the beginning.
How did you realize this is what you wanted to do?
I didn't. I didn't know before I do that though,
I have to tell you that when when me and
my son encountered him, he was bumblebee. He was speaking bumblebee.
(03:44):
It was weird, right, It was so exciting for both
of us. I had known your history anyway, so I
was I was super excited, and I, well, you're a
fan of yours. Yeah, you are also a regular wheezy.
But I was trying to hold it together in that
come on, and so was my My son didn't told
it together, as I recall. Yeah, um, anyway, that was.
That was amazing, and our relationship is blossoms. It has well,
(04:05):
we're D and D buddies. We'll get into all that
lay yes, yeah, um, but no, I had no idea
that I was going to do this. I really even
think it was a viable job. And neither did my parents.
Uh and and they still didn't for many, many years
until I brought them to some convention and I was
on stage and my dad was asking my sister why
all these people were there because they're not there to
(04:26):
see him? Are there? She said, yeah, Dad, shut up
and watch. It was great. Um, but I did it
for fun. I did just did it for fun. For
years and years and years, I was playing in an
R and B band, and that's what I wanted to do.
So you wanted to be a musician, you want You
didn't want to be an actor? At all, Not at all.
I hated the whole idea of acting. I worked at
a film studio for my day job, and everybody at
(04:47):
the studio wanted to be an actor. And the head
of the mail room where I was working, his name
was Victor Garcia. He was casting a japanimation program and
he just needed bodies in the room to audition for
this thing. Nobody knew how to do it back then,
and he knew that I had the deepest voice in
the mail room and he needed somebody could roar, which
I did all the time. So he brought me into
(05:08):
a studio on the weekend. And the only reason I
showed up is because it gave me free pizza. Are
you kidding me? That's literally the only reason I showed up.
I had no intention, I had no desire to do
this stuff, but once I saw what they were doing,
I thought, oh, this is kind of fun. And how
old are you at this point. I was in my twenties.
I guess I'll probably late twenties, maybe early thirties, something
(05:31):
like that, So this might be a first on I
hear voices because normally the guests that we have on
are like, oh, I never I didn't think I was
going to be a voice over actor. I thought I
was just going to be a regular actor, or I
was going to be on camera, And you no desire
to be an actor. I'm no desire. I didn't even
know I was acting until many, many years later we
did Cowboy Bebop. And seriously, I didn't know. I didn't know.
(05:52):
I just did it because it was fun. I went
even know I was acting. I swear I would go
into the studio and I'd be the idiot whould just
be going up to the microphone, going and I could
do that, and I could match the movements on screen.
But I didn't know that that was considered to be acting.
And then it wasn't until later on we did Cowboy
(06:13):
beeB Up. Nobody really cared it first, and then finally
years later Mary Elizabeth, Mary Elizabeth mcglint and my wife
who directed Cowboy Bebop wife, his D and D wife.
So let's let's be let's be honest. It's a thing. Yeah,
it's a little bit of a triad going on, but
mostly there. Um. Yeah, they're actually in love. I have
(06:33):
to roll for love. It's a big does he does,
but he always rolls twenties every single time loaded Loaded
Fredell Dice for Dice, we're hashtagging that. We're also hashtagging
I didn't know I was acting, which is the T
shirt that I want to get. It's true. It's really true. Though.
So we were sitting on a stage not unlike this,
(06:54):
with a whole bunch of people doing some panel about Bebop,
and everybody on the stage was a trained actor. They
had all gone to school for it. They've done theater,
they've done film, and so it came to me and
they were talking about our origin stories, and I said, well,
I'm not really an actor. I just kind of fell
into this accidentally, and I don't know what I'm doing.
And Mary just goes stop, She goes, what the hell
(07:16):
do you think you've been doing for the last ten years,
you idiot, And that was the beginning of our relationship.
It was, oh my god, it was amazing. So I
didn't I really, it didn't occur to me that voice
acting was acting until much later on. Wow. Yeah, And
I just did because it was fun. It was the
only thing I really enjoyed doing everything else in my life.
So apparently the band wasn't any good. No, the band
(07:38):
wasn't good. I was the only one with the job,
so I had to It was all paid to play
back then we were playing the Troubadour in the rocks
in all those places, but we had to pay in advance.
We had to buy all the tickets in advance and
then try to sell them, and we go door to
door selling the tickets. But I was the guy who
had to put up all the money. I had the truck,
so I had to haul all the equipment. It was.
It was terrible, and it's just terrible. Our music wasn't
(08:00):
really good. Were the only R and B band in
talent at that time, was all hair and heavy metal band.
So we got our our equipment sabotaged, and people hated
us because we had a better job, because we were
better at knocking on doors. It was ridiculous. It was
fun when we were on stage, but that was the
only time. So glad I gave it up. How many
of the first projects that you did were just like noises,
(08:21):
like you just said, like you kind of were just call, well,
here's some pizza. Actually I've done that. I'm pretty much
every job, but that very first job, it was called
the Geiver. It was a japanimation program and anime back then,
and I came in doing creature voices at first, but
I was able to match the lip flaps and and
I showed up, and so they eventually gave me showed up,
(08:43):
They gave me speaking roles, and I ended up playing
the main bad guy on that show. Did you love
it right away even though you didn't know you're acting?
Did you enjoy what you were doing? Okay? I thought,
oh my god, people get paid for this. Besides the pizza.
They actually they actually paid us by the line. They
paid us even dollars a line back then, which is,
so you want to be the lead in the thing. Yeah, yeah,
(09:05):
oh man, I didn't have to memorize anything, which is
that's still a mystery to me. I don't know how
he does this. I don't know how any on camera
actor or theater person does that. I have no memory
for that sort of thing. So if I if I
see a line, I can I can hold on to
it for a couple of seconds, and then I have
to spit it out and get rid of it, which
is so odd because when we play D and D,
you remember everything, like our whole campaign stuff. You were
(09:26):
doing really opious notes, did you okay, cope, you faked
that really well? Because I'm at I was gonna say,
much like the start of your career, you faked that
very well. So okay, So then you're you're you were
(09:50):
in again Japanimation. We're doing that because it's since become
anime and we're going to get into how anime is exploded. Um,
when your first real Western style animation, did you jump
into superhero stuff or was it smaller stuff to start with?
I don't remember what the very first thing was. I
think it started with video games for me, so that
was my gateway. I started with what was that called?
(10:11):
It was a Lucas Arts thing. I did a couple
of Lucas Arts things. There's a thing called the Dig
and a couple of the old, old old games back then,
and so that how old old like were you that?
It was? Right after that, you just you were the
sound of okay, exactly exactly. It's just Pitfall where the
guys just running one direction. Um, I got to play
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Pitfall Harry in the second incarnation that once he started speaking,
which is where I don't know that. Yeah, no, nobody, nobody, no,
of course not. There was one person that that knew Pitfall,
my version of Pitfall, and like the last five conventions,
so I don't know, and it was the probably the
guy who wrote the game. It probably was, and it
was just thrilled that I showed up again. Now, So
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when you okay, we're gonna start video games, and since
you just started talking about video game, when you started
in video games, was it you got a script? You
when you read the script, that's all you had. You
didn't have to cover every way the player might go,
had they jumped to that the player is in charge,
so you've got to record nine thousand possibilities or were
you still just here's the script recorded for the video game.
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I don't remember. I really were just talking about this
is a great interview, Steve, when you don't remember anything about. No. No,
we did have to cover stuff because there were efforts
and reactions from that sort of thing. And in the
original games, and that the very first game I did,
I can't remember what it was called right now, but
I played a biker who was having a fist fight
with another biker on the road at like eighty miles
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an okay, and so we had to do a lot
of efforts and reactions for that. So we did do
a full sound set for that sort of thing. That's
when there's still just the A and B button. That's
that's when I liked video games. They added the X button.
I was out me too exactly too much, probably Frogger
I can handle frogs right exactly. That that kind of
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stuff is amazing. Okay, So then video games versus uh,
standard animation, do you have one that you prefer. I, well,
I prefer standard animation, original animation, just because well, it
used to be that we could be in the same
room together working and I love that chemistry and and
actors are funny and it was fun and there was
an alchemy that happens in the room when you're working
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with another actor, as you know. Um, But that said,
video games was kind of my staple. I've done more
video games that have done anything else. That world record
that you mentioned, isn't that one of your world records
most voices in video games, which was such a weird
thing because I'm not a gamer. I didn't keep track
of it. I had no idea that was happening. Do
you know how many it is? I don't know. How
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many it is. It's like four hundred something, is it now?
I don't think so, it's like four hundred something. And
you hold one of four Guinness Book of World Records.
That's what Gwen told me. I love other people telling
you about your Swendolin King. Right, did you one of
one of those Wolverine playing Wolverine things? Most prolific, most
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obnoxious voice over, worst memory of a voiceover actor everts, most,
most pizza eaten for jobs? Yeah? Now here's my question,
because apparently you didn't even know you were in the
guinnesst Prokel World Record. So no, Guinness doesn't call you
and go like, hey, you won something. They did for
the first one. But what they did was they called
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from England. They called my agent, and I had to
sit with my agent for like four months going through
my own IMDb to make sure that everything on there
was correct because I didn't know. As you know, when
we're working on games or any projects, many times they
code them the different code names and stuff, and I
don't play them, so I had no idea what they
were called. Once they came out, and so somebody else
post that stuff on IMDb and we had to go
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through I guess I did that once. She had to
call producers and and we had to actually verify every
one of those insane and when they presented the award
they actually came out for It was a video game conference,
I forgot what it was called, a big one though,
one of the very first three. And I wasn't invited
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to the con. They wanted to present it to me
at the con, but it was all development people, wh whatever.
I couldn't get a ticket to go to the con
to accept my awards ads the most prolific actors. So
I was working at Nickelodeon at the time. We were
working on Legend of Cora and they were so nice.
That was I think our last recording session and they
let the Guinness people come there and they were going
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to present the award in the studio, but they were
running an hour and a half behind. So we're all
sitting in the in the lobby just waiting for the
studio to open up. And finally at one point they
just said, well we got to get to the convention,
so on behalf of Guinness Records. Here you go, snapped
the picture and ran off and that was it so anticlimactic,
So you just you also got the award for most
awards never actually given to you. Exactly, Yeah, exactly, which
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is which is which is great? Exactly? Yeah, that's and
the other three they didn't contact me at all. I
didn't even know until gwent well yeah, because they're like, oh,
Steve one again, I'm not going through that whole thing
trying to give this guy an award, and I'm not
calling Nickelodeon the begging again because welcome there. Okay. So
I think one of the people one of the things
people want to talk about, myself included is Wolverine. Yeah,
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so so cool, so cool. Now, a lot of times
in voiceover, you don't know who you're reading for, Like
when I was doing, like you said, Bumblebee until the
day they gave it to me, I thought I was
reading for something called Blue Streak because they didn't want
anybody to know. Did you know you were going in
and reading for Wolverine or was it like, just come
in and read for this thing. No. The first time
I played Wolverine was in a game, and it was
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X Men Legends, and so for that incarnation of it,
I knew it was Wolverine, Okay, And from that point
forward as they brought me back for each project. I
had to read for every single time I played Wolverine.
You had to audition every single time you played Wolverine.
That you won an award for the most times people
have played Wolverine, you still had to audition for it,
nobody cares. Yeah, so no, they It's always a different
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production team, and everybody wants to put their own stamp
on it, and so they want to make sure, first
of all, that I can still do it because I'm old. Yeah,
in all fairness, Wolverine was like a hundred and seventies Well, yes, yes,
that's what That's what I'm saying. But he doesn't speak
that way necessarily. It sounds like he's still virile and
that sort of thing. So they want to make sure
I could at least fake that. Um, you've been faking
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virility for you, faking everything. I don't tell Mary, don't
tell Mary. Yeah, that's so fun. You're not still auditioning
to play Wolverine, that's yeah to me. Yeah, I've auditioned
for Wolverine three times in the last year, and I
think somebody else has been booking Wolverine for certain things.
Actually called Dodd booked Wolverine for for something, okay, and
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I'm celebrating him because he was one of the originals. Yeah,
but still it's it's so weird to me that there
they you still have to audition for kind of helped create. No,
I did not think the persona the voice. Sure, there's
like you think of you think of certain characters, God Resting,
Kevin Connroy, I think a Batman. I hear Kevin, you know, yeah,
he's so there are certain characters that are certain actors
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that are connected with characters. And when I'm reading a
comic book or whatever, I hear you as Wolverine when
I'm when I'm reading something, So there are certain people
that are identified. There's also that one book that said
you did it the most I forget because they didn't
show up the hand of you. That's right, record. Um.
But so I guess it just shows the nature of
the business though, doesn't Yeah, yeah, yeah, it doesn't. I
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like having to prove myself constantly, and that's the life
of voice actor. We audition and then if we get
the job, we're lucky. But but the audition really is
the job. And I've never I've never deviated from that philosophy,
and I think that that served me really really will
and I and there have been some things in the
press lately with actors who have been replaced by other
voice actors for various reasons, and they get this. This
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one in particular instance, I won't call it out, but
in this one particular instance, this actor said publicly that
I created this role. No, you didn't know. The person
who created the role created the role. We get to
voice it and we get to put our interpretation of
it out there. But Wolverine is not my role. I
didn't create it, So I'm just grateful every time they
bring me in to do it. That's an awesome philosophy
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to have you have to and go crazy. I create
all the roles I do. I know you do well
that you're the exception. They're all mine. You are the exception,
and anybody who who does that after me is just bad. Yeah,
that's all fight him. That's that's how I look at
I will fight him. Even characters that were around way
before I ever started to become an actorate those are
still mine as I agree. Yeah, that's yeah, that's how
I am. Um, okay, very sorry, that's all that the
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role of Jesus, Jesus that I created. That's created. That's it.
You are my Jesus. Well, that's interesting. Another hashtag of Sunday.
Sunday we can be reverent in here. Um, here's something
I was like. This is just I'm getting off. First
of all, it never goes. The only good thing about
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this is that Christie is not here. Thank god. She
just bring a room right down, low energy. She's great.
Now we missed Christie. But um, some something I always
like to ask, because then I want to get into
why you think anime for something that you've done a
lot of why why that has exploded? But before we
get into that, um, is there a role you would
love to play that you haven't yet? No? Uh, well,
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thanks for coming. The only exception to that might be
like an uh studio ghiblie things or something like that.
If I've always wanted to work on one of those,
that would be really cool. But there's never a superhero
that you've really wanted to do, or the villain you've
wanted to play, or somebody who haven't gotten shot at
the only exception to that would have been Batman. Okay,
but then I heard Kevin Conroy do Batman, and I've
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heard you do Batman and it's like, oh, well I
can do a Batman, but it's not going to be
the good Batman. Well, nobody's Kevin again. I always say
that I had the easiest, the most difficult, easiest job
in the world because I didn't have to play Bruce,
so I wasn't It was like, whatever I did, I
was going to be the best Terry. Yes, you know,
because nobody had ever done it before. So it wasn't
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like you had to jump in and beat bruced. But
everybody puts their own spin on whatever they do. I
mean like Dietrich's Batman was was phenomenal, and Roger Craig
Smith's was terrible. Yes, um Jesus Troy Baker awful Smith.
O yea, Roger Kreigsmith, is he's here, bad actor in
a terrible human being? Is he in the room? He's
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probably here somewhere. Follow your nose there, Roger Craigsmith is here,
Lady is there the background? Have another Batman here, Ladies
and gentlemen, Thank you the amazing Roger Kreigsmith. Okay today
you're my Batman? Alright, fine, fine, yes you are. I
created that role. Why not both Batman, Jesus exactly, jazz Man.
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You don't even want to see the cosplay for jas Man. Yeah,
soberribly round kids, cover your ear. It's going to go wrong, uh,
anime very quickly, and then we're going to throw it
to everybody because this is where the fun happens. Um.
I know that. I have my theory that the pandemic
kind of some for some reason, people were drawn to
anime and it's just since exploded. Do you think that's
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what it is. I think that's what it is, because
you need time to go through seven episodes of Narrow too. Yes, Yes,
that's what it is. It's all of a sudden, it's like, well,
I've got two years, I might as well check something out.
So people are rediscovering anime and they're there are There
are lots of anime that were re released also, and
crunchy Rolls put a whole bunch of stuff out there,
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so it's a lot more accessible than it was before.
Plus people were homebound. So yeah, and nothing else is doing.
So do you prefer recording Western animation or anime? Um? Wow,
that's a tough question. These days, it's it's almost the
same thing because I record everything from home, so which
is the way anime was always done before, is always
not from home. But it was a solo experience. Is
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just us in the booth with a director and an engineer,
maybe a couple of people there. Uh, which is the
way video games were. It's it's now the way most
original animation is when we used to work in groups.
So it's very similar experience. And I'm so used to dubbing.
I was gonna say, are you still at your home studio?
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Are you still map? You know, you're still matching the
mouth flaps and everything, which is which they changed. Pipe
it through to me and I just match whatever is.
I always had a slightly difficult time in that I
did a video game back in the day, and I
remember they were dubbing it from Japanese to America to
American to English to American to English as we're kind
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of sitting in the room and because they somebody hadn't
done it properly. And I remember sitting there at one
time and the line was literally, I must take the
Golden Sword to the ship because if I don't, the
princess will die. And the Japanese was dah, Yeah, that
was it, and so they had to sit there because
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that was a mouth flat was one word, and it
was like, how do you get that entire sentiment into
one or two words? So you're the master, Well, Roger
Craig Smith has mastered that, and he would do that
as near out. He's done. He's done his own vlogs
about that sort of thing. That's why I learned everything
not familiar. I learned everything from Roger. Everything not familiar
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with anything? Um well, well, I was a writer for
years to an enemy. Where did this script adaptation? So
must know how to make it work? I didn't. I
didn't know how to make it word And that's why
I got hired a lot for Animal because I was
cheap and I would I would write it doesn't get
cheaper than pizza, No, it doesn't, well, actually does in
the game. Just the crust. Let's talk about topping, shall we.
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That's not cheese. Where did this go so awfully? I
went awfully wrong when we met that first time doing transforms.
It's been down. I'm so proud to share that space
with you. I know it is. It's brilliant. I love
you so much. I'm so glad that you were able
to do this, and you're throwing me out. No, No,
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you're staying here. If you will, if you'll, if you'll
stay with us to play, you don't have to. Roger
craigsm is going to jump in. Yeah, he's really good
at No. If you if you would like to stay,
because now we get to have a lot of fun
where everybody here gets to become the voice actor. I
would love to do that. It's really really cool. Yes, partially,
it's awesome. No, but we do want to invite somebody
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to the stage who helps us out here. If Mrs
Joe Boes will come up and join us. Joe is
an absolutely phenomenal artist who you probably know who gave
us Charlie the darks Tuna. It's the coolest thing in
the world. Um, and Joe is going to draw incredibly quickly,
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and then uh you're you're all going to line up
here at the microphone and you're not gonna know who
you're gonna voice until it pops up on the screen.
Um right here. Uh, so we get to play, which
is a lot of fun. So if everybody wants to
some people want to step up to the mike, whoever
wants to play here. He's drawing me like one of
his French girls. I didn't know I looked like that.
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That was me. It was my costume at Wheezies. Alright,
we're ready. That's amazing, So here we go. Are you ready? Yeah? Now,
remember you can't we're going quick. I can't think. We
gotta jump ready. Here's first one. Wow? Wow? Did that
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come out of your mouth? I got nothing. Normally I
say something, but I got nothing after that. That's that's
the weirdest thing I've ever heard come out of a
man's Yeah, cong in my mouth. But it was something
that was just pretty impressive. I usually have to be
lactating to make that noice. That was I got nothing.
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Congratulations you win? That was everybody else? Can just sit down,
all right, here we go, Thank you very much. As
we go. That's the thing that's amazing. How do I
follow that up? Exactly right? And now it's it's now
the monkeys that come on. It was that there were
monkeys at road bikes that came on after the Beatles
on the Ed Sullivan Joe, remember that. Yeah, you're not them.
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You're awesome. We talked yesterday and you're gonna nail it. Ready,
here we go. I left my my my little umbrella
on the groom there. Could you pick that up for me?
It's hard to see. My eyes are sevens, eyes are sevens.
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I was born with a rare genetic disorder that makes
my eyes numbers some that's awesome. What's it? What's it?
What's your name? Sir? My name is dinkle Dinklespield's forget
my name sometimes. Okay, hey, Steve, yes, very quickly. What
would this guy sound like if you did him? Uh,
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I'm putting the guests on the spot too. Saturday night
at the con is not treating me? Well? Thank you? Yes,
this is fun because the faster we go through him.
I used to watch Joe is just like, ready, here
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we go, chiming got a night class. Get out stopping that.
I want to put this ruler would see? It was
such a reat nice? You know what it sounded like
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at the beginning. It sounded like the voice in the
Pink Floyd the wall. If you don't eat your meat,
that's where that? How can you happy if you don't
eat your meat? Oh, here's another one. There we go, Oh,
here we go. Ready, this is gonna be great. Oh
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oh well, my name is is Bester and I'm just
wandering rambles this. You're gone and I'll just get my Carol.
That's amazing, this is great. The only thing going through
my head was my eyes are zeros. Ready terror Fine,
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it's gonna be terrifying awful. Ready, here we go. I'm
gonna go take over that village over there, and then
I'm gonna go take a night. Wait did you say
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you say you haven't? I got something for that. This
is what happens when Roger Greig Smith kisses you on
the lips. I'm never letting up, never, I have to say,
very quickly. So Roger came to the con yesterday and
he put on a cosplay and I got to see
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this video. It was the most wonderful thing in the world.
And he stood and waited in line for Steve with
a mask on. And he walks up and there's Steve
being very nice to me, and he says, you know,
is it possible? Can I can I get an autograph?
Can do this with the with the mask on and
doing a different voice, And so Steve he goes, yeah,
can we take a picture, And then you see Roger
stand next to Steve. Steve is looking right at the
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camera and he lifts up his mask and he does
this behind Steve, and then he puts the masks out
and he it goes and he shows Steve the pictures, like,
oh my god, it was great. It was a great punk.
I can't I can't say out loud what the word
was that came out of me at that moment. Wheezy, wheezy. Yeah.
It was the cheapest, crappiest costume I've ever seen it too.
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But he he changed his whole body structure. I don't
know how he did it. He inverted him acted Steve.
He knew he was acting. That's the difference. That's what
it is. That's what that's how you know. Are you ready?
Are you sure? Yes? Here we go. What's your name?
By the way, my name is Darren. I should have
asked everybody's names before, so we're just gonna say everyone
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before was Mark, Steve, Mitch, and Connie. Yeah, shout him
out all at once, You're ready? Yeah? Here we go?
He how was the real one? Like my monster costplay?
I'm supposed to be a purchass though, but no one
seems to get it. I like that. That's great. Yes,
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and his nose is a number. My nose is an
upside down yeah or sideways three, which is how I'm
feeling right now. Oh, this is fun. Well, Oh, I
already have one in my head for this. Do I
love when they just pop into your head? You get
that a lot where you they give so you'll you'll
get a character in front of you and just literally
the only thing I know how to do. It's that
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fact be does it happened that fast time? That's great? Involuntary?
What's your name? Brandon? All right, Brandon? Here we go. Hello,
Welcome to my bony. I have so many drinks and
lily sus and pustions to make. That's kind of what
I had to That's great. We all saw, we all
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heard the same kind of thing. He's got the tes
like try the to you dust like he's he's selling
you a car. Exactly. How often do you when you
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see a character, do you play against type where you'll
see it in the voice of pop in your head
and go, you know, I want to do something exactly
the opposite. I just try to do that as much
as possible. But most of the time they don't let
us you know it's true. Yeah, right. I always have
a second version of it in my head, and sometimes
I'll record it and they get really mad at because
they take up time to do that. I've got another idea. No,
it's he's year old man. Why are you doing a
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four year old girl? That's just that though, By the way,
they make him auditions for everything and they get really
mad at him when you record stuff. Voiceover isn't all
like this. People just don't like Steve. Yeah, that's true.
So when when you join us, the winner joins us
for the Super Auesme contest to become the next big
voice actor. Um, it's gonna be a great world, don't
Yeah about just be nicer than me? That helps, Yeah,
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be nicer than Steve. Can't do that. Oh this is
fun a magic right? Are you ready? What's your name? Dino? Yep?
Here you go, Dino? Ready? You got it? Does anyone
have some veto by? Skit is all clammy, that's everybody
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is so good and they bring their own thing to
the table and no rehearsal. That's the thing I also
love is it's all instantaneous and no rehearsal, which is beautiful. Ready,
here's a fun one. What's your name, Robin? Robin? Here
we go. Ready, Oh, does anyone see my friend? He's
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kind of tall. Did a costplay? You gotta looks like
Vandalaian Dave's Craig trying to find your cosplay friend, Robin.
I love it. That's great. These are so much fun.
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What's your name? Felix? And now I'm terrified by the
way you're all confident until you see Steve going like,
oh yeah, good luck with that one. It's gonna be fun. Betty,
I can't believe I got this like five minutes ago
and now it's gone. I just I thought it would
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be over my head and be okay, But my horn
hit it. You popped it with your own horn. I
didn't even think about that. That's so sad. It's because
you've had a privileged life. That's so sad. Most of
us have popped it with our own horn. Hello. Hey,
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I've known you forever. What's your name? Eva? We all
know that? Ready, Ava, this sounds funny. Who I'm never
going to work again? This is right. This is why
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I am convinced we are going to be able to
find an incredible voice actor. That's going to be able
to join us, you know, on the team. A replace
me so I can get some exactly, ladies and gentlemen,
the next wolverine's that was the one? That was that one?
What's your name? Martin? Martin? Ready? Not even a little bit?
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Oh no, it looks like Joe. M wrong? Am I wrong?
It looks like Joe? Um? Has anyone seen my friend Brendan?
Like for I'll and you find his weapon just a
little bit. My friend's heading for battle and forgot his weapon.
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Never got your sword? Nice? Sounded just like sod Just
like Joe too, That's all. Anyone seen my friend? You
forgot his weapons? Great? Ready? What's your name? All right? John?
Oddly familiar? Well, I was jetting my apple, but then
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I popped out that you have there at anyone around?
But nothing much? Oh my god, everybody was so good.
Anybody else stepping up? Anybody now? All right? I have
a question for you, Roger. Now, Roger's like, I'm not
coming up. I'm not going. I have a question for you, Steve.
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What would the apple sound like? Uh? Well, everything I
can think of is not appropriate for this room. Oh geez,
wait a second. Sibilants I'm Wolverine. That's it, Roger Craig Smith,
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Ladies and gentlemen, everybody. Uh, Steve, So what was it
like when you used to play Wolverine and now it
belongs to somebody else? Roger is just you know, it
was a good run. And I think we're in pretty
good hands. I think as long as he wears pants
to his sessions, why would he start now? No, he's
(37:58):
he really shouldn't have gotten used to him. Exact that
the way it is. By the way, um, we have
a little bit of time left, so not let you
off the hook. What is the apple sound like? Uh?
I girl? A hole in a very strange place. Yeah,
and something's coming out of it. And I don't think
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it's mccore that worked. It worked Jesus unbelievable. So this
is my favorite question, asked a voice over actor because
they can't answer at the time. What have you been
working on? And what can we see? And that's coming out?
This is it? This is all? Literally have no asking
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voice over. They're like, I have ninety three things, but
I can't tell you about any of them. No, I
can't tell you about most of them. Yeah, there's a
show I didn't. And it's an on camera show that
I did a voice for for Disney called Villains of
Valley View, and I play this character called Onyx, the
bad guy in this show. I had no idea what
I was working on when I did it, and it's
it's really fun to now is it really on camera?
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Because for some reason I made air quotes and I
don't understand what that well, because there is an actor
on camera. I just voiced it after the fact. Because
you often say that to me, You're like, well, you're
an on camera I do say that to you. What
is the whole different connotation? Well, no, it's just I
don't do a lot of characters that are live action. Yeah,
unless you know it's it's background voices for movies and
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things like that, But for TV shows, I really haven't
done that before. So it was kind of fun to
to step in and work, especially on a kids show
that is popular for a demographic that I normally don't
wrap into. It was just kind of fun to do
something a little bit different. So do you do you
want to do on camera? Works? None? So somebody comes
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up to you and says, man, I got this great movie.
I want you to come and be, you know, come
starr and be the funny guy with me. You'd say no.
I would say no because I am too lazy and
I am seriously I am too lazy hot behind it.
It's not like i'd be I'd be scared of it. Nope,
too lazy, am I am? I'm really, I'm really lazy.
I don't like memorization. I'm I'm singing in a choir
right now, and I'm living in Hawaii and I'm singing
(40:08):
in this community choir with eighty year olds. They want
me to memorize like three lines because we're doing a
little Christmas production and I'm struggling doing that because I
haven't done it in so many years. So there are
so many things about the last sentence you just said
that I want to unpack. I'm singing in a choir
in Hawaii with eighty year olds and they want me
(40:32):
to memorize three lines, and I'm having trouble. I don't
know where to start. I'll be honest with you. That's
that's really all there is. Oh my, well, thank you
for coming joining us. You got roped into it, really
may Well. We have friends that Mary's father is a
very fine singer. He's sing with acapella groups. Well, Mary
(40:52):
is Mary is an amazing professional singer. Yeah, and he's
sang with this, uh, this acapella group from Princeton. They've
been doing it for years and years and years. Did
they have a cool name like chock full of Notes?
They there are lots of them like that. There are
called the Nassoons. They have the best and they performed
all over the world. And one of his really good
(41:13):
acapella mates, who's he's been singing with forty fifty years,
happens to be our neighbor in Hawaii. He introduced us
to him and they asked us to come and sing
in the choir with him. And I haven't done that
in forty five years, so I thought that would be
a fun challenge. That's really excite singing and everything. Everybody's
really good. So it's it's like that, can we can
we see that anywhere? Is there is there a YouTube
video anywhere? We did our first concert last year and
(41:38):
it was show tunes And I'm not a big theater
fan and like musical theater fan and not either. Oh god,
it was it was a struggle. If if you have
never seen octogenarians singing raw ra the ga thing. Oh
really yeah, I want your what was it? I want
your ugly I want your disease. You see eighty five
(41:59):
year olds trying to make sense out of that. It
was fantastic. Just being a fly on the wall was
good enough to do that. That is amazing. Well, where
can everybody find you? Social media is all that I'm
on at bloom spew on Twitter until it crashes, uh,
same thing on Instagram. You can also find us at
bloom Box Studios dot com where we teach voiceover. Will
(42:22):
was one of our guest teachers on that. By the way,
that was a bad week for the students. We have
a free master class there, So if you're interested in voiceover,
go to bloom buck Studios dot com or stop by
our table and we have a free master class that
will kind of orient you on how voiceover actually works
and see if what we're offering is something that you
guys might be interested and if not, we'll guide you
in the right direction. It is so worth it. It
(42:44):
is phenomenal. If this is something you're thinking about doing,
you you can do no better than this man right
here guiding you through it. Really is absolutely phenomenal. Well
you can do better, but but not for the price.
Probably won't, not for the price. Not for the price.
Pizza and pull dancing, now, yeah, it always devolves to that,
it does. I'm just remembering those nights at Wheezies. Um, crazy, crazy, crazy.
(43:10):
Thank you so much for joining us. Go see Steve
at his table, Go watch everything he's been in because
he's phenomenal, unbelievable. Um, I love you so much. Thank
you for lowering your standards again, you were just throwing up.
This is everybody, Joe woes everybody. I mean, well, I'm
(43:35):
gonna everybody. I have a I have a TV show
on PBS called Cartoon Academy. New season just dropped, and
we want two Emmys. H show, so multiple Emmy award.
And you have your books out too, and yeah I have.
My latest book is called Amazing Peanuts, which features Charlie
brown Snoopy in the Whole Gang. I was actually just
(43:55):
up the Charles M. Schultzzim for Shultz is on birthday
and so yeah, check it out. I have a new
book coming. And Thursday Nights on performing at Wheezies. Yes exactly,
not just great, He's the Thursday Night line up. I
have a new book coming out. It's called Great Peanuts,
and it's just pictures of peanuts, that's all. It's not
as good a book as yours, Joe. But thank you
(44:16):
once again for joining us. Think I appreciate that. And
uh yeah, everybody, don't forget the super awesome contests become
the next voice actor. So like I said, you got
a year long contract with an agent, you get phone
nut to Los Angeles, you win a thousand dollars. But
the there are some other prizes that I'm not allowed
to talk about yet, which are awesome v I P
passes for Wheezy. No, trust me, the v I P
(44:39):
section isn't better than the regular section. Every I exactly exactly.
I just want to say I am so proud of
all of you stepping up to the mic ye with
that now, having no idea what they're gonna voice, no
idea what they're gonna see in front of a whole
bunch of people. It takes some serious gun Sunday morning.
(45:02):
It is the coolest thing ever. So thank you everybody
for joining us. Thank you Steve, thank you Joe, everybody
for joining us up here, and thanks for listening to
I Hear Voices or wrapping it up for myself and
for Christy who could not be here. Uh we thank
you all for joining us and remember if you think
you got what it takes to step up to the mic,
then put your voices where your mouth is. Thanks everybody.
(45:24):
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Carlson Romano. Executive produced by will Fredell, Brendan Rooney, Amy
Sugarman and Vicky Ernst Chang. Our executive in charge of
production is Danielle Romo. Our producer is Lorraine Vera Wez
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