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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Rachel, you're out with queenlan Cantira. Hello there, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Morning, Rachel McFarland. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I am good? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're excellent, Rachel McFarlane. Have you voted yet?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh heck, yeah, of course. Do you know what you're
talking to?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Where are you that you can vote so early? Like
here in New York we got to wait till Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No, I'm in Maine. Early voting started weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh nice, what is Rachel McFarlane, big, big voiceover actor?
What are you doing in Maine?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm not a great question. So I had, like four
years ago, there was this big thing that happened where
all of a sudden we all realized we didn't have
to live in the place that we were.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We decided after twenty five years to get out of
Los Angeles. And I'm from New England originally, and I
have a ton of family in Portland, and so we
moved to Maine and in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
The parents were born in Newberry Plot.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I love Newby right fond down Newburypot. Yeah, you got
that right, And it's amazing. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I spent a lot of time in Maine, Rachel, and
I love the food scene in Portland. Rachel McFarland. She's
Hailey on season nineteen of American Dad on TBS. But
you've also done voices for everybody, including for your brother's
show Family Guy. Where did you? Where did you figure
out you were going to do voices? Did you do
voices as a kid?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I mean, it's funny I did, but it didn't put
two and two together. I was a musical theater major
in college. I went to the Boston Conservatory and major
in musical theater, and I thought I was going to
be a stage actor and moved to New York after college,
and I was like, ooh, I don't actually think this
is what I really want to do. And went out
to Los Angeles to visit my brother in nineteen ninety eight,
(01:50):
and he was the one. He was like, look, you've
got a great voice, you're a good actor. I think
you'd be really great a voiceover. And I needed a job,
so I started working as a production assistant at Cartoon
Network on a show called Johnny Bravo, and I convinced
the casting directory there to give me a shot, and
I started doing Voices on Bravo, and then that led
to Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Kit's next Door, Grim Invectors,
(02:14):
a Billion, Mandy, all of those great classic shows from
the early two thousands, and then along came American Dad
and that was what two decades ago.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I can't believe it's been nineteen years of American Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Two things really quick. It's like a night through the
heart for radio guys hearing that story about voiceovers and
taken dow all the voiceovers from the radio guys. And
do you actually watch all the shows? Do you actually
see your voice into final play and all these shows
that you do because you have so many shows.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So my kids just asked me that question on the
way to school yesterday. It's so funny. They were like, Mom,
you ever watched the shows that you're on? It's like
sometimes if there's an episode in particular that I love,
then I'm like excited about. And I remember, like I
am on a new show on Fox called crop Opolis
and I get to play Afrodite, and I did an
(03:07):
episode this year that I loved, and so I'm excited
to see that one and I will tune in and
watch that episode. So but honestly, no, most of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, yeah, I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So Rachel McFarlane, she's a voiceover actor actress. Her season
nineteen American Dad on TBS. How long does it take,
let's say, Family Guy, How long does it take start
to finish to make an episode of Family Guy?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It takes a year. It's a year.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Is that crazy? It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's crazy. And it's what's so funny is when we
do comic Con in San Diego or whatever, or even
things like this where we have a season premiere, we
always have to ask, can you send me a description
of what the episodes were? I don't remember what I
did a year ago? Are you kidding? I barely remember
what hair color I had a year ago.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So it makes it hard for Family Guys an instant
classic for me, it's one of my favorite shows, but
it does make it hard to be super topical, noting
it takes a year to get the storyline might not
be there a year from now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Do you remember that funny little feud between Family Guy
in south Park all those years ago? And South Park?
You know they made their episodes what two weeks before
they aired? And so my brother wants cracked a joke
that you know, south Park is over there firing their
you know, their AK forty sevens or whatever, and family
guys loading their muskets. Oh, because it takes so long,
(04:30):
right for them to crack a joke and then have
it air.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, south Park can turn around in six days.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So did you does your brother get get along with
Trey and Matt?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? I mean I think it was just one of
those well, you know, it was just a funny little
thing that happened. And I don't think there's any bad
blood between them at all. I mean, my god, we've
seen the Book of Mormon. How could you not love
those guys?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, exactly exactly. Was the whole family sing song? I
know the parents were.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Working the school industry kind of thing. Were you all
sing song?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Everyone is thinks funny and my family, yes. My father
has a gorgeous singing voice, like stunning, and our mother
was an incredible harmonizer. She had great pitch. My parents
used to sing together all the time. My father played
the guitar, and so second I just grew up around music.
It was it was yeah, which is always in our house.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I picture you at a piano at Christmas time, the
whole crew.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, kind of. I mean it's so ridiculous, but yes,
And do you guys know that on Friday, the American
Dad Greatest Hits soundtrack drop.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Looking for it? What's on?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I got like tons of songs from the last nineteen
or eighteen seasons done on the show.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He kept, Rachel, just tell me a few of the
characters on Family Guy you voice so I can listen
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh my god, I mean sure, these days I am
Stewie's teacher, his kindergarten teacher, a preschool teacher, whatever he's in.
I'm usually like every superfluous female that you hear on
that show. It's either me or Alex Boordstein. So it's
sort of like a fun little easter egg. You can
(06:10):
just listen and see if you can pick out my
voice in each episode. I seriously, I played like girls
that Brian's trying to date.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I play which one, I don't know, the I don't know,
whateveryone can't teara wants.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You probably at least your probably most signature voice though
right from American Dad.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Probably. I was also Olivia on Family Guide The Little
Girl that Stewie tried to kill.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh yeah, that's awesome. You do You do all of
this from from Maine. You don't go to Hollywood anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, I don't. I do it all from my closet
in Maine.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wow, that's the light.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You can't tear. His mind is staying and reeling over there.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I mean, huge of this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's a big fan over here. We appreciate all the time.
We'll keep an eye out for American Dad and your
other projects. Thank you, Rachel, Thanks Rachel, Rachel McFarland.
Rachel, you're out with queenlan Cantira. Hello there, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Morning, Rachel McFarland. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
How are you.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
I am good? How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
We're excellent, Rachel McFarlane. Have you voted yet?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Oh heck, yeah, of course. Do you know what you're
talking to?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Where are you that you can vote so early? Like
here in New York we got to wait till Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
No, I'm in Maine. Early voting started weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Oh nice, what is Rachel McFarlane, big, big voiceover actor?
What are you doing in Maine?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
I'm not a great question. So I had, like four
years ago, there was this big thing that happened where
all of a sudden we all realized we didn't have
to live in the place that we were.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We decided after twenty five years to get out of
Los Angeles. And I'm from New England originally, and I
have a ton of family in Portland, and so we
moved to Maine and in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
The parents were born in Newberry Plot.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I love Newby right fond down Newburypot. Yeah, you got
that right, And it's amazing. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I spent a lot of time in Maine, Rachel, and
I love the food scene in Portland. Rachel McFarland. She's
Hailey on season nineteen of American Dad on TBS. But
you've also done voices for everybody, including for your brother's
show Family Guy. Where did you? Where did you figure
out you were going to do voices? Did you do
voices as a kid?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I mean, it's funny I did, but it didn't put
two and two together. I was a musical theater major
in college. I went to the Boston Conservatory and major
in musical theater, and I thought I was going to
be a stage actor and moved to New York after college,
and I was like, ooh, I don't actually think this
is what I really want to do. And went out
to Los Angeles to visit my brother in nineteen ninety eight,
(01:50):
and he was the one. He was like, look, you've
got a great voice, you're a good actor. I think
you'd be really great a voiceover. And I needed a job,
so I started working as a production assistant at Cartoon
Network on a show called Johnny Bravo, and I convinced
the casting directory there to give me a shot, and
I started doing Voices on Bravo, and then that led
to Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Lab, Kit's next Door, Grim Invectors,
(02:14):
a Billion, Mandy, all of those great classic shows from
the early two thousands, and then along came American Dad
and that was what two decades ago.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I can't believe it's been nineteen years of American Dad.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Two things really quick. It's like a night through the
heart for radio guys hearing that story about voiceovers and
taken dow all the voiceovers from the radio guys. And
do you actually watch all the shows? Do you actually
see your voice into final play and all these shows
that you do because you have so many shows.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So my kids just asked me that question on the
way to school yesterday. It's so funny. They were like, Mom,
you ever watched the shows that you're on? It's like
sometimes if there's an episode in particular that I love,
then I'm like excited about. And I remember, like I
am on a new show on Fox called crop Opolis
and I get to play Afrodite, and I did an
(03:07):
episode this year that I loved, and so I'm excited
to see that one and I will tune in and
watch that episode. So but honestly, no, most of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, yeah, I appreciate the honesty.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So Rachel McFarlane, she's a voiceover actor actress. Her season
nineteen American Dad on TBS. How long does it take,
let's say, Family Guy, How long does it take start
to finish to make an episode of Family Guy?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It takes a year. It's a year.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Is that crazy? It's crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It's crazy. And it's what's so funny is when we
do comic Con in San Diego or whatever, or even
things like this where we have a season premiere, we
always have to ask, can you send me a description
of what the episodes were? I don't remember what I
did a year ago? Are you kidding? I barely remember
what hair color I had a year ago.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So it makes it hard for Family Guys an instant
classic for me, it's one of my favorite shows, but
it does make it hard to be super topical, noting
it takes a year to get the storyline might not
be there a year from now.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Do you remember that funny little feud between Family Guy
in south Park all those years ago? And South Park?
You know they made their episodes what two weeks before
they aired? And so my brother wants cracked a joke
that you know, south Park is over there firing their
you know, their AK forty sevens or whatever, and family
guys loading their muskets. Oh, because it takes so long,
(04:30):
right for them to crack a joke and then have
it air.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, south Park can turn around in six days.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
So did you does your brother get get along with
Trey and Matt?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? I mean I think it was just one of
those well, you know, it was just a funny little
thing that happened. And I don't think there's any bad
blood between them at all. I mean, my god, we've
seen the Book of Mormon. How could you not love
those guys?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, exactly exactly. Was the whole family sing song? I
know the parents were.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Working the school industry kind of thing. Were you all
sing song?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Everyone is thinks funny and my family, yes. My father
has a gorgeous singing voice, like stunning, and our mother
was an incredible harmonizer. She had great pitch. My parents
used to sing together all the time. My father played
the guitar, and so second I just grew up around music.
It was it was yeah, which is always in our house.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I picture you at a piano at Christmas time, the
whole crew.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, kind of. I mean it's so ridiculous, but yes,
And do you guys know that on Friday, the American
Dad Greatest Hits soundtrack drop.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Looking for it? What's on?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I got like tons of songs from the last nineteen
or eighteen seasons done on the show.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
He kept, Rachel, just tell me a few of the
characters on Family Guy you voice so I can listen
for you.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh my god, I mean sure, these days I am
Stewie's teacher, his kindergarten teacher, a preschool teacher, whatever he's in.
I'm usually like every superfluous female that you hear on
that show. It's either me or Alex Boordstein. So it's
sort of like a fun little easter egg. You can
(06:10):
just listen and see if you can pick out my
voice in each episode. I seriously, I played like girls
that Brian's trying to date.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I play which one, I don't know, the I don't know,
whateveryone can't teara wants.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
You probably at least your probably most signature voice though
right from American Dad.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Probably. I was also Olivia on Family Guide The Little
Girl that Stewie tried to kill.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oh yeah, that's awesome. You do You do all of
this from from Maine. You don't go to Hollywood anymore?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
No, I don't. I do it all from my closet
in Maine.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Wow, that's the light.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You can't tear. His mind is staying and reeling over there.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I mean, huge of this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
That's a big fan over here. We appreciate all the time.
We'll keep an eye out for American Dad and your
other projects. Thank you, Rachel, Thanks Rachel, Rachel McFarland.
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