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What's going on guys welcome back to the two

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new podcast we have a great Show for you in store

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today. Unfortunately, I didn't have to with me

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today. It is a Wednesday He does things on Wednesday

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says way only comes on Tuesdays and Thursdays

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But I could not miss the opportunity to interview

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who we're interviewing today You guys have been

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following you've been keeping tabs on us when

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we're gonna do this podcast guys It's gonna be

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a great one. So enough chit chat for me. Let's

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get this ball rolling. Here we go What's going

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on, guys? Welcome back to the Chew -Doo Podcast.

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Oh, my gosh. We have diagrams and questions.

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Oh, hell no. Oh, hell no. Those first five minutes

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of my life changed. Because I will be doing the

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majority of the talking in the next life. Excuse

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me? The Chew -Doo Podcast. Ladies and gentlemen,

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letting you guys know right now. But anyways

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besides that I got a special guest with us today.

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She's been on the show twice. This will be lucky

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number three. She is a wonderful woman. She does

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great things for kids around the world to bring

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this adventures to us with her voice, her voice

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acting. It's amazing. Not only she's been doing

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it, doing it now again, but beforehand. I mean,

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I'm just excited to see her again. And I know

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you're going to be have a lot of fun listening

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to her story. Ladies, gentlemen, let me introduce

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to you Stephanie Nodoli in the podcast. What's

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going on, Steph? Hey, I'm doing great. Thanks

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for having me. It's good to see you again. It's

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good to see you again. Long, long. I can say

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what? It's been a minute since we've met you

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or seen you for three minutes. So how you've

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been. It's been a while. So, how are things going

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in your neck of the woods? Everything's great.

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It's just hot and humid. So, I've got crazy rock

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and roll hair today. There you go. That humidity,

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let me tell you. First things first, I want to

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say thank you once again for being our pod. I

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know you have a very busy schedule. There's a

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lot going on in your area. And also a huge, huge

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congratulations from the TuneIn Podcast to you.

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They're doing Goku Mini. now on Dragon Ball Dima.

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Oh my God, that's awesome, man. I'm excited.

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Yeah, it's been a fun run. There was a 16 -year

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break between the last video game I did, Raging

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Blast, as well as the GT series. So it's great

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to be back. The fans heard about it, I guess,

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even before I did, and were cheering to have

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me back. DOG and Toei Japan brought me back last

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year. That's awesome on that and some of the

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video games and yes Yes, i'll do on my appearances

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on the weekends all over the place. I love it

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And I and i've the last podcast we had we talked

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about this situation Knowing that you know the

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series you had done your series beforehand You

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were still doing some other voice acting, but

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I had asked you an important question I'm, not

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sure it's been over a year since the last time

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I saw i've seen you I asked you if there was

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an opportunity for you to come back to the Dragon

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Ball series and you said in the drop of a dime

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yes and lo and behold dreams came true and here

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you are yeah thankfully the the story revolves

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around a conspiracy that changes a lot of the

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characters back into uh children to they're basically

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trying to uh the bad guys trying to limit the

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um the power of some of the characters and he

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thought well as we turn them into to children

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and babies you know they won't be anywhere near

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as popular or as popular i'm reading something

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near as um strong and less likely to defeat The

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bad guy. Yeah, and I mean, I'm gonna be honest

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with you. I haven't really stepped into the series

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yet. Only reason why, and I have a good excuse

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for this, Steph, only reason why is because my

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son has me on a blackout, because he's a huge

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Dragon Ball fan. Huge, huge. And since the new

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series came out, I go, I want to start watching

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it. Unfortunately, he wouldn't let me. He goes,

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no, Dad, you can't watch it until I watch it

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first. So I'm stuck in La La Land right now because

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he's too busy watching. My hero academia, so

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I have to wait till he finishes all those series

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before he jumps to this series Yeah, but I've

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been lucky for me and we got this new little

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studio now and I have my own little television

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here and during my lunch hour I'm I'm gonna start

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tomorrow sneaking a peek at some of that without

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my son knowing he's probably watching He's probably

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gonna get mad at me when I get home, right? Well,

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it's all it's all completed in English. It would

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you know was done in Japanese first and then

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released on Netflix and Crunchyroll Premium.

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And then once it started in English being released,

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it was one episode a week. So that was hard,

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having to wait a week to see the next one. So

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I think it'd probably be a good idea for us to

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sit down and watch it all over again from the

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beginning. I know the first three episodes were...

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released and screened all over the United States,

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first three episodes in November of 24. So that

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was kind of a sneak peek then for some of the

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fans that just didn't want to wait. They wanted

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to jump right in. I was just really excited to

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finally get to say something about it. I had

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to kind of keep my mouth shut with a non -disclosure.

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But then when it came out in the trailer, my

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voice was on the trailer. everybody kind of knew,

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I guess, if it's recognizable voice, you know,

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they mark, you know, one of the voices of some

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of their childhoods, you know, so yeah, no, I'm

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beyond grateful. There really aren't words to

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describe how I feel about it because. I was already

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kind of out and about doing things as an extension

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of the prior work, but you know with Dyma here,

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in fact a lot of people are doing kind of what

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you're doing. They're waiting till it's complete.

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It's all been released and you can sit and binge

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it and watch how many you want, however, you

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know, you're on your time. So as far as I know,

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it is still on Crunchyroll Premium. I don't know

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if it's gone to all of regular Crunchyroll yet

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and I'm not sure if it's... on netflix yet in

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english um sometimes they don't really let us

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know that we just kind of have to figure it out

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like everybody else and right i went ahead and

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got the uh got the uh streaming this control

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streaming going last year so i could kind of

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follow i've never done that before with any of

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my shows right but it was such a personal and

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professional Just such a special comeback for

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me and so many levels. I was like, I just, I

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wanted to watch it when it came out and it was,

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it was, it's a, it's, it's a really fun show.

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It's a, it's a whole new adventure. There's some

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new characters. They're on the, they're in the

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demon realm, which is a whole other place for

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them to go. and experience what it's like there.

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And it's got its humor. It's got a lot of the

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OG Dragon Ball slapstick humor. It's got a lot

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of really cool battles. The animation is phenomenal.

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It's just gorgeous. So I'm really happy. I'm

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happy hearing back about it, getting some really

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great feedback. some Dragon Ball Z fans that

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grew up with Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon

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Ball T, and the video games are now watching

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it with their kids. And we've got a lot of probably

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new fans now up and coming. And some of them

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are going back and watching the original. And

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some can't wait, some can. So I think it's going

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to be a nice little run. It's going to be a nice

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little slow burn for the show and the series.

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You know, I think some people are getting ready

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to start watching it from the beginning And i'm

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hoping, you know Funko pops will follow and there'll

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be like a nice little I know there's some new

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figurines that came out last fall They were introduced

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at the new york comic -con the new york. Yeah

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new york comic -con Yeah, where we announced

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officially I say we I mean like the crew the

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choi crew and it was official on october 18th

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that I was back. Right. And there was a big panel

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and it was really exciting. There was some swag

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and some trading cards that they were giving

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out for diamond, some t -shirts. It was really

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a really a good time. And what a crazy event

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to large. It's a huge. to announce it. Yeah,

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I had their own giant booth with a 40 something

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foot Goku standing and towering above everybody.

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And just huge promotion behind it with right

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hers and promotions and sponsors and I don't

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it was just it was a whirlwind and it was really

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cool to be there. Now now before all this happens

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to have I mean, Where were you? I mean, I wanna

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start from the very beginning when they actually

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reached out for you to bring you back. I mean,

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were you at a convention at the time when you

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got the call? Were you at home relaxing? Were

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you on your way to another convention? I mean,

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take us through that little story. I wanna know

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the inside story of how that came about. Well,

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the only thing I can really, it was last year,

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but I... I was really excited, seriously, just

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to come back in and audition. Like, I think that

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was, you know, that's just procedure. That's

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how they do it. And to make sure that I, you

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know, was consistently able to produce the same

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voice after all these years. And fortunately,

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I kept the voice alive through cameos and shout

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outs and conventions and in -person signings.

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And stuff like that. So I felt really good about

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it. I had great chemistry with the director and

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the ADR director. I felt really good about it.

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And then I just had to let it go just like any

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other audition. I wasn't really sure how that

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all went on behind the scenes. But about a week

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later, I did get a phone call from, I think,

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the CEO. And he's somebody I used to work with,

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Justin Cook. He was a director and a voice actor.

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And he let me know they want me back, or a Toei

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Japan decided they want you back. They want the

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OG voice. And shortly after I came in to start

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recording, and then it was just kind of, you

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know, every week or two or so, depending on when

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the deadlines were approaching, because they

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were on a pretty strict deadline for, you know,

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each episode, so they could make sure they're

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all completed, all edited, everything's, you

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know. Ready to go. So I pretty much recorded

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off and on between like August and I guess we

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finished in early March. So we wrapped it all

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up and we had to take some time off for the holidays

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and things like that. And I'm glad they kept

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the same vocal. uh on the uh goku mini because

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like I said I've seen commercials I've seen bits

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and trailers and tiktok tends a tendency of showing

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bits and pieces you know and they pop up automatically

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and when uh when it first came out uh when it

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was announced it was come I knew it was gonna

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come out already so okay the the uh Japanese

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version came out first Japan version came out

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first and I was like okay well my son was like

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we're gonna have to wait for the English one

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he goes yeah well my son's already trying to

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learn how to read speak Japanese so I'm pretty

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sure he can he can see the episodes that way

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too but uh right when uh they showed the first

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uh English dub of uh of Goku Mini and the drop

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of the dime I go that's that's that's death that's

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that's Stephanie oh my god they got Stephanie

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they got Stephanie back this is awesome so and

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I was jumping up down my wife was looking like

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what's wrong with you go Stephanie's back. She

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got she got the gig. She got the gig. That's

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awesome. You know, she was like, Okay, well,

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now I got to reach out to her because I really

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want to talk to her about this. I mean, you know,

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back what we had talked about before, you know,

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when you're willing to go back and do it all

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over again. And here we are talking about it

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that you're starting, I guess, a new chapter.

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to Dragon Ball. Right? It's an all new series.

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And it's not as long as I we all have hoped.

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It is a cure drama is last project for completion.

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And we did unfortunately lose him. Just I guess

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March of 2024. Maybe up with the April 1. It's

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hard to remember. It was about the same time

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when I went to go interview you. Yeah. Yeah,

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and it's an honor, really. It's an honor to be

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brought back and to be a part of something that

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was already such a big part of my life and my

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career. And, you know, we wouldn't be here talking,

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and I wouldn't know the people I know in the

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industry and a lot of the fans that I keep in

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touch with. And they're like my anime babies,

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my anime auntie, anime mama, whatever you want

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to call me. Right, right, right. Um, so it's,

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it's brought so many people together and so many

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people are friends now for life because they

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came together. They met at a Comic -Con or they

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met online streaming or gaming. And, uh, it's,

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it's, it's still just blows me away how popular

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the franchise is and how it's a really big part

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of how it became, anime became much more mainstream

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than it used to be. So I'm really happy for,

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for that as well. And, and for the new. talent

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that was brought in to voice some of the other

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characters. And I've met many of them. We all

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had like an unofficial kind of screening in November

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and we all kind of came together, whoever was

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available and we watched it in the theater. And

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it was really exciting. And then of course the

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credits rolled and it was just, it was just really.

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really something special. And I was really glad

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to be able to, to go and do that. It was like

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a Monday, I think. So I was, I was available

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to do that. So yeah, it's been great. So when

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you walked in that they all look at, Oh, yeah,

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that's, that's the OG right there. We got a,

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we got the homage to the OG over there. Yeah,

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yeah, I guess. And then after, you know, before

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and after we all kind of hung out for a little

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bit and took some pictures and I had a friend

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come out. Spy Hernandez. He also did my latest

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round of headshot. So he's kind of infiltrated

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the business through Dragon Ball Z and different

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things. And he now he's traveling on weekends

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to Comic Cons, working with another company.

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And so it's just really cool. He came out and

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did like a little a little promo video and kind

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of chatted with a few of the voice actors. The

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director was there. Yeah, it was a feel good

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moment. Like, it's just there are there are words.

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I mean, it was just such a cool feeling. And

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then to see it on the big screen like Yeah. Now

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that you're doing, I mean, I've, I've been, I've

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been, I've been, I've been keeping tabs on Facebook.

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I'm not gonna lie to you. I am, I am the number

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one fan right there by the way. Cause I got,

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I got the notification. Wow. Good for you. That's

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awesome. Uh, I see that you're doing a lot of

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cons now consider the fact now that the series

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is back I mean you were doing cons before but

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now they're they're getting more Consistent now

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that you're going you're traveling a little bit

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more now. I mean How's the outcome of the fans

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now that are coming up to you? Oh, they're great.

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They're great. Um It was like I said, I had to

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I had to keep it very hush -hush for a while

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out of right total respect for Toei and the way

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they wanted things to be done and to honor the

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legacy himself Akira Toriyama so I followed all

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the rules and just just kind of acted like it

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wasn't happening even though I was like a little

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kid jumping up and down inside You know, but

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yeah now we're working on some of the video games.

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I know they just released legends and Xenoverse

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2 is now out and I think what they do now, I'm

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not a gamer so I don't know kind of how they

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do it but I think they just update and drop in

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new characters as they come along and then they

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can pick those characters to play the game now.

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Yeah, well my son's made himself into a Saiyan

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already and I believe he's using your voice as

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a... it's a talk for him so yeah it's a very

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intense it's an intense video guy play with him

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a couple times it's a very little intense game

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he does have it so i mean he's like i said a

00:16:56.139 --> 00:16:59.659
huge dragon ball fan um now now that you're doing

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the series are there i mean i know they i'm not

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sure if you can talk about anything else than

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that but have doors open up even more for you

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as far as like other voice voice uh I mean I

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On them on the comic -con front for sure. I mean

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there's definitely you know, it kind of brings

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brings me back into a little more sense of relevance

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because I'm doing something new and and Following

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up with the games and things like that And then

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you know Every every so often I kind of get reached

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out Directly, which is kind of cool. Hey, we

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want you at our con Are you available these dates

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and you know the agents start calling and it's

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it's pretty cool I mean, I I think it absolutely

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will open doors especially with the nominations

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for the Astro Awards That information just came

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to me not even a week ago Or just I guess over

00:18:01.410 --> 00:18:04.269
a week ago got notification that Dragon Ball

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diamond has been brought Brought to nominations

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with Astra as the best. I think the category

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is It might be best animated feature or it could

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be best anime But then to get the nomination

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for lead, you know best lead voice alongside

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Seth MacFarlane and you know, I saw that I heard

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about that. Yeah, and Johnny young Bosch and

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Gosh, I came at Lex Lowe. I think it's the other

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one. I'd have to look and see the actual list,

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but uh i was like wow i mean even just like i

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said to have that kind of you know notoriety

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or whatever just kind of you know kind of gives

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me an extra punch there at uh possibly doing

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some larger projects and and branching out possibly

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out out of this dallas fort worth area maybe

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you know do some things remotely or um you know

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maybe it'll put me on the map with some studios

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that i've been reaching out to and and maybe

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some other things. I'm definitely living in the

00:19:03.210 --> 00:19:08.069
moment more than ever, really enjoying whatever

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comes my way. Just get out there and be a good

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person and give the fans all the love that I

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can and support just like they do for me. Things

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are in motion, so we'll see. I've definitely

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got lots of other character voices and would

00:19:24.970 --> 00:19:27.509
love to put them to use. Right. Now, when you

00:19:27.509 --> 00:19:31.289
went in and did your first dub over of the episode

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and you're in front of that mic, did it get emotional?

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It has to be emotional at that one moment when

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you're doing the voice all over again. Was there

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was there a point when you're doing that voiceover?

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Did you get a little emotional? Oh, yeah. I mean,

00:19:45.750 --> 00:19:49.890
you know, because like it feels like Kid Goku

00:19:49.890 --> 00:19:51.849
is kind of part of me now. You know, it's like

00:19:51.849 --> 00:19:55.730
it's like. I just kind of feel like he's like

00:19:55.730 --> 00:19:59.349
my little alter ego in a way. Because I can't

00:19:59.349 --> 00:20:03.809
ever be a little boy or a grown man turned back

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into a child, any size boy. So it's like a way

00:20:07.869 --> 00:20:11.069
for me to kind of escape and just kind of become

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him. And really, the director was very willing

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and open to allowing me to just kind of... go

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for each line on my own without really not much

00:20:23.410 --> 00:20:26.349
direction. The recording process is a lot more

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up to date with technology. The studio Crunchyroll

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is huge. They've got multiple studios going at

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one time with all kinds of directors and all

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kinds of shows, all anime. So there's a lot going

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on there. And so the whole experience of going

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in the studio for me is my favorite is going

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in in person and really connecting with the director

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and really making magic, you know. all through

00:20:48.579 --> 00:20:53.140
the process of the creation of it, which is something

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I was really relishing in. There's really not,

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weren't able to do photos or videos. It's just

00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:05.880
the role. So, but I mean, I was there and I have

00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:08.220
it in my memories and that's great. And to see

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it put together has been really fulfilling for

00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:14.119
a lot of us to really kind of watch it in context

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and kind of. Because we go from line to line,

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so we kind of step ahead. Well, the table readings,

00:21:19.140 --> 00:21:21.339
I would take consideration, right? Y 'all do

00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:25.599
table readings? We don't. Oh, wow. No, no, no.

00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:27.700
We're table readings. Yeah, it's done different.

00:21:28.940 --> 00:21:32.220
We're able to watch and view on a computer screen,

00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:34.599
a flat screen, kind of what's going on, and we're

00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:39.480
able to hear the Japanese line right prior to

00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.480
when we get to do ours. And it's not necessarily

00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:44.940
for the sake of mimicking. Because there is a

00:21:44.940 --> 00:21:47.480
whole different, you're talking about a whole

00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.440
different country, a whole different way of communicating

00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.539
and the different sounds that we in the USA make

00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:58.759
when we're in battle versus, you know, the Japanese

00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:01.980
actors. So it's more for timing. It's more to

00:22:01.980 --> 00:22:05.180
kind of like, you know, get an idea of what's

00:22:05.180 --> 00:22:08.920
happening, exactly the tone of the moment. Like,

00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:11.700
is it are you in battle? Is it a small? Is it

00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:14.630
something small? Is it something big? How would

00:22:14.630 --> 00:22:19.289
Goku say this line in this scenario? And so it

00:22:19.289 --> 00:22:24.269
was really Jeremy. The director was very open

00:22:24.269 --> 00:22:27.569
to Jonathan. My God, why did I say Jeremy? I

00:22:27.569 --> 00:22:31.089
am so sorry. Jonathan's watching. Holy schmoly.

00:22:31.410 --> 00:22:37.380
Jonathan. J names was very. Loose with me and

00:22:37.380 --> 00:22:39.539
allowing because sometimes I would just get it

00:22:39.539 --> 00:22:41.380
right out right out the gate, you know, like

00:22:41.380 --> 00:22:43.000
right and I give him another and he's like Oh,

00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:44.579
no, I think I like the first one, you know, and

00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:47.299
it made the final choice same with Damon Mills

00:22:47.299 --> 00:22:52.240
who is directing the video games some of the

00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.299
video games and he's kind of allowing some of

00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:58.819
that flexibility and how I deliver the lines

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and I'm like how about this and you know, um

00:23:02.109 --> 00:23:04.609
It's been great. It's been nothing but positive

00:23:04.609 --> 00:23:06.569
experiences. Everybody's been really professional.

00:23:08.049 --> 00:23:13.250
I always leave kind of supercharged and I'm ready

00:23:13.250 --> 00:23:17.130
to do more because back in the day, there were

00:23:17.130 --> 00:23:22.009
longer hours. There were especially the intense

00:23:22.009 --> 00:23:24.390
scenes I did with the Cell Saga in the original

00:23:24.390 --> 00:23:28.940
Dragon Ball series with Gohan and Cell. And I

00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:31.160
remember, you know, really getting worn out was

00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:33.640
now things are done a little differently. You

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:35.940
know, you do two, three hours maximum, maybe

00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:38.900
four. And that's if, if you don't feel like there's

00:23:38.900 --> 00:23:41.299
any strain and we, we still get to save a lot

00:23:41.299 --> 00:23:43.059
of the battle scenes and the screens and the

00:23:43.059 --> 00:23:44.859
yells for the end of the session, which is also

00:23:44.859 --> 00:23:47.079
another benefit. There's no more paper scripts.

00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:49.940
It's all, you know, computer screen, really high

00:23:49.940 --> 00:23:54.019
quality mic, headphones, the whole bit. So, uh,

00:23:54.019 --> 00:23:56.240
I love the whole process of it. It's just, it's

00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:59.250
really been, uh, been a been quite a ride. I'm

00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:01.549
definitely ready to get back in there and do

00:24:01.549 --> 00:24:03.390
some more. Who knows what's going to happen.

00:24:03.930 --> 00:24:07.650
I know the executive producer is still very involved

00:24:07.650 --> 00:24:13.490
and will be picking up wherever Akira would like

00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:16.950
for it to go and who better than to fill those

00:24:16.950 --> 00:24:21.529
shoes and take it to whatever level or develop

00:24:21.529 --> 00:24:24.450
another series or whatever. None of us really

00:24:24.450 --> 00:24:26.569
know exactly what's going to happen, but I do

00:24:26.569 --> 00:24:29.640
know that the series is the Dragon Ball franchise

00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:32.440
is over 40 years old now. Yeah, it is. Yeah.

00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:34.980
It came out in 1984 and the first Dragon Ball

00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:38.779
episode aired in 1986. I know. Long, long time

00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:44.099
ago before all of us were born. I was just a

00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:47.960
kid back then. And who would have known? You

00:24:47.960 --> 00:24:52.640
never know what's a story or a series or a creative

00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:55.559
project is launched, where it's going to go and

00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:58.440
how long it's going to be. And what kind of exposure

00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:00.819
it's gonna get like is it gonna be on TV is gonna

00:25:00.819 --> 00:25:02.640
be on Cartoon Network is it's only gonna be streaming

00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.579
like You know, you just never know where it's

00:25:04.579 --> 00:25:08.599
gonna go and this one's been so bigger than any

00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.220
of us ever really imagined and you had quite

00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:14.700
a few people waiting for this this last one I

00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:16.940
don't want to say last cuz yeah, they'll probably

00:25:16.940 --> 00:25:18.180
gonna pull something out of the back of their

00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:20.920
pockets But you know considering one of the last

00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:25.019
ones he made as far as a storyline, right? Having

00:25:25.019 --> 00:25:28.700
it come out after what so some 14 years since

00:25:28.700 --> 00:25:32.400
the last Dragon Ball I believe 14 to 16 because

00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.900
I know that I I finished up my G my role in GT

00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:38.319
and then a few more games and then it kind of

00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:41.799
like Subsided a bit and then of course they aged

00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.680
up. So gohan and Goku, you know, almost all the

00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:46.700
characters grew up So they're all adults. Yeah,

00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:49.180
there wasn't really any work for me there for

00:25:49.180 --> 00:25:51.259
a while as far as in Dragon Ball Z or Dragon

00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:54.460
Ball Super Yeah. So yeah, it's just still like

00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:57.039
a full circle moment. It's like something I never

00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:59.079
thought would happen, but always had a fire in

00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:02.299
my heart to think there'd be something else.

00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.289
Right. Someday. And like I tell you, in between

00:26:06.289 --> 00:26:08.950
that time waiting for this new Dragon Ball series

00:26:08.950 --> 00:26:13.230
to come out, it was like a black hole in anime

00:26:13.230 --> 00:26:15.390
for me. I mean, there were some great animals

00:26:15.390 --> 00:26:17.349
that I was watching that were okay. The one my

00:26:17.349 --> 00:26:19.750
wife and I really got into, and I mean, I don't

00:26:19.750 --> 00:26:21.670
want to take a left turn here or anything like

00:26:21.670 --> 00:26:23.609
that and take out the aspect of what we're talking

00:26:23.609 --> 00:26:27.049
about, but one that really caught my eye was

00:26:27.049 --> 00:26:31.269
Attack on Titans. That was an anime that was

00:26:31.269 --> 00:26:34.200
just... amazing. But then when I found out Dragon

00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:36.380
Ball was coming out, it's like, okay, away from

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:39.240
that. Let's go back to this again. But I mean,

00:26:39.339 --> 00:26:41.579
are there certain animes that you be I mean,

00:26:41.579 --> 00:26:44.839
I know Dragon Ball is dug into your heart so

00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.420
deep, you can't, you know, it's never gonna go

00:26:47.420 --> 00:26:50.259
away. But has there any been other animated series

00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:52.400
that you maybe on your spare time you'd like

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.839
to watch? At this point? No, I just got the Crunchyroll

00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.900
subscription, you know, right? Well, actually

00:27:00.900 --> 00:27:03.480
before Dragon Ball Dima even aired because I

00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:05.960
wanted to kind of navigate and see how it's done

00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:09.339
and how to do all that. I did scroll through

00:27:09.339 --> 00:27:11.460
and I saw some that I'd heard of. I saw some

00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:15.039
titles I had auditioned for. Really? Yeah, it's

00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:19.640
just so basically what we ended up having to

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.589
do is I've never seen Dragon Ball all the way

00:27:23.589 --> 00:27:27.430
through or Dragon Ball Z. So my manager and my

00:27:27.430 --> 00:27:29.609
guy and I watched started watching Dragon Ball

00:27:29.609 --> 00:27:31.950
from the beginning and to see it all in context

00:27:31.950 --> 00:27:34.690
really for the first time. We were putting out

00:27:34.690 --> 00:27:39.349
VHS tapes back in 1998, 99. Right. Right. Right.

00:27:39.529 --> 00:27:43.029
And so we started watching Dragon Ball in between

00:27:43.029 --> 00:27:46.230
on spare time in between touring and traveling.

00:27:47.349 --> 00:27:51.150
And that was something to kind of Like fill that

00:27:51.150 --> 00:27:53.170
void of waiting for the next episode to come

00:27:53.170 --> 00:27:56.190
out. Yes We're still not done with it. We're

00:27:56.190 --> 00:27:58.509
watching, you know, one or two at a time every

00:27:58.509 --> 00:28:01.569
every so often We don't have a whole lot of spare

00:28:01.569 --> 00:28:03.730
time. We do have some or you got to have smart

00:28:03.730 --> 00:28:07.049
are you got to let relax and Sit back and find

00:28:07.049 --> 00:28:11.710
some time to just chill. Yeah Yeah, and so that's

00:28:11.710 --> 00:28:13.990
what we're doing now. And you know at some point

00:28:13.990 --> 00:28:18.410
we'll probably watch Dragon Ball Z So yeah, we're

00:28:18.410 --> 00:28:21.589
watching some Dragon Ball. And then I saw some

00:28:21.589 --> 00:28:25.289
other ones come up from working with other VAs

00:28:25.289 --> 00:28:27.130
in the industry, mostly at the Comic Cons and

00:28:27.130 --> 00:28:29.529
the appearances. There's some that I may want

00:28:29.529 --> 00:28:32.869
to check out in the future. At this point, staying

00:28:32.869 --> 00:28:35.730
pretty busy. And that's good. COVID was slow.

00:28:35.730 --> 00:28:38.230
Yeah, that's great. That's great news. Yeah.

00:28:38.670 --> 00:28:41.890
So at some point, I do remember Attack on Titan

00:28:41.890 --> 00:28:45.799
as one that I got several auditions for. So maybe

00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:51.000
that one. And we'll just have to see. We'll just

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:54.640
have to see which ones that I want to try. Yeah,

00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:58.059
but like I said, I have yet to dip my toes into

00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:00.759
the new Dragon Ball series. I really want to.

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:03.299
I just got to find the time when my son is not

00:29:03.299 --> 00:29:06.099
awake or not around so I can actually see all

00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:09.559
of them. yeah is he waiting for you to watch

00:29:09.559 --> 00:29:11.779
him with you or he wants to watch it most of

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:13.920
the time when we do watch we watch them together

00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:17.099
but he has a tendency of like with a crunchy

00:29:17.099 --> 00:29:20.759
roll they have the english and then you can pause

00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.240
it and put it in japanese so what my son does

00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.069
he watches three minutes of it And then he goes

00:29:26.069 --> 00:29:27.829
to the beginning and slaps it in Japanese so

00:29:27.829 --> 00:29:29.730
he can learn all the lines in Japanese also.

00:29:30.089 --> 00:29:33.170
That's so cool. So and that's what he does. And

00:29:33.170 --> 00:29:36.309
well, for him to do, he makes his own little

00:29:36.309 --> 00:29:38.690
anime himself and he does his own little voiceovers

00:29:38.690 --> 00:29:42.250
also. So that's adorable to hear him speak. Yeah.

00:29:42.509 --> 00:29:44.230
To hear him do it in English and then dub it

00:29:44.230 --> 00:29:47.569
into Japanese. It's it's crazy. I'm like, wow,

00:29:47.769 --> 00:29:51.960
this is amazing. But. Now that the series is

00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:55.619
up and running we've talked about What's in store

00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:58.859
in the future? But what I want to ask you also

00:29:58.859 --> 00:30:02.059
has there been any? singing gigs in between the

00:30:02.059 --> 00:30:08.279
time before you went back to do I Love it So

00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:10.000
that's where it all started for me was music

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:11.900
as a child which all you know everything I've

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:14.779
done as far as professionally has been involving

00:30:14.779 --> 00:30:17.359
the voice, whether it be voiceover or singing,

00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.740
performing live, recording in the studio, background

00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:23.960
vocals, arranging, clarity, jingles for morning

00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:27.680
show radio. It's all been, you know, dabbling

00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:29.700
in a little bit of different things, but it's

00:30:29.700 --> 00:30:32.039
all been, you know, the voice. So for me, it

00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:34.859
was music that started the whole thing. uh and

00:30:34.859 --> 00:30:37.400
then changing the voices and mimicking as a kid

00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.900
and making up voices with my friends and and

00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:43.619
recording on cassette tapes and making up shows

00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:49.579
and having our own thing uh so um unfortunately

00:30:49.579 --> 00:30:52.539
this particular time there's been not really

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:55.779
much singing gigs or anything because a lot of

00:30:55.779 --> 00:30:59.500
times they are on the weekends as well so it's

00:30:59.500 --> 00:31:02.710
kind of like we have to pick in shoes and with

00:31:02.710 --> 00:31:05.509
diamond coming out we're focusing on that and

00:31:05.509 --> 00:31:09.109
um but you know songwriting and i i particularly

00:31:09.109 --> 00:31:12.309
like novelty stuff that's kind of just what naturally

00:31:12.309 --> 00:31:14.250
comes to me is kind of the comedic novelty stuff

00:31:14.250 --> 00:31:16.109
like and if you go to my website you can see

00:31:16.109 --> 00:31:19.410
some songs that i wrote and produced 20 plus

00:31:19.410 --> 00:31:24.069
25 years ago uh that are kids songs and a christmas

00:31:24.069 --> 00:31:27.289
song and a halloween song and you know that kind

00:31:27.289 --> 00:31:31.759
of i one of my um Influences in my early life

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.019
was a weirdo Yankovic and he writes songs and

00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:37.559
change the lyrics I kind of I kind of Started

00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:40.140
doing that anyway, and I kind of hear Sometimes

00:31:40.140 --> 00:31:42.420
I'll miss hear the lyrics, which is right. I'm

00:31:42.420 --> 00:31:44.279
just hearing I think being all these years is

00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.240
something completely different It's just hilarious.

00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:49.759
I'm still to this day finding out as I'm singing

00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:53.819
along you know, playing trade songs in the car

00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:56.420
when we drive. It's like, I'll sing them out

00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:57.940
loud and Dan will be like, I don't think those

00:31:57.940 --> 00:32:00.079
are the lyrics. And I'm like, they're not. What

00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:03.400
do you mean? It's like, going back to Chinatown.

00:32:03.599 --> 00:32:05.099
He said, no, that's not what they're saying.

00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:10.099
And I'm like, oh, it's always fun to kind of

00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:12.900
realize, oh my goodness, I guess I was wrong,

00:32:12.900 --> 00:32:17.079
but it made sense to me as a kid. So yeah, there'll

00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:20.980
be projects coming at some point. I got to see

00:32:20.980 --> 00:32:24.740
how this all plays out with diamond and all the

00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:27.359
the follow -ups and the video games and the comic

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:29.119
cons and the bookings that are already on the

00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:32.319
calendar and then we'll see if we can get a little

00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.000
you know trio gig during the week we can definitely

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.799
do that it's just a matter of scoping of the

00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:40.259
place out getting our information or if anyone

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:43.380
calls and says hey we're looking for a band we

00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:46.039
know all the people we know some of the best

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:48.099
musicians in Dallas Fort Worth that we could

00:32:48.099 --> 00:32:50.289
call up right Be able to do it, especially if

00:32:50.289 --> 00:32:53.230
it's cover songs, right? Um, so yeah, I mean

00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:55.750
it's it's it's it's on the back burner But it's

00:32:55.750 --> 00:32:58.130
it's definitely I say definitely not going away

00:32:58.130 --> 00:33:01.309
because then I got you I got you We're both musicians.

00:33:01.329 --> 00:33:03.609
So, you know, um, and we always have the piano

00:33:03.609 --> 00:33:07.539
ready, uh to fiddle around with different songs

00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:10.819
and Dan is a great piano teacher and I'm a great

00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:12.720
listener and learner because we have that in

00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:16.579
common. So those are my roots, you know? So yeah,

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:18.319
there'll be more of that at some point, not sure

00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:21.180
when, but right now we're focusing on Dyma and

00:33:21.180 --> 00:33:23.059
we have a lot to do during the week with promo

00:33:23.059 --> 00:33:27.220
videos, managing and ordering merchandise, prints

00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:31.980
and posters, collecting. a new merch that I know

00:33:31.980 --> 00:33:33.799
there's just there's been a whole new wave of

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:36.039
Dragon Ball pops that just came out in the weeks,

00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:39.440
which is always exciting. That kind of came out

00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:41.400
of nowhere. So it's like a whole nother like

00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:44.539
little wave of Funko pops from the original Dragon

00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:47.680
Ball. Right. Right. Goku with the power pole.

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:49.460
One of them is glow in the dark. I haven't I

00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:51.079
haven't seen that one in person yet. There's

00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:53.359
one that's a glow in the dark special edition.

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:57.160
There's an oolong, a kid cheat sheet. I believe

00:33:57.160 --> 00:33:59.819
there's a kid Krillin. which is awesome for Laurie

00:33:59.819 --> 00:34:03.640
Steele. She's great. And I think there's also

00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:07.339
another Bulma in the Genie outfit. So it's been

00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:10.460
really cool seeing the fans bring those up to

00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:14.739
sign. And then I think there's also another wave

00:34:14.739 --> 00:34:17.380
hopefully coming, I don't know when, for Dyma.

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:19.460
So I'm really excited about it. I know some of

00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:21.599
the figurines are out. I've been seeing those

00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:23.239
I saw those at New York Comic Con and then I

00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.199
have been seeing some target or Walmart or Box

00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:30.019
lunch hot topic carries a lot of them and there

00:34:30.019 --> 00:34:31.539
it's always different the inventories always

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:33.219
different So it's fun to just kind of shop around

00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:36.440
in person or get online and order some and try

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:39.840
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I always say, every podcast you're is their bread

00:35:57.849 --> 00:36:02.510
and butter. But back with Stephanie here. Stephanie

00:36:02.510 --> 00:36:06.610
like that one. But there's one question I want

00:36:06.610 --> 00:36:08.570
to ask going back to the to the singing group

00:36:08.570 --> 00:36:12.449
stuff. Has there ever been a request for you

00:36:12.449 --> 00:36:17.349
to sing in Kid Goku style? Oh, yeah. And I do

00:36:17.349 --> 00:36:19.590
that. I do that anyway. I mean, with the songs

00:36:19.590 --> 00:36:22.610
on my website, there's a there's at least two

00:36:22.610 --> 00:36:29.809
that I know for sure are fumble. Come to the

00:36:29.809 --> 00:36:39.590
light. I don't know how he had that set. There

00:36:39.590 --> 00:36:42.190
you go. You look good in any light. You don't

00:36:42.190 --> 00:36:46.110
worry about that. I got the bat crazy here today.

00:36:47.230 --> 00:36:50.289
No, I've done that on my own and, you know, talking

00:36:50.289 --> 00:36:52.789
in the voice for the kids is always fun. And,

00:36:52.989 --> 00:36:54.889
you know, some boys actors won't do that. I think

00:36:54.889 --> 00:36:57.250
we're all different. So if they want to hear

00:36:57.250 --> 00:36:59.329
the voice, I give them the voice, you know, right

00:36:59.329 --> 00:37:03.250
at the table or at on at a panel or an answer

00:37:03.250 --> 00:37:06.769
session or whatever. So, yeah. And then there's

00:37:06.769 --> 00:37:10.460
the songs that I've. I sang them as a young boy

00:37:10.460 --> 00:37:12.559
and a young girl. And then kind of harmonized

00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:15.900
with myself. So those are a lot of fun. And a

00:37:15.900 --> 00:37:20.880
lot of the fans in the Dragon Ball world don't

00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:22.719
realize I'm a singer. Well, that's kind of for

00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:25.800
me where it all began. And there was a time when

00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:31.559
they were re -recording the anime themes in English.

00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:35.920
And I had a big part in helping Carl Finch of

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:37.559
Brave Combo, which is a Grammy award -winning

00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.699
polka band out of Denton, Texas, which is Dallas,

00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:43.440
Fort Worth. And because I knew so many people

00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.280
in the industry and I knew so many singers that

00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.300
I've worked with over the years with my show

00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:49.619
band, Vince Fans and the Valiants, I was able

00:37:49.619 --> 00:37:55.059
to learn a lot about taking Japanese, the Japanese

00:37:55.059 --> 00:37:58.559
translation and turning them into English lyrics

00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.260
that make sense, that make the same meaning.

00:38:01.780 --> 00:38:06.739
And I was invited to sing several of them. Yu

00:38:06.739 --> 00:38:09.320
Yu Hakusho, there's one called Sayonara Bye Bye,

00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:12.219
that's probably the most popular one. I did sing

00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:15.219
that on that one and the opening and closing

00:38:15.219 --> 00:38:18.300
to Kitty Grade as well as Case Closed, I sang

00:38:18.300 --> 00:38:22.599
one for Case Closed and one for Conan the Detective,

00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.059
I believe. Oh wow, wow, wow. Yeah, so they're

00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:28.539
a little hard to find and for whatever reason,

00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:31.989
the vocalists aren't credited. So it's a little

00:38:31.989 --> 00:38:35.150
hard for them to really know anyway But um, right

00:38:35.150 --> 00:38:36.650
that's that's something that some of that can

00:38:36.650 --> 00:38:38.349
be found on my website and youtube and things

00:38:38.349 --> 00:38:42.690
like that. Um Don't know. I also have an album

00:38:42.690 --> 00:38:45.110
that was shelved back in like 97 98 that I'd

00:38:45.110 --> 00:38:47.449
like to get out that I work with Carl Finch with

00:38:47.449 --> 00:38:50.469
his original music We're gonna try to get that

00:38:50.469 --> 00:38:54.670
out online as soon as we have the time To figure

00:38:54.670 --> 00:38:57.150
it all out and get it done. So I'm gonna ask

00:38:57.150 --> 00:38:59.230
many times Hey, you put your music up, you know,

00:38:59.329 --> 00:39:02.590
get it up on Spotify or city, baby Or or something

00:39:02.590 --> 00:39:04.809
and some platform where it can be, you know listen

00:39:04.809 --> 00:39:08.210
to you. So that's that's on the agenda There

00:39:08.210 --> 00:39:09.750
you go, I flipped out, I'm sorry, I didn't mean,

00:39:09.949 --> 00:39:11.050
you guys, if you're watching the live, guys,

00:39:11.150 --> 00:39:13.349
you go, whoa, Stephanie flipped over. No, I flipped

00:39:13.349 --> 00:39:16.369
it myself. No, I flipped. Don't freak out. Woo!

00:39:17.670 --> 00:39:22.190
But before the pod started, guys, Steph and I

00:39:22.190 --> 00:39:24.010
were talking for a while, and she was like, don't

00:39:24.010 --> 00:39:26.449
mind the mess in the background. I go, ma 'am,

00:39:26.530 --> 00:39:29.889
I'm gonna tell you right now, if anybody is a

00:39:29.889 --> 00:39:36.460
big, humongous fan, huge fandom about it. That

00:39:36.460 --> 00:39:38.260
there is not a mess. It's a treasure. Look at

00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:39.800
look at all the treasures you have back there.

00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:43.019
It's amazing It's a little this room is really

00:39:43.019 --> 00:39:46.059
small. We need a larger room to be our office

00:39:46.059 --> 00:39:49.440
But we make we make best we can with it, but

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.079
whenever we decide to decorate It'll be really

00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:53.860
fun to kind of fill up some of these walls. You

00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:56.739
can't see with some really cool stuff both Dan

00:39:56.739 --> 00:40:00.500
and I have you know band photos from right, you

00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:04.920
know the 90s and even before that and We'd like

00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:07.480
to kind of showcase some of that whenever that

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.280
the time comes to do that as well right now.

00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:12.059
It's just kind of all We just want stuff off

00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:15.179
the floor more than anything Like I want to see

00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:18.039
the floor, you know, it's when it's laundry day.

00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:21.079
Okay, right before cuz we've got stacks of laundry

00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:24.260
Right. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, we're working

00:40:24.260 --> 00:40:27.019
with it to the best Yeah, I mean like I said,

00:40:27.019 --> 00:40:28.639
I mean seeing you on camera. I'm pretty sure

00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:31.539
everybody is watching right now Seeing you on

00:40:31.539 --> 00:40:33.719
camera. It's it's a treat but seeing all the

00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:36.079
stuff you had behind you was like, oh my gosh

00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.619
Look at all that stuff. She's got they got Dragon

00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:40.659
Ball here dragon even the Dragon Ball Z t -shirt

00:40:40.659 --> 00:40:44.199
right there to your to your Looks amazing, you

00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.800
know and yeah all she needs is the lunch box.

00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:50.059
Where the lunch box? There's so much stuff out

00:40:50.059 --> 00:40:53.019
there And and I see a lot of it out there when

00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:55.820
I'm doing my signings and people bring me stuff

00:40:55.820 --> 00:40:58.000
they got in Japan or stuff that they got on eBay

00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.739
or, you know, collectors come and they want certain

00:41:00.739 --> 00:41:03.239
items, you know, signed and autographed. And

00:41:03.239 --> 00:41:08.239
it's really, it's really amazing what an original

00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.679
artwork is really, is really cool when the kids

00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:13.619
come up or, you know, of all ages will come up

00:41:13.619 --> 00:41:15.579
and they'll have me sign their artwork. And I'm

00:41:15.579 --> 00:41:17.480
like, are you sure? Like, I don't want to mess

00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:21.880
it up. It's an honor for them to get it signed

00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:23.960
by me. Even that one that I took you, I think

00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:25.699
it was like two years back, the first time we

00:41:25.699 --> 00:41:29.480
met, I took an actual one that was painted in,

00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:32.360
I guess in chalk, I think it was in chalk, and

00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:33.719
I showed it to you. It's a picture of a kid,

00:41:33.739 --> 00:41:37.280
he's on his Nimbus flying with the actual pole

00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.699
itself, and you signed it, and I was like, oh

00:41:39.699 --> 00:41:42.920
my God, this is going on my wall in the studio.

00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:45.199
No, my son has it now in his room, but that's

00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:49.900
a whole different story, Steph. Oh yeah. I mean

00:41:49.900 --> 00:41:53.119
you get so many fans and I know they bring you

00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:55.860
gifts also the gifts never stop when you when

00:41:55.860 --> 00:41:58.000
you're in town I know that you say you get quite

00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.719
a few gifts from your fans when they when they

00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.360
see you in person Occasionally a lot of times.

00:42:02.719 --> 00:42:05.000
It's their original artwork They'll have they'll

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.719
have scanned it in and you know, give me a copy

00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:10.599
of it and I'm like, are you sure? You know, right

00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:14.710
I save all of it. I do Um, it's very, it's very

00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:16.429
special to me without having been able to have

00:42:16.429 --> 00:42:19.889
my own children. Um, it just wasn't in God's

00:42:19.889 --> 00:42:23.130
plan. And so I get to be a, you know, nurturing

00:42:23.130 --> 00:42:25.670
anime mama. And so that's like, you know, on

00:42:25.670 --> 00:42:27.829
my fridge or where, you know, I have it, it's

00:42:27.829 --> 00:42:30.449
kind of everywhere right now. Right. Um, but,

00:42:30.670 --> 00:42:32.530
uh, yeah, occasionally I, uh, when I went to

00:42:32.530 --> 00:42:36.170
Detroit, um, a couple of years ago of the Detroit

00:42:36.170 --> 00:42:40.170
region, uh, I had somebody brought me a Motown

00:42:40.170 --> 00:42:43.150
gift bag. with a bunch of Detroit stuff in there,

00:42:43.570 --> 00:42:46.170
Michigan stuff and cap. It was pretty neat. I

00:42:46.170 --> 00:42:48.650
was like, wow, I was not expecting that at all.

00:42:48.829 --> 00:42:52.530
I never expect gifts. But yeah, every once in

00:42:52.530 --> 00:42:54.269
a while, if they remember my birthday or they

00:42:54.269 --> 00:42:57.570
might remember the Christmas thing, it's always

00:42:57.570 --> 00:43:01.119
very sweet and appreciated. Yeah, and like I

00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:02.880
told you, you know, talking about the new Dragon

00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:04.460
Ball series, my son's watching. Let me just put

00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:06.119
it up here so you can see the comment. As you

00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.019
can see his little icon there. He has a he has

00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:12.420
a Goku Goku Black there as a Rosé right there.

00:43:12.420 --> 00:43:15.780
So he's a huge fan. So that's my son right now,

00:43:15.900 --> 00:43:22.800
Dylan, watching. Hey, Dylan. Like I said the

00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:24.780
fans bring you so many gifts and you I know you

00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:27.079
accepted in it It's it's it's gotta it's gotta

00:43:27.079 --> 00:43:28.960
be it's something that warms your heart when

00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.260
they bring you that in you know I mean a lot

00:43:31.260 --> 00:43:33.099
of people I know we spoke last time there's a

00:43:33.099 --> 00:43:34.760
lot of people that you've spoken to that effect

00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.559
Dragon Ball itself has expected their lives in

00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:41.460
some sort of way and you know Seeing it growing

00:43:41.460 --> 00:43:43.219
up. I've had friends tell me I used to watch

00:43:43.219 --> 00:43:47.340
this Growing up my parents both work, you know,

00:43:47.340 --> 00:43:50.199
and I know I had grandma watching over me But

00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:53.099
this was like if I had a bad day at school, you

00:43:53.099 --> 00:43:56.460
know, this was my my comfort zone to watch at

00:43:56.460 --> 00:43:58.940
home And I'm pretty sure we've gotten great stories

00:43:58.940 --> 00:44:02.739
About those are those are more often than than

00:44:02.739 --> 00:44:04.960
gifts that they are gifts. They're they're they're

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:08.780
the more the deeply felt sentimental gifts when

00:44:08.780 --> 00:44:11.949
they come up and talk about hardships and, you

00:44:11.949 --> 00:44:13.469
know, we all sometimes get bullied at school

00:44:13.469 --> 00:44:16.469
or we have domestic violence in our home or we

00:44:16.469 --> 00:44:19.730
have, you know, mental illness or some kind of

00:44:19.730 --> 00:44:22.250
condition that, you know, makes it difficult

00:44:22.250 --> 00:44:24.329
to to fit in with peers and things like that.

00:44:24.329 --> 00:44:25.789
And I can definitely relate to that. We moved

00:44:25.789 --> 00:44:28.670
every two or three years ever since I was a child.

00:44:29.010 --> 00:44:32.389
So I've never counted. I think I've moved like

00:44:32.389 --> 00:44:36.550
nine times. And so I was a new girl a lot. And

00:44:36.550 --> 00:44:41.599
I. could relate to that, the trials and tribulations

00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.579
of growing up and peer pressure and adolescence

00:44:44.579 --> 00:44:47.980
and puberty. And just it's just it's hard. It's

00:44:47.980 --> 00:44:50.420
it's difficult because you just don't really

00:44:50.420 --> 00:44:52.639
know who you are. And you're you're still learning

00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:58.159
so many things about life and school and throw

00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:00.260
it all together. And you know, it's it's tough.

00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:03.940
So it's it's very refreshing to hear. that Dragon

00:45:03.940 --> 00:45:07.079
Ball or Dragon Ball Z or whatever anime it is

00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:10.599
or whatever video game or TV show or movie, you

00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:14.800
know, pop culture is huge. It's it's nostalgic.

00:45:14.860 --> 00:45:17.139
You know, it's nostalgia. So, you know, once

00:45:17.139 --> 00:45:19.480
I got back out to do conventions around 2017,

00:45:19.539 --> 00:45:21.519
I was like, wow, OK, because I didn't think I

00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:23.260
was really relevant at that point. I was like,

00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:25.079
I started to put two and two together. You know,

00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:27.019
what did you watch when you were a kid? You know,

00:45:27.099 --> 00:45:30.340
whether it's Looney Tunes or Disney or movies,

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:33.260
you know, Superman, Spider -Man, Marvel. DC,

00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:37.420
whatever it is, comics, collectibles, action

00:45:37.420 --> 00:45:41.619
figures. It's a big part of who we are and how

00:45:41.619 --> 00:45:43.659
we grow up and what we have to deal with. And

00:45:43.659 --> 00:45:46.820
so for me, that's a bigger gift than something

00:45:46.820 --> 00:45:51.110
tangible. is a story or this meant a lot to me

00:45:51.110 --> 00:45:54.050
or, you know, I didn't know where to turn and

00:45:54.050 --> 00:45:55.969
I would, you know, my parents were fighting in

00:45:55.969 --> 00:45:57.670
the other room and I was scared. I would come

00:45:57.670 --> 00:46:00.150
in my room and watch Dragon Ball Z or run off

00:46:00.150 --> 00:46:02.469
the bus and try to make it in time or get up

00:46:02.469 --> 00:46:04.750
early in the morning. Those are the fun times.

00:46:06.190 --> 00:46:08.550
Yeah, I remember the school bus. I did that whole,

00:46:09.030 --> 00:46:11.869
I did the school bus thing. Yeah. I've got so

00:46:11.869 --> 00:46:15.400
many memories from growing up and But yeah, moving

00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:18.360
around and stuff, it was hard. So I feel like

00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:22.480
I can relate to some of the stories. And I'm

00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:25.139
a kind of sentimental, emotional, expressive

00:46:25.139 --> 00:46:28.199
person too, being in this line of work. And so

00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:31.800
that's kind of been my opportunity to kind of

00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:34.719
help encourage young folks. And for me, that

00:46:34.719 --> 00:46:36.659
can be even if they're in their 30s or whatever,

00:46:37.739 --> 00:46:40.960
just to hang in there and you're worth something.

00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:43.440
And if this helped you through something even

00:46:43.440 --> 00:46:47.139
better, that's that's even more rewarding for

00:46:47.139 --> 00:46:50.280
me personally. Right. You know, loss and grief

00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:52.519
and lose a mom right after I got cast this go

00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:55.619
on and not having my mom or my dad around anymore.

00:46:56.699 --> 00:46:59.219
And it's it's you know, life is and we're here

00:46:59.219 --> 00:47:01.659
to learn. So if we can, we need to help each

00:47:01.659 --> 00:47:03.340
other. You know, we're all just walking each

00:47:03.340 --> 00:47:06.360
other home and be kind and think about how you

00:47:06.360 --> 00:47:09.320
how you treat people because they could be suffering.

00:47:09.659 --> 00:47:12.000
and we all suffer, there's no way around it.

00:47:12.019 --> 00:47:14.800
So you don't know what someone's suffering inside

00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:17.820
their life or at home or whatever. So yeah, those

00:47:17.820 --> 00:47:23.059
gifts to me are way more meaningful than them

00:47:23.059 --> 00:47:27.059
handing me some object or drawing. For me, that's

00:47:27.059 --> 00:47:30.320
like, wow, it gave me a very strong sense of

00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:31.760
purpose, especially when I was going through

00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:34.599
all of my losses and griefs, grief -stricken

00:47:34.599 --> 00:47:37.840
moments back around 14, 15, 16 were really rough

00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.139
years for me. And so that kind of brought me

00:47:40.139 --> 00:47:41.719
out of some of my own darkness. It kind of goes

00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:45.960
both ways. Right. Right. I mean, and it's like

00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.730
I said, your voice acting is like. through the

00:47:49.730 --> 00:47:52.389
Dragon Ball series all the way through when uh

00:47:52.389 --> 00:47:55.050
through Dragon Ball Z uh the Dragon Ball series

00:47:55.050 --> 00:47:57.329
those are my my favorite one the very first ones

00:47:57.329 --> 00:48:00.090
because I mean you're you're witnessing uh young

00:48:00.090 --> 00:48:03.210
Goku go through the aspects of what what are

00:48:03.210 --> 00:48:06.869
humans right there's a whole thing and then such

00:48:06.869 --> 00:48:09.329
a pure soul through the whole thing because the

00:48:09.329 --> 00:48:12.239
way you voice it you can hear the pureness in

00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:14.619
him all the way through into when he even grows

00:48:14.619 --> 00:48:18.019
up who does the next it's still pureness also

00:48:18.019 --> 00:48:20.659
in that but then you hear gohan the frustrations

00:48:20.659 --> 00:48:22.960
because dad's not there you know you can hear

00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.820
that also training with piccolo and all that

00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:28.539
stuff and go on and so forth you know you've

00:48:28.539 --> 00:48:30.780
brought so much life to these characters i mean

00:48:30.780 --> 00:48:33.309
these are something that'll that will stick to

00:48:33.309 --> 00:48:35.489
the back of our minds to the end of time, you

00:48:35.489 --> 00:48:38.150
know, in situations, different situations we're

00:48:38.150 --> 00:48:40.670
in. And that's awesome. That's so awesome. Yeah,

00:48:40.730 --> 00:48:43.670
I'm glad. And with me being such a lover of children

00:48:43.670 --> 00:48:46.170
and young people, it's been even more fulfilling

00:48:46.170 --> 00:48:48.070
for that reason. I think that, you know, they

00:48:48.070 --> 00:48:50.489
were kids when I was recording in my 20s or whenever

00:48:50.489 --> 00:48:53.070
however old I was. And then, you know, growing

00:48:53.070 --> 00:48:55.289
up and getting older and then, you know, really

00:48:55.289 --> 00:48:58.809
being able to embrace those moments is It's just

00:48:58.809 --> 00:49:01.789
electrifying. It's like, it's really magical.

00:49:02.989 --> 00:49:05.369
And yeah, that sense of purpose and really kind

00:49:05.369 --> 00:49:07.429
of finding your way through life, the hard times,

00:49:07.510 --> 00:49:09.369
the tribulations. And there's a lot that goes

00:49:09.369 --> 00:49:11.369
on through the story. There's a lot of development,

00:49:12.530 --> 00:49:15.510
developmental history with Akira's, you know,

00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:18.070
storytelling. He's so good at it. And to have

00:49:18.070 --> 00:49:20.889
those depth of character, it really, you know,

00:49:20.949 --> 00:49:25.119
because... kids of any age identify with one

00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:27.579
or two of them and they latch onto it and a lot

00:49:27.579 --> 00:49:31.320
of them latch on to go on being you know thrown

00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:34.019
out on his own as a child and trying to make

00:49:34.019 --> 00:49:36.280
his way and you know kind of really training

00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:40.280
him and to believe in that power that he even

00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:42.719
didn't know he he didn't know he had until he

00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:48.360
was ready to fight the enemy and you know stronger

00:49:48.360 --> 00:49:50.420
than basically we're stronger than we think we

00:49:50.420 --> 00:49:53.860
are. yeah exactly and to believe in that is always

00:49:53.860 --> 00:49:56.320
good yeah because life's gonna throw you some

00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.440
curve balls yeah be prepared to swing don't we

00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:04.199
know that yes for sure yeah so i was gonna ask

00:50:04.199 --> 00:50:08.440
you one more thing oh yeah um For the young voice

00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:11.440
actors that are coming up the rankings You that

00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:14.619
being the OG out there. I'm coming next time.

00:50:14.619 --> 00:50:16.820
It's that's no longer Stephanie. It's Stephanie.

00:50:16.980 --> 00:50:22.039
Oh jean the dolly now And put those in parentheses

00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:26.460
any word of advice for these young Upcoming voice

00:50:26.460 --> 00:50:29.300
actors. I mean what to expect or which they work

00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:31.519
on when they jump on the mic for the first time

00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:34.599
to Maybe create the first anime or their first

00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.719
voiceover and anything upcoming up for them Oh,

00:50:37.900 --> 00:50:40.900
I just say practice, listen back, record, listen

00:50:40.900 --> 00:50:44.480
back, fine tune, get some acting classes. If

00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:46.760
you want to get into voice acting, you have to

00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:48.960
be able to bring life to these characters and

00:50:48.960 --> 00:50:51.280
they have to be unique. Mimicking is a great

00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:55.460
talent. But I would say to also remember that...

00:50:55.500 --> 00:50:59.039
Characters need voices and they need unique voices

00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.719
that are you come up with yourself. So really

00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:06.159
practice on what's what you can provide a role

00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:10.860
for your audition, you know, that's unique and

00:51:10.860 --> 00:51:15.059
Like I said, you know Dramatic arts acting classes

00:51:15.059 --> 00:51:17.239
workshops. There's a lot of stuff online that

00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:20.320
you could do to get started. There's narrations.

00:51:20.380 --> 00:51:24.389
There's audiobooks. There's sample audition sites.

00:51:25.630 --> 00:51:30.030
There's more than I can even say. I am not in

00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:31.969
front of the computer right now to like look

00:51:31.969 --> 00:51:34.789
for them, but they're out there and being in

00:51:34.789 --> 00:51:36.650
the right place at the right time is also part

00:51:36.650 --> 00:51:39.559
of it. And then just really being. True to yourself

00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:43.019
and driven and kind of do what it takes to better

00:51:43.019 --> 00:51:45.500
yourself. It's an investment in your future So

00:51:45.500 --> 00:51:48.300
I think that you know the dramatic arts background

00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:51.460
with I was in I majored in dramatic arts in college

00:51:51.460 --> 00:51:55.860
and Also, you know participated in community

00:51:55.860 --> 00:52:01.960
theater blocking Costuming all that but the actual

00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:04.400
acting experience and being around other actors

00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:10.239
as a child even I worked with summer musicals,

00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:13.199
Shakespearean festivals in southeastern Oklahoma.

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:18.079
It's all experience. Even if you're just watching

00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:20.820
or shadowing a project, it's very good knowledge

00:52:20.820 --> 00:52:24.159
to kind of see how things are done and just be

00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:27.019
focused and professional and on time and learn

00:52:27.019 --> 00:52:30.059
the etiquette. Learn the professional etiquette

00:52:30.059 --> 00:52:36.699
and pay attention to everything around you. It's

00:52:36.699 --> 00:52:41.019
not easy. And most people have done something

00:52:41.019 --> 00:52:45.400
prior to receiving a role that involves something

00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:49.360
with the voice or music or, you know, theater,

00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.239
stage theater. All that stuff helped helped me

00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:54.559
personally and a lot of my voice actor colleagues.

00:52:54.900 --> 00:52:59.340
Right. Yeah. First thing I want to say, the last

00:52:59.340 --> 00:53:02.119
thing I want to say is thank you. Don't thank

00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:05.400
you to you for being on our show and. Don't change.

00:53:05.739 --> 00:53:08.440
You are authentic when it comes to talking to

00:53:08.440 --> 00:53:11.739
you every single time. I enjoy chitchatting here

00:53:11.739 --> 00:53:13.380
for the three times that we've had this interview,

00:53:13.780 --> 00:53:16.179
these interviews. It's been a treat. It's been

00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:18.860
a treat every single time. Yes, you're doing

00:53:18.860 --> 00:53:21.389
a great job. Thank you so much. How's he doing,

00:53:21.750 --> 00:53:23.989
everybody? Give him a round of applause. Oh,

00:53:23.989 --> 00:53:30.190
well, we lost four. No, I want to say thank you.

00:53:30.190 --> 00:53:32.090
Keep doing what you're doing, bringing the magic

00:53:32.090 --> 00:53:35.130
into the anime voiceovers that you bring for

00:53:35.130 --> 00:53:37.150
these. Not only for an old guy like me that still

00:53:37.150 --> 00:53:39.510
likes watching, but the younger, younger generations

00:53:39.510 --> 00:53:42.469
that are coming up to see the cool stuff that

00:53:42.469 --> 00:53:45.090
we had growing up. And now it's anime series

00:53:45.090 --> 00:53:48.179
now that are following the footsteps of of you

00:53:48.179 --> 00:53:50.199
know my generation coming up through the years

00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:53.880
and all I can say just keep doing keep you keep

00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:55.739
doing you you keep doing you're doing a great

00:53:55.739 --> 00:53:58.639
job you're doing a great job thank you so much

00:53:58.639 --> 00:54:02.219
really kind guys if you've enjoyed the show uh

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00:54:12.690 --> 00:54:14.849
Nadali will be getting through the mail for free

00:54:14.849 --> 00:54:18.710
because she came out and joined us out here.

00:54:18.869 --> 00:54:21.250
It's a big appreciation. Thank you so much. And

00:54:21.250 --> 00:54:23.489
there might be a shirt in the future too, Ms.

00:54:23.710 --> 00:54:27.730
Stephanie. I don't know. We're working on there.

00:54:28.570 --> 00:54:30.610
Yes, you got to promote yourself. Got to be able

00:54:30.610 --> 00:54:35.269
to advocate for your show. Thank you so much,

00:54:35.530 --> 00:54:38.889
Stephanie. Like I said. Just continue doing what

00:54:38.889 --> 00:54:41.090
you're doing. Keep bringing the magic for us

00:54:41.090 --> 00:54:43.989
on video. And I got more people up here. Let

00:54:43.989 --> 00:54:46.610
me see. I got another one. There you go. All

00:54:46.610 --> 00:54:48.670
that. Yeah. Yes. Several awards. Yes. We just

00:54:48.670 --> 00:54:52.050
talked about that. That's it. Good. All I can

00:54:52.050 --> 00:54:55.690
say is good luck. And you know what? I see it's

00:54:55.690 --> 00:54:57.210
it's you're going to get it. You won't get it.

00:54:57.230 --> 00:54:58.710
You know, no problem. You won't get it. I'm just

00:54:58.710 --> 00:55:00.630
happy to be nominated. I'm just like came out

00:55:00.630 --> 00:55:02.889
of nowhere. It's a big surprise. It's I'm embracing

00:55:02.889 --> 00:55:07.110
it. It's humbling and very it's such an honor.

00:55:07.369 --> 00:55:12.670
And I hope Dyma wins for my fellow castmates

00:55:12.670 --> 00:55:15.050
and my director and just be something amazing.

00:55:15.570 --> 00:55:17.909
It's such a huge franchise. Choice Award is cool

00:55:17.909 --> 00:55:20.269
too for Nickelodeon. I'm not even sure how that's

00:55:20.269 --> 00:55:21.670
done. I'm not sure if there's a way to vote.

00:55:21.949 --> 00:55:23.809
If there is a way to vote and you're a big fan,

00:55:24.230 --> 00:55:27.630
we'd appreciate the votes, absolutely. I say

00:55:27.630 --> 00:55:29.789
vote and let's get Stephanie slimed. Let's do

00:55:29.789 --> 00:55:31.789
that. Let's get together and get Stephanie slimed

00:55:31.789 --> 00:55:35.090
on stage. That sounds like a plan. I'm ready.

00:55:36.489 --> 00:55:39.489
Steph, thank you so much. Any last words from

00:55:39.489 --> 00:55:44.389
Kid Goku or Goku Mini? Kid Goku. Kid Goku's hungry.

00:55:44.750 --> 00:55:46.909
It's supper time. There you go. There you go.

00:55:47.230 --> 00:55:51.030
And just, you know, the website usually showcases

00:55:51.030 --> 00:55:54.269
where I'm going to be. Sometimes I'll put promotional,

00:55:54.849 --> 00:55:56.829
my guy, my manager will put promotional videos

00:55:56.829 --> 00:55:59.949
up there. I just definitely need it on the Facebook.

00:56:00.460 --> 00:56:02.739
I guess it's on Facebook. It's Stephanie Nidalny

00:56:02.739 --> 00:56:06.260
voice actress. Stephanie Nidalny .com is my website.

00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:08.719
There's a form submission there. If you want

00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:10.619
to write to me, have any questions. I do have

00:56:10.619 --> 00:56:12.940
an Instagram account as well. It's just my name.

00:56:14.179 --> 00:56:16.960
And who knows what other platforms are coming.

00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:21.219
Steph's Vox on X. So yeah, that's pretty much

00:56:21.219 --> 00:56:23.260
the place to go Stephanie and only .com Don't

00:56:23.260 --> 00:56:25.659
be afraid to mention her guys. She will message

00:56:25.659 --> 00:56:27.880
back She is good at that. She's real good to

00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:29.960
her fans and I love the fact that she reaches

00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:34.539
out as quick as possible Thank you so much. I

00:56:34.539 --> 00:56:37.360
appreciate you and Every kid every fan that's

00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:39.780
out there says thank you for continue bringing

00:56:39.780 --> 00:56:41.920
the magic every single time. Thank you for having

00:56:41.920 --> 00:56:44.559
me Thank you for all your work as well. I wish

00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:46.960
you nothing but success in your endeavors and

00:56:47.150 --> 00:56:49.949
Thank you to the kiddo and um, maybe i'll see

00:56:49.949 --> 00:56:52.570
you in the valley sometime down south south texas

00:56:52.570 --> 00:56:55.090
We gotta get you down here again We get you down

00:56:55.090 --> 00:56:57.230
here so you come christen the the studio for

00:56:57.230 --> 00:56:59.670
us. I got to I would love that I grew up on the

00:56:59.670 --> 00:57:01.809
border of mexico as a child for about three and

00:57:01.809 --> 00:57:04.289
a half years eagle pass So, uh, i've always been

00:57:04.289 --> 00:57:07.510
interested in the uh, the spanish language and

00:57:07.510 --> 00:57:09.329
I understand quite a bit of it when I hear it.

00:57:09.329 --> 00:57:11.909
It's kind of kind of crazy There you go. You

00:57:11.909 --> 00:57:13.929
pick up on stuff easier. I think when you're

00:57:13.929 --> 00:57:16.469
a kid when you're around it and friends are speak

00:57:16.469 --> 00:57:18.070
another language. It's really pretty cool. And

00:57:18.070 --> 00:57:20.210
I'm reunited with my bestie that lived across

00:57:20.210 --> 00:57:23.090
the street now she's in San Antonio. And so it's

00:57:23.090 --> 00:57:26.690
just like I'm reliving my my youth through friends.

00:57:26.710 --> 00:57:28.849
It's so much easier to find everybody on social

00:57:28.849 --> 00:57:31.349
the social media is now that you know, yes, back

00:57:31.349 --> 00:57:32.909
in the day, we didn't have any of that. So this

00:57:32.909 --> 00:57:35.789
is really cool. No, pin pals. That's all we had.

00:57:35.789 --> 00:57:37.929
Pin pals, writing letters, waiting on the mail,

00:57:38.050 --> 00:57:40.510
playing with sticks, riding bikes. Smoke signals.

00:57:40.929 --> 00:57:43.090
Smoke signals. Come home when the street lights.

00:57:43.269 --> 00:57:44.769
Yeah, come home for dinner when the street lights

00:57:44.769 --> 00:57:48.309
come on. Yes. Oh, we can talk so much about that,

00:57:48.489 --> 00:57:51.750
Steph. It's not even funny. No, I know. No, Steph,

00:57:51.750 --> 00:57:54.369
thank you so much, man. And from us and the Chewy

00:57:54.369 --> 00:57:56.489
New Podcast and every child in the world, we

00:57:56.489 --> 00:57:58.449
love you. Thank you so much. Love you guys. Am

00:57:58.449 --> 00:58:00.809
I right? We'll see you in a bit. Yes, ma 'am.

00:58:00.849 --> 00:58:03.780
Give me one second. Ladies and gentlemen. We

00:58:03.780 --> 00:58:05.539
get open area go ladies gentlemen. Thank you

00:58:05.539 --> 00:58:07.239
once again for joining us here in the two new

00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:10.980
podcast I appreciate you guys tuning in I'm gonna

00:58:10.980 --> 00:58:13.119
leave this up till Monday so everybody get a

00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:15.940
chance after Monday comes in it will be closed

00:58:15.940 --> 00:58:20.039
down for only Members to watch the show Like

00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:23.309
I said, thank you so much next week Tuesday at

00:58:23.309 --> 00:58:26.070
7 30 p .m. That six foot other thing will be

00:58:26.070 --> 00:58:27.949
here. Trust me You're not gonna want to miss

00:58:27.949 --> 00:58:32.530
that we have combat cult or some wrestling Program

00:58:32.530 --> 00:58:34.909
coming in to talk about some stuff that's happening

00:58:34.909 --> 00:58:37.489
that week and that you won't want to miss But

00:58:37.489 --> 00:58:40.170
other than that guys, thank you so much. I am

00:58:40.170 --> 00:58:43.269
ooh from the chewing new pockets and like always

00:58:43.269 --> 00:58:45.030
Latest gators peace out