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S12E020: THE MAN OF 1000 VOICES!! Phil LaMarr!! · Blerd’s Eyeview

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  O speaks, so spet springs and spot protect. Just project protect, project
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  protect, Project protect, Just protect protect, Project protect. H in the
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  sky, it's a verb. It's a plane flying high. Y'all emerged through
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  the flames. Have no fear from here to stand back Medling, Then activate
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  the name of super black in the sky. It's a verb. It's a
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  plane flying high. Y'all emerged through the flames. Have no fear from his
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  to stand back Melan, then activate the name is super black. H imagine
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  that a future that's super black. Long as your skin brown, your superpowers
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  intact? What would your powers be? Just hope it ain't super wack spatial
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  manipulation creating portal that's black. Maybe just super speed time travel to run it
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  back or she manipulation to keep my spirit in tact as I encountered evens the
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  world face demons, the world makes I needed the world of state rest in
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  peace to Chad which get killed on the Black Panthers told us white lives are
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  still marveled that black answers, So cain DC prayer lead to a civil war?
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  It ain't no, that's the league. What's the need to be civil
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  war? Propels like the Juggernuts plan no stopping this the broad and grave danger.
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  Who can stop to your apocalypse that killed all the heroes? The new
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  ones don't really care, but if you need me, put your fist up
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  in the end. Yeah. In the sky gets a bird. It's a
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  plane flying high. Got immerged through the flames. Have no fear from here,
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  will stand back Melan. Then activate the name the super Black. In
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  the sky gets a bird. It's a plane flying high, got immerged through
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  the flames. Have no fear from here, will stand back Melan. Then
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  activate the name is super Black. Hello everybody, It's Tuesday, and that's
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  you know. We celebrate Black History Month all year round, and this year
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  is three sixty six because it's a leap year. I'm your man on the
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  wall, Chris Fiery. Thank you for tuning in. If this is your
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  Spotify, and the be on Air Network. So without further Ado Spartan
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  our the injines primed there all right, second of command in the building,
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  looking fresh as always. How are you all right? All right? Agree
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  on the horrors back? Unmute yourself, baby girl, mute yourself. Yeah,
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  the bad times, I'm glad to have I'm glad to have her back.
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  She was like, if you have me back, I said, if
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  you don't get your butt on this ship, I don't. I don't assume
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  nothing. I don't take nothing for granted. So, uh, we've got
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  the games master. That's going on, y'all. It's going on. Good
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  to see you back, baby, because you already know you were here even
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  though you weren't here, but you visit. I can't my hair will never
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  be like Lady Mandelorda. I'm gonna try my best. Listen. Since we
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  celebrated Black is beautiful, right, so we're celebrating black history, we have
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  to start with the future, future generations. This is my daughter Angel.
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  This was her first cosplay at four years old. Oh wow, officially an
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  official official Yeah, so I had just I want I wanted to show something
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  of legacy. But that's going on in the building, right all right.
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  T v ut up we got Spartan in here. What you said the engines
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  was good? Right, they're working all right? Everything thinking Rocky sucks?
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  Are they screaming Rocky sucks? Like like like the carburetion, you're working like
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  it's gonna work. You don't get it, but you don't get there.
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  But I hope every I hope everyone likes the new look for the ship.
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  That is the official ship for Blurred's Eye View. So there it is.
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  Uh wait a minute, next, yo, here we go, here,
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  we go here. I'm so sorry, says ladies. Well, you know
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  we we have we have to have nix is is you know, as as
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  everyone knows Nicks who runs do you speak? He's also not just friend of
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  the show. He's family here, so he's like the cousin. He's like,
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  oh, y'all made ribs. I'm coming over, walk in between sets
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  of place food. What's after? Brother? Good? Good? I miss
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  y'all so much, man, it's been a long time long got here,
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  man, I miss y'all, like, so h, we're not going to
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  have this cut too short because we have somebody specially in the house. I
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  was introduced to him through Mad TV, pulp fiction and then Static Shock all
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  right, Jack the Foster's imaginary at Home for Kids and Green John Stuart Green
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  lanterns in Supergirl. He was actually on the Supergirl and it keeps, it
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  keeps going, it's growing. You know. If Summer is the Pirate Queen,
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  I think he can be the king for the Blur community. Uh no,
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  other than Phiel Lamar. What's going on? How are y'all doing?
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  I hope I got my seat belt on. That's all I gotta say,
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  because I'm ready to bounce up around my apartment. All right, real quick,
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  cabin if I can interject, real quick quick, Okay, mister Lamar.
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  First off, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you for
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  the time you gave me a dragon con Jeff, if you're watching, thank
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  you for putting them with all my emails. I told you before, I
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  had a crew who was dying to meet you. This is day. However,
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  as you can hear, my dad has his own internet show that I
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  how to do to keep himself entertained during COVID, So I had my time,
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  I got my turn. I just wanted to formally introduce you. I
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  will be participating for the rest of the show. From the comments, so
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  you crazy kids all have fun. You tell DJ down back then, tell
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  of the people. Phil. Our first time meeting was actually in March twenty
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  twenty at Wizzleworld Cleveland. You were my first celebrity interview and it was actually
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  the weekend the world decided to shut down, right, that was the last
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  con before COVID. Yes, and you the person I was with at the
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  two people I was with at the time, they were like, are you
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  going to talk to him? I'm say yes. I fought all of this
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  to get here, and once I got to that hurdle, everything else was
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  smooth selling. So obviously you've been working quite a bit. Yeah, yeah,
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  I have to add your time during that blur of two plus years maybe,
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  how did how did you go that? Was that something you can transition
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  to easily doing voice work? How did that work out for you? Well,
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  you know, we got really lucky, those of us in the animation
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  world, because it took them about a month to realize you can create a
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  cartoon virtually. M You know, all the animators had to you know,
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  take all their data and take their computers home, and they went home and
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  did their work, and then they realized, oh, the voice actors can
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  do their work from home too, And I mean it was I was lucky
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  because I already had a booth here in my house because when my when my
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  son got big, we wanted to move him from the little kid room into
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  the big room. He used to be my office. So I'm like,
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  all right, don't go ahead. I don't want to stand in away of
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  your puberty. So I went and built a booth, and good enough.
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  When COVID hit, I'm like, yeah, I can record from home.
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  Whereas you know, tons of my other friends were like, oh dang it,
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  I got to sit in my closet and sweat. I had one friend
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  of you know, classic legendary voice actor she's on, was like, oh
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  dang it, I gotta go buy a laptop. Like ma'am, how you
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  doing your auditions? I just get on my phone. Inside the car,
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  there we go and lack of equipment. There we shout out to Stephan Johnson,
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  who's also who's a local Cleveland legend here with the food reviews. He's
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  done the same thing. So it's he's raptiles in the hotel room, he's
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  done it in the car. He even told me like, you can literally
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  do it in the car and I'm like, you're right, it soundproofd You're
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  right. I mean. The truth of the matter is, though, it
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  would have been traumatic for us had this hit ten years prior, because because
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  back in the old days, when I first started my my cartoon career,
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  everything was a group record. You would be in there performing scenes together with
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  the other actors, and it was you know, you got to share energy
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  and you got to see people being made. I mean, I remember first
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  episode of Future. I'm sitting there six feet away watching Billy West do the
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  voices of three different characters talking to each other, and I knew if I
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  wasn't in that booth with him, I wanted to know that was the same
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  three one person doing three people. And it was amazing because I'm like,
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  oh damn, it's like playing a pickup game with Michael Jordan. It sets
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  your bar real high. So you mentioned the group reads and too far.
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  I even said, is it himself? The group read most legendary roles for
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  at least for the generation that's here amongst US Justice League and Justice League U
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  Limited. It was the first time we were able to actually see John Stewart
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  front and center and voice by knowing nothing other than you. And when you
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  mentioned group reads, I can't help but to think about the group that's all
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  that that that what is. And once again, you know, Kevin Conry
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  rest in peace. He was an absolute icon for Batman. Yeah, it's
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  probably probably next to Michael Keaton, one of the one true Batman. Oh
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  yeah, you know it's funny you say that because several years back I was
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  at a convention. I met a Spanish dude who was the dubber of all
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  the Batman movies in Spain. You know, so he was the voice of
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  Batman no way. But he told me he didn't just do the cartoons,
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  he did the live action movies too, So in Spain everything that had Batman
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  in it, he sounded the same. Wow. And I was like,
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  oh, damn, John, we should be doing that in the US.
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  If Kevin Conroy's voice come out of Ben Affleck's mouth, he's gonna win an
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  oscar. Uh. We got an audience. We have Busy. The voice
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  was also a voice actor. He's actually a voice actor and actor. He's
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  actually has a short couple of shorts playing John Stuart Green Lantern live action shorts,
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  Uh and Bright This Day Blackest Night and it's all on his day off
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  and stuff and great stuff. Uh now I want to see the both of
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  y'all on screen. Yes, yes, well see I'm glad. I'm glad
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  he's doing that because to me that you know shows you know, the reason
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  this show exists because their blurds exist. When I was a kid, you
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  could be black or a nerd, couldn't be both. So you're still a
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  kid. What do you talk about? You are still a kid, the
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  bones say. Otherwise, I'm a kid with a bunch of flower on my
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  hair, all flowers on my face. Trust I'd rather be in your position.
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  Yeah. Back back in the old days, you know, you know,
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  none of my cousins from you know, you know, La or Saint
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  Louis or Kansas City would be like me sitting in the corner reading comic books
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  or Sherlock Holmes books or sci fi novels. They're like Bill, what you're
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  doing? You know. But nowadays, this whole all this fringy nerd stuff
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  has become mainstream, and I think Justice League in some ways, you know,
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  didn't just do it, but it was a part of that because there's
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  so many people who come up to me and say that was the first time
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  I ever heard of a thing called a green lantern, you know, and
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  it because back then there were so many more kids watching a Saturday morning cartoon.
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  Then go into a comic book shop, especially both genders. You know,
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  in the old days, if you saw a woman in a comic book
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  shop, everywhere is like, where's she going here? Oh? She must
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  come and buy something for a boy friend, lady man Phil First and foremost,
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  you you are also you are a family, a voice family member in
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  my head. Create is my voice acting mom. You are my voice acting
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  dad, unequivalent, like whichever I wanted. Oh god, this this is
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  left field. I'm so sorry. I'm starting to study because I'm very nervous,
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  Like get your breath. She's my second and commands, so she's like,
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  my damn ye tell us. Then I want to know two things.
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  First of all, if somebody named Jimmy Gunn decided to call you up,
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  where would you like to be placed in his gun verse of DC? That's
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  number one, And number two is what where do you go to find these
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  voices that you make? Because you do not sound bail or ghana does not
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  sound the same as oh lord, Jesus if you got to breathe important?
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  Where do you? Where do you? How do you get to those voices?
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  Like? Is there somebody else that's shape helping you shape them? Is
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  it just you and you just gotta like that because you fly? Or is
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  it something else that I can't think of? Well, I'll I'll see your
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  second question. First. It's a collaboration between the actor and the you know,
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  material creator. They have a concept, they have an idea, and
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  actually the way you get hired is you come up with a voice that embodies
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  their concept, their idea. It's like, oh man, that sounds like
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  what I felt in my head, and then you get hired. And but
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  it's always working together. I mean, you know you said that one sound
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  different from the other one. They're different characters. You know, when Lawrence
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  Olivier played Hamlet, he didn't play it the same way he played king Lear.
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  You know, although it's funny because you know, we think of movie
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  stars as you just come out and do your thing, and that's what they
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  hire you for. You know, it's like Denzel, Denzel play this cop
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  the way you play you know that doctor. You know they want him to
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  do the same thing. Well, that same thing made two hundred and fifty
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  million dollars. Don't do something different, but no, as an actor is
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  always about bringing that character to life. And with voice acting, you know,
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  they come up with different sounds. You know, somebody older, somebody
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  you know, a little more arrogant, somebody from a different place. All
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  those things you put together, you know, and then and you know,
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  whatever the creator, producer, you know, writer, whoever it is,
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  agrees with. Because sometimes you'll read something and then you'll do I think,
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  heywys sound like that, says well, thanks, Phil's that's okay, but
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  we need him to sound more powerful. You mean more powerful? You you
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  mean more powerful? And then you make an adjustment. Okay, okay,
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  maybe what you got well, sir as I, as a lady mandlor said,
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  it is an honor. Indeed, you, my friend, have influenced
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  a generation and a genera generation and another generation and probably some other generations.
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  But I digress, and you have been a figurehead for me become a voice
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  actor. So thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. Fran,
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  thank you so much for that. So the question that I have,
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  I've been wanting to ask you this for a long time out of all of
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  the characters you have portrayed, whether it's by voice or by acting, which
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  one did you feel embodied you the most, the one that you connected with
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  the most, so that almost as if they live inside your head for most
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  of the time. I'm curious. Hmm. Actually, I would have to
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  say. The only character I played that you know, had elements that I
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  felt, you know, were parallel to me personally was probably Virgil Hawkins in
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  Static Shock. You know, because he was a teenage boy, you know,
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  you know, living with his family, going to school. He's smart
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  in his you know, schoolwork. And I'm like, okay, if I
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  had gotten electric powers when I was fourteen, I might have acted like this.
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  But you know, most of the characters, there's nothing that's like Nah,
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  in the year three thousand, I would not be an accountant bars oh
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  uh, Creota horror Laney, what you got? Nah? I just thank
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  you for coming on. Like, I enjoy your work. I am a
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  big fan of like mad Eving, So I think my question what you say,
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  mat TV listen, I mean, that's the least blurring thing I've done.
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  I still love that, and I love the ups fan and that was
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  like how I felt like as a kid. Actually, I was just going
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  back and forth. That's just me anyway. Seriously, I had I had
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  the energy, and I feel like my daughter in that even more so.
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  But I digress. Going back to thinking about that and merging voice acting.
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  Do you ever think that you could see yourself creating or help to create something
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  like that as an animation, like something like Mad TV animation? Hm?
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  Mmmm well, I mean I didn't create Mad TV. I just got the
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  job because I had been doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater company here
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  in LA called the Groundlings Theater where you know, some really huge, you
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  know, legendary people had come through and taught the way of going from doing
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  making up improv comedy to writing characters. You know, that's where you got
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  Pee Wee Herman, el Vira, you know, and and then later you
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  know, you got so many other people, you know, all those SNL
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  people other than other than just the first one, Lorraine Newman. And so
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  to go from the Groundlings to a sketch show on eight and I TV made
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  sense back, you know, because that was I've seen you know a bunch
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  of people, actually, I've seen Lorraine and Phil Hartman you know, great,
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  great people do it, and then behind me a ton of other people
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  did it. Will Ferrell, Chris Catan and Cherry o' terry, you know.
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  But as far as the animation, I didn't see a connection. You
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  know that that just happened. Although I think because Mad TV was based on
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  the magazine, they did have animation on the show, and they had us
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  voice the clamation karrotters and that got me, you know, my mic time.
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  So yeah, yeah, that was really helpful young robot Chicken. Before
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  Robot Chicken, I forgot all about that. Yeah, they were chicken robots,
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  the robots. And over the years I've found out that, you know,
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  sketch comedy skills help in animation. Because I don't know if y'all know
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  about this, but the animation business thing is they pay you union scale and
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  for one voice, two voices, and then they can pay you ten more
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  for a third voice. So that means they need people who can do multiple
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  voices, because if you can't, you're going to cost them three times as
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  much money. So the you know what me and Orlando and Deborah Wilson did
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  on Man TV is you do one character, finish the sketch, go run
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  change, change a wig, did you guys it then come out there and
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  be a whole different person. Mhm. And with animation it's the same thing,
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  only you don't got to change your clothes if you don't want to.
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  But this man got put out of his office for him. Come on,
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  come on, ye so Spartan, what do you got? Uh, sir?
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  I can't say, mister sir, I would I would bow if I
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  wasn't already in a chair because uh, here he goes, You're you got
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  dog on credit. So I'm just gonna start from this from Mad TV,
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  from Samurai Jack, from Justice League, uh more recently Moriardy the sign Order
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  and The Devil's Game, which I heavily enjoy So thank you for that for
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  giving a different take on Sherlock Holmes. That's one of my favorite literty characters.
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  To your daughter's work on the Bridge, which I love seeing foundations like
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  that that actually uh that actually actually helped as far as youth, as far
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  as getting the blurred community out there. The one question I did want to
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  ask, though, because you've had so many roles, so many things that
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  you've touched, was there ever one that you sat there and was like,
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  why did I get that role? Like you you went in, you did
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  it, but you didn't weren't sure that you did it, but somehow you
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  let it into it. You know, it's funny, Black Spartan, That's
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  that's a thought that you, as a professional actor, almost never have.
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  I mean, if you were driving to work every morning, that would be
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  like thinking why is there traffic? Because you know, I mean I still
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  asked that question. Yeah, but you ain't trying to figure it out because
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  you know, you ain't got no control and it just happened. And the
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  thing is when as an actor, it's funny because you know, people outside
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  show business industry don't understand, you know, like you know, remember starting
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  out, you know, had a little ant from across the country. It's
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  like Phil, why don't you get one of them Eddie Murphy movies like him?
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  Like, I can't choose that actors. Actors don't choose. We get
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  chosen and we can't control that. So you know, how you got a
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  job? You almost never know. Every once in a while somebody might say,
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  oh, Phil, you did that thing and it really made me you
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  know. You know, later on at a later session, a producer might
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  mention something in particular that you know clicked for them or you know was different,
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  but usually they don't. Okay, Yeah, because I'm like a guy,
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  you're caliber. That's the reason why I'm asking, just because you have,
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  like for me, probably for a lot of us here, that that
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  saw you as one of the original castos on Mad TV, and the range
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  of impressions that you had. I mean, if you really think about every
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  that you done, impressions on Bobby Brown, Ray, Charles Spike, Lee,
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  Bill Mayer, Eddie Murphy of Sidney Powell, I keep going down the
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  Liz. But the fact that that range, like you talked about, it
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  is just that, like you said, you had to have that range or
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  to really to really be as available to get those roles. And I'm thinking
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  to myself, what is it that you that you really can't do at this
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  point? Well, you know, it's funny you mentioned that because there was
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  one one time where I wound up doing an impression, not because it was
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  something that I came up to them and said, Oh I do that great
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  we were gonna do When Harry met Sally Parody with a whale and they went
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  through the cast, they're like and they realized that both of the white dudes
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  who did impressions were too busy. It's like, oh, we have we
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  have time to shoot them. Hey, hey, Phil, you think could
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  you do Billy Crystal? And of course in the back of my head it's
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  like, well Billy did, Sammy. I'm pretty sire, I could do
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  Billy. Yo. I ain't gonna get canceled from my wife face. Gentlemen,
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  Bzooka has been fired. But when it comes, when it comes to
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  this, when it comes to this show expected, expect the unexpected. Uh
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  our cousin mix, talk to them, talk to them, to the legend.
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  For me, oh man, yo, First and foremost, it's a
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  complete, honored, privileged to meet you. I wasn't even supposed to be
• 33:47
  here tonight, but then I found out Chris had fil tomorrow. I'm like,
• 33:52
  okay, uh tell him. I said hello, So he said,
• 33:57
  telling yourself so cool, And that's how it starts here. Am I actually
• 34:06
  have to one one of the question I have myself and the second one is
• 34:09
  a request. Actually the first one to be requests. First, I just
• 34:13
  let you say hello to this young blur that you have inspired so much.
• 34:19
  Is my son back there? Don't get shy now, don't get shy.
• 34:24
  Now, welcome to blurred World. He's big, a big fan of yours.
• 34:32
  He's gonnatch static and I'm getting acclimated to all the classics that you've done.
• 34:37
  So definitely great, great, right by the way, Donald, you're
• 34:43
  doing a great twenty nine days of Black Cosplay. So so my own question
• 34:52
  was, you've done a lot of incredible voice over work. You've done things
• 34:58
  that are going to stand attest the time for ages and ages to come.
• 35:01
  Is there any sort of ip right now that hasn't been adapted to animation that
• 35:07
  you would love to get a specific character and voice them, Like who who
• 35:13
  do you want to sink your teeth into? Hmmm? I don't know.
• 35:21
  I mean, that's that's not really the way I look at things. You
• 35:27
  know, if I'm reading a book, I don't and then I enjoy it.
• 35:34
  I just enjoyed a book. I don't think about, oh wait,
• 35:37
  who should direct the movie? And what part would I play? You know?
• 35:40
  I don't, I don't, that's you know, I'm just a fan.
• 35:45
  Mm hmm. What is It's funny you mentioned that because I grew up
• 35:53
  reading a lot of Sherlock Holmes m you know, had a complete collect but
• 36:00
  never, even as I began life as an actor, never thought about,
• 36:05
  you know, the iconic characters that I grew up with, and hey,
• 36:09
  colet us go, you know. And I never thought, let me play
• 36:14
  these things that I grew up with. You know. Although it's funny because
• 36:20
  one of the most iconic characters for me growing up in animation was Bugs Bunny.
• 36:25
  And there was a period back a few years ago where Warner Brothers was
• 36:32
  going out saying, Hey, we're going to hire somebody to you know,
• 36:37
  do the Looney Tunes characters. And when I got the you know, they
• 36:43
  sent us a disc of the mail Blank doing the voices, and I said,
• 36:45
  nah, I can't audition because every time I did it, I heard
• 36:52
  a little bit of my voice in it, and it didn't it wasn't meil
• 36:58
  Blank's voice. So I'm like, that, ain't bunch funny. So I
• 37:05
  was too much a fan to take over something, you know, And you
• 37:09
  know, sadly, having lost Kevin Conroy, I don't know that I could,
• 37:15
  you know. I mean, back when he was doing it, there
• 37:16
  was no way. If there was ever an audition for Batman, It's like,
• 37:20
  no, there's nobody else who should do this. But but now I
• 37:29
  think if I audition for a Batman part, I'm gonna have that same problem
• 37:31
  I have with mel Blank. I'm like, if I don't hear Kevin's voice
• 37:37
  coming out of my throat, it ain't right. Cinematic Assassin, what you
• 37:47
  get? First and foremost, thank you for being here. This is extremely
• 37:52
  surreal for me, I'm sure as for the rest of my colleagues here.
• 37:58
  Secondly, he's for being laid everyone. I have a seven year old that
• 38:01
  needed homework help. I used to short change her. Ever, was it
• 38:07
  that new math cannot help this generation? Right now? Y'all? Schoolhouse rocking?
• 38:22
  I got a backhand for whoever created common Core, But I'm big,
• 38:30
  the big centophile of the group, and the poster behind you immediately trashed whatever
• 38:36
  I was going to ask pulp fiction based off of your your your last answer
• 38:49
  as far as how you view your projects, I just sort of want to
• 38:52
  ask, in the midst of a project such as pulp fiction, are you
• 38:58
  actively aware like this this is something, this is something magical, we're putting
• 39:01
  together something that this could be iconic, this could be amazing, this could
• 39:07
  stand the test of time. Or are you not. Are you just going
• 39:10
  to work and doing your best every day? Like do you have a sense
• 39:15
  of I'm making something iconic? No? No, because I you know,
• 39:22
  something iconic has to do with success, and you can't guess that, you
• 39:32
  can you know what the quality is. And that's what pulp fiction was,
• 39:37
  Like, I mean, it was to this day, you know, twenty
• 39:43
  five years later, one of the best sets I have been on in my
• 39:46
  entire Hollywood career. And I believe that the reason of that was because that
• 39:53
  script was so damn good that every single person on that that set wanted to
• 40:01
  be there, you know, I was like, I mean, one,
• 40:07
  that's how Quentin Tarantino was able to get so many iconic stars, you know,
• 40:13
  at that time, and this was only his second picture, you know,
• 40:15
  Reservoir Dogs wasn't nominated for nothing. It did good, but it wasn't
• 40:22
  a blockbuster. And now he was able to get all of these names and
• 40:28
  you know, you know, marquee names for a budget of eight million dollars.
• 40:36
  What I mean, at least most most of these people got paid more
• 40:40
  than that just by themselves. But my theory is they read that script like
• 40:47
  whoa, yeah, yeah, I'll take the pay cut for this, this,
• 40:52
  this is right, you know, so you know on that in that
• 40:57
  process we knew we were making something fantastic, we were making something great,
• 41:04
  but you never know what that's gonna lead up to. Although in this case
• 41:10
  it did get to OSCAR nominations and you know, and it made money.
• 41:15
  It's funny because I remember joking around on the set one day It's like,
• 41:19
  well, guys, I mean, they got all these big stars. I
• 41:21
  guess they could try to sell this like a big summer blockbuster. Well at
• 41:24
  least right up until you know the heroin overdose in the aintal rape. Then
• 41:34
  you know the movie came out cut cut to it made a hundred million dollars.
• 41:37
  I'm like, oh damn, I guess this is why I ain't never
• 41:43
  gonna run a studio. Oh man, I was gonna say, as an
• 41:51
  aspiring screenwriter, you've now given me a new benchmark in life, like,
• 41:54
  write something so great. Everyone wants to show up to work. Everyone's excited
• 42:00
  to be there. So no matter how, no matter how bad the wigs
• 42:02
  are. And I'll never I'll tell I'll never tell wil Jackson that he can't
• 42:12
  pull off a wig. I'll just I'll never say, oh my god,
• 42:19
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  not with me, of course. Uh we're out of the way. Lamar.
• 44:44
  Oh it got away. It's hard to do it when everything's going you
• 44:49
  can't see where everything's landing. Uh. So I want to show you something
• 44:53
  and I want to get to your take on it. What does it mean?
• 44:58
  What does it mean when you see this picture? Ah, trouble.
• 45:07
  I call that picture the top of the mountain. Yeah. Well, when
• 45:19
  you when you get to share a space and time and perform with legendary incredible
• 45:27
  performers like Chree Summer and Gary Anthony Williams, that's that's luck. That's good
• 45:34
  luck. And as and as Summer says, three to hard way, that's
• 45:38
  a lot of trouble, good trouble. It's good trouble, but it's trouble.
• 45:45
  Nonetheless. Yeah, I mean Cree is so incredible. I mean for
• 45:52
  somebody, I mean back in the days when she was doing it, almost
• 45:57
  nobody did so much great work on camera and on mike. I mean,
• 46:02
  there are two different skill sets, not you know, not everybody can do
• 46:07
  both. I remember, you know, when we did Justice League. They
• 46:09
  would do a lot of stunt casting, and they would bring on really you
• 46:14
  know, high status on camera actors and sometimes you go, oh, dang,
• 46:22
  did that dude forget his glasses? He ain't written? Well, he
• 46:29
  threw me away when I was in the movie theater. But now they gonna
• 46:34
  have to re record that with somebody else later. But Cree as a child
• 46:42
  was doing voice actor, then became an on camera TV star and continued hears
• 46:49
  voice starredom you know, So that's incredible. I find it endearing because maybe
• 46:58
  mentioned it earlier that you know himself, myself and Lady Mandelor we're all entering
• 47:02
  the voice acting field, and and you and Cree are the staple, like
• 47:07
  you're the igniter for us doing, you know, seeing you do this these
• 47:16
  great works. And not only that, you know, I always think about
• 47:21
  pole fiction when you know it's Marvin and he's in the room with Mace Windu
• 47:24
  and this is a problem. Ah, how is it knowing like you said,
• 47:35
  you mentioned pulp fiction earlier and speaking, you know, being in a
• 47:37
  room with people who are already setting stone in massive roles, right mm hm,
• 47:44
  and you were just sitting there. What does that do? For you.
• 47:46
  You're just you're just like, am I in the right place? Or
• 47:52
  did the launch brother? Being on set with Samuel L. Jackson is such
• 48:00
  a pleasure. It feels like you're getting paid to take a masterclass. Yeah,
• 48:08
  I'll take it because watching him, watching him do I mean, you
• 48:14
  know because off set, you know, we just sitting there talking. He's
• 48:16
  talking about golfing or his daughter. Is just nice dude. Then walk on
• 48:22
  set Quentin says action and that nice dude. I was just talking tone and
• 48:30
  there's some big, scary motherfucker standing here in front of me. Now he
• 48:36
  completely transformed, like like I was looking into somebody else's eyes, you know,
• 48:43
  from five ft away. It's like he's not the same person he was
• 48:47
  talking to, right, That's how That's how good he is. Did a
• 49:00
  no medication, no medication. He was like, did I tell you to
• 49:04
  take about it that sandwich? But you bought the sandwich? Iron asked you.
• 49:09
  Oh, well, It's it's funny because Quentin and I we we're talking
• 49:15
  about you know, the backstory that's never mentioned, But the idea was that,
• 49:22
  you know, Sam's character, Juliet found out figured out that he knew
• 49:29
  somebody who knew one of the kids in this group who had taken the thing.
• 49:36
  So so basically the idea is that him and Marvin had some sort of
• 49:40
  connection like maybe he you know, dated my aunt or something. We don't
• 49:45
  know, but but the idea was that, you know, that's why he
• 49:50
  was, you know, taking him with him, That's why they were It's
• 49:52
  like, you know, no, he's our guy, who're taking him with
• 49:54
  him? So and then he got killed. That was not supposed to happen
• 50:06
  right in the middle of man. Just the conversation that that was always that
• 50:14
  was always the trippy part that you didn't see it coming during the entire conversation,
• 50:17
  and he pulls Marvin into he pulls man. You shouldn't know how this
• 50:23
  works. Yeah, no, no, I mean honestly, that was almost
• 50:29
  like Quentin had written a sketch parody of Reservoir Dogs. Yeah, this is
• 50:35
  like them babbling about you know, the Virgin you know, but like,
• 50:39
  well, what if when they're rambling about something a gun goes off? Wouldn't
• 50:45
  that be funny? In his second movie, he parodied his first one.
• 50:55
  So I remember seeing a video of you and Gary Anthony Williams talking about the
• 51:00
  Black the black version, and then I love the grounds and I love this
• 51:07
  concept. I absolutely love this concept. But for people who don't know what
• 51:12
  the black version is. Now, if you're in the black community, the
• 51:14
  blurr community, you know what the black version is. Well, for those
• 51:20
  who who just might not know, yes, yeah, let's go give us
• 51:29
  a movie title and we'll give you the black version speaking. This is getting
• 51:35
  reservoir dogs right here right talk to people. People know what is the Black
• 51:42
  verson? Yeah? Just for anybody who doesn't know, It's an improv comedy
• 51:45
  show that we created thirteen years ago at the Groundlings Theater in LA. It's
• 51:51
  an all black cast of improvisers. We take a suggestion from the audience of
• 51:54
  a classic or iconic Hollywood movie and then we improv the black version of that.
• 52:02
  Like one time they yelled out Jaws and we improved a movie called Catfish,
• 52:14
  when they yelled out Silence of the Lambs. We did a movie called
• 52:17
  why are You Eating People? Listen, I ain't say maybe you should do
• 52:29
  this, I'm just saying, are you on the side of that for for
• 52:37
  a minute? You already know if we do that, it's that's probably a
• 52:44
  three hour show season. Well, I mean the conventions that you guys can
• 52:52
  do this. Oh yeah, yeah, we're we're talking about that. Yarborough
• 52:58
  and Gary Athon Williams and I were talking about maybe we should take the black
• 53:00
  version to conventions because there's blurd cons Yeah, you know, back back in
• 53:07
  the old days, No, No San Diego Comic Con would have taken the
• 53:12
  all black. But but the thing is, you know, since since we
• 53:17
  started, you know, thirteen years ago, now things have gotten better,
• 53:22
  so there's much more welcoming of diversity. You know. It's it's funny because
• 53:29
  we've progressed in a way that embodies to me the the motto of the Dwayne
• 53:37
  McDuffie Award, named after my old friend Dwayne McDuffie, and every year we
• 53:45
  do I host the awards in his honor, in his legacy about you know,
• 53:52
  we give an award to creators who you know, you know, doing
• 53:55
  diversity in the comic book world, and we give them one of these.
• 54:00
  That's awesome and and it's funny because on the back of them it says what
• 54:06
  Dwayne used to say is like the path is from invisible to inevitable mm hmm.
• 54:14
  And and that's where that's where we're trying to go Damn, that's simple.
• 54:17
  I'm gonna get one that I'm gonna get. Yes, how much you
• 54:28
  do, but just write your comic or draw it now. But to see
• 54:36
  the black version at blur At at black cons that, I'm sorry, you
• 54:40
  would have people. You would have to put that in a theater. You
• 54:47
  couldn't have that because people would be well, but have blur con rent out
• 55:02
  in the theater, you'll be making the book. Stop that. That's not
• 55:07
  me trying to take away from blurk on that's the album. Well, well
• 55:10
  that's the thing. It could it could be a show alongside the con the
• 55:14
  way they do the way Rob Haulsen does an Animaiacs song thing. And I
• 55:21
  think some of the Michael Rosenbaum and Tom Welling from Smallville do some sort of
• 55:27
  thing in town where they do a con and yeah, yeah, but but
• 55:32
  the the the interesting thing about it, Laney, is in the old days,
• 55:37
  if we tried to do you know, black version and ad in a
• 55:42
  nerd world like okay, they'll just say Superman, Batman, you know.
• 55:47
  But nowadays there's you know, black movies that are nerdy, the way he
• 55:55
  Blackening, He and Jaws. First thing, I thought it was like,
• 56:01
  yeah, we don't go out there that far in the water. I can
• 56:10
  say, you're screaming jaws. Yeah, I'm not getting my hair wet.
• 56:15
  Mama, I thought you fried that catfish. I did, baby, but
• 56:17
  it's still trying to eat people were horrible. Yeah, but like you know,
• 56:29
  basically anything back in the old days, anything yo, iconic, you
• 56:35
  know was white. You know, they didn't have no woman king back then.
• 56:39
  Yeah, you know, And but nowadays it's a different world, and
• 56:45
  that's a good thing. But we still gotta only take the white movie suggestions,
• 56:52
  yo, yo, brother, go there's already a black version of New
• 56:54
  jack City. It's always that one moment you three black people in the movie,
• 57:00
  it's like, oh, y'all about to go number off. I like
• 57:13
  Deep Blue Sea with Samuel Jackson and ll cool J. I'm like, all
• 57:15
  right, somebody got I wasn't to be I wasn't expecting the sam speech and
• 57:21
  didn't getting squashed by the shark. But okay, you have been involved,
• 57:29
  right, You've been involved with so many NERDS centered projects, Static Shot mm
• 57:37
  hmm, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, being on the set of Supergirl,
• 57:45
  and I'm just like he's kind of a mainstay in DC right now,
• 57:52
  But there is one particular moment, and I'm really surprised there's a lot of
• 57:55
  more people that's catching this. You kind of you kind of helped Toby maguire
• 58:00
  off those tracks, and you didn't give up. You didn't give up the
• 58:07
  ghost. You didn't give up his identity either. How was that, being
• 58:10
  honestly and mind you, for that particular trilogy that was the biggest one,
• 58:15
  that was the most iconic instill the most iconic scene the show period or that
• 58:22
  movie period, being a part of that, How did that how did that
• 58:30
  resonate with you? Well? It was a little not confusing, but like
• 58:37
  hard to understand at first, because you know, I had auditioned for a
• 58:45
  regular part on the movie, like trying to be the dude who's in the
• 58:53
  elevator next to Peter Parker and says, hey, nice costume guy, But
• 59:00
  I didn't get it. They gave that to Hal Sparks. But then two
• 59:05
  months later, out of nowhere, we got a call saying, hey,
• 59:08
  would Phil be interested in doing something different in the movie, Like, what
• 59:15
  what is it? We can't give you the script, we can't tell you,
• 59:19
  just yes, or no, because you know, even though this was
• 59:22
  before the MCU, they were still very very secretive about everything. Yeah.
• 59:28
  Yeah, so I remember the blurry, the blurry, the blurry behind the
• 59:30
  scenes photos. That was the days of paparazzi. This is the best we
• 59:35
  can get, okay, right right, keep it secret. And but for
• 59:40
  like an old comic book, blurred a chance to be in a Spider Man
• 59:45
  movie, like, hell, yeah, I'll do whatever. I don't know
• 59:47
  what it is, but I'll do it. Yeah, And it turned out
• 59:54
  to be something I had never heard of before or since in my holly career.
• 1:00:00
  Sam Raimi, the director, you know, felt like this big action
• 1:00:06
  fight scene between Spider Man and doc Oc he wanted it to have heart for
• 1:00:13
  the movie. So he said, I can't just use a bunch of forty
• 1:00:17
  five extras. Hire me eight real actors and we go spread them out amongst
• 1:00:23
  the extras. And you know, so if I want to show the you
• 1:00:30
  know, emotional, you know feeling of this, I have somebody I can
• 1:00:32
  cut to, you know, or if we want to give throw in a
• 1:00:36
  line. So he hired a bunch of us to just be there to act,
• 1:00:45
  you know, in the background of this action scene, and I'm like,
• 1:00:49
  oh, sure, yeah, I'll do that, let's go please.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah, you know, but I was confused, like, wow, I've
• 1:00:55
  never heard anybody doing that, hiring extra actors actor extras. And also I
• 1:01:04
  never seen like a bunch of people, you know, getting paid barely anything
• 1:01:09
  carrying a dude worth twenty million dollars, you know. I was like,
• 1:01:15
  oh damn. I figured they would bring like six stunt men in there to
• 1:01:19
  actually carry Toby. You're passing. You're just like said, right, they're
• 1:01:27
  crying as they're passing along a twenty man. I imagine getting twenty million dollars.
• 1:01:34
  You're just getting carried out, right. Although I did get to talk
• 1:01:39
  to Toby on Zet, I was like, uh, and he told me
• 1:01:43
  something that has made me honor superhero stars a little more. It's like,
• 1:01:50
  oh, man, this suit. Yeah, they when I get here in
• 1:01:54
  the morning, they basically glue me into it. It was like, oh
• 1:01:59
  damn, brok go to the bathroom till lunch break. Wow, Yeah,
• 1:02:12
  maybe you're done. Maybe three your man. Considering the fact that we see
• 1:02:15
  Tiana Paris exude black girl magic when she puts on her her photos and and
• 1:02:23
  she's doing her dance and everything, and then you find out she was sold
• 1:02:27
  into it. I'm like, pass, there's not a flap anywhere you can't
• 1:02:35
  okay. Yeah, Like when you're watching a hero, you know, fifty
• 1:02:38
  feet high on screen, you don't think about how difficult that job could be.
• 1:02:44
  I mean, Michael, Michael Keaton did take a pair of Jordan's and
• 1:02:47
  get them like black Jordan's. So he's like, I'm not walking around in
• 1:02:51
  Batman boots. You don't imagine the prop guy. You do what these Jordan's?
• 1:03:00
  Right? So I think, you know, like I said, you're
• 1:03:04
  being a staple and just in that community, and it just leads you knowing
• 1:03:10
  that you're you're you're a blurred obviously, and you're just like ever right,
• 1:03:16
  like you ever thought like man, Yeah, you know you sit back and
• 1:03:21
  say, oh, you don't know what you're talking about. I'm John Stewart,
• 1:03:23
  I'm static. Shut your mouth. I say, spider Man. Please,
• 1:03:30
  I'm a Martian Manhunter. You can leave me alone and not say anything
• 1:03:34
  else. Well, honestly, maybe maybe it's because I'm a comic book third,
• 1:03:38
  but I don't consider the characters my ownership. You know's the secret,
• 1:03:45
  it's yours you know, especially when you're the first one to do it.
• 1:03:51
  But you know, growing up reading comics, you know it's not always the
• 1:03:55
  same writer or the same artist, but it is the same hero. Yeah,
• 1:04:01
  that's true, you know, but you do have a but you do
• 1:04:03
  have a voice that is you know, some things are just some things are
• 1:04:09
  laden with the character. Like your voice. I can only imagine because from
• 1:04:13
  Samurai Jack, because I can imagine for the for folks that aren't worse,
• 1:04:16
  but watch the show, probably hear you talking and go this look at you,
• 1:04:23
  but they were gonna they hear the voice, they look at you.
• 1:04:25
  It just like no. And then and probably you got approached like I'm sorry,
• 1:04:34
  I don't need to bother you, but do you are you the Samurai
• 1:04:39
  Jack guy? Or you the are you? You know? So? And
• 1:04:42
  so I can only imagine folks about you and being like I didn't picture and
• 1:04:46
  it's it's it's I can't imagine. It's so where they go, I didn't
• 1:04:50
  picture that voice coming out of you and not not not might be offensive,
• 1:04:56
  but it's like and it's almost as if they can't imagine at someone of your
• 1:05:00
  talent and you're a mints and you're immense longevity, if you will, and
• 1:05:06
  if they never could put two and two together. Is it always surprising to
• 1:05:10
  see that happen or is it just like you're kind of used to it now.
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  Well, I mean it's wild that nowadays more people know what the person
• 1:05:20
  who does the voice of a cartoon character looks like, because back in the
• 1:05:26
  old days, you know, when I was a little kid growing up,
• 1:05:29
  there was like seven dudes and one woman who did every character you know,
• 1:05:35
  we ever heard, and we didn't know what that of them looked like.
• 1:05:39
  Well except for except for mel Blank because he had done on camera work too,
• 1:05:45
  but all the rest of them didn't. It was years later I saw
• 1:05:49
  what June four ad look like. I was like, really, are you
• 1:05:54
  okay? Okay, wow, wow exactly. I wanted to ask you this
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  because when Samurai Jack first came on the scene, this was a cartoon.
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  This was a feature that a lot of us looked forward to because it was
• 1:06:10
  unique, it was different, it was special. And I know that you
• 1:06:14
  make appearances at conventions and people come up to you and say they love your
• 1:06:17
  portrayal of Samurai Jack and also of John Stewart. Does it ever? Does
• 1:06:23
  it? Did it ever? Really hit you the impact that you have had
• 1:06:27
  on these people with portraying these characters just regular folks who just living day and
• 1:06:33
  day out lives, you know, don't have the opportunity to do and see
• 1:06:36
  some of the things. But to come back and look on Cartoon Network and
• 1:06:40
  see the next episode of Samurai Jack and for those thirty minutes, life doesn't
• 1:06:45
  matter. Well, you know when people do you know express that For me,
• 1:06:54
  it is less about ego. Was like, yes, yes, look
• 1:06:58
  what I did. Look how good I am. Look at it. It's
• 1:07:00
  more about you know, good fortune to be able just to guess on two
• 1:07:10
  episodes of a show that good is a blessing in your career, but to
• 1:07:15
  be able to be a good part of it. I mean I didn't write
• 1:07:19
  it, I didn't draw it. I mean for me, as a voice
• 1:07:25
  actor, I am at most a third of the cartoon characters, you know,
• 1:07:30
  because it's not just the voice, it is how they animate it and
• 1:07:36
  the story that is being told, especially for something like Samurai Jack or Static
• 1:07:43
  Shock or Justice League. You know the fact that those things hold up twenty
• 1:07:46
  years later, you know, like you will you say, you could play
• 1:07:49
  that for your kid and it will impact that's this generation just as well as
• 1:07:58
  it impacted the previous generation, because it is that good. So when somebody
• 1:08:03
  talks about how great it, you know, made them feel, or how
• 1:08:08
  it impacted them, that makes me feel lucky, you know, because as
• 1:08:13
  a performer, you know, like I was saying, you know, when
• 1:08:15
  something's good, you don't know how successful something's going to be. You don't
• 1:08:19
  know if it's going to be iconic. And getting to be a part of
• 1:08:25
  several things that are at that high a level of quality that is such a
• 1:08:31
  blessing. Yes, I agree, we're definitely not worthy. Agree with that
• 1:08:41
  sentiment. Yeah, good lord, we're bowing. We just can't see the
• 1:08:46
  rest of it I have. I'm going back to the galley. I don't
• 1:08:54
  know about y'all. So, yeah, it's food back there, Nick.
• 1:08:59
  Nick's sure to leave some of the ribs for the rest of us. I
• 1:09:03
  got a special stake just ful field back here. Y'all can't touch this state
• 1:09:10
  marbling and based it like the whole fifteen minutes. Don't it'll be gone.
• 1:09:20
  Just don't blink. So shout out to attack in the war who we're a
• 1:09:25
  proud affiliate of. Uh, he says, uh. Being in countless shows
• 1:09:30
  and voicing so many different characters, what character would you like to voice have
• 1:09:32
  given the chance? Well, that that goes back to that question you asked
• 1:09:39
  before. Well, anything that's already out there. I don't look at,
• 1:09:45
  you know, some friend of mine's job and say, oh, I'd like
• 1:09:46
  to take that from her. But I'm trying to think. For me,
• 1:09:57
  it's just about when the audition comes out, when offer comes through, like
• 1:10:00
  oh what's this? Then you read about the premise of the show, and
• 1:10:06
  that's when you decide, oh, this would be great to be a part
• 1:10:11
  of. I mean, for instance, you know I got the Moriarty thing
• 1:10:15
  back there. You know, I once I had the chance to audition to
• 1:10:21
  play Sherlock Holmes, even though that character had been iconic to me. That's
• 1:10:26
  when I thought, I'd love to have a chance to do that. But
• 1:10:30
  just random things don't occur to me. You know, how do I need
• 1:10:35
  to see that as a live action? Now here we go? Because I
• 1:10:42
  love Sherlock Holmes. I've seen several versions. I've read all the books.
• 1:10:47
  If we're going to do Sherlock Holmes with a black face, we don't have
• 1:10:49
  to wait till after election. Day, he's got a point like a park,
• 1:11:05
  the right one one green light the project. Okay, we ain't gonna
• 1:11:08
  worry about that. Patrick Newman says, as a person of Jamaican descent and
• 1:11:14
  working as a bureaucrat, Hermes made him feel seen that stuff. I like,
• 1:11:25
  yeah, no, no, but no that I'm glad he said that
• 1:11:28
  because, you know, there's a lot of those eighties and nineties cartoons who
• 1:11:33
  you know, the producers are getting called out for lack of diversity. M
• 1:11:40
  h. But nowadays those you know, creators on the same level now understand
• 1:11:46
  the value of that, you know, although some people you know put a
• 1:11:53
  value to it. Even before you know, diversity of representation were buzzwords,
• 1:11:57
  like back when we did Justice League. You know, the producer's creators behind
• 1:12:01
  Justice League decided to make this animated Justice League more diverse than the comic book
• 1:12:10
  Justice League. But not for you know, avoiding cancelation or for political reasons,
• 1:12:16
  but for excellence. To have to have seven characters that you know are
• 1:12:24
  coming from more you know, different perspectives and backgrounds, you know, and
• 1:12:30
  not just have one woman but two that will be more interesting storytelling. That's
• 1:12:39
  why they made you know, that African American the green lantern, not just
• 1:12:45
  a little blackup, backup green lantern like he had been since the seventies.
• 1:12:49
  Yeah. Yeah, I remember Justice Lee coming out and the first thing thea's
• 1:12:54
  a John Stewart and I'm like, oh, like this. And then when
• 1:13:00
  I seen Dwayne mcdufe was involved in, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna
• 1:13:03
  like this, you know, And I was wasn't disappointed at all. It
• 1:13:08
  is one of those shows where you wish it could have kept going. It's
• 1:13:12
  still relevant. Justice Legal, Justice League, Justice Legal Limiting and Static Shot
• 1:13:17
  are very they they're telling stories that are still very relevant today and and and
• 1:13:26
  doing that on kids cartoons back then was rare, right, you know that
• 1:13:33
  part right because because in the old days, most people didn't consider cartoons art.
• 1:13:40
  They were just you know, programming for merchandising. We're just trying to
• 1:13:45
  sell the damn toys. Yeah, we've we've seen that trend where a cartoon
• 1:13:53
  will come out it's great, but because you couldn't get the toy licensing,
• 1:13:56
  it ended up being canceled. And I said, that's that's a shame,
• 1:14:00
  because you're taking away potentially good cartoons just for the sake of the dollar.
• 1:14:03
  You're putting part of my French absolute garbage out there because you can sell it
• 1:14:09
  as a game or as a toy. Like Chris, that was English.
• 1:14:15
  Chris. Did I tell you that's funny that you said that because there's a
• 1:14:17
  story about that regarding Static Shock? Did I tell you that already? Chris?
• 1:14:21
  Uh uh No, we're getting exclusive story. Let's go before you tell
• 1:14:27
  that story. People out there in ig twitch, YouTube, wherever you're watching
• 1:14:30
  the show, understand that we somehow always get these great stories. Tune in
• 1:14:41
  field. The floor is yours. Okay, well, and this is again
• 1:14:45
  another sign of the progress we've made. But back in the late nineties,
• 1:14:50
  when they were, you know, pitching the Static Shock show based on the
• 1:14:56
  Milestone comic the d not a DC com make. You know, well,
• 1:15:01
  if it's a cartoon, we got to get a toy. So they went
• 1:15:04
  to the toy company and brought the character designs and the premise and everything,
• 1:15:11
  and the toy company said, we don't really see a market for a character
• 1:15:16
  like that. There's something I would say now, but I can't say it
• 1:15:23
  because we've got company right. But but we all know exactly what they meant.
• 1:15:30
  And that was part of the reason. You know, I don't care,
• 1:15:40
  but that decision to not have merged was one of the reasons that after
• 1:15:46
  four seasons of being the top rated show in on that you know on its
• 1:15:55
  Saturday, you know morning network, you know thing, Static Shock canceled because
• 1:16:01
  it wasn't making them no extra money. Now. So so we were the
• 1:16:08
  top rated show and had won a Humanitas Award for that for that episode about
• 1:16:15
  the kid in the high school with the gun. Yes, high, high
• 1:16:19
  quality stuff, but like I said, back then, they didn't care about
• 1:16:25
  quality in cartoons. It was just about toys. R us Chad didn't care,
• 1:16:30
  you know, Thorn didn't care. Episode see episode like that and the
• 1:16:40
  one with Richie's dad, Richie's Dad's racist. Literally I'm in the bed watching,
• 1:16:45
  like yo, we here, okay, oh wow. Somebody made that
• 1:16:54
  that episode before the term woke even existed. And it's just the way they
• 1:17:01
  resolve things, bringing in a Nazi and I'm like, people don't know about
• 1:17:05
  these characters and I'm here for it and just seeing all this it's not inclusion,
• 1:17:12
  it's representations, representation and seeing this character really deal with issues, whether
• 1:17:19
  it's school, whether it's home, whether it's the bully, like seeing seeing
• 1:17:25
  a character and having a positive influence with his father and the normal back and
• 1:17:30
  forth with his sister. You could tell us the back and forth but she's
• 1:17:32
  still they still love each other, of course, and just seeing that energy
• 1:17:36
  and you're just like, I'm glad we have this. Well, that's what
• 1:17:42
  made the show so great was the way they told those stories, because the
• 1:17:46
  show was about a black superhero, but it wasn't about the fact that he
• 1:17:53
  was black. Every episode wasn't black black black black black, but it was
• 1:17:57
  about this person's life in a way. You know. So he dealt with
• 1:18:03
  his racist you know, I mean, his friend's racist father, because that
• 1:18:08
  might be something that would happen to somebody like that. And the the Static
• 1:18:13
  goes to Africa episode, Yeah, you know, I mean because back then
• 1:18:18
  that that kind of story was would have been considered a reference to the Shaft
• 1:18:25
  movie or the Richard pryor bit Yoh yeah, you know, so those were
• 1:18:30
  real black things and you know, you feel like you know, and a
• 1:18:36
  lot of you know, networks back then would go yeah. But with Static
• 1:18:44
  Shock, they got that done. Yeah, I and I you know,
• 1:18:47
  at the even at that age when I was watching it, you know,
• 1:18:50
  I said, oh, we hear now. And at the same time,
• 1:18:54
  you know when you hear people say, oh, they shouldn't need it,
• 1:18:57
  I'm like, we just watched Spider Man and Mary Jane threw herself out the
• 1:19:00
  window just to see if it was actually Peter. You know, I'm like,
• 1:19:04
  you want to talk about toxic right now. So once trying to solve
• 1:19:11
  an issue, another one is becoming one. So so seeing them not even
• 1:19:18
  mean you know, so when I seen when I was seeing stuff like that
• 1:19:23
  and even in the comics and seeing that they have this family dynamic around Ril,
• 1:19:28
  right, and I'm saying, we need to see more. And we're
• 1:19:30
  seeing that more, especially with a lot of black indie artists, and we
• 1:19:33
  shot them out every every show, and seeing that this isn't that Oh he's
• 1:19:40
  growing up in a tough neighborhood. No, his father is a working man,
• 1:19:42
  his sister go to school. He's smart, you know. So this
• 1:19:45
  is why when I see shows like Craig of the Creek, Yeah, and
• 1:19:47
  I sit back and I'm just like, this is just fun because that was
• 1:19:51
  my childhood. Not that extreme, but that was my childhood. You know
• 1:19:57
  what I'm saying, you know it's going out. Hey, we're going not
• 1:20:00
  to play. We'll be back later in the day. You know. Yeah,
• 1:20:02
  we're feeling in mud and everything else. And there was always that creepy
• 1:20:06
  kid, you know. It was just it was always some level of stuff
• 1:20:10
  with stuff like that, and I'm like, this is just our life was
• 1:20:15
  ed and Eddie, Okay, there weren't any time we left until the time
• 1:20:18
  we had to beat that street light. Okay, you know, you know,
• 1:20:23
  Okay, Lord Striker says, because this was on my mind too,
• 1:20:29
  he said, even static meeting his future self in the Batman Beyond episode,
• 1:20:34
  that was wild. Yeah, that's just good writing. Well, had I
• 1:20:44
  not been in a recording booth with Billy West before that, I don't know
• 1:20:47
  if I could have done that episode played three characters talking to themselves the level
• 1:20:57
  of talent, but see it just it just steaks speaks to your talent.
• 1:21:00
  It speaks to your level of talent. You are obviously all over the con
• 1:21:05
  circuit. Yes, mm hmmm, with a lot of security, a lot
• 1:21:14
  of security, except for that day when you and me first man and I
• 1:21:17
  was just like, wait, he's by himself. It's like two people make
• 1:21:23
  those moments when you can get them. I'm getting this out of the way
• 1:21:26
  now. Wow, that walking just being in the con space and people of
• 1:21:33
  different generations recognizing you, either from Mad TV or Racking, recognizing you from
• 1:21:40
  any of the voice jobs you've done, and you speak with the passion because
• 1:21:46
  these characters, you know, they're you, you know, and we recognize
• 1:21:51
  these characters as you. We're just like we wouldn't be we We we read
• 1:21:56
  Static when it first came out, and we and we supported the books and
• 1:22:00
  we supported the cartoons, so we were just like, wow, they really
• 1:22:03
  did this this time. And when we and you're in the concert and you
• 1:22:08
  see fans of different ages, and how does that make you feel when you
• 1:22:13
  recognize that it's well, I mean, being at the con is always so
• 1:22:19
  much fun because when you do this, you know, work on camera on
• 1:22:28
  mike. There ain't no audience, you know, so you know, and
• 1:22:33
  I started out, you know, in high school doing theater. And then
• 1:22:38
  you feel the energy of the people you're performing for. And that's what I
• 1:22:44
  love most about cons is it allows me to feel the energy of the people
• 1:22:48
  I have performed for, you know, after the fact. It's basically like
• 1:22:51
  getting applause one person at a time, you know, just in dialogue,
• 1:22:58
  and that is a wonderful thing. Yeah, it's it's a lot of fun,
• 1:23:04
  especially because you know, I'm a nerd, and you know I always
• 1:23:10
  bring my sketch book, and you know, sometimes usually if if there ain't
• 1:23:16
  no line at my table, that's when I'm gonna jump out and head to
• 1:23:20
  artist Alley and trying to get some Batman drawings from you know, amazing you
• 1:23:28
  know creators. Oh my goodness, that that's you just spoke to my spirit
• 1:23:32
  animal, because I go to San Diego every year and I have friends that
• 1:23:35
  I've been blessed to me over the years in artists Alley. So I got
• 1:23:40
  my sketch book and the left to the right, excuse me, hi,
• 1:23:45
  how are you? Oh my gosh, I think yourself is amazing and you
• 1:23:47
  get I love it. I love it, although sometimes I get too nerded
• 1:23:55
  out. Is there such a thing that was asked? Well, you know,
• 1:24:01
  to ask for something, you've got to have a certain level of comfort.
• 1:24:05
  But when you're in your head, you're just going so great. So
• 1:24:18
  so what I'm hearing from the crew is if we can get a manvolani on,
• 1:24:21
  we might be nailing everything there. But like when I met you know,
• 1:24:28
  Neil Adams, Oh yeah, yeah, who was to me? Because
• 1:24:33
  Batman was my you know, biggest DC character and to me, you know,
• 1:24:40
  Neil's artwork and Kevin's voice are what made helped make the character not just
• 1:24:47
  campy anymore, but the real Batman from nineteen thirty nine, that cool,
• 1:24:55
  you know, powerful human hero. So when I met Neil, I was
• 1:25:02
  so excited. Although I did try to make a connection, I went up
• 1:25:10
  to mister Adams, my name is Philamar. I really wanted to come and
• 1:25:15
  say hi to you because I wanted to say thank you because you created a
• 1:25:21
  character that wind up leading to me getting a job. Thank you. And
• 1:25:29
  then he told me stories about all of the hurdles they had to go through
• 1:25:34
  to get a black character into comic books back then. They fought him over
• 1:25:41
  the name like John Stewart, What shouldn't you give him more than something like
• 1:25:46
  Leroy Washington? Oh boy, they fought with him over the color of the
• 1:25:55
  skin. You know, we think you put the wrong color in here.
• 1:26:00
  We usually make these characters sort of an off gray. It's like, no,
• 1:26:03
  he's brown. Yeah, yeah, you know, I've heard a lot
• 1:26:09
  of those stories, not just heard it from Don mc gregor when when he
• 1:26:13
  was doing Black Panther, you know, and we hear those stories like he
• 1:26:15
  fought for the issues where he fought the KKK, he was just like watch
• 1:26:21
  me, you know, you know, and the artist that he had,
• 1:26:25
  that he that he was working with. So yeah, I've heard a lot
• 1:26:28
  of those stories. Is they're not well told stories, which is why yeah,
• 1:26:31
  read band books, find the history yourself, because a lot of times
• 1:26:36
  they won't tell it to you. So it's it's it's something amazing. Yeah,
• 1:26:41
  No, those stories don't get told enough because back in those old days,
• 1:26:45
  you know, since those you know, people pushing against this creativity weren't
• 1:26:50
  using the N word, you know, that wasn't considered racism back then.
• 1:26:58
  It's like, well if he's not or now yeah, yeah, well well
• 1:27:04
  now now that we have the term microaggression, we have a we have a
• 1:27:09
  broader scale, and the fact that they were doing this to white people,
• 1:27:15
  yeah, you know, they felt back. Why does it have to be
• 1:27:18
  I mean even now we see it now they they they're they're raving over deadpool.
• 1:27:24
  But I'm like, well, she hoped did the same thing what's the
• 1:27:26
  problem. Exactly what are you talking about? What are you talking about?
• 1:27:31
  He's been doing it for so long? Uh huh and she did it first.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, issue, you know. Uh, BZ has a question,
• 1:27:40
  he says, uh, does Phil have any future's intention of producing his own
• 1:27:44
  content? Oh? Oh, thank you, Buz. I'm glad you you
• 1:27:47
  brought that up. You hear they gasp, And I was like, whoa
• 1:27:53
  glad you brought that up. Here a blurred's eye view, anything can happen,
• 1:27:57
  and then it's always the good stuff. Well, because I mean because
• 1:28:01
  you know, several times, you know, along this talk, I've said,
• 1:28:05
  no, no, I'm not the one iresponsible. I didn't just I'm
• 1:28:08
  just a third of the character. But the truth of it is, there
• 1:28:15
  is an animated show that I am trying to develop as a writer, producer
• 1:28:21
  and actors that. Yes, there's a webcomic called Goblins Life through Their Eyes,
• 1:28:30
  which is set in the D and D world but telling the story from
• 1:28:35
  the perspective of low level monsters. You know what, It's funny you say
• 1:28:45
  that because we are also the news court team for Blurred Station, which is
• 1:28:49
  an up and coming streaming service, and we have a lot of uh POC
• 1:28:56
  related content and something like that. I'm gonna I'm gonna get you in touch
• 1:29:00
  with Kevin. I'm going to get you in touch with Kevin. We're gonna
• 1:29:04
  talk. Might we might have a home if I will. I would love
• 1:29:11
  to show like that, but you know, I'm just I'm a gloration too.
• 1:29:17
  So I mean, if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't,
• 1:29:19
  you know, yeah, because we're all in certain So here's the thing.
• 1:29:25
  You we're the news courteam, myself and Kira run the voice uh directing
• 1:29:30
  department, and so we're just building this thing and we're getting people in saying
• 1:29:36
  hey, if you're a personal color and you have a dope comic maga animation,
• 1:29:44
  we want you. We don't. We don't need to be, we
• 1:29:47
  don't need to be. We're not gonna have that discussion again. The beautiful
• 1:29:51
  and beautiful, The beautiful thing about it is the content that that is yours
• 1:29:57
  stays yours. They just want to distribute it. They want they want people
• 1:30:01
  to see it. We need more of us out in that space and not
• 1:30:08
  fighting for a sliver of something that we should have much wider. I guess
• 1:30:13
  swath of it's not it's enough that we should have bakery that that I mean,
• 1:30:26
  we can't cook. I'm just saying, franchise. I have a question
• 1:30:32
  though, did you were you inspired to do the low level characters because of
• 1:30:38
  Brown Tooth On? No, that's that's funny because actually the the webcomic had
• 1:30:49
  already existed for several years before Critical Role, and and it was just ironic
• 1:31:00
  that when I got to finally do a perform because I've known the Critical Role
• 1:31:03
  guys, you know, from doing all our work on Avengers, Arth Somebody's
• 1:31:08
  heroes and stuff. You know, we had done a lot of work together,
• 1:31:11
  but I wasn't part of their I wasn't part of their D and D
• 1:31:14
  group. But so I find I finally got to do one of their you
• 1:31:17
  know, performances, and it turned out to be a Goblins one. That
• 1:31:21
  was ironic because you know, we were right around the corner. And actually
• 1:31:26
  Matthew Mercer is attached as one of the voices you know, in our Robins
• 1:31:33
  project, along with a lot of amazing people, you know, Maurice LaMarsh,
• 1:31:41
  Billy West, Deborah Wilson, we had Carl Jones. We had Carl
• 1:31:53
  Jones on last year he's good friends with us, and he was telling the
• 1:31:58
  stories and the stories he told there's about Tembor Wilson and and I'm we're cracking
• 1:32:03
  up, but at the same time we're just like that fits. Uh,
• 1:32:10
  that fits. We've seen her and we were just like that that that works.
• 1:32:15
  Hey, anybody who can do Oprah and Whitney Houston and whoever. You
• 1:32:19
  know tons of others can do cartoon characters and video game characters too. Yeah
• 1:32:26
  that part, Oh she can? She can? I mean the process of
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  coordinating the VO conference retreating Vegas for people of color. This is my open
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  invitation to ask you to be our keynote speaker. We're in in the in
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  file. Take in file. Take the baby, the baby. They just
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  debaby face the lexicon properly please that infantile there it is. Okay, So
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  he got it. I feel like I'm standing up in front of the Easter
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  Sunday service right now. The word is Christian chrisanthema. The word is christ
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  See. Reading words off a page is not as easy as it looks,
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  So good luck on your voice after Yeah, Trey, reach out to my
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  my web page philimar dot com and I can get in touch about with my
• 1:33:32
  representative about getting that work, making that come together. Look at it for
• 1:33:40
  you, right. I have to ask this question because I know I talked
• 1:33:45
  to Chris, I talked to Lady Mandelor about this, and I want to
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  ask this a few When did you first realize that you were a comic nerd?
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  Like literally when in my life? Yes, it's probably the summer.
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  The summer I was probably what ten. Then I spent a summer visiting my
• 1:34:08
  cousins in Kansas City and they all looked at me, funny, say,
• 1:34:18
  that's why are all sitting in the corner of ringing Dude. We all started
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  playing. But my aunt, you know, supported me. She's like,
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  no, no, feel I put a chair over in the corner for you,
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  and I gave you some markers if you want to do some drawings.
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  See his his has just married my life. He literally I was nine when
• 1:34:45
  I discovered it, So yeah, I completely understand that. And aunts for
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  the wind everywhere there's I can attribute mine to three women in my life,
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  my mother and my grandmother and my great grandmother same and they and they.
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  When I say, watching Zoro smoking the bandit introduced me to Star Wars,
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  Superman and then by the time I was eleven being introduced to Black Panther,
• 1:35:15
  like they were just like moral moral code is in his blood at this point,
• 1:35:23
  y'all know my black man the story, so like we're like, we'll
• 1:35:27
  let him live. This one's okay, he'll be fine. But I appreciate
• 1:35:33
  seeing stuff like that. So that's it's that's really great. Well, I
• 1:35:39
  got to ask this question just because from a from a video game standpoint,
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  you voiced we're not even going down lest let's just say it's a lot.
• 1:35:47
  But the one that's always stuck out to me, which we were in mail
• 1:35:53
  Gear. You actually played the character of Vam number one. I loved how
• 1:36:00
  you played him. You maybe you maybe want to hate him, you want
• 1:36:05
  to hate the character, which is great, But how did you actually,
• 1:36:10
  because of because of a franchise like that, how did you come into that
• 1:36:14
  role as far as as far as being vamp and just uh coming up with
• 1:36:18
  that idea with just the voice, the mannerisms. Because I was just curious
• 1:36:26
  because I was like, builded this and I'm like, that's impressive as hell.
• 1:36:30
  So I'm just asking you just what was your perspective on that? Well,
• 1:36:34
  actually that was part fandom and part lucky because I played Metal Gear one
• 1:36:43
  and loved it, you know, to me back then, it was the
• 1:36:46
  most cinematic video game. Yeah, and you know, with that whole stealth
• 1:36:51
  thing. It was one of the few video games you couldn't win just by
• 1:36:55
  hitting but hit you know, you actually had to think and you know,
• 1:37:01
  act out the story. So I was blown away by high out how great
• 1:37:05
  the game was. And then I heard, or maybe I think I was
• 1:37:10
  at a recording studio and I saw a casting woman who I'd worked with on
• 1:37:15
  a bunch of you know, Cartoon network shows, and I said, hey,
• 1:37:17
  Chris, what you up to? What you do? It's like,
• 1:37:18
  oh, I'm casting the new Metal Gear too, And I was like,
• 1:37:21
  uh, you're doing another Metal Gear I love that game. Could I come
• 1:37:29
  in an audition for something? Please? Please? It was one of the
• 1:37:31
  only times in my career I begged and thankfully she allowed me. Although originally
• 1:37:41
  I came in to just you know, audition for some little minor character,
• 1:37:45
  like I think it was DARPA chief or something, you know, yeah,
• 1:37:51
  and I was just going through the audition and then halfway through she goes,
• 1:37:55
  Phil, actually, since you're here, there's this other character we need cast,
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  but we've been having some trouble trying to find somebody who can get this
• 1:38:08
  roll down. And then she describes Vamp to me. He's a character called
• 1:38:13
  Vamp, but he's may or may not actually be a vampire. And he's
• 1:38:18
  you know, some sort they think he was to be, you know,
• 1:38:21
  Eastern European, but not any specific you know country accent and you know.
• 1:38:28
  And I think she even said something about his you know, gender, sexual
• 1:38:32
  orientation or something. But basically there was a lot of things about It was
• 1:38:38
  more about what the character isn't than when he is. I was like,
• 1:38:41
  huh, all right, But what I decided to do was, well,
• 1:38:46
  let's say he is a vampire, because if you a vampire, you don't
• 1:38:50
  have to breathe. What would your voice sound like with no oxygen coming in
• 1:38:57
  and out of you? Oh? And so I decided to do by the
• 1:39:02
  day, oh the s And then I saw her, you know, through
• 1:39:09
  the glass. I started going. I was like, like, I'm on
• 1:39:16
  the second, I creeped her. I creeped the casting woman out. But
• 1:39:25
  that that right there is why I want to because I mean, between that
• 1:39:28
  and vampire Masquerade bloodlines, Uh, it's like you your approach to almost the
• 1:39:34
  same in video game acting and the same deo game voice acting as it is
• 1:39:38
  and animation. It's just that it seems you have a different approach to each
• 1:39:43
  character, how you do it and that. So I was like, I
• 1:39:45
  just love to hear the thought process behind it. Mm hmmm. Well,
• 1:39:47
  it's it's harder with the video games because they they you know, they tend
• 1:39:54
  because it's all digital. They don't have cells, you know, and characters
• 1:40:00
  signs and stuff to show you. It's like, no, no, that's
• 1:40:01
  all back at the office on the computers, and they don't give you the
• 1:40:06
  whole you know, Like when you do a cartoon, it's a half hour
• 1:40:10
  cartoon. They give you the script and you read it the night before.
• 1:40:14
  But a video game is five hours of you know, cut scenes. Ain't
• 1:40:18
  nobody hand any ass script, you know. They just give you, you
• 1:40:25
  know, seven pages with all your lines and then all your death screams.
• 1:40:30
  You know. So it's a little harder to embody it, to make it
• 1:40:35
  real, to figure out what the character is, what they're feeling, you
• 1:40:40
  know. But you've got that's what you gotta do, right, Oh yeah,
• 1:40:44
  you definitely know that's all. I was like, it's the first time
• 1:40:46
  I played. I was like, first time I played. I was like,
• 1:40:48
  Okay, I loved it. Kind of went back a few years later
• 1:40:50
  and this is after I've seen your voice acting roles and I get back to
• 1:40:55
  back and I'm like, and I had that moment like I talked about where
• 1:40:59
  I recognize the voice. I'm like, go back into the credits, a
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  bitch, and and I thought it was just me because I'm like, I
• 1:41:11
  know that voice, and I know that voice, not I gotta know.
• 1:41:14
  My wife like, why are you reading the credits? Like I said,
• 1:41:18
  not not to go into the Like I said, you have a long history
• 1:41:23
  of video game credits that I you know, I'll be here all my talking
• 1:41:26
  about it. But that one and bull Room from Dark Siders, those were
• 1:41:30
  my two favorite voices that you didn't do. I Bulgrum. I don't know
• 1:41:35
  how you came up with that. That was the voice you pulled for Bulgroom.
• 1:41:41
  It's like it's almost like you. And again it's like taking a mix
• 1:41:45
  between the Snake from Jungle Book and putting Iago from a Laddin together and just
• 1:41:53
  making it seamless. And I'm like, that's impressive as hell. Well,
• 1:41:58
  you know, it's funny you say that because sometimes you know, in my
• 1:42:00
  head, you I'll either draw a voice from a person in my life,
• 1:42:08
  you know, who I feel is similar to this character, like you know,
• 1:42:12
  like in Futurama, there's a character Robot Preacher is you know, completely
• 1:42:18
  taken from an actual you know preacher from the My My, My minister.
• 1:42:26
  Another aunt of mine who's a minister. She's hanging out with this you know
• 1:42:30
  preacher like who was basically like a cartoon version of a preacher round dudes,
• 1:42:36
  like one circle for his body, one circle for his head, and really,
• 1:42:42
  Reverend j C. Really, you try to get you try to get
• 1:42:47
  higher. But I felt, if they're gonna be a preacher, it should
• 1:42:55
  sound like a real preachers for than Baptist, right. But sometimes you reach
• 1:43:02
  into the energy of another performer, you know, Like I've told this story
• 1:43:11
  many times. Going into audition for John Stewart in Justice League, the person
• 1:43:16
  who auditioned right in front of me was Dennis Haysbert. Oh wow, And
• 1:43:25
  I was like, wow, holy shit. He looked like a human version
• 1:43:29
  of the cartel character the president in front of him. Dennis is huge,
• 1:43:38
  you know, I mean, if Dennis was wearing green, he would have
• 1:43:41
  looked like the live action version. But Dennis also has a really deep,
• 1:43:46
  powerful voice, and I was like, yeah, well he looked like characters.
• 1:43:51
  Characters should sound like him. So I went in and did my version
• 1:44:00
  of a Dennis Haysburg voice, and for Volgrum, there was something about the
• 1:44:04
  character looking at it, I thought, you know what, I'm lucky I
• 1:44:09
  got this because this seems like a role that Mark Hamill would kill. So
• 1:44:16
  I'm like, oh, maybe the maybe he should would sound a little bit
• 1:44:20
  like Mark's joker voice. So yes, so I began to do something in
• 1:44:28
  that realm and they and they agreed, They said, okay, we like
• 1:44:31
  that for volgram Wow, I'm still chipping over the things. I think.
• 1:44:34
  Mark Hamill isn't behind me. I'm still you had the president. You had
• 1:44:41
  the president in front of you, like I said, yeah, the President.
• 1:44:46
  I'm like, yo, what So before we get out of here,
• 1:44:54
  I'm gonna sign up. I know it's it's hard. Robert carries so much
• 1:45:00
  fuel. I can't do anything. I've got memories. Just jettison me.
• 1:45:04
  If you need to the questions, all the questions, go ahead, ask
• 1:45:11
  ask another questions. Okay, okay, I was, I wasn't joking,
• 1:45:15
  but if one okay, let me cook, me cook, let me cook.
• 1:45:25
  Okay, if I made for a moment, if I can speak to
• 1:45:30
  mister Stewart for a second. As we all know me, I'm a big
• 1:45:34
  hater of Guy Gardner. And you know, well, next who is not
• 1:45:43
  probably who doesn't hate gard Hi Guy Gardner is probably his hair dresser. Yeah,
• 1:45:49
  I'm a big hater of Gud Gardener. So I was want to know
• 1:45:54
  who is your most favorite the least favorite lantern to work with? Mm hmmmm,
• 1:46:00
  Well, there are so many great lanterns. We are all part of
• 1:46:08
  the core. And well, my comic book version had a relationship with a
• 1:46:16
  female lantern. Hell not me, I'm I'm I'm having a baby with a
• 1:46:25
  Thanagarian. I would definitely say my favorite lantern to be with is my friend
• 1:46:36
  kill A Bog asked my boy, and I'm sure John Hay likes him because
• 1:46:44
  of Kill's voice. He's like, oh you got that one. But at
• 1:46:55
  least I steal that. We are the biggest, brightest, deepest lanterns.
• 1:47:08
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• 1:48:12
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• 1:48:58
  so much for having me. This has been an amazing, amazing interview crowd.
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  All right, I still not fail you maybe in cheesey you are,
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  welcome back any time. I will get you in touch with Kevin. So
• 1:50:03
  thank you again. Thank you guys, And for anybody who's you know watching
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  This was amazing. You are a goat, You're an icon. You
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• 1:59:04
  Everybodce statements. Thank you for sharing a bit of your time with us.
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  We highly appreciate it. We are very very grateful and humbled by your your
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