So much beats. The Q and Q. Oh, sorry. Oh, that
was the Q and A. The Q and Q podcast. Good guy.
He got squares with me today, standing in, pinch
hitting for the ugly looking thing that's at
home, probably crying in the mud somewhere because
he's flooded in. But oh, well, it is what it
is. Lucky for me, he's tall enough to breathe
a bowl of water. But anyways, guys, I know you
guys have been itching for today's episode. Geez,
I'm trying to think of the best way to introduce
this gentleman. I'm excited. I'm excited. Because
this is part of my childhood. It is part of his
childhood. Part of my high school years, man.
But it was awesome when this great animation
came out of the X -Men. The man of what we talked
to him beforehand, I said, you are the man of
a thousand voices. Well, I had to change that.
I'm the man of a hundred thousand voices now.
So I'm like, holy moly. And trust me, guys, when
I say a hundred thousand voices, it is the truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, Please help us welcome
Mr. Tony Daniels. Oh, no, the curtain. Hang on.
Oh, there it is. I had a curtain on my camera.
It's actually it's just a little thing for cleaning
glasses. I was cleaning off the camera. That
was awesome. That was awesome. That was awesome,
man. Hey, fellas. How are you? Give us a scare
for a minute. But I think we're good. I was trying
to, I was trying to quiz you. Oh, that's a good
one. That's a good one. Oh, my guys. Mr. Tony
Daniels on the Chunu podcast. First of all, I
want to say thank you for coming on with us here.
Or you can blame Becky for that one. A big thank
you to Ms. Becky for reaching out to us. Thank
you, Becky, if you're watching. Thank you. You
made a young man's dream come true. Yes, my childhood
dream come true. Yes. By the way, they weren't
getting sized just in case the people. No, no,
no. Yes, we are. Yeah, we are. Yes, we are. Yo,
gang signing. I watched too many movies as a
kid, man. That's good. That's good. That's good.
So never mind. I used to work with this old man
and he comes in and he was like, this was back
in Canada and he's an old, old guy. And he's
like, he goes, Hey, I was watching that movie
Colored last night. I go, Oh, What? I go, what
are you talking about? Colors. I go, I said colors.
He goes, no, no, I saw it. I know what it was
about. I go, what was it about Ralphie? He goes
colored people. I go, what are you an idiot?
I was like, you're a moron, Ralphie. Ladies and
gentlemen, the point we like to start our podcast
off is getting to know Mr. Tony Daniels. Mr.
Daniels, tell us, Tark, take us from the beginning,
where you're from, where you grew up, and how
you got inspired to be a voice actor. Take it
away. Well, I was out of sync one time. We'll
talk about that one later. That got me going.
I was born in Toronto. My parents are from, well,
my father was born in Malta, but he's a real
mix of... of all kinds of backgrounds, including
black and Asian. And he kind of like when we
did our 23 and me, we're like, oh, wow, this
is really cool. My mother was born in Scotland,
but she's actually Irish. And there's a bunch
of Spanish and all kinds of stuff. So it's a
real mix. And that's probably the reason I can
probably do every single accent you can think
of pretty well. You name one, I'll get it down.
Yeah, don't ask me to do South African. I don't
feel like it right now. But yeah, no, every time.
It was great. So, you know, we have such a mixed
family and it's great because you can rely on
or reach into that stuff to bring into certain
characters and stuff. And it's great. Right.
I'm a little afraid of those cherries at the
top of the thing. It's scaring the hell out of
me because he's afraid of cherries. So, yeah,
yeah. So then so I've got family in Michigan.
I've got family around the world, but I have
a lot of family in Michigan. So I've spent a
lot of time in Michigan and that was really cool,
you know, and in my one of my best friends, if
not one of the best friends lives in Buffalo,
my my actual best buddy. uh passed a year and
a half ago okay he was tony pastor jr the director
on spider -man you know the animated and uh voice
director and i worked with him with stan that's
how i got to know stan I love your Stanley impression.
Yes. It's awesome. It's wonderful. But, um, Stan,
Tony and I working with Stan, we, I went down
to LA to stay for awhile and, uh, Stan wouldn't
call me Tony because he already had a Tony, Tony
pastor. So he called me Krog. You're going to
be Krog. I go, oh, cool, because Krog was one
of the characters that he created that I did.
And it was a big blue monster rock thing. And
Tony and I would stick marbles in my. And then
Stan freaked out over it was really cool. Yeah.
So, you know, so anyway, so my best buddy, Michael,
lives in Buffalo. And so I spent a lot of time
in Buffalo working radio. I got my start as I
was started as a musician. OK, nice. I saw that.
I see that in the background. Yeah. Yeah, you
see that white one there? That was a gift from
my buddy Rick Emmett. Remember Triumph? Lay it
on the line. Remember them? Oh yeah, you'll look
them up at the show and go, oh damn, I know who
they are. And I've got tons of guitars. So I
started playing music when I was a kid, you know,
13, 14 professionally. And it's really funny
because Caldado played Wolverine. When I was
16, I had just got my license and I was working
at this cable station. I had a TV show called,
first it was called Rap Line. And then because
I had to adopt it from another friend of mine
who was doing the show originally, it was a DJ
show. Basically we played music, but it was on
stop frame. You could only see. every other frame.
And then eventually they got the rules they were
allowed to show full camera, you know, public
access, access. And then, yeah, I went to see
a friend of mine's father, he ran epic records.
And he's like, yeah, and he's like, I got these
things called videos. He sounded like Stan, actually.
But he goes, I got these things called videos.
There's only nine voices in the world, just so
you know, it's like, basically, you know, if
you do Bugs Bunny, right, then you slow them
down and make them a little deeper. You got Johnny
Carson. Oh, yeah. So, you know, there's only
really nine voices. But. Yeah, he gave me these
videos. Nice. I was the first guy but long before
there's a MTV or much music or any of those shows
or TV stations, I was able to play rock videos
on on television. So that's where I got my start
and then but for the summers, I was making four
bucks an hour. But for the summer, the boss goes,
Hey, you want to make 12 bucks an hour? And that
was a lot of money in the 70s. Hell yeah. Right?
It's a lot of money for some people now. So I'm
like, okay, I'll do it. I had special installations.
And one of the first guys I ever installed was
Cal Dodd, who played Wolverine. There you go.
Yeah, yeah. He was famous for a series at the
time called Circus, where he was a host and a
great singer, by the way. And he would get out
there and sing and it was really cool. That's
awesome, man. I'm having tea because I was screaming
and singing all weekend. I was with my last Tuesday,
we played a gig at 11th Street Bar in New York.
And then we played on the weekend of 420. Get
together. Don't you guys think about it? Anyway,
we were at this 420 thing yesterday, Saturday.
Yeah, that was in New Jersey. And then yesterday,
we were playing in New Hope, Pennsylvania. So
I've been singing and playing all week and then
working on the other stuff, too. I hear you.
So it's been crazy. So my throat's a little fried.
Anyway, so it's cool. But yeah, and that's how
I started, you know, just music and then music
gravitated towards radio. And when I was in radio,
I was like 1413. I can't remember. Wolfman Jack
used to do this live show, right? And Wolfman
Jack was working at LA, but he'd come to Chicago,
Toronto, New York, and he'd do every so often
he'd come and do the show from there. He came
to Toronto and I was working as an intern at
the station and there was a guy there producing
the show and he's like they brought Wolfman and
he was freaking hammered. He actually looks like
Q but anyway he was hammered. I believe it. I
believe it. Yeah. He was hammered and they go,
what are we going to do? What are you going to
do? So they go, let's get coffee into them. And
so they, they were pouring coffee into them and
then they're going, man, we got to get, we, we,
maybe we'll play some old stops. And I go, well,
I can do his voice. And they were like, what?
Awesome. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So, yeah. So for three
stops, that's, I got to go coming up after the
break, we're going to be playing some more, you
know, whatever it was. And he'd tell you what
to say. And I did it. And so. In comes Wolfman,
right? And he sits down and I go to leave and
he goes, where are you going? I go, well, you're
here. And he goes, no, no, you're my boy right
now. You sit down. So I sat there and I'm in
awe. Here's freaking Wolfman Jack. Fast forward
like 25, 30 years more, 40 years. Stop it guys.
Anyway, so I'm working on a show called Friends
and Heroes and our producer was a gentleman named
Gary Kurtz who happened to produce a couple of
little movies like Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
and a little movie called American Graffiti and
I told him he loved it man he's like yeah Wolfman
was the best but and he was cool I go hey Gary
you know I'm your second Tony Daniels he goes
no you're not I go what you're my first I go
what he goes no no You're my first Tony Daniels.
I thought that was really cool, yeah. But we
lost him. A lot of people died in the last few
years, Jesus. Yes, yes, quite a few. I mean,
even great animators themselves passed away,
man. It was really heartbreaking when we got
the news of a lot of these top animators that
passed away, you know? Yeah, my friend Tom McLaughlin
left us, and you can look him up as a... the
Hanna Barbera guy and just so many cool people.
But you know, we're getting older and as you
get older, you know, we live in a time where
social media and connections are a lot more prevalent
than when I was a kid. So I said to my parents,
you know, when I get older, I'm going to see
a lot of my friends and famous people that, you
know, have passed into my life pass away. And,
you know, and one of my best friends in the world
right now is I can say that is Dominic Kianese,
Uncle Junior from the Sopranos and he's 93, man.
He's just wow. And he's well, I got to meet Bill
Shatner, which is incredible, you know, last
year at Chicago. And he's like, I've been dying
to meet you. It's amazing. You know, like, this
is so cool. It's fricking Bill Shatner. You know,
anyway. And he's like, I hear you do it. done
a voices and we're talking away and he goes you
ever do my voice I go yeah I've done it but I
said you remember Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV
you guys remember that right yeah yeah if you
look it up you'll see I did a bunch right including
um so I said yeah I got to uh I was supposed
to do your voice and then um they couldn't find
a good Patrick Stewart so I could do a perfect
Patrick Stewart so I did Pat and they got this
other guy to you do you and he goes let me hear
your Pat Stewart so I go You know, when Bill
Shatter and I did Generations, I was the better
captain, but he was the far better actor, and
he won that. That's good, that's good, that's
really good. That was really good, that was awesome.
It's nice to be with you fellows. Will Jonathan
Frakes was such a prick on the set. I'm at the
car. I want to call Mr. Tony Daniels again. And
it's just an audio today on the podcast. Hi,
this is Patrick Stewart. Oh, it's not available.
Oh, give me a call back. Oh, my God. I mean.
So many years doing the voice acting. I mean,
can you share a memorable experience behind the
scenes, the stories from your time as a voice
actor? I mean, something that was memorable to
you? Oh boy, there's so many, actually. One of
my favorite things was this was actually an on
-camera gig. I was playing big fat Elvis in Eerie.
Look. I lost it. I was playing Big Fat Elvis
and Erie in the end of the other dimension. I
don't remember that show. Yeah. So I gained like
90 pounds. I'm not kidding you. Because when
I showed up the first day, they're like, you
don't fit in the costume anymore. Because I'd
lost weight for this other part. And they're
going right. And they go, we're shooting Monday.
And I go, I'll gain some weight back by Monday.
I gained 22 pounds on a weekend. Holy moly. Dude,
it's easy. Like 12 tacos a day. No, I was like
carbo loading because you know, runners can gain
a lot of weight and then they'll burn it off
during a race. Right. Look, there's Q sucking
back on like a giant gulp thing. I don't want
to show where it's from because we ain't sponsored
by them. No, no, no, no, no. Don't give them
the freebies. It's covering that up. It's a Texas
thing, man. It's a Texas thing. So yeah. So yeah,
you know, I just I guess I have too much fun.
I should be careful. And then you guys have heard
some of my other stuff that I've done, like I
was voicing NASCAR for years and years, like
tonight on NASCAR on Fox, you know, stuff like
that. Wow. And speaking of, you know, you guys
are South Texas, basically, right? Yeah. I worked
for a friend of mine, Garth Franklin at access
TV, which became our HD net, which became access
TV and working for Mark Cuban. And do you remember
this? You're watching HD net fights with boss,
with Kenny Rice and boss rootin. And for years
I was doing that show. Yeah. Well, yeah. NASCAR
was fun. And those guys would be great. Cause
they're all South North Carolina and be like,
hi, Tony, can I get a line for the night? A couple
of racers, they just pooped their pants, they
ain't gonna race. I never said that, but you
know, right? No, but it's pretty darn close.
Yeah, that's close enough. That's close enough.
We'll take it. We'll take it. Oh, my gosh. And
I have people already commenting on here. Big
shout out to Adam Collections. Guys, these guys
suffered a little bit of a fire today, electrical
fire, but everything looks like everything came
out. That's good. So nothing got damaged too
bad. So you're going to see those guys out there
in Comic Con this weekend. And also a big shout
here, Vanessa and Fedez. I was excited to meet
him at Comic -Com and McAllen got my Tony the
tiger plushie. Maybe next year. Hopefully he
should. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Vanessa come to, uh,
come to Lubbock. I'm sorry about, uh, McAllen.
I really wanted to come, but I was telling the
gents I got, uh, I have a network gig right now
and it's been a long time and it's a contract.
So I can't fly during the day. And the only time
from New York to get to McAllen is like, you
know, like four or five in the afternoon and
I'm in the studio till three. So yeah, getting
through security in New York, forget about it.
Forget about it. What are you talking about?
Pop a cap in your ass and you'll be talking out
the side of your face, Johnny. What techniques
or strategies do you use bringing up characters
to life like through your voice? Are there specific?
Do you read into the character? How is it you
come up with the voices? I like to get body paint
and paint my whole body. That's the way you do
it. A lot of times. Yeah, right now. No, don't
you dare. Flashing boobs and stuff. But now,
I mean, a lot of times you'll get a script and
you'll look at it and there'll be a character
breakdown. Sometimes they'll give you a reference.
You want it to sound like Woody Allen. And then
you got, I'm going to kill myself. But anyway,
and then, you know, so there'll be something,
you know, or, um, you'll go, they'll show you
a picture and you go, Hey, that looks a lot like,
you know, Pacino. I'm gonna give it like a little
Pacino spin. Right, so you start out doing Al,
right? Come on, oh, what's going on here? Oh,
you look like you could take it, yeah. And he's
really, he's really cool. Surprise look every
time, like what? Yeah, no, I've actually done
it for him, which is really cool. I've done that
for him. I did Sean Connery for Sean Connery.
Oh my gosh. It was fabulous. And, uh, well, Pat
Stewart for Pat Stewart, which we talked about
earlier. Uh, God, there's been a number. In fact,
um, my friend Dorian Harewood is in the notebook
right now on Broadway. Beautiful actor. He was
in full metal jacket. You guys remember that?
You remember Alabama black snake. Anyway, um,
and he's also the voice of tonight on NBC. Right?
Oh, yeah. That's Dorian's beautiful voice, man.
And he's like, he is we we worked on a film together
called Ferentina. It's the first time I met him.
Never got released. And he goes, Hey, man, I
understand you. Hi, Stacey Blue. I understand
you. You love, you know, you work in radio. Can
you critique my new record? And I go, Well, you
know, I produced a lot of records, so I'm going
to be pretty brutal. Anyway, thank you all. Yeah.
Oh boy. Here we go. Well, I don't know if I can
legally, but we'll talk about it anyway. Just
a little, don't give them too much. No, we're
not allowed to do the catchphrase. I'd be in
trouble. We can't do the catchphrase, but yeah.
So Dorian, that's right. Anyway, so Dorian. Yeah,
Dorian was so so cool. So he's like, you know,
he was funny. We found out we live like really
close to each other. So I came over and I took
his album. And I reworked a lot of the parts.
And he's like doom. And that was that we started
touring together. We played music together. And
we did a couple of shows together. So it's really
cool. We worked on rescue heroes. And oh, wow.
I played helicopter on there was great. Because
when I went down to NASCAR, my boss at the time
goes, Hey, my kid. My kids been watching some
show and I'm watching over I go. Oh, it's a rescue
heroes. He goes. Oh, you know that I go Wow,
I'm Hal E copter. He goes no kid So yeah, so
the kid comes over and I do hi, it's Hallie copter
and I'm ready willing and able and the kids No,
I have so much fun with it because I love it,
you know, because I've been blessed enough that
I play X the owl in Daniel Tiger's neighborhood.
So little oh my gosh. Yeah, it really hits home
for me. I've been, you know, bad bar and gosh,
a ton of bad bar. Man, that's awesome. Y 'all
y 'all have kids. Yes, OK. Yeah, so there's there's
a show was on for a while came out of Canada
was called Stella and Sam and I played Fred the
dog. And these people were fantastic. Because
they hired me to play a real dog. So I didn't
they weren't going to use sound effects. But
I ran lines of my own dog. He's like, yeah, he
just turned 19 and seven months. Like, he's like,
yeah, he's like, Why don't you give me that sandwich
over there, you bastard? No, he's like, and I'm
a 200 pound guy and he could pull me over, right?
There you go. I'm only four foot three, but still,
no, no. You got Clifford over there? I actually
read for Clifford, I didn't get it. No, that's
all right. You're not missing much. Thank you.
Thank you. And that's the next question I was
going to ask you also. Is there a particular
character or role that you especially take more
meaningful, I mean, more impact to you? Something
that like, you know, no matter where you go,
it just sticks to you. I think all of them. And
even because I don't know if I told you guys,
I'm 80 yard and tons of movies and films. So
I've replaced like over 600 celebrities, right?
So yeah, yeah, there's stuff you'll like, even
Arnold, you know, sometimes they'll call him,
do we need Arnold replaced? And you have to go
and do it and it's fine. And yeah, so, and, you
know, and every one of them is amazing. Yeah.
Hi, how are you guys? It's nice to be here. Yeah,
get to the chopper, you know. But it's cool.
It's cool. I mean, I I'm the king of replacements.
Even even Gambit. I'm a replacement because,
you know, Chris Potter was Gambit. And I played
I played his brother, Bobby LeBeau. Oh, OK. And
when I first when I first read for Gambit, they
go, well, we're going to Chris. Chris to play
Gabby because he's a bigger star than, you know,
I'm like, you mother, it was my, it was no X
-Men was. That's the episode where he takes the
loot and all that stuff, right? That's right.
Yeah. And, and, and, but X -Men was my first
big, big show. I had done a little Rosie with
Roseanne Barr. I actually told Tom Arnold, I
go, Tom, you're my, you're my first like major
producer. He goes, oh, cool. And then he got
the hell out of his face, but no, no, he didn't.
He's really nice. And then, um, yeah. So I was
doing like, and they go, but don't worry, we'll
get you doing like a couple of characters an
episode. And I go, what does that mean? They
go, double the money. I'm like. Because they
didn't think it was going to last a year. They
really didn't. And I'm like, oh, great. I'm doing
fine. And then when Chris left the show, I took
over as Gambit. And I played for like nine years
doing all the Street Fighter versus X -Men and
Capcom versus Marvel superheroes and all that
stuff. It was a lot of fun. You know, I even
got to do Wolverine in there and Toad and a bunch
of other ones. Thank you, Cortez. It was really
cool, you know. just being part of it and and
I'm grateful as an actor I'm grateful because
you know like one of the very first uh so I was
showing the guitar from Rick right right Rick's
brother Russell who passed years ago it was my
best buddy from school we were in high school
together and we had a play it's a small theater
company And I'd been working at the television
station and they go, man, we could really, man,
we could really use something to talk backstage
and front stage of the director and the lighting
people. And so I went in one day and there were
a bunch of those headsets with the mics. I still
have them by the way. They were in the garbage.
Yeah, they were kind of in this like garbage
thing. And I go, what's happened to these, Mikey?
And he goes, Oh, we're just tossing them. They're
horrible. And I'm like, he goes, you want them?
I go, sure. He goes, see if you can fix them.
So I took them home and I rewired them. Yeah.
And then I did a lot of money. So I went to a
little, um, there was a radio repair guy in the
city and, um, he goes, uh, there was a couple
of receivers that I told him what I was doing.
He goes, have you got 10 bucks? I go, no, I got
five. He goes, All right, take them both. He
goes, use one to send the mic and the other one
to here. That's what I did. So I wired it all
up and they were able to talk to each other backstage
and director and everything. Yeah. So the next
one, which was like a year later, he says, uh,
all right, so we've got another play coming up
and you're going to be in it. And I go, okay,
I got my headsets and everything. He goes, no,
no, I'm renting gear. You're going to be in the
play. You're going to be an actor. And that was,
yeah. So you also came out on Sailor Moon as
well, right? Dude, I did 290 minimum voices.
Wow. Yeah. Yeah. In fact, there's a kid out of
Australia, Coors and Moon. He went and looked
up almost he found 290. And I think there was
more, but we couldn't. There was some I'd listened
to and go, I don't know if it's me. Sorry. I
don't know if it's me, but it could be. And that
was really cool. Yeah. But my main guy on there
first was Jedi and then the wise man. And then
there was an episode called much ado about babysitting
where I played. baby Jordan so I was the baby
and I was the kind of Bruce Willis voice as well
so the baby this is true for the whole show I
was like right doing that stuff then going hey
you big dummy get me a bottle of milk you know
got a lot of fans jumping on I got a Sean Mecca
here he goes telling oh my gosh okay Hello, Petit.
Nice to see you. Actually, Petit is my favorite.
Don't say anything. So is Lenore. But Alison
and I, Alison Court and I became really close
and not from, not from the X -Men. This was later
on we became even closer and I just love her.
She's just such a good person. And Lenore, Lenore
walks on water. And I just saw Katherine Disher
and Alison Sealy -Smith and Lenore about a weekend
ago. And they're just such beautiful people.
You know, I've been lucky. I've been lucky. Like
most of the people I've worked with, Lawrence
Bain, we're just, we. tease the crap out of each
other. I mean, we're, we're actually to the point
of evil. Hey, you know, and then some of the
guys we lost like norm, man, normal Spencer played
Cyclops. Um, I love norm a lot. And, um, it was
funny because I was working at a network and,
uh, they go, oh, well, you know, you've been
here in a year and a half, we're going to get
a new voice. And it ended up being norm norm
says, Hey, man. did you like working with those
guys yeah they're kind of they're kind of out
there but it's fun he goes well they gave me
hell because i couldn't say the word stegosaurus
i go stegosaurus he goes son of a bitch And then,
uh, yeah, as time went by, like I was ahead of
the game. I was actually recording one time I
was in LA and I had a little phone. I had a little
Samsung phone, I guess of Samsung or Motorola
and I plugged into my computer and they go, we
need a voice right now. And I'm driving 56 K
by the way, I'm driving along. I record the thing.
And as I'm driving, I'm uploading, you know,
and by the time I got from one end of the city
to the other had uploaded one little tiny file.
There you go. So I was like one of the first
guys to ever record on the road, you know. There
you go. Yeah. That's crazy. I did the Olympics
from an Uber. Really? Yeah. Yeah. They were they
were 13 hours ahead. And they call and they go,
oh my God, this guy got hurt and there's all
these changes and we need these right now. And
I go, okay, where are you? I was with one of
my musical partners. We were opening for the
10 ,000 Maniacs. Oh wow, there you go. Yeah,
we played with the Goo Goo Dolls. I played with
everybody. Awesome. Yeah. So during when we got
to load in, I ran downstairs, recorded something,
ran upstairs, did load in, ran downstairs, ran
upstairs, did sound check, ran downstairs, did
more voiceover, ran back upstairs, played on
stage, ran back downstairs. Right, right. So
I hired an Uber guy to sit out front for the
whole time. And then I didn't even need to, because
my friend showed up with his car and I just did
it in his car. That is a good question that was
just sent out right now. We got a question from
Sean Mecca. Here we go, Mr. Daniels. He goes,
how does one get into voice acting? Well, Sean,
what you have to do is I actually cheated a little
bit. No, I mean, it depends where you're located.
But first thing you want to do is, which I've
been lucky with is I started as an improver.
Uh, and on, you know, stage acting and improving.
So you want, you want to get a background in
that because a voice is more about acting than
it is about just having a voice because I mean,
I'm going to do a ton of voices, but if you can't
do the act, you're going to fail fairly fast.
So you want to get into a couple of classes if
you, if you don't have it in you already. So,
uh, I would suggest taking a couple of improv.
I'm a second city guy and a theater sports guy
and a couple of other, um, improv classes. And
that also helps with writing. And so a lot of
the shows I've been on, I've been able to look
at a script and go, that's funny, but I can make
it funnier. And yeah, we can make it happen.
Yeah. But what you do is you get, you know, get
a couple of classes and then, you know, save
up for your gear. So you're going to need a decent
mic, you know, headphones and interface. And
that that'll pretty well do it. And then you
need a nice computer, either a Mac or a PC. And
I moved over to Mac. Yeah. Don't use start cue.
And then, you know, if you want, I can connect
you guys with my guy at Sweetwater, which is
like the biggest distributor of musical instrumentation
and mics and everything. And they're great. And
if you just say, you know, Tony Daniels, they'll
give you my discount. Like, seriously, I've been
helping a lot of folks out. My buddy, my buddy,
Judd Goldrich. He's the best. You guys have SM7
sitting right in front of you. So if one blows
out, you call me and we'll send you to SM7. You
know, everybody can do it. You just, you just
have to, uh, you just have to apply. A lot of
people go, well, I can do it. I've got a great,
great voices. Then you get the Maria script and
they go, uh, it's like, no, it's not just being
able to move your mouth and then sound cool.
You got to have the acting chops. And I think
that's where it is. And if you can get into a
local theater group. It'll go a long long way
and I just actually before I came on with you
guys I was with a young actor friend who I met
through like Dominic has a group of older gentlemen
and ladies that play music on weekends a little
market just on the Upper East Side of New York,
and I'll go over there and we'll play. And it
was a young kid that joined us. He just lives
around the corner and he wanted to, he's a school
teacher right now, but he wants to be an actor.
So I'm helping him out. And that's one of the
things. So I've got him, he's going to sign up
tomorrow for a friend of mine's acting class.
And then I told him, I said, you need to take
an improv class. And there used to be Upright
Citizens Brigade here in the South. You know,
you have your... groundlings and stuff and if
you learn that's where most of the people that
are really hot right now study with the groundlings,
you know, and if you can do improv so Like I
said with my friend Colin mockery and a bunch
of the guys on whose line is it? You know anyway,
yeah. Yeah, and that's where they they cut their
teeth and I You know, I mean as I was able to
and you know The the commercial side of it was
great because I was able to go in and work hundreds
upon thousands of commercials and the reason
being because I could do the voices and I could
also improv and rewrite some of the lines with
with in you know in respect to the writer but
also to support the writer so it there was a
show I was on that the writer did not like my
improving because there's like I wrote this you
know this is mine you know I'm like okay right
I'm just offering it I read it the normal way
and then I read it funnier I made it better.
That was awesome. I did. Yeah. That's what it's
all about. I mean, you see something on paper,
you try to create it and make it your own. That's
what kind of singles you out from everybody else.
And that's what makes you stand out more. I stood
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That's what we're no longer invited. So on your
time off, Mr. Darios, what do you like to do?
I mean, hang on, hold it. Okay. What is time
off? Oh, okay. Well, you never have time. There
you go. Free time. Free time. She corrected you,
sir. It's rare. It's so hard. Like, it's cool.
My wife likes to travel up to Boston. There you
go. Boston, man. We have a lot of Italian friends
there. I don't want to explain that one. I love
y 'all, Texas, man. Seriously, I miss Texas.
I'm coming soon. Yeah. Yeah, Texas is amazing.
So I like going places and one of my best buddies,
he just moved to Florida, opened a new restaurant.
You guys gotta check it out. It's so cool. Yeah,
it's called Alexander's and it's near close to
St. Augustine. And so I'm trying to get down
to see him. And the next time I go on to take
Dominic Kinesi with me because we'll go down
and we'll play music live and stuff. But yeah,
I, I don't get a lot of time off. Um, ever since
I'm a kid, I've never really, I've been on one
vacation, maybe two to Mexico. Oh, there you
go. There you go. Uh, and then one time to England,
but that was for work. So it doesn't count. Yeah.
Well here in Mexico is just a hop and a skip.
It's just a minute away. My luck, I'll get stuck.
How long you been out of the country, sir? Just
a couple of days. Wait a minute, where are you
from? I'm from the Bronx. What's going on with
the burro here, sir? Why are you bringing the
crocodile with the big one? Hey, don't worry
about it, man. I crossed the road with the bronco
and I'm coming back for the burro. Hey, a burro.
And don't worry about it, man. I don't have 17
of my family members in Detroit. Oh my gosh.
That'd be my luck, you know. We've got a lot
of people in there. Oh yeah, we can. I gotta
tell you, it's crazy because, well maybe I should
say a few more times. I went to Tijuana quite
a bit. I was living in California and it was
great because I just love it there. Except for
the one time this guy goes, sir would you like
a picture with the donkey? And I go, no I'm fine.
He goes, sir would you like a picture with the
donkey? I said, no. And he goes, are you going?
And I go, what? And I go, dude, do I look like
an idiot? I know what it means. Oh, OK. Don't
worry about the donkey. Don't worry about the
donkey. He was actually funny because he just
thought I was some asshole tourist. But I got
a great pair of boots. I got the best boots in
the whole city. Here's a question for you. When
you... Sorry, I'm married. Question number two.
So much race. You see it or you mess it up? When
you do, I'm pretty sure you go out to eat or
when you, if you order over the phone, do you
ever throw your voices out there in any of your,
I mean, just to mess with them. Just for the
hell of it. I've done it. I knew it. I knew it.
This one's really bad. I'm getting in trouble
because I better change the accent because I'll
get in trouble because people, people can't.
You know, you're not doing it to be mean. I just
do accents. So one time I'm going through a McDonald's
drive. Oh, here we go. This is like a long time
ago. So we get up to the thing and I go, yeah,
we'd like to order some McDonald's. It wasn't
that accent. It was much more... I got you, I
got you. It's like, yeah, two picking backs and
then the Coca Cola and all this, right? And I
get up and they go, all right, that'll be twenty
two dollars and fifty cents. That's how long
ago it was. It was like in the 70s. And I go,
oh, great, great, great, nigga. Where's the German
guy? I go... I was talking to a German guy and
I go, Oh, but I did notice that your thing, the
board there with the, it said made in Germany.
I figured talking like that. I've gone to, I've
gone to parties and just like, uh, you know,
I've gone to parties and puts on the British
accents for the whole night. But the best was
the South African again. We're doing the Olympics.
and I worked, I had two great sand engineers,
both were South African, Brett and my friend
Leonard Fisher, and we're doing the thing, right,
the whole summer I'm like, I go in the studio
and we're talking South African, even my friend
Damien came in, we're talking South African.
And end of the Olympics, this guy, Rob Viola,
who ran the, you know, the dart system, which
is, you know, the, you know, the slow mode capture
thing that does a great replay. Right. So he
goes, Hey, Tony, it was really nice to meet you.
I go, Oh, great to meet you too. Robbie goes,
you're not South Africa. I realized the whole
summer I talked to him with a South African accent.
Wow. Well, you didn't break character. That's
a very good thing. It's a very good thing. Oh
my gosh. And also, I know you've gone to a couple
of Comic Cons and you've gone to sign autographs
and all that good stuff. When you go out with
the celebrities that are there with you, or partner
series that were part of the series, would you
all talk in character when the waiters would
come around? Oh, yeah, actually, I was out with
Mr. McFeely. David was David's last name. I always
forget. It's so bad. I shouldn't be doing that
because I just call him Mr. McFeely from the
Fred Rogers show. You know, he played the mailman,
you know, and Kevin, Kevin Clash, who played
Elmo and Guy Gilchrist, who's an artist and just
a couple of folks. But me, Kevin and Mr. McFeely
would would order and he'd be like, yeah. And
here's this big, huge black dude ordering food
with an Elmo voice, because it's really him,
right? That is crazy. That is crazy. I'm pretty
sure the waiter or the waitress are pretty much
freaked out like, what is going on? What is going
on here? And again, you're not doing it to hurt
people. You do it because you just love to be
part of this magical thing that, you know, if
you have that kind of talent, you can do it.
It just feels fun. Right, right. Exactly. Exactly.
I mean, so many voices they've done through the
years. I know everybody that when when you were
announced to come down to South Texas Comic Con,
a lot of people were going crazy. I know. I mean,
it's understandable. You have work and it just
happens. I had to I had to dump out on one a
couple of months ago because I had a movie. Oh,
and it happens a lot, you know, because the scheduling
is just Brutal and and again flights like uh
was it uh There was a there's a comic book store
in michigan, which I really wanted to go because
I have family there And these people were really
lovely and the day I left I sat in the airport
from I'm gonna say seven in the morning till
whatever till Nine at night right and because
of the weather and I've never got out So we had
to reschedule and finally reschedule I went and
was great and we had a good time and we had a
lot of people show up. So, you know, I apologize
to the fans for that because it's not, it's out
of our control. Totally, totally understanding,
you know, and we hope we look forward to see
you next year. If you have a chance to come down
here, that'd be great, man. I'm going to be in
Dallas soon. Oh, don't forget. And Lubbock. So
you guys are driving distance from either. So
it's a, it's a drive. Don't wimp out on me. You
two sons of bitches. Another question. I know
I had a buddy in mind who wanted me to ask you
a question. Um, have you, have you seen, or what
are your thoughts of the new Expo 97? I'm sorry,
my earphones are out. No, it's good. It's really
good. I would have preferred Rogue being drawn
the same way. Yeah. Because we're missing some
of that. That's I didn't like. And how could
you be younger looking in 97 than you were in
95? Thank you. Thank you. I'm not I'm not the
only one who said the same thing. Yeah. But the
storylines are great. You know, except for All
right. If you guys, I'm hoping. Oh, here we go.
If you guys are watching right now, this might
be a spoiler for you. So turn off and come back
in 10 minutes. A couple of guys get killed. That's
it. And I know one of them intimately. I have
a question from Lalo here. He goes, how many
more years do you want to continue voice acting?
Until I'm 104. You're not stopping me, you little
son of a gooker. I'll smash you right in your
nose. I'll put a cucumber in your eye and blind
you. Lalo, I'm going to do it until I can't.
I've got a man, one of my favorite friends. He
died in, oh God, early 2000s, Len Carlson. He
was the voice of Oh, oh, oh, green giant. Yeah,
he's one of the greatest voice actors. You can
look him up. Lynn Carlson. And he said if we're
going to actually opening a voiceover school
together, but we didn't have a chance before
he passed. But he said, I'll just keep going
until I don't breathe. And, you know, because
there's something about this that gives. I think
it creates a lot of dopamine. You get pleasure
in your brain when you're doing it. And especially
if it's good, of course you'll get the odd weird
thing that can happen. Like you might get a director
who doesn't see it the same way as you. And you're
getting, you're getting earfuls in your ear of
maybe in 35 years more. I've only had that maybe
a couple of times where somebody just like, this
is not working out, you know? Yeah. But for for
those people for every one of them there's been
a you know a thousand that have been fantastic
as directors and and stuff and then you know
and i'm the kind of guy like i have a hardcore
work ethic as you can imagine so i'm always like
to sessions and stuff i'm always early i find
young actors show up late a lot and stuff so
i've never done it i've only been late for two
two uh two jobs in my whole life which is a lot
in 40 40 years Wow, very punctual, punctual.
That's good. Well, and the only reason I was
late was the first one was a, uh, I was in doing
a Coca -Cola commercial and, uh, no, and, and
they, uh, I used to like him until the accident.
Anyway, um, the, you know, once you finished
the commercial, you have to wait for the client
to approve and then you can leave, but they only
get a couple of hours and then they're in overtime.
Now we're into an hour overtime. guys, I have
another I have another two more sessions, I gotta
go, you know, and they're like, so we're I'm
like an hour and a half late to the next session,
which technically I was like 45 minutes late
to that session, they were like a little pissed,
but I'm like, dude, it's not my fault, blah,
blah, blah. Anyway, we were done like, we were
supposed to be there two hours, I was done like
10 minutes, it was so good, you know, so with
the good and the bad. And then the other time
was, I had a lady friend, Deborah, she Who's
a great director I worked with and I'm usually
like always a half hour early if I can be and
like 99 % anyway, so this one day my agent called
says you have an a gig at the 350 I go 350 Wow
350 Nobody does a gig at 350. You mean 315 and
she goes no 350 I go you're sure she goes I called
them again made sure Because it's usually on
every 15 minutes, they'll clock. Oh, right, right,
right. So it's at four o 'clock, 4 .50. Right,
right. 3 .50. I go, you're short, yeah, 100%.
So I'm there at 20 after three, and she comes
out, where's that asshole? Where is he? Blah,
blah, blah. She's screaming. I go, I wonder if
she's waiting for it. She goes, there you are.
Where the hell were you? And I go, uh, look,
look at my day timer says three five zero. What
are you deaf? It's 3 .15. I go, hang on. I go,
my agent called four times to your scheduler.
It's 3 -5 -0. So she called her. She goes, yeah,
3 -5 -0. So she called me back in. She goes,
I'm sorry I lost my temper with you. And we had
a great session. Then I had another, I won't
say her name, but great director. And she's like,
I wasn't late. But it's the opposite. I had this
audition. And then she says, no, no, no, no.
I want. actors, not voice actors. And I go, Well,
technically, I'm an actor. I'm not really I don't
like to call myself a voice actor. Right? They
made up that thing. I'm you're an actor who just
happens to be amazing at voice. Thank you. Anyway,
so. So anyway, so my agent says, Yeah, no. So
we were doing a seminar together. And she said,
and she goes, No, I want stage people. And I
want people who, you know, have a television
film background. So I'm on People are going,
hey, where'd you start? And I said, well, you
know, it's all the music thing. And then, and
then the first thing I ever did was a play. And
then I ended up working in television at my own
television show and blah, blah, blah. And she's
looking over and she goes, are you serious? And
I go, yeah, she goes, oh, and I go, oh, about
that job. Yeah. So two weeks later, I get a call
in the studio and it was for I think it might
have been for bad bar for the movie. Oh, okay.
I go in there. It might not have been might been
another show, but it might have been bad bar
anyway, and she it was My call time was five
o 'clock or five thirty. I'm there at five five
thirty six Six thirty. Oh seven. They only have
the studio till seven thirty. I've got thirty
some odd lines Wow, right and because the young
lady that was in before me She took nearly two
hours to do ten lines It just wasn't happening.
So we get in, she goes, we're really late. We
only have the studio for a half hour, then it
closes. She goes, but she goes, I gotta tell
you, if there's anybody I want to be with on
a Friday night, and I've only got half hour to
do 10 times as many lines as you. And it was
great. And we, we submitted our friendship again.
And she's like, I'm really sorry that other thing
happened. I go. It's the business, you know.
Right, right, right. It's the business. Yeah,
so yeah, if you wanna do stuff like Lalo was
asking about Poise and so was, who else was it?
Sean. Sean. Sean. So if you wanna, you know,
just have a good work ethic behind you and, you
know, try not to, you know, you don't wanna make
enemies in this business, but, you know, you
will. Yeah. But, you know, and there's a lot
of jealousy and stuff because, you know. It's
like I said on this set of assault on precinct
earning it was 13 I was hanging out with Dorian
and was hanging out with fish and then you know,
they're John like Osama was there and a Bunch
of really cool people Ethan Hawk and then you
know my buddy Kim coats and when they can hear
you you do all these things and you can imitate
like everybody right you get a really cool respected
and that's a cool thing so you know work on if
you're uh up and coming you want to work on your
um scripts and and your uh improv and stuff and
then also if you want to do more voice then you
work on new different voices and if you just
want to be a a straight reader like a book uh
you know audiobook stuff yeah work on that and
just like hone that in you know i'm the guy that
does everything and i'm telling the opposite
now is to try and hone in because the the world
has shifted you know Right. I got a lot of again,
but here you go. Is there any roles that you
audition for that you ended up not getting and
they became big roles for someone else? Well,
originally Gambit. Right. Which Chris Potter
was. But then I ended up getting after, which
is I'm more than grateful as an actor. You know,
we all praise, you know, we have the Oscars and
the Emmys and stuff. I'm a member of the Emmys.
And it's great and everything for the actors
to win stuff. But truthfully, it's the people
that put the money together to make these films
and TV shows and stuff. They're the real heroes
because that's hard to do. I couldn't raise that
kind of money. But yeah, probably a lot of this.
Just that one is like. pretty cool um i can't
think of anything that was like really huge that
i go uh you know i would have liked that i i
never think in terms of that that's like you
know you're right for the project or you know
or somebody else is more right or right right
yeah uh um as far as your fans has any of them
come up to you and let them know that your roles
in well anything you've come out on has affected
their lives in some way like you know it was
like a something important in their lives that
they kept to heart yeah like a lot of the x -men
fans um thank you because you know like i said
i share the i share the character with potter
and now with aj lacasio and um and you just uh
you know um Touched their lives as like I said,
my friend's a little kid with with the rescue
heroes character helicopter Yeah, and then, you
know Daniel tiger's neighborhood. I see kids
in the elevator here when the building I'm living
in here in New York and you're just like You
know see a little kid and they watch the show
and Chelsea Clinton's daughters our daughter
and sons or she has three kids and we were at
a Emmy thing and I ran into them one of my manager
says Um, Hey, you have kids, right? Chelsea.
She's like, yeah, she, she goes, Tony, Tony's
the guy that voices, uh, X the owl from Daniel
tigers. She goes, no way. And she gave me a big
hug. And she goes, I said, you want me to do
a little shout out for your kids? And I think
they're Jasper and two other names anyway. So
I go, ah, this is, uh, X the owl, Tony Daniels.
And I just want to give a big shout out to y
'all. And it was like, it went over like gangbusters
for, you know, it's got nothing to do with politics
and everything else. Cause I'm. Right. Because
America, listen, uh, uh, uh, you know, when America,
um, if America doesn't survive places like Canada
and the UK and Germany and forget it, y 'all
got to be gone. So, you know, America needs to
survive as America, not a split country. Cause
that's horrible. And, and, and, and, and it's
funny. Cause we see that in the X -Men. That's
what the whole idea about the X -Men is to bring,
bring people together, you know, mutants or mutants,
but you know, they're people too. Yeah, I hear
you. Except for Beast. He's a beast. I mean,
well, guy, you pretty much answered the last
question I was going to ask. But anything for
the fans, you would like to say a personal note
for them that you want to leave behind there.
I mean, something you want word of advice for
future voice actors that are coming up in the
industry. Love what you do. be a little tolerant,
because you have to, it's part of the world.
Tony Pastor and I used to say, to be successful
in this business, you have to have the heart
of a liberal. and the business acumen of a conservative
so that you know because it's a business and
but you got to be a good actor you have to let
the emotions in and I think just be a good person
and you know try and make people laugh every
day if you can yeah because it makes you it makes
you a better person you know and what's the other
thing oh yeah don't touch the brown acid Wait
a minute, that's from Woodstock, forget it. Oh
my gosh, man. No, I do ask it every day, but
it's citrus. Pass me some orange juice, honey.
Make sure you add extra cubes. He's sitting right
beside you. Oh, Q. There you go, I think that's
a compliment. I mean, is there any questions
you want to ask him? Because these are, I don't
know. Come on. Your name is quiz. You got to
quiz me. Yeah. Come on quiz quiz. Well, like
you've already like answered what I was going
to ask. Cause I am any roles I ever hated. Oh
yeah. Every rose you ever hated. I was about
to ask him my question. Any roles that you ever
hated. Oh my goodness. This one's now You know,
are you allowed to even say something? Now there's
nothing ever hated From going in and doing one
line to doing a hundred thousand lines. It doesn't
matter One of the things I do love though still
is I have a friend Dan thank here and a really
good friend to as well Fabiana Aritzia Arastia,
I was out there shopping the other day, Arastia.
They cast it and Sue and a couple of other folks
that we deal with on the casting of ADR. So ADR
looping, which I love doing. So I've looped for
a lot of people. In fact, I think I can tell
you, for Mare of Kingstown with Stallone, I was
in there one day and they go, oh, we're missing
a line from the slides. Well, let's just do it.
You know, so we do it and there's been some good
ones. Like I did, I got to do like over 30 lines
for Christoph Waltz in tool of fever. Wow. With
the German accent. Yeah. And then, um, you know,
like some of those are cool. I had to replace
one of the hardest ones I've ever had to do was,
um, uh, Kevin Dylan. Cause he doesn't really
got a voice. I mean, those guys have a bit of
a New York thing going on, but they don't really
have like distinct, distinct voices. Like, you
know, Schwarzenegger and you know, Pacino and
those guys, but those are the hard ones to do.
And you know, there's a lot of good guys out
there. Like a, which is named the kid. Matt friend.
Is that his name? He's doing a ton of voices.
There's great voices. And so, you know, but when
you're doing it for a film and stuff, it's that's
really super rewarding. And some of the really
cool ones are like when you get to go in for
like 11 minutes, you get paid for the whole day
because they've got you in doing one specific
voice and they don't want to blow your voice
out. So you just go in and do that. I mean, even
on the movie NIAID that's out right now, it's
really cool with Jodie Foster and Annette Betting,
who, by the way, just phenomenal actors. I mean,
look at these people go. This is this is real
acting like Ed Harris. I love Ed Harris, you
know, then I mean, Jodie Foster is a big star
and Susanette Benning. But these are roles where
you don't even think about them as their people.
And that's where they separate the star from
the from the act. And I love that kind of stuff.
And doing the ADR is pretty cool because, you
know, you get to play other people's stuff in
interpreting their interpretation of what the
character is doing. That's even harder. So, yeah.
yeah when we did sailor moon talk about sort
of interpretation you have to take what's on
the screen which is in japanese basically and
that's what i was about to ask you like when
it comes to like cartoons when it comes to video
games as well like how how does that process
go video games are a little different i love
video games because you're very rarely doing
pickups um but um But video games are cool. Like
I did a video game out a couple of years ago
called The Maze. I don't know if you guys seen
that. Look it up. The Maze. And I'm playing Russian
Bird. So shut your stupid ugly face anyway. And
I got a call from my agent that day after we
finished and I had learned a bunch of the Russian
stuff. I already kind of knew it from before,
but I had to relearn some of the stuff and my
agent calls. And when she, when she nine one
ones me, I'm like, oh boy, I must have swore
on the studio or, you know, pick my nose. I don't
know. Whatever. So, so she's like, this has never
happened in all these years, 30 years as an agent.
I go, what is it? What'd I do? She goes, they're
doubling your pay. Cause you learned the Russian.
I'm like, Whoa. So I made, so yeah, I made seven
bucks anyway. But it was cool. It's like, Yeah.
So, you know, I went that extra distance and
it really helped. It didn't just pay off, you
know, monetarily, but also paid off in my heart
because I love doing it. So and video games are
cool that way because you're reading from a script,
you're single. Now to do dubbing, you make way
less money and you're working harder because
like, and especially in things like Sailor Moon,
we see do this system called Rhythmo Band. Now
I've done every kind of side. You know, like
I do with Chinese. kung fu movie one time when
I'm in early my career and I get in there and
you know it's like hey you still said you want
to hide me I'll kill you you know so you guys
you guys seem to get down right yes okay you
know You know this voice, you ready? They actually
wrote this for me. It's like, you're watching
Shaolin Fantastic. Guys, if you're listening
to this on Spotify, you need to jump on YouTube
to see this. It's a great show too. All those
actors were amazing. And they had actually written
a part for me to do that. The Shaolin Fantastic,
you know, and I was doing the Kung Fu movie guy.
But this first Kung Fu movie. I ever did like
it was like really long. And, you know, we got
four and a half, five hours booked for them for
the movie to finish the ADR. And I was there
and it was it was going really well. And then
they go, now we got a 25 minute fight scene.
I'm like, Oh, God, because a lot of times you'll
have to watch the thing and redo it right hours.
So 25 minutes, I'm not going to watch a 20. What
happens? I die. You die. I die. Yeah. Okay. Great.
Roll it. I'll chase it. And it went, I went,
oh, you know, we, we did the whole 25 minute
fight scene at the end. I die. And they go, holy
crap. One take. That was amazing. It's amazing.
It's like, I died. But it was fun. But those,
those, those are the kinds of things I like.
Like, especially with the ADR and stuff, getting
to do some really cool, funky stuff like, um,
Uh, I was just telling Jody hill from, uh, we
were at the righteous gemstones a couple of weeks
ago for a, for an FYC. And I, I saw Jody and
remembered me from, uh, from Ballota white tail
deer hunter. And at the opening he goes, so I
need this voice. It's, uh, because of Josh Brolin
is playing like a, it's a spoof of a hunting
show because it's this voice on a sportsman or
outdoor channel and the guys like American marksman.
I go. You mean American marksman. He goes, that's
the guy. I go, that's me. And they go, holy crap.
You're the guy. So it was great. So we did like
one, one take or something. And I was only there
for like a half hour. It was, it was really cool.
I get to work on a movie called the, um, the
immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Have you guys
seen that? It's really cool. It's about the,
uh, uh, this was a black woman from the fifties
whose, um, cancer cells are what all cancer cells
are judged. So I went in and the director, George
Wolf, real tough guy, tough Broadway director,
my producer director, casting director says,
when you go in there, don't talk to the guy,
don't say nothing. He doesn't want to know you.
I'm like, okay, you know, I've got a big mouth,
but this is cool. So I get in there. I knew the
sound engineer. So we said hi. I went in and
he goes, all right, do your thing. So I do it.
He goes, that's pretty good. Uh, try it like
this. So I do it. He goes, uh, try one more.
You're amazing. Thank you. And I'm like, okay.
Thanks. So I leave. Then they got a call from
my, uh, Cassidy. Get back there. What can hurry
get back? So I go, Oh shit. I must've screwed
up. Right. So I get back and he goes, I was impressed
with you. Can we do another voice for something
else? And I go, sure. So it was really cool,
you know? And then I got to tell him, I go, oh,
yeah. And then I said, I was really connected
to this project because my boy, Billy, he's a
research scientist down in San Diego. He's got
Henrietta Lacks' cancer in his leg. He dropped
a Petri dish and the cancer cut the skin and
went right in his leg. And you can't catch someone
else's cancer because cancer is strictly to your
DNA. Right. But it just grows and shrinks in
his leg all the time. It's a freaking weird story.
I'm going to write a movie about it. Wow. That's
awesome. Oh, Mr. Dias, we are coming upon an
hour and three minutes. What? I mean... It's
very rare when I... What the heck is this guy
texting me here, man? Get out of here. It's very
rare when they're texting me on my phone and
on the computer. It's very rare when we have
interviews go this long, because most of the
time it's like, all right, we only do about an
hour and then we talk afterwards. But this is
just amazing. This is Tony Daniels. This is Tony
Daniels here, man. Tony freaking Daniels. Well,
at least you guys didn't do this. It's happened.
And it has there been a podcast where people
fall asleep on the mic? No, no, no, no. But this
this is a good one. I enjoyed this one because
you guys just let me go. And so, you know, a
lot of guys want to get in there and get their
question, which but I always cut them off. No,
I mean, that's what that's what our podcast is
about. You do you do you do the whole show. You
know what? Just go ahead. No, I do have a good
one for you. So it's working. We're working on
the. a remake for um night the living dead and
the director yeah the director marcus um my my
buddy steve um he got us on a podcast that it
does really well it's a halloween podcast it's
really cool and the kids are really nice that
runs it anyway so you guys are gonna love this
one uh so we got marcus marcus doesn't know i'm
on and david howard thorton who plays art the
clown from terrifier right he's on there too
and now david knows i'm on there so he's trying
to hold back from laughing and I had all these
sound effects and music ready so they're going
hey um um Marcus we're about to start uh just
so you know we're also broadcasting simulcast
broadcasting tonight in Germany live so please
don't be thrown off he goes what just just go
with it because you know it's a it's part of
our our our production deal. And he goes, OK.
So they're going, hi, you're with the Halloween
podcast. Our guest tonight is director Marcus
Schlebein. And then you hear it. He's like, hi,
how are you? This is Klaus Miller. And we've
got a director, Marcus Schlebein. He is on the
guest. And so we're going to go. Go ahead. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. American counterpart. Go ahead. And
he's like, OK. So Marcus is like, and he's like.
So Marcus, my first question is, what's it like
when you write a movie like this? And he's like,
huh? What? And he's freaking out. And I go, and
I found an old German commercial and I go, Oh,
that's a fantastic. Hang on. I've got to go to
a commercial. And you hear it playing on. And
that was it. And he's like, what the hell's going
on? Chill out, dude, we're broadcasting live
in Germany. The podcast never went air because
the kid hit the wrong button and it didn't save.
Oh my gosh, no. What? So we had to redo it and
we couldn't. We were laughing so hard at the
end of it. We had to give it away and now he
knew who it was so we couldn't. Oh, man. I think
I've had a couple of podcasts like that where
it's a great interview and all of a sudden. They're
like, no, no, it does not just kick me out. Wow.
Exactly, right? Oh, it's tough. Yes. Well, thank
you for having me. No, thank you. Thank you for
gracing us with your presence. Yes, sir. Thank
you. On the Chew and the Podcast, man. I mean,
I hope we can do this again later in the future.
So I can... Ah, there we go. I got to get that
done. I got to in queue and Chew was... Who's
that? Don't worry about you. You dodged a bullet
on that one. He got chewed up. He chewed up.
And I love that you also have a picture of Q
behind him. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
yeah, I get it. No, Mr. Daniels, thank you so
much. Thank you. I really do appreciate it. Tell
Becky, thank you also. Thank you. Thank you,
South Texas. I love you. Yeah, guys. Hopefully
you come down. I will. We'll be waiting for you
to come down and it's good. Well, it was all
that tequila I had earlier. I'll be coming down
in about 20 minutes. When you do come down, I
got tequila in the studio for you. Oh, no, no.
What do you got? Anything good? Oh, it's, we
got some, we got some stuff. Oh yeah. You guys
are on the border. Look at me. I'm in New York.
What'd we get? And then they go, Hey man, we've
got Patron. I go Patron. I use that to degrease
my motorcycle. So we got, we got some, we got
some good Patron. I love you. Great. Now we lost
that sponge. All right. Edit that out, man. Hey,
Uncle Tito's. What are those brown cues you're
talking about? What are we saying? My English
is no good. Mr. Dias, thank you so much. We really
appreciate you coming on. Continue doing what
you're doing. We'll do it again sometime. Never,
don't change, man. You're amazing. Great person,
personality. You're right. I better change this.
Or shower -wise, that's optional. No, never,
never. There you go. You guys wanted to know
one of my foibles. I've been good lately, but
I used to shower like four to seven times a day.
I'm not kidding you. I just can't stand. That's
good. Well, especially because you would be in
a studio. I'll tell you one little quick anecdote.
I was in a studio on a Sailor Moon thing and
it was one of the coolest actors. They're all
all really good actors. But this girl is she's
stunning and she's really lovely and wonderful
and everything. And we go take a go for lunch
break. We were back in the studio and this booth
was no bigger than my booth here. And then I'm
like. Oh, and she's like, are you OK? And I go.
Did you have Caesar salad for lunch? She goes?
Yeah, I go. Oh my god garlic overload. It was
oh No, and then she realized oh my god my god.
Yeah, she's like, oh, what am I gonna do? I go
I think they got gum or something out there.
Don't She leaves the booth. I'm like get fans
in here. It's horrible It's like, you know If
I was, if I wasn't dating somebody at the time,
she's like the girl of your dreams and you know,
but it was cute. She, she got a kick out of it.
I always tease her later to go, hi, how are you?
How's it going? You're looking out that portal.
I'm like, save me. Oh, it was like the door closes.
Like all of a sudden. And I'm bad. Cause my wife
gets mad at me. Cause like I can, you know, I'll
come home and she's like, I go. Do you have garlic?
She goes, I had a potato chip. Uh huh. And I
can eat a case of, yeah, I can eat a case of
them with the olester and, and, you know, keel
over from cholesterol, but I can eat a case of,
of garlic chips. And she'll be like, you didn't
have garlic chips. I go, yeah, I can't smell
anything. I go, is this Spanish blood? It gets
sucked in. It's that real mix. Hey, we're all
from this. We're all from Africa anyway. Come
on, do your 23andMe, people. Do your 23andMe
and you'll find out we're all African. Love that
movie, by the way. Oh, man. Oh, my gosh. Thank
you so much, Mr. Daniel. You just hang in tight
there. We'll be right back with you, okay? We'll
be right back with you. That's right. Don't ever
cut off a gambit. You could lose an eye. You
get a card in your eye. Thanks, Q, because you're
gross. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much
for tuning in today. Great podcast with Mr. Tony
Daniels, man. Hope we do it again soon. We also
have another episode coming Thursday with Brandon
Lopez, a hometown artist, local artist. So tune
in for that one. The following week after that,
we are still working on a guest. I haven't got
a call back yet, but the one that everybody's
waiting for is May 16th. We have Gary Chalk,
who is the voice of also Optimus Prime and Primal.
Optimus Prime. So I have done Optimus Prime.
We have them here already. Just keep going. Ladies
and gentlemen, thank you so much. We will see
you Thursday, this Thursday, again, 7 .30 p .m.
And like always, guys, we're ready to get this
going over here. Thank you