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Hitman Talks to Veronica Taylor (POKEMON) Anime Corpus Christi · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Corpus Christy's Classic Kids Big ninety three to nine is hip Man with You,
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  and it's starting today. It's officially on right now. We're talking about Anime
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  Corpus Christy at the American Bank Center, happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
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  Make sure you get your tickets now. If you go to Animecorpuscristy dot com,
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  get your tickets right now. And I have I have a celebrity here.
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  I can't get over this, Veronica Taylor. You might know her from
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  some great Japanese anime which includes ash Ketchum and his mother Delia from Pokemon anime.
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  Also in was it Sailor Moon and Salor Moon Crystal. I'm in Salor
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  Moon now as Sailor Pluto. Yeah. Wow, it's crazy. How are
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  you today? I'm good. Thanks for having me on the show. I
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  have to say, or I should say. Ash Ketchum would say, hey,
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  hit Man, that's like hit Mon Lee or hit Mon Champ. I
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  don't know. Uh. I love that. It's you know, anime has
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  come around so much lightly, it's it's almost now. Well, I could
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  say right now, it's in the mainstream totally. So for people like me
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  who are still learning more about anime besides watching it on Adult Swim on the
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  Cartoon Network. Tell us about anime. So, anime, I would say,
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  is the style of animation that you find in Japan, but it comes
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  to America and it is dubbed into English. So we basically the shows are
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  translated and then adapted and then we fit the flap, wow, say the
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  lip flap, so that you can embody the character. But from the space
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  that you get when the mouth opens and closes, right, there's a different
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  parameter there as far as acting goes than what you get when you're doing prelay,
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  which is you get to record the show and then it's animated to your
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  voice later. Now, besides of course the Sailor Moon and Pokemon, you've
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  been in a lot of other anime. Can you tell us about some of
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  the other stuff that you've been in. Gosh, I've done so many that
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  I kind of it all globs together. But I was April and Ninja Turtles
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  in two thousand and three to two thousand and seven. Wow, I've done,
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  gosh, so many things since probably nineteen ninety five. Slayers is a
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  big one. Right before you had to really scrounge around at your video store
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  to find anime. Now you can stream it everywhere, so a lot of
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  what I worked on before is now available. When only ten people knew it
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  before, now many more do. Wow, and you can meet Veronica of
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  course at anime corpus CHRISTI starting now over at the American Bank Center, So
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  get your tickets now Animecorpuscristy dot com and of course there at the venue.
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  I'm interested in voice acting. I mean, you know a lot of people
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  do voice acting now, I've been following a lot of voice actors that are
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  on TikTok. How did you get into that? So? I studied acting.
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  I was in every play I could be in in elementary school and high
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  school. I went to college for acting and grad school, and I toured
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  the US with acting companies, with contemporary theater and classical and children's theater.
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  So I have my whole background of live acting, and then I bring that
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  to cartoons, video games. I do a lot of audio books. Basically
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  I had a chance audition upon recommendation, So that's kind of how I got
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  into it, which means for everyone out there, you just want to study
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  and be your best at whatever you do, and then hope that your suitcase
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  full of all your tricks is packed so when the door opens you can confidently
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  walk through. Nobody's that confident as an actor, You're just like, oh,
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  gosh, are they going to cast me? But at the same time,
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  when you have studied and learned your craft, you're able to kind of
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  pull things out of thin air because you're always asked, oh, can you
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  do this other voice? Oh can we have this character? Can you give
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  this a try? You don't have rehearsal time, You just kind of jump
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  in and go for it. So when you're doing some of this, do
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  you have like the actual anime in front of you, Like you actually see
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  what they're doing while voicing this. Yeah for anime. Yes, when you're
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  dubbing, you are watching it and you have the script in front of you,
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  and then you hear three beeps in your headphones and then you know when
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  to start talking, and then you are reading the line as you're watching the
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  lips move wow, and then you're trying to fill in for that. Sometimes
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  you watch it first with the original Japanese language behind it. Sometimes most of
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  the stuff I've worked on, you just jump in and we just go for
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  it. Oh wow, that's crazy. We're talking with Ronica Taylor, who's
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  going to be over at anime corpus Chrissy at the American Bank Center. Make
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  sure you stop by her booth. Have people come up to you and ask
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  you to do like a voice message or have you Have you been like at
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  the grocery store and you're walking by and like you're talking to a friend and
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  somebody goes, wait a minute, your voice sounds familiar. I would say
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  no one ever says your voice sounds familiar. Although I do a lot of
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  English as a second language, and so I have been recognized in another country
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  for that teaching people English. But I yeah, I don't. People don't
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  normally recognize me at all. That always flusters me because what was the beginning
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  question that you said that all of it is just kind of I know,
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  the people always ask me to do the voice quotes, or can you do
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  a message for my friend or my son is turning ten or things like that.
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  And you know, when you have ash going hey, good luck on
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  your Pokemon journey, it's kind of I don't know, it takes you back.
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  It's nostalgic. It's a voice that. Luckily it doesn't sound like my
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  voice, I wouldn't get much more work. See. I think that's the
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  one thing that you and I have in common is since it's like radio and
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  voice acting, they don't see you, right, but they hear you that's
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  it, which I think is so crazy. It's it. I've had that
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  happen to me where I'm at the grocery store and I'm talking to friends and
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  go, wait a minute, are you in the radio? That's it?
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  Yeah, So it's it's crazy about that. Yeah, I think too.
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  I do a lot of audiobooks and to be able to tell the whole story
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  using different voices, but to connect, you know, the same with you
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  when you're when you're speaking into the microphone, you're speaking to one person,
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  right, and so to be able to be so personal and intimate in that
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  sense, right, but there's a million people who could possibly be listening to
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  you. Just can't think about that. We connect person to person. So
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  what's next for Ron? I know you're doing, like you said, you're
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  doing sailor Pluto. You said, yeah, I do. I'm doing a
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  lot of different cartoons, a lot of audiobooks. I have a podcast with
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  my daughter called the Trainer's Guide nice And we're doing a Pokemon rewatch of the
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  first season, and so we're talking about what happened in each episode. While
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  we're talking about the bigger lessons learned, I was pregnant with her the whole
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  first season. Oh wow, So to be a ten year old boy carrying
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  around I suppose you could say a Pokemon in my belly. But she's never
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  seen those episodes. So we're going back one by one. So fun.
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  So you've been doing so you've been going to conventions and what what's the craziest
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  thing that somebody's come up to, Like I've asked you to autograph. Do
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  you have like like certain items that they've they've shown you to where they want
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  you to autograph. Yeah, I would say the Pokemon cards are really popular
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  right now. Right Funko pops are really popular. That's what I was thinking
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  about. Crazy. Yeah. People bring a lot of the things that they
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  had when they were little, Like they're the binder that they put the cards
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  in, or they're poke decks, all kinds of or some drawing that they
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  made. A lot of little kids bring me drawings now. It's just it's
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  so personal and it's what basically, I'm there to hear your stories. You
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  know, you come to me. It doesn't matter if I sign something or
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  not, or we take a photo. It's about telling me your story of
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  when you were growing up watching the show. And that's the thing that's I
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  mean comic cons, especially anime Corpus Christy, it's about the community, about
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  all of us coming together supporting one another. We're all equal and wonderful in
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  a convention, and that it starts there and then it just ripples out into
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  the world. Well, I love that. I love how you say that.
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  Veronica Taylor, she is the voice you might have heard her on Pokemon.
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  She's now on Sailor Moon or Sale Pluto from Salor Moon, Crystal and
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  much more. Make sure you go out. It's happening at the American Bank
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  Center. Get your tickets now at animeidcorpus Chrissy dot com. You can also
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  find out more details on their Facebook page, on Instagram, and of course
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  you can get tickets there at the venue. Any last thoughts you'd like to
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  pass on to anybody. I'm just super excited to be here. I've never
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  been in Corpus Christy. I'm so inspired by the art and the architecture and
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  the people that i've met. So far, I've had great food, and
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  I've got three more days to eat and meat, so I'm super excited.
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  Well, thanks a lot for coming in today. I really appreciate you stopping
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  by. Thanks all right on the way, we got more classic gets coming
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  up on ninety three nine.