"Stranger Things Changed My Life" – Chester Rushing Interview

Chester Rushing (Stranger Things, Logan, DC's Superman) returns to the show and catches up with the guys! He talks about his journey from Tommy H on this hit Netflix show, Stranger Things to voicing Superman, his first day on set with Clint Eastwood, and what it was like working alongside Hugh Jackman. Plus, Chester reveals his thoughts on the future of voice acting, AI, and his unexpected role in Cookie Run Kingdom. And could Tommy H make a comeback in Stranger Things 5? Chester gives us his wildest theory yet. Get more show at MZNOW

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Now your change to turn.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael, don't read bull do Uh I can't hear you.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wow, I'm just amazed that's what you're thinking about.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
This is m Z.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Now.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
It's been a long time, but he's finally back. Mister
Chester Russian. How are you, sir?

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Thank you so much for having me
back again after so long. It's been amazing to be here.
I mean, wow, what an amazing intro.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Talk about a transformation right like we were in the
we started at the bottom of an hour're here.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
I mean, it's incredible. Let's keep it going.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
So for those people who don't know who Chester Rushing goes,
first off, shame on you. But you played very nice
guy Chester Rushing. But on the show Stranger Things, m hm,
you played Tommy H. And Tommy Yah was in season
one and two. That's correct, and describe Tommy H. Tommy
H was Steve's best friend in the first season. Second season,

(01:22):
he was kind of hanging around Daker's character. But yeah,
I have this big fight scene with him in the
gas station where hold him against the car and say
you couldn't take Jonathan Byers, So I wouldn't recommend that, and.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
It kind of became Steve's catalyst to propel him to
becoming a good guy and you know, regretting the horrible
things he did in the past and how he was
kind of, you know, on the fence of being a
bully or being a good guy. So I think like
this kind of character and shows are kind of necessary
to propel the story a little forward. At the end

(01:55):
of the day, the story is not really about me,
So I'm grateful that I could have been a part
out of it in any way.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yeah, but you just so people know, you're not like
Tommy as No, my gosh, very nice guy, right, you
were a very nice guy, even though you did help Steve.
You're a very nice guy. Do you keep in touch
with anybody on the Stranger Things Cast?

Speaker 5 (02:12):
I talked to uh Loose, which is they play like
young Victor Kreole.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
In the New Seasons, I talked to Gayton sometimes sometimes
I'll tell Caleb a little hello.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
But I also sometimes say hi to their parents. Right,
I could talk to their parents. I'm like, oh, hey,
Gayton's dad. I'm like, how you guys doing. How's the Bakery.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
I've met Gayton's mom and she was very nice.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
And I'm friends with Mattie Carter Ropel. I love Maddie
and I guess I'm on your on your wall. Yeah,
the wallograph out there so amazing. You're on there too,
I know it's so great. Yeah, And I'm friends with
Gabriella Pizzolo.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
She played your girlfriend in the show.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
Now Gabby plays Dustin's Oh that's right, that's right the show,
which is super funny because they're an amazing, incredible person
and over the years they've just become even more talented.
They sing a lot of them are like from Broadway. Yeah,
so they have the voices of like angels. Yeah, they
really do. They're great.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
And then your love interest in the show Stranger Things,
you're still friends with her.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
Chelsea Talmage. I see them occasionally at appearances. It's been
a few years.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, yeah, because I know you guys did the whole
like when like season one, season two, there was like
this massive Stranger Things events all over the world, and
that's I saw you at a couple of them, Yeah,
and that was pretty cool and you got to travel
and you really like Stranger Things was a good thing
for you.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
It really did open the doors to so many things.
I mean, when we did this little show, you know,
at the time, we just got these opportunities of a lifetime.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Really. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I just remember the first time on set when we
got to the studio at the time was called Screen
Gems Studios. I was a busboy at Christina Scantina here
in DFW, and they called me to go to set.
And the first day on set, I just see Clint
Eastwood directing Sully. They've got like three hundred firemen actors

(04:10):
dressed as firemen. Their screamag jump faster, jump higher, jump
fire And then I'm like, I'm on this hill of
the studio a lot and I'm watching this and I'm like, wow,
who is that guy? I get inside They're like, did
you see Glynn Easwood out there? I'm like that was
Glynnea's what That's incredible? And yeah, and right next door

(04:33):
from our studio a lot they actually filmed part of
Black Panther as well. Wow, whenever that was going on,
and it was incredible to see just in close vicinity
all these fantastic things. I Mean, they even had like
an off set for The Walking Dead.

Speaker 4 (04:50):
Did you guys all shot this in Atlanta.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, all in Atlanta, Georgia was quite incredible.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
And how we know each other is I've known Chester
and his wife who's here with us today too, for
many years. I think now we ran in the same
circles back in the day, and I would always see,
you know, hear about Chester rushing and all this kind
of thing. And then next thing, you know, I would
see him at like events. I would see at events
right here and there in the disc I didn't know
who you were really, but they would talk about you.

(05:16):
And then next thing I know, you're You're on my
TV on Netflix, and then you get NET, you get
the Stranger Things Show, and then I go to the
movies and I see you in Logan.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Oh yeah, what.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
I forgot all about that until Eric reminded me the
other day.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
I shot for almost a month, and this few seconds
that I'm in there is all that they kept. We
shot the scene where I like take over the limousine.
They were gonna like do this crazy fight scene where
Logan was gonna like flip the limo and get in
a fight at an alley way while I like freak out,

(05:53):
and then at the same time, you know, what remains
is like crucial to the story and you get like,
you know, an Oscar winning performance from Hugh Jackman. So
whatever serves the story the best. It's you know, my
job as an actor to kind of like blend into
the world. And I really called too much attention to
the fact that it's a movie, right or so getting

(06:16):
to be in it for just a few seconds or
whatever they kept. It's kind of amazing because I could
say I was there, I met the guy, worked with
the guy, and he drove a limo with us in
it every day for like three weeks. It was quite silly,
and we talked about pizza.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
We talked.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
He told me where to go get pizza in New York.
I can't even remember. He's like, there's a place under
the Brooklyn Bridge that's the best. And I just couldn't
believe it. Yeah, big foodie, Hugh Jackman.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
And did that what?

Speaker 4 (06:45):
It kind of because now you do on your social
media you do a lot of food reviews. Is that
kind of what did Hugh Jackman inspire that?

Speaker 5 (06:51):
I mean a little bit, but I'm always hungry.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
I'm like at least once a day I gotta eat.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Right at least I don't know about it.

Speaker 4 (06:57):
You're like that too, Yeah, wow, I thought I was.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
The only one. That's what the pain in the stomach is.
Thank you. That's how I sho.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
You know, Stranger Things is wrapping up. We'll go we'll
finish up Stranger Things and then we'll move on because
you got something really exciting I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
But do you know anything? We don't.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
I know that it's going to be, That's what I know.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Who do you think survives to the end?

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Okay? This is or doesn't survive? Interesting question.

Speaker 5 (07:25):
I saw the Duffer Brothers on a late night show
like yesterday, and they were putting hints out and one
of the clips like I don't really know what happens,
but they were like, oh yeah, these are characters, and
they had the pops of all of the characters and
then they put Steve their pop on the end of

(07:49):
the desk and then knocked it off and we're like whoa.
And I was like, wait a minute, are they trying
to hint that something happens? And now I have to know.
I have to watch it.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
I gotta know. Are you caught up?

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Are you?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Are you do you have to, because I mean you're
very busy, You're working a lot. Yeah, which is good.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
I definitely check out the seasons whenever they come out. Yeah,
you know, I'm a very maybe I'm a little biased,
but I like how how season one and season two
nobody knew what the show was really.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Going to be, right.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
It was kind of practical effects, kind of like really
visceral in the fact that we had like these kind
of vintage clothes, vintage cars, and it was all fresh
and new. And then once you have that kind of success,
you're like, Wow, how do I keep that success going?
How do I keep it rolling? And now they use

(08:39):
a lot of really top of the line, CGI, top
of the line special effects, I mean from some of
the people that work on Star Wars, I mean legendary animations.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's it's quite incredible.

Speaker 5 (08:53):
So for that, I'm fascinated, Yeah, really fascinated about how
they do all of that.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Do you ever lie awake at not thinking that you
could have stopped Barb from dying? Does that haunt you
at night? Because it would hop me. I'm still haunted
by it.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I think it's cool.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
I mean, you were there, you could have stopped it,
I know, and you didn't.

Speaker 5 (09:13):
I mean, you know that that death of Barb, the
when they went missing, you know, it kind of propelled
the want for that character to like resurface. And you know,
so some days I go, wow, yeah, I I you know,

(09:33):
if Barb would have lived, what would that look like?

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (09:37):
And I'm like, I don't know if it would have
been as exciting. That's true, you know, but because like
zombie Barb, that's quite incredible.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I think off to see it again and again.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
So what you're saying is you've healed from it and
you've moved on.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
I've healed from it. I love you, Shannon Purser. I
think you're incredible.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
I feel like Tommy h would have saw it at
the poll taker and be like, A, yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Did Tommy A se it That's the question every wants
to know.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
I mean maybe maybe not I that would be hilarious.
It was just like WHOA, what the hell is that?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
And then just close the door.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah, not into dying to night.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's today.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
One of the things I would always admire when I
see Chester out and about if we ran into each
other somewhere. He's always wearing these very stylish cool clothes,
and I realized and I remember asking where do you
shop at? And we said it at the exact same time,
ge By. Guess we were shopping at g B at
that time. Yeah, it no longer exists gee By, I
guess it's now Guess Factory or whatever. Now wow, but
you can't go to that store anymore and get like,

(10:37):
you know, we had jackets with zippers on them, just
random zipper.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
They didn't do anything, they didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
I have.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
My closet is full of these jackets from ge By guests.
And now they're all like falling apart and breaking and
all this stuff. No, And so every time I think,
I'm like, I wonder if Chester has like a you know,
jackets like this, because I know we were all shopping
at that same place. It was really great. I don't
know why they closed it down.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
In the back of my closet, like you walk through
a wardrobe and in Narnia, I have a closet that
has mind you by guest.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
See, I wish I had that. I wish I had
one of these days up would be like that. Let's
take a clip or take a moment. We see this
clip of Chester rushing on our show in two thousand
and nine. Wow, can you Christopher Walker?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I heard you. Christal Walker is pretty good.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Oh yeah, if you want one second, yeah, to get
inside of it. So Michael's vala is basically like like
if you took the champagne bottle and you opened it
up and a unicorn shot out of it. It's kind
of like that.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
It's so good. It's Chrystal, miss.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'm so jealous.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
There's actually I walked up to him on set and
I was like, you know, thank you so much for
your work. First off, and one of my favorite things
you did whenever I was a kid was Uncle Fester
because my name is Chester, it's very similar.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah, And he was like.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Uncle Fessor, very very special that my gosh, little Chester
didn't know they would become a voice actor.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
And you know what's funny, this is what I want
to talk about because after that show you came. We
were talking in the little production hallway we called the
production room, and and you said, I want to be
I really am looking to go into voice acting. Next
you have this conversation we talked. We were talking about
some of the people you should talk to or whatever whatever,
And now here you are, almost ten years later and

(12:37):
you're a voice actor. Yeah, and one of the coolest
roles you get to play right now is well, who.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
I voiced Clark Kent, the voice of Superman for DC
High Volumes audio series, which is quite incredible. To voice Clark,
to voice Soups in this way is just an honor
for me. I never in a million years thought I
would get a call saying, hey, we love you to
be the voice of Superman for our audio series. It's

(13:07):
just an honor because it's my favorite superhero. It means
a lot to a lot of us for many different reasons.
And I know that Superman's favorite superhero is Batman.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
So I don't know you're a big Batman if I
am a big Batman fan, how could you tell?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
How could? I thought that was so cool.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
I watched the thing, so it's like, describe it to me, Well,
this is how I would describe it. It's like a audio drama,
but with the comic book on top of it. So
you guys are reenacting the comic book essentially.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
Right, correct, Yeah, with full audio production. You can check
it out on DC's official YouTube page or anywhere that
you get your podcasts. Jason Spisik from Arcane plays Bruce
Wayne Batman, and we have just a star studded cast.
Troy Baker plays the joke Baker They're Gonna do the kill.

(13:56):
He's a Dallas native too. Really, yeah, I've heard that,
and I got to see him play some music one
time in Palm Springs. We were out there at the
hard Rock Cafe Hotel and he was playing his music
and I thought it was phenomenal. So if you haven't
checked out Troy's music, go go and check that out.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
It's quite remarkable.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
When you approach something like Superman, you know, iconic character
has already been movies, TV shows, cartoons, whatever. How do
you approach that role and make it your own without
copying somebody else.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
I wanted to pay like the Tim Daly animated version
a lot of respect, so I went and rewatched all
of the animated series.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Great show.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
I was gonna say, he's my favorite voice Superman, and
just because like I watched him on that Wing Show,
so I kind of knew him beforehand. But yeah, fantastic
as Clark Kent, in my opinion.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Literally some of the best animation, some of the best
writing and voice acting as well as I read a
lot of the comics. I went in and read like
All Star Superman, Superman Birthright, and I just I got
in and the moment they announced me voicing Soups at
New York Comic Con, I kind of started hyperventilating because,

(15:13):
I mean, how do you handle that? It was like,
oh ha haha, and then all of a sudden became
very real, like, oh, I have to like do the
best I can for this. And so I've really taken
a deep dive into the heart of Clark and I
kind of realized how human of a character, right, they
really are? Yeah, all of these DC heroes are really

(15:35):
really based in a lot of humanity, and it's quite
remarkable to kind of delve into this world. And I
tell you, when I got into the session for recording,
I was like doing the thing and then at the end,
I just didn't know how it was going to go.
But there was like hearts and hearts and hearts in

(15:56):
the zoom chat and some of the people worked with
Kevin Conroy when the rip around exactly. So to know
that I lived up to a vision that those people
had is just I mean, it's one of the biggest
honors of my life.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah, you weren't like you and I both know a
fantastic voice actor by the name of Eric Bowsa.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Oh Eric.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yeah, we actually hung out with him a couple years
ago at Universe Studios and he has not returned our
call since. But no, Eric is incredible, and he took
on these legendary characters right, And I would be nervous
essentially if somebody said, hey, we want you to be
the voice of Mickey Mouse, you know, whatever you like.
I don't know that I could live up to the

(16:37):
you know, my expectations. Even so, when you get Superman,
you did all the research, but when you walked in
that booth, did you ever feel.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Like, oh my gosh, I don't know that I could
do this.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, at some points, not necessarily with Superman, because I
had just dealt with that. On this current series I'm doing,
it's just kind of under raps. I can't really talk
about it, but it's a huge ip and the moment
I came in, I had such self doubt that it
almost cost me the opportunity. So it was a weird process.

(17:09):
One of the shows I'm doing now, which I can't say,
they well guess Oh my gosh, yeah right, the Barbie movie,
Oh my gosh, mouse Trap. You know, I got in there,
and I had a lot of self doubt, and I

(17:30):
it cost the whole it cost me to be recast.
So I had to do the entire process again, not
for Superman, but for something else. I had to do
this entire process again. And then I reclaimed the role
that I was recast from. I did the entire process again,
and it blew my mind. And when I got it,
I'll never doubt when somebody gives me an opportunity ever again.

(17:52):
And the next opportunity I got after that was Superman.
I was like, okay, I gotta keep my word to myself.
So no matter what kind of opportunity the universe brings us,
we have to just do it with all our heart
and hope for the best.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
By the way, you just sounded like Superman right there,
you know, thank you? Yeah, a little uh. Eric Starr
here is also wanting to do voice acting, and so
I said, well, you know, Chess is the right guy
to talk to them. There's a lot of people out
there going I wish I could do voice acting. I
get actors, I hear actors all the time. You know what,
I'm really looking at a done stage. I've done this
now I'm thinking about doing voice acting. Right the first
steps that you took, what did you do? Did you

(18:26):
do a demo? Did you go to your agent and say, hey,
I want to really kind of explore this opportunity.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
What was your first steps?

Speaker 5 (18:32):
I called my manager. It was kind of a gutsy
move for me. I called my manager and I said
I want to do voiceover. And they were like, you
understand that this is one of the most cutthroat businesses.
It's super hard to do vo Because I was in
LA at the time, and Todd goes, I'll get you
a meeting with James at this big agency. So I
walked in and I was like, oh, hi, I'm Chester.

(18:54):
You know this is what I do. This is what
I do, and I think I would be really good for,
you know, voiceover. If you can give me an opportunity,
I'll try my best.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
Is your Christopher Lloyd?

Speaker 5 (19:04):
For him?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yeah, that would have been like, yeah, I can get
out of it, like you know, you know Chris is
still alive.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
We would just get him.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Seriously, they would, and it's quite incredible because I went
in LA and I auditioned. This is back before lockdown,
so at this time we were going into our agencies.
You would do auditions in the.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Person, Yeah, in person.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah, they would send it off and now everything's at home.
But I was in LA for four years. I heard
nothing but knows. Every week I was auditioning for like
ten fifteen things.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
And this was after Stranger Things, right, yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
Absolutely, after Stranger Things had done several films, was a
series lead on, like a show on Hulu, and still
it was just a different world, different market.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
You know.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
It's kind of like music, you know, voice, they can
hear it, they go, oh it's either sounds good to
me or it doesn't sound good. It either works or
it doesn't. In film, it's like oh yeah they've got abs,
they can do it. And I'm like, ah, there goes
my job.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Right, you have to give up either one abs, you
got to give up your your eating career, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah, it's it's always that.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
And I feel like for me, I've always kind of
struggled with my weight and you have.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Man, of course I've never seen you always look the
same to me. Thank you so much. Yeah, I mean
that's why they only showed me.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
For people that know Chester was actually three hundred and
seventy five pounds.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Most of it's my ego, right, I'll tell you, and
being in voiceover, especially with somebody like me for those
that aren't watching visually, I have a lot of freckles, right,
so that tends to deter people from casting me.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Really, yeah, I would think that that would be more
of a something that sets you apart, I don't and
gets you more roles, but I guess not huh.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Too far apart.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
Yeah, it's quite incredible the opportunities I've had because of
my voice. I can fit into anything.

Speaker 8 (21:10):
I can do strange bombsters or you know, heroes of
Justice and mine so magic or like you know, even
the voice of Superman or.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Whatever they throw at me, because every day it's kind
of a new thing, things that my physical form doesn't
kind of limit me to. So it's quite incredible. I mean,
you look at somebody like Andy Serkis, who has done
goll Planet of the Apes, or better than Cumberbatge being
you know, smog in more to the Rings, it's like

(21:47):
you're a dragon. It's like, yeah, that's incredible. You know,
you get to actually and the farther that we get
with our technology, right, it's going to open up a
lot more our doors for hopefully for human voice actors
to come in and portray these even more believably fantastical characters,

(22:10):
which brings me to this question. Katherine, you want to
ask the question you asked right before we got started.
I don't remember it.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
It was about let me give you the line you said, Chester,
what do you think about AI and voice acting? Oh,
go ahead and ask that question like we didn't. We'll
leave it all in.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
Leave it all Chester, What do you think about AI
and voice acting?

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Fai?

Speaker 5 (22:33):
Oh Man, I'll stand with Garamo del Toro when he
says FAI and voice actor or arts. Look, I think
that AI has an incredible application when it comes to
like medical research or finding cures for incurable diseases or like,
you know, it's going to be impossible to kind of
unintegrate it from where it's going, like in our phones

(22:55):
and different things. But I think, I really, really, really
hope we keep huge inside our art, really our art.
What we are, Our pain, our sorrows, our wins, our
loves are weird moments where we don't really know where
we are and we're figuring out where we exist in
this chaotic universe. Yeah, that's the human experience. That's something

(23:18):
that a robot can't replicate. And I really, really really
hope for all of all of humanity and where we
go in our future that we can keep our heart,
our humanity inside our art and give people opportunities to,
through their life experiences, create things that help to heal others,

(23:40):
to inspire others, and to create a better world where
we feel together a little more.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
One of the coolest voice actors we just kind of
had lunch with earlier this year. I think Piat Michael
Do you know who he is?

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Probably familiar with their work.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
He's the voice of Yoda now and it's just an
incredible guy. And we had this conversation over brunch about
AI and all this stuff. Who are the coolest because
you're like me, You're a big nerd in film and
TV and animation and all that. In fact, we ran
into each other a few months ago at the Dallas
Fan Comic Con. Oh yeah, big man, So you're you

(24:19):
know you love this stuff too. So is there anybody
you worked with or you ran into that uh in
voice acting in particular that you said, Oh my gosh,
I can't believe I'm working with this guy. L No way,
That's exactly what I was about to say, Rob. I
love Rob legend, incredible guy.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
Rob Paulson is one of the best actors and best
people I've worked with. I worked with him on a
show called Freight Crew. We are sort of like heroes
in the New Orleans region that get superpowers of Voodoo
Loa and we fight supernatural beings together. And he plays
this incredible character, uh Lou lou garuse Pizza. He owns

(24:59):
lou Garuz Pizza and he's a rugaru, which is like
our world's version of a werewolf. Was produced by Eli Roth,
and so I got the chance to meet him at
dream Works. And I've met him before at appearances, but
it had been years and years and years and years,
and I just he sat right next to me at
the premiere of the show, right next to a bay

(25:21):
and I and I just couldn't believe it. A tear
came across my eye. Because you're working with people you
only wherever could wish to meet, and then you're there
working with them, and it's quite a surreal experience to see.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
For people who don't know he was the voice of
Actually Catherine. I'm gonna name something, people. You tell me
some cartoon characters. You tell me if you know who
these are?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Are not ready?

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Yako Warner from the Animatedacs, all right, Pinky from Pinky
the Brain, Okay, Carl from Jimmy Neutron.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Oh, Jimmy, you.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
Never saw Jimmy Neutron.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
I know, Jimmy.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Did you watch goof trou all right? Carl was Jimmy's
best friend. All right, Well, we gotta do some work.
But incredible legendary voice actor. When I was growing up,
I would I could identify which character was Rob. I
didn't know who Rob was, but it made me feel
more comfortable watching a new cartoon if I felt like
there's a familiar voice to it. And then years later,

(26:18):
you know, I get a chance to meet Rob. Rob
has been on the show a few times and I
always tell Rob, Rob is my mel Blank, Pinky from
Pinky in the Brain, yacko, Carl. Even all these characters
are characters that I grew up with and that I
identified with, and Rob is just an incredible guy. Every
time I see him out, which I haven't seen him
in a long time, but every time I see him out,
he remembers you. He's sharp, he's he's funny, he's he's

(26:40):
a great guy. Everyone should should go and meet Rob
and and you know, thank him for his work. I mean,
he really did some great stuff and it's still doing great.
He's a Ninja Turtle. He'd played two different Ninja turtles. Actually,
absolutely so incredible voice actor. I'll get you his.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Okay, how you doing chash Jack?

Speaker 7 (27:01):
Have you ever had the voice like two characters in
the same product where you would have to you know,
kind of like like he would with Ninja Turtles, like
have to bounce. Basically, you're you're acting with yourself. Have
you ever had to see anything like that?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
On one show on Nickelodeon we were doing called Big Nate,
I think I voiced around twenty five thirty different characters
and just.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
You talking to yourself in the closet. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Absolutely, And sometimes, man, sometimes it is an even bigger closet.
If you're lucky, it's a closet with az There you go.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Now, when you are doing those things, do you do
one character's line first, or do you do the character,
and then the other character responding how do you do it?

Speaker 1 (27:42):
How do you like to work?

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Sometimes, like on sometimes we'll go to one character's lines,
the director will read the other one okay, you know,
and I'll do one and then we'll do a pass
of the other character, which is quite quite incredible. I
mean I I could also do it where I'm like
one flipping into another one. But when you're doing multiple takes,
it gets kind of hard on a technical level to

(28:06):
comp you know, and remember all the takes for both characters.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
At the same time.

Speaker 5 (28:09):
So we do one intend to do the other one.
Yesterday I was working on a on a new show
which I can't talk about, but when it comes out,
I will be back.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
That's actually the name of the show. Yeah, I can't
talk about it.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
I thought you're doing the new Family Matters but animated.
Uh yeah, I'm Carl Now it's the mustache, that's what I.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah, it's quite incredible. Yesterday I was doing like I
did like the song, and I did like five or
six different random, weird characters. But yeah, on the show
of Big Nate on Paramount on Nickelodeon. We it was
quite an experience because it was my first big voiceover gig.

(29:03):
It happened right when Lockdown happened. I was out of
a job, moved from Los Angeles back home to Texas
to be in near family. I got in my closet.
I hoped for the best, and I was like.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Hey man, it's me Zef.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Here I am and come into your lab all the
way from Texas. Man and I did whatever lines and
then they hired me for one day. One day and
I bought my noim in TLM. I bought like the booth,
I patted everything out and that kept me on the
show for almost four years.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
That's incredible, I mean, what an incredible timing. And that's
how I found out that I could really do it,
because I was like, oh yeah. They were like, who
do we get for that? They're like, give it a chester,
he'll do it. I'm like, yeah, will, I'll do twelve
for the price of one.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
All right.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
So somebody like Eric who wants to get into voice acting,
what would you tell somebody like that what their first
step should be? Is it, you know, let's bypass the
acting side, because that's a big thing of it.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
You have some acting in your belt.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Let's assume these people are in theater or they've done
commercials or whatever. What's the next step from that.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
It really depends on where you are right now. You're
here in Texas and there's a lot of really great
work union and non union. But if you're not a
union actor yet, I would check out crunchy role. And
the best way to get into crunchy role is to
do classes with the directors and do your best and
stand out, and those will lead to other opportunities. I

(30:34):
think a lot of people, especially people who have been working,
kind of underestimate the value of going back to acting class.
And even a fifty dollars class can get you in
front of somebody who can get you a job. And
even if that job doesn't pay a million bucks and
it pays a few hundred dollars for a few hours work,
it's still fantastic because it's fun doing something that you

(30:55):
would have done for free anyway.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
And then it leads.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
To oh, wait, you're the voice of my favorite character,
and this you know how to kill a thousand slims
in nine hundred and ninety nine levels of a tower.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's like whoa, what the hell?

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Like?

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (31:09):
You know I never got to do a lot of anime,
but I love things like you know, Soul Leader on
one of my buddies, Todd Habricorn. He was also in
Big Nate, but legend in the anime industry started here
as well, and then it led to more and more things.

(31:29):
So as long as you just remember that voice acting
is acting first, and then however you affect your voice changes.
But like you'll have an opportunity voiceover, it just takes
a while. It's like a numbers game. Yeah, you kind
of have to do a lot, a lot, a lot
and stay true to the art form as you continue

(31:49):
to go forward. Get a good demo real sure that
can help. But I think a way to kind of
fast track certain things is to get in front of
the directors, learn from them and person like I was
in this game called Horizon Zero don Forbidden West, and
at that studio they did classes for motion capture where

(32:11):
you could literally be taught by the person who was
the lead of Assassin's Creed the game. Yeah, and you're like,
wait what, this was the best seventy five dollars I
ever spent in my life. Wait what? And that could
lead to opportunities.

Speaker 4 (32:24):
Yeah, it's more tools than your tool bell, right. And
also I would say I don't know if this is
correct or not, but I was as you were talking,
I was thinking about, you know, people that have a
certain I think. I think people try to imitate what
they've heard before, Yeah, and instead bringing your own characteristic,
your voice characteristics, your your mannerisms, if you have a
stutter or whatever. Sure, those could also be your strengths
in voice acting, especially when you're doing characters, right or

(32:46):
am I absolutely in the mark?

Speaker 5 (32:48):
I would think that that's absolutely true, right, Like you said,
like sometimes being able to do a voice match is
a good thing, but like impressions are different than voice acting, imo,
Because in my opinion, you know, like if if you
were to do oh, you were going to go walk
up to the guy who voices Yoda and we're like, hey,

(33:08):
this is my Yoda impression, he'd be like, stay away
from my job, right, Like he'd be like, I don't
know how to feel about that. He said, don't worry
about it. My job is safe. My job or yeah, man,
my job is safe, exactly right. But a lot of
times a great voice is a bad impersonation of another person, right,

(33:29):
which is kind of incredible. But I mean seriously, uh,
you know, those are great to take inspiration from and
fun to do, you know, the impressions. But I mean
when you come down to the art and the heart
of it, the more you you can be, I think
that helps. Whether being you is like a crazy creature

(33:51):
on a far away planet, like, uh, you know.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Who you are.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Your life experiences make that special.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah, even if you're a miserable son of a bitch.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
Especially Yeah, see I meant something somebody's got a voice
or yeah, you know what I mean, like.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Or if he smoked a pack of cigarettes.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
To day, right, you know today this I'm gonna have
to attack Eric here today. I sent him, Uh, there's
a there's a girl on the internet who's doing some
last minute like voice voice classes or whatever. Yeah, And
I sent it to Eric. I was like, this might
be really good for you. And he goes, I could
go to Disney World twice with this amount of money.

(34:33):
I said, yeah, I said, but but you get one
hundred thousand times, you know, percent more of the value.
Like you, This girl is doing it, and she's going
to teach you how to do it and how and
critique you and help you out. So it's like should
I get my PhD or should I go to Disney World?
I get your PhD.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
Sometimes it is worth it, sometimes it isn't. You got it,
but you gotta take that gamble. Yeah, you'll never I
don't less you go right. A lot of people. I
would be wary of anybody that goes, I could help
you know how to get a job today.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
If you bade me a thousand.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
Dollars, I'd be like, uh, what's the last thing you did?

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Right?

Speaker 4 (35:11):
He would already hire that person. He goes, I'm going
to take the class to this guy. He was on
a seven to eleven commercial back in the eighties.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
He knows what you do. I don't know if that's
the best thing.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
You gotta beware. I mean because because just as it
is like an opportunity not saying this, this one specific
person is is a you know is this way. But
there are people out there wanting to kind of look
at people who really really want to work as an
opportunity for them to make money, and they'll tell you
just enough to get you to want to buy the
next class and not actually answer any questions. Just kind

(35:47):
of crazy and like, you know, there are. There are
plenty of classes from people that are working that are
online that they don't they they're they're working. They don't
want people to pay so much money because right now
everything's so expensive. Yeah, Like I was going to Whole
Foods and I was like, oh, they always told me

(36:07):
this stuff is so expensive. And I was buying stuff
at Hoolefoods and I went to Walmer for the first
time in a few years. Or I went to like
Kroger and I was like, wait a minute, everything's the
same price, right, what am I?

Speaker 4 (36:17):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Exactly? So you've got to save money.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
And how do you know that you wouldn't have so
much fun at Disney World or wherever, or Universal or
wherever you.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Went to both? Yeah, that when you got.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Back the first audition you did wasn't inspired by something
that happened that books you your first job.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
If I would have known that Chester was going to
be on your side, I wouldn't have brought it up.
I mean, he's right, he's right.

Speaker 6 (36:40):
That's actually a chance. Probably why I didn't get that
Disney commercial job was because they asked me, what's my
favorite place at Disney? And I'm like, I never like
what they had been been to Disney maybe in two thousand,
so I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
So that's why you go back every year now like
the matter Horn.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Yeah, if I would recently that I could have said,
oh I love this.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
But well, Eric, now is your time? You got any
questions for Chester?

Speaker 3 (37:04):
No?

Speaker 6 (37:04):
I think he asked all of them.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
Yeah, he said, I don't want to really talk about
all this stuff, and I don't want to bother chess.
I said, I'm going to ask for you so you can.
That's the guy. He's the one doing it. He's the
new Eric Bowser.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Now.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
Yeah, my gosh, Eric is always Eric. I'm just grateful
to even be mentioned in the same sentence as someone.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
He's a great guy. Have you met him? I've worked
with him yet.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
I just met them online. Oh, I have not met
them in person or worked with them. Oh incredible guy.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Like go go next time you're in La hit him up,
say hey, can we grab some food.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
He's a great guy.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
He got he got r like my pass and.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
He got me a guest pass.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
And I told him I was bringing this Eric, and I, oh, yay,
you know I'm bringing out I was going to pay
for it.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
He goes, no, I got it. Yeah, he bought my
ticket and I'm like, oh no, I was like, no not.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
So I told him I have a night rider car
that I got last year, and so the day that
I got it, he actually was in Dallas. How cool
would it be? And we were going to go to lunch.
It ended up not working out, but he was in Dallas.
How coolul it be if I drove up and a
night ride a car picked him up, we went to
eat or whatever.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
You'll probably love that.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Well.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
He was expecting it, I think, and then little did
I know at the time, but it was probably not
a good idea because I had been stranded on the
side of the road with bugs bunny, so I wouldn't
work it. So it would have been a terrible disaster.
And then they would be like, how come we don't
have any new luting to his projects? It's Eric Bowles
is waiting for Triple A to come pick us up,
That's why. But incredible, incredible voice actor. Yeah, but it's
cool to see you being the next generation of these

(38:25):
of these things, and who knows what you're gonna get next,
what legendary character you might get. You're going to be
in fifty years at these conventions when somebody goes, hey,
I grew up watching your show and Mike, I'm telling
my kids about that show or whatever, how cool is that?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
And then they'll be struggling to hear, like saying, can
you repeat that question?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Yeah, like like William Daniels, Yeah, I think would be
really cool is if like I was remembering the story
about Tim Allen, like right after toy story came out,
and he was at a target or something and there
was a kid playing with a buzz light your doll,
and he comes up right behind them and does buzz
Lightyear or whatever, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
The rescue.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Yeah, And it was like the joy that you bring
these kids or even grown adults now that grew up
with these characters. It's really the gift that keeps on giving.
And you could do it when you're ninety years old.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Yeah, that's the I hope that I can keep on
doing it up into that. I mean, seriously, you know,
hopefully my voice still stays healthy. I do whatever I can.
I mean there's weeks that I come back from doing
like right now, I'm doing three video games, two series,
and it's just sometimes I'm like, Wow, it's all in

(39:35):
the same week.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Yeah, and it's a lot.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
At the end of the week, I'm like, I can't
even talk. I need to like sit on a nebulizer. Yeah,
just like this thing I put on my face that
sounds like Darth Vader. It's got like sea salt in it.
And I'm like with tea, I'm like, I'm not sick.
I'm just just try my best. Do you you do
the video games, you gotta do a lot of yelling
and all that ash yrunce and all that. Yeah, yeah,

(40:01):
there's one that that I'm doing. There was a military
game and it's like requires a lot of screaming, like
grenade and all this, and.

Speaker 4 (40:08):
You got twenty takes of each and yeah, yeah, my
voice would be gone within five minutes.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
I think one of the greatest things about doing like
a SAG video game, like a Union game versus like
a game that's not really on Union is you have
these protections for vocal health, Like they'll be very conscious
of you, uh, and you're like well being because they
don't want you to like completely blow your voice out,
which is kind of cool. And and luckily for my

(40:34):
union that we have like these protections in place, and
even with that, it's difficult. I'm also on this game
called Cookie Run Kingdom, which is.

Speaker 4 (40:45):
A cal Oh my gosh, you're that guy from Cookie
Run Kingdom.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
I played Mercurial Night. That just kind of cool.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
And I just saw them like doing a collab with
Wicked and My characters, like the ten man version, and
that's incredible, and they're like, I met this other guy
that was like, my daughter's on Cookie r Own Kingdom all day.
I came home, my wife was playing it. I was like,
that's so cool. She's like, no, it's actually really fun.
So it's amazing because like I'm a gamer at heart, Like, yeah,

(41:14):
love video games. I grew up playing video games. It's
like a safe place for me.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
What are you playing right now?

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Right now, I'm in the founder's test for this game
called Soul Frame, which is like by the makers of
war Frame. I'm also playing this alpha test of this
game called Deadlock, which is kind of cool. It's kind
of like a shooter version of It's kind of like
a game similar to like how League of Legends would be, okay,

(41:42):
but except it's like a third person sort of like
shooter type as well. It's kind of fun and really competitive,
and I don't know how I got a key to it,
but I'm really stoked to see more games with like
unique worlds come out. And then Claire Obscura Claire Obscura
Edition thirty three. Yeah, I started playing that last night.

Speaker 7 (42:03):
Oh really, Oh my gosh, what a game I started
playing it didn't I mean, I gotta get back on
it because it won everything.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, one Game of the Year on everything.

Speaker 7 (42:12):
Yeah, like it destroyed So got a got a friend
that's really just told me, like me, you got to
roll through that. But I'm playing a lot of rogue
style games right now, so oh that's cool.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
What's your favorite game of all time?

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Mine? Yeah, Dungeons and Dragons is it? Really? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:29):
I love I love playing tabletop games and I run
like two games a week, which is kind of cool
for my friends.

Speaker 6 (42:34):
That's all which time I get him into it, but
he's like he did one time four hours and he
was like, I can't do.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
This, it's so long.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
That was a good act.

Speaker 6 (42:42):
And here I play it like every every weekend.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
They go, oh, really, we got it played again?

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (42:46):
What if I what if I read a gamey.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
You joined I'll join you have to drive, but I
had during COVID. Uh, you know, I never knew any
I didn't know anything about it. Somebody goes, we're gonna
do a quick game over Zoom. I'm thinking, cool, oh, yeah,
I ordered some we'll be over in thirty minutes whatever.
I would do some ramen in door dash or whatever.
And sitting there and I go, we started our thing,
and it's like, really really short of so how long
we thinking like twenty minutes? They go, let's gona be

(43:10):
like four and a half hours. Four and a half hours.
Why didn't y'allell him before I came on here? And
then I'm like, is there a magic spell that I
could do to get us from where we're at now
all the way to the end of the map.

Speaker 5 (43:19):
So we can get this thing done quicker? And they're like, well,
I guess technically you could.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Let's do that.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
They're like, yeah, but you're a wizard's only level three.

Speaker 4 (43:26):
Right, so now I got to start all over. I'm
willing to try again. Yeah, but it was just true.
I didn't because now I know what to expect. But
a favorite video game of all time.

Speaker 5 (43:36):
Oh, my favorite video game of all time. Right now,
I would have to say legend of Zelda Matura's mask. Okay,
that's kind of one that sticks to me in my heart.
I don't know why. I just have really fond memories
of replaying this game over and over and over. Yeah,
that's one I would go with right now for sure.

Speaker 6 (43:58):
Okay, let's go back to D and D. What I
have you got all these questions?

Speaker 5 (44:05):
Now you knows Gate three was quite incredible.

Speaker 6 (44:08):
It was Yeah, what is your favorite racing class?

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (44:14):
I I love like a half elf sort of Rangers style.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Yeah, gotta get to speak.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
With animals his voice. You gonna have to get that
little machine.

Speaker 6 (44:31):
Yeah, I'm upside down now.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
All questions I have? You had a lot more? Uh?

Speaker 4 (44:47):
One last Stranger Things question? Did you ever have a
Tommy H Action figure? Did they ever make one?

Speaker 5 (44:54):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (44:55):
They did? You have one?

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Not an official one, but somebody made one.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Oh, there's not a bit official one.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Okay, And I'm in like the yearbooks and some of
the merch that they have this out, which.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
Is I think you might have even been in the
video game. There was like a little video game and
there was like a character you had to talk to
or whatever. I was in the video and I was like,
that's Tommy H.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
I know him.

Speaker 5 (45:14):
I actually was in the in the Stranger Things little
little video game, and I liked how retro it was.
But yeah, somebody made a custom Tommy H. Figurine with
like in a box, with like the full art and everything,
and I have it at my house on my on
my homel. I think it's so cool.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
Well, I think we should start a petition to make
an official you know, uh McFarlane is at his name McFarlane.
You know Tommy H. Stranger Things figure. We should do
that Tommy H.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
Freaking figure would be really cool, like a pop that
would be nice. That would be cool. All right again,
if they don't, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
It's not okay.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
It's injustice and we need to have we need to
have something down here, Tommy.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
That's right. I'm kidding.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Knock out bullies love to and bullies can change with.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
More love then they become kind. That's right.

Speaker 7 (46:05):
Hopefully that Tommy was a victim of his environment that
was Indiana, Like blame the kid for me and what
he was.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
Last this is the last Stranger Things question. Sorry, are
you in Stranger Things four or five. Whatever we are now?
Are you in the finale? Are you in the Finalnally?

Speaker 5 (46:22):
I can't say, Wow, that's good. But what I'm excited now.
But what I do know is that if I got
the chance to come back ever, it would be incredible
to just be like, all right, guys, I got this
and walk out and be like immediately eviscerated, just like
until a billion pieces. That would be my hope if

(46:45):
I could come back. I would love to be just murderated.

Speaker 4 (46:49):
But would you do it as like you're trying to
save one of the kids or whatever, and then you
sacrifice yourself and that's a good way of it. I'm sorry, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
You're right the whole time, stay Steve, you right, and
I walk out and just.

Speaker 4 (47:03):
And it's but but you save them and then you
redeem yourself. Oh man, So we're doing Eric and I
are writing Stranger Things fan fiction time away exactly, and
it fails and he still gets killed. We're writing Stranger
Things fan fiction now, we just started, and we're gonna start.
We're gonna write that ending and our and our fan

(47:25):
fiction would be great.

Speaker 5 (47:26):
It's like, yeah, it keeps on going like Ghost Barb
and Ghost Time. You just have brunch. We're just out, Like.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Yeah, it's very much like it's Sex in the City
meets uh, you know, Real Housewives of Atlanta or whatever
and uh and Stranger Things. You know, it'll be a
lot of fun. We're excited about it. We're pitching it
night right now to the Duffers and we'll see what happens. Oh,
how is it like working with them? Last dager things question?

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Sorry?

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Seriously, working with the Duffers is quite incredible because whenever
I was with they would just like sit at a
picnic table and be like, what are we gonna do?

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Like, we have episodes to ride?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
Man?

Speaker 4 (48:07):
They had a like a bible, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Show bible, Like they had a compendium of just like
lore that they wrote that was like thirty times bigger
than what came out in the show.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (48:22):
Like they know everything about the show, like and they
would walk around with parts of it and like flip
through it and like pick things, write things on the fly.
Like incredible, quite incredible. Like when we first started season one,
Joe Steve's character Joe was and I were both just
guest stars, like weekly guest stars. And then we had

(48:45):
a chemistry that kept us on and then they turned
him into the series lead, which he rightly deserves because
he's a fantastic actor.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:52):
Great hair, Well, you guys all, no, there's nobody in
that show that has bad hair. Yeah, I mean, let's
be honest, you guys all had great hair.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
It's true. My hair was actually designed from an old
police photo from the band The Police. Oh this is
Sting's hair from this, and then they gave me that hair,
which is quite incredible.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
And another thing, I was the.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
Only one who really didn't wear a wig.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I know that.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
Steve, like I love everybody's like, oh dak or his hair,
oh Billy's hair.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I was like, that's a wig.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
I'm immediately going to IMDb and putting that in the trivia.

Speaker 5 (49:28):
Be like, did you know Chester kept a mullet for
two years? That dedication? Bros? Like that's awesome. I didn't
know that.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Well, I mean, I know you in real life, so
I figured that was her hair. But I didn't think
everyone else was wearing like a wig or you know,
I guess that show biz.

Speaker 5 (49:44):
Huh, Yeah, a lot of people were a lot of
people were wigs. I think Steve also had like authentic
hair as well, but a lot of the guys had hair,
hair extensions, hair pieces.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
There you are right there. Oh my god. Yeah, look
at that.

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Oh my god, man, man, look at it.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
How was a cutie?

Speaker 4 (50:02):
Yeah, look at that hair. Though I've always been jealous
of your hair.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
By the way, that was cool. You have great hair.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
Well.

Speaker 4 (50:07):
Yeah, I go to my stylist all the time and
I go, I want to look like Chester Rushing and
a stranger thing. What show can you talk about that
you're coming up with next? What can we where can
we follow you? What shows you have coming out?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Right?

Speaker 5 (50:19):
So I can say that the last season of The
Mighty Monster Wheelies just aired. It's a children's show where
the number three children's show in Canada. I wait, number
one in Canada when it aired, and then like top
three in the US, which is kind of special. I
play Wrap Stretcher the Uh that's.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
A cool name.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Yeah, he's a We're all the Universal Studios monsters like
different cars, so I'm like the Mummy Ambulance and I
like go around the city, which is really cool for kids.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:55):
DC High Volume just dropped night Wing Gear one, So
if you really do you want to see more of
my voice as Superman in DC high Volume, go give
that some love. I was just on the phone with
the director and they said, uh, yeah, there's a lot
of things happening right now with the show, and if

(51:17):
people want to see that, go go and check it out.
But I have some things under wraps that are coming
out just like next month, a really big game and
hopefully I can come back and talk to you about
that whenever that.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Oh, yeah, you're welcome back anytime. You know where we
are now, you don't have to you know, we have
our own security now. Back in the day, you needed
to have security come into the building to feel safe.
You don't know if your car is GT broke it
into you know, it was a whole thing.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
It's actually so cool. I met the security guy on
the way in and what was his name again, James James.
I was like, wait, God, James, he told me to
give you a hard time.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
Yeah, he does.

Speaker 4 (51:50):
Want every time he says that and he goes says,
they gave you a hard time. I said, no, they didn't.
They just told me that. You said to give me
a hard.

Speaker 5 (51:56):
Time, And he just turns around and goes draft that
just play.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
Yeah, and as long as if somebody gives me a
hard time, then you know he's made his day. Where
can we because you also stream, right, you're on Twitch
and everything too.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
I'm about to get back onto Twitch. I haven't done
that for a few years because I've just been so
luckily so swamped with voiceover.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
That's perfect.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
Yeah, and now I'm actually going to be able to
start streaming some of the games that I'm in, which
is really really cool.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
I can't wait.

Speaker 5 (52:24):
It's gonna be awesome. I'll get you a key. Yeah,
you can play it if if anybody plays, if any
of you play PC game.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Well, I'm about to buy a stream machine whenever that
comes out next month.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
It's a what is it.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
It's like it's like a PC and it's stream machine, right, Steam?

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Steam machine?

Speaker 4 (52:39):
Oh yeah, so it's Steam and it's like a little
cube and it's like a home computer for your entertainment center.
You plug it in, and so I'm going to be
playing all I have a Steam deck and so I
play all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
So yeah, I can, I can. I would love to.
Oh that's great.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
I would like to play any game that you're in,
and I'll and I'll play through the whole thing just
to hear all your voice lines. I did the same
thing with Bows and Hit the Little Mobile game with
the Loony Tunes.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
I kept buying characters to see how how his voices
were and all these other characters.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
It was great, awesome.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
Yeah. I think my first day on this game, I
blew through like four hours and it was like they're like,
do you know how many lines you did today? And
I was like like five hundred.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
They're like.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Over twenty five hundred for just in one day and
one day, and then they're like, we'll see you for
like preceding weeks and weeks, so you're like, wow, this
is like intense. This is like really intense. And today
I just heard back that they're having me back for
even more involvement in the in the in the game,
and then January something will come out.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Which let me guess what it is please GTA six.

Speaker 5 (53:41):
Yeah, we'll see you guys back again and left twenty
thirty three, when it finally true it's coming soon.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
I think they're waiting for two more video game console
generations to come out.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Yeah, that's just it right, Oh, if it's what I
think it is I'm going to pass out. I'll talk
to about it off air, but I'll tell you the
game that I'm looking for for next year. Lego Batman,
Legends of the Dark Knight. Are you Superman on matter?

Speaker 5 (54:08):
Oh my gosh, what a Chalantle way of asking. Yeah,
by the way, that would be amazing. I have not
got the call to be in any of the Lego stuff,
but I really want to be. I love, I love,
love love the Lego games.

Speaker 4 (54:23):
I think I can't wait. I forget GTA six. I
want to play as Batman and Lego Arkham Batman basically
in a Lego.

Speaker 5 (54:29):
Phone Man, Arkham Batman, all those Arkham Asylum games, Arkham City,
Arkham Knight, like oh Man, Like it's just an incredible world.
And you have like people like Mark Mark Camel, like
you have like Kevin Conroy, just like in.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
A game where you're playing on your phone or whatever.
You know, it's like a little bit and you've got.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Him right there. It's really cool. I remember meeting Adam
West jealous. It was crazy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (54:55):
It was his last appearance here in Dallas and Los
Angele and one of his last appearances. Oh yeah, he
came back.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
So one of the I know what you're talking about
because I saw it on your story. I was so jealous.
It was during Batman day.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
It was so cool, like.

Speaker 5 (55:12):
He was done seeing anybody, and I was appearing there
and I said, please, can I go meet Adam West?
And they were like, he's not seeing anybody else, but
we'll see if we can get you in. And so
my manager was like, come on, come on, and.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Ava was there right.

Speaker 5 (55:28):
And we we went into this room and he was
just there at a big table with like boxes and
boxes and boxes of toys.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Hello citizen, Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (55:40):
I was a great ass.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
What I could do?

Speaker 5 (55:43):
He shook my hand and was like, who the hell
are you?

Speaker 1 (55:48):
That's what he said. He's like, oh the hell are you?
And I looked at it and I was like, I'm
no one, sir.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
And it was crazy, because you know, he was really sweet,
really nice. And a few weeks later he passed and
Abe and I were standing outside where they lit the
bat signal up against this gigantic building and it was
thousands of us. We walked for like thirty minutes, all

(56:19):
of these sea of people we were with just you know,
some of the people that were in the shows with him.
His wife's family had the Batmobile from the show. Yeah,
and everybody was just there in reverence for the art
that somebody, the legacy that somebody like him kind of
left behind. And I only hope, I only hope to

(56:41):
have a fraction of that sort of legacy when I
leave this world.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
Oh, I think you will.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I think you will.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
Thanks, And yeah, it was a cool I was very
jealous that you were there, and you were, but you
were so kind to film it for everybody, and we
were all watching vicariously through you on your story and everything.
You'll get there. You got the legacy you're gonna have,
You're gonna do some great stuff. I mean, look how
far you've come in ten years.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Thank you. You know what I mean so much.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
And you know that's just for anybody listening, for anybody
that's out there. If you love someone's work, don't wait
to tell them that it meant something. Tell them today
you don't know, or anybody, even if it's an actor,
maybe it's just somebody in your life.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Tell them today how much they mean to you. Don't wait.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Time is this thing that we think we all have
until we don't. So just keep being you keep being
kind to yourself, be kind of others. If you could
be kind to yourself, the world inherently can become more kind.
And being kind to ourselves is one of the hardest
things you can do, especially for me, I think. So
if you can tell somebody, hey man, thank you for

(57:51):
having me, like I'm going to tell you right now,
thank you for calling me, thank you for running into
me over at Comic Con and telling me you even
wanted to talk to me again. It just it brightens
my life to be able to do things like this,
talk to people like you.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Everyone here we've been excited to have you. I mean,
it's incredible. So Catherine even showed up on a Thursday,
thank you. Yeah, she just finished watching Sopranos, So that's
what they say on there. But Chester has been incredible.
Do you have a website, Instagram?

Speaker 5 (58:21):
Yeah, you can follow me on all social media platforms.
Just at Chester rushing awesome, super simple.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
And I'm sure you're gonna be watching. Are you watching
Stranger Things the finale in theaters or at home? Oh
my goodness, I would love to go check it out
in the theater. I think that that's going to be amazing.
I want to do it, but I heard that it's
going to be like, there's the ticket's already sold out.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
I mean, if it's already sold out, not that I
could do, but yeah.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
You're Chester rushing, go and tell them I'm Tommy A.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
You know what I hope comes back to theaters. K
Bob Demon Hunters. I want to see that and I
want to sing along because I've seen that movie twice
and it's just remarkable. I am friends with Maggie King's husband,
Rad Seacrest.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Oh really yeah.

Speaker 5 (59:07):
He made this show called Kipo and I was dming
him the other day. I was talking in the other
day and I was like, dude, this must be so surreal,
the fact that and he's like, I've always loved my wife,
like she was wearing at it for ten years and
it just feels like we won the lottery or something.
And I think even turned rounded it was like, it's
way cooler than winning the lot cooler.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Well, Chester, it's been a pleasure. Will not go another
ten years without talking to each other. Definitely back. I
can't wait to hear about this video game when it
comes out next month. Thank you so much for taking
the time to come out here.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
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Thank you so much, man appreciate it.

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