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Hi, this is Dan Gilbazan, and you're listening

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to the Geekcast Radio Network. Hey, everybody,

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this is Bumblebee, and you're listening to the

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TFG1 Podcast. Cool, huh? Hey, everybody, this

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is Dan Gilbazan, voice of G1 Bumblebee, and you're

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listening to All Things Transformers. We better

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check this out. Hello and welcome to All Things

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Transformers and the TFG1 Podcast. I am one of

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your hosts, TFG1. Mike, joining me is Optimus

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Solo. How have you been? It's been a while since

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you've been on All Things Transformers and the

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TFG1 Podcast. Yeah, I've been busy with our Cinema

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Geeks Podcast. We've been covering Westerns all

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year, classic Westerns, and the Planet of the

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Apes franchise currently, so that's where I've

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been. Yeah, I was like... I understand the Westerns

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and that's fine after the, was it the Cary Grant

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or the Hitchcock? Yeah, it was Hitchcock before

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the Westerns. And I was like, wait a minute,

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where are these apes coming in? Why are the apes

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getting into the Westerns at the same time? That

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was weird. Counter -programming against ourselves.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. But

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check out the Cinema Geeks, folks, only on the

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GCRN. We have returned from Cybertron. We are

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back here on Earth with the latest interview

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in our long -running series of interviews here

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on the GCR. And this time, we welcome back into

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the podcast, after 14 years, the voice of Spider

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-Man, Bumblebee, and many others, Mr. Dan Gilvezan.

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Hi, Dan. How are you? Hey, guys. What's happening?

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Not too much. We're excited to get you on here.

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trending recently with some social media comments

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and videos surrounding the Optimus Prime Awakening

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Short. And we will get to that shortly. But before

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we do, we just wanted to catch up a little bit.

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So Mike has a couple of questions for you. Sure.

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After all, it has been 14 years. Yeah, absolutely.

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So first of all, how the heck have you been since

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the last time we talked with you in 2012? Well,

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still alive, still kicking, still working. Still

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doing voiceover stuff. I just did a movie last

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year. And I'm doing lots of conventions this

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year. I've been all over the country. In fact,

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I'm going to Houston on the 17th and 18th for

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their convention. That's this month. So I've

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been doing a lot of stuff and writing as well.

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So I've been pretty busy. Just got a new puppy,

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too. So I'm taking with her. Yeah, we have a

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sweet little puppy now. Yeah, yeah. But everything's

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been great. Yeah, I saw one of those puppy videos.

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I'm like, uh -oh, that's a lot of trouble. Yeah,

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she is so cute. You just look at her and those

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big dark eyes bore into you, and your heart does

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a flip -flop, and you just fall in love. It's

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impossible. You mentioned writing. Are you writing

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another autobiography? No, I've been writing

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some some one acts. Friends of mine who are actors

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have bemoaned the fact that there are no two

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person scenes that are really do anything for

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them, really, you know, that are three minutes

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self -contained kind of thing. So I've been working

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on some of those for friends. And that's been

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working out kind of nicely. Comedy is a little

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drama here. So that's that's taken up some of

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my time. But it's no, no, no autobiographies

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at this point, although. I'm sure we'll get into

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this later, but I don't know whether you're aware

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of it, but I was sitting on an interview with

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Peter Cullen. I have it right here. I'm looking

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at it right now. After he passed, we were all

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just really, really sad about losing Peter. I

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thought, this is not doing anybody any good sitting

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on my hard drive, so I went ahead and put it

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up. People have really been appreciative. He

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was really open with me, and we were actually

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at Le Petit Chateau, which is where he would

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be every Thursday night having a martini or two.

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And I sat down with him one night, and we had

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a very intimate conversation where he shared

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stuff, I think, with me that he probably never

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shared before with any other interviewer since

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because we were friends and colleagues. So I

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was really happy to be able to do that for the

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fans so they could have something to kind of

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hang on after Peter went away. I think one of

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my favorite lines out of that interview is you

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were talking about all the stuff that Peter had

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done. And one of the parts is Joan Stewart played

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your wife and he asks you. How do you know all

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this stuff? I looked it up. You're anal. You

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leave my anus out of this. That's right. Children

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could be listening to this. Speaking of which,

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Dan, we did want to give you a chance. That was

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kind of one of our bullet points and segued nicely

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into that. But we did want to give you a chance

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to talk a little bit about Peter. If you had

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anything else that you wanted to mention, you

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know, to reflect on your time recording with

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him or what you think about when you think about

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kind of his legacy. Not just when it comes to

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the Transformers franchise, but kind of his legacy

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within the voice acting community as a whole.

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Well, you know, Peter had been, you know, I met

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Peter. My gosh, the first time I met Peter, it

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must have been like 1981 when I was doing Spider

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-Man and his amazing friends. And he came on

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to do there was an episode, I believe, that the

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Hulk was in. And Peter was both Banner and the

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Hulk. And that's the first time I met him. So

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we're talking a long time ago. And over the years,

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we worked on a lot of stuff together. I think

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he was on Dino Riders with me. He may have been

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on Sektars. I'm not even sure. And of course,

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you know, Transformers was a big thing because,

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you know, we did a lot, a lot, a lot of episodes.

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And so I was with him a great deal. Unbelievably

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facile talent. One of the sweetest. Next to Frank,

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who is the sweetest man in the universe. He was

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probably the second sweetest, just never had

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a bad word to say about anybody, was always professional

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with what he did, and I considered him a really

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dear friend. The last time I saw Peter was at

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the TFCon in Burbank. That was this spring. And

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he had been in treatment and had been pronounced

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cancer -free. He was sitting in a van by himself

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waiting to be driven back. And I just went up

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to the van and I put my hand over his and I said,

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Pete, I'm really, really glad to have you back.

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And he turned and he had tears in his eyes and

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he said, thank you, friend. And that was the

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last time I saw Peter. Yeah, I know. It's just.

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You know, there's no way to get around the sadness

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and also the great loss to, you know, the Transformers

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franchise because Peter had many more years,

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many more voices left in him. So, you know, and,

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you know, we're all getting up there. We're all,

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you know, all of us G1 guys are, you know, some

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of us are there. My gosh, Oppie, Alan Oppenheimer

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is in his 90s, for God's sake. And he's still

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going to conventions. You know, more power to

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him. But, you know, we're all getting up there.

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So, you know, grab us while you can is my point.

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Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Speaking of anniversaries

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and things, the 40th anniversary of the Transformers,

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the movie. Can you believe it's been 40 years

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since that thing was in theaters? Yeah, I know.

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It's pretty crazy. I remember when it came out

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and, you know, it didn't do that well. It wasn't

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that popular until it became sort of a cult item

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among Transformers fans. And now it's hugely

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popular. And the music is... I remember we were

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at... I was at a... This is some time ago, but

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I was at a 25th anniversary, I think. um of the

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release and it was at a local theater here and

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they had michael bell and greg berger and myself

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and a few other people who lived in la and i

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was sitting next to peter or to michael bell

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at the back of the theater waiting because we

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were going to do a q a after the thing and the

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music is and they had the thing cranked up to

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11 you know and it was bang and bang and bang

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i turned over to look at michael and he's He

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was asleep. I couldn't believe how anybody could

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fall asleep in the middle of that movie. That's

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one of my vivid memories of going to that movie.

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That's crazy. Speaking of, you mentioned that

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it didn't do too well originally. Have you at

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all been keeping tabs on how it did with this

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40th release? Because it actually made some decent

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money. Yeah, it did well. Well, you know, it's

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achieved kind of a cult status. And there are

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so many Transformers fans all over the world

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that I'm not surprised that it did well. And

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I was pleased, certainly, that it did well. And,

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you know, this thing just keeps growing and growing.

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It gets bigger and bigger every year, it seems

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like. It was fun. I have a six -year -old daughter,

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and the two of us went to see it. And she doesn't

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know a whole lot of Transformers. She doesn't

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have a knowledge or background in the franchise

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necessarily, but she still cried when Optimus

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Prime died. So it was quite the moment in the

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theater there. Great. So we traumatized a new

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generation. Hey, that's the only way to do it,

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right? I suppose so. It's like a baptism of fire.

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That's right. You're not a true Transformers

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fan until you've watched Optimus take his last

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breath. Right. The first thing I asked her afterwards,

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though, about her reaction. commented on the

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music. She was a big fan of the music. That was

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rock and roll. It was. That's some head -banging

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music, man. At least the theater that I was at,

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they had that thing wailing, man. It was really

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something. The funny thing about the money with

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the movie and it making a lot of bank back now

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with the, I think it was like 4 million or something

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or other for that. They extended how many shows

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they were going to do. Yeah, exactly. But my

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thing is in total. It only took 40 years for

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it to make its budget back. Which shows that

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in this business, if you're patient, you know,

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things will work out for you. Patience is a virtue.

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That's right. Do you have any specific memories

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of those recording sessions or the film specifically?

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And kind of how was that different from when

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you guys recorded the actual series? Well, I'll

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tell you, I actually did not record with the

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group. You'll recall that during that period

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of time, we were all very, very busy doing animated

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series to back up each toy line that ever came

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out. I can only assume that when the main cast

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came in to do it, I was not available. So I came

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in later, and it was just me and Wally and the

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sound engineer and some folks from... from the

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studio so i you know and i didn't have that many

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lines really if you if you watch the movie you

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see me and spike at the beginning and then i

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kind of disappear completely and then but i am

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in the big dance number at the end so at least

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i survived so um so that i don't have that great

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a memory but i'll tell you i have another this

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is okay this is breaking story for you i have

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another interview that i did with scott brownlee

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Way back, way back in the day before Scott. Scott's

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actually doing. By the way, if you don't know,

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he was our sound engineer. He was there for every

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episode that was recorded. He pushed the buttons.

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He did. He did all the sound stuff. He checked

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the microphones. He did all of that. Scott was

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really knowledgeable about what went into the

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technical aspect of it. And I was interested

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in hearing about that. So and this was about

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the time I interviewed Peter and we're talking

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like, I don't know, must have been like nine,

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10 years ago. I still have that. And I'm considering

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putting it up, too, because he talks about how

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they how they they treated the voices because

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they're the slight robotic quality to it. Nothing

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that's too heavy, but there's something kind

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of there. And I just I told him, well, I assume

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that you just added a little buzz to the to the

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voice. Right. He looked at me like I was crazy.

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He said, oh, no, no. There were like four machines

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they had to use. They rented them actually to

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go through and get the quality that Hasbro was

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looking for and that Sunbow was looking for for

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those voices. So it was much more complicated.

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Plus, he had some great stories. You talk about

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the the movie. He had some great stories about

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Orson Welles coming in with his little dog. So

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I got to release that. I'm going to do it maybe

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in the next couple of weeks because it's kind

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of a fascinating interview in itself. Very cool.

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So when the film came out back back then in the

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80s, did you have a chance to I know some actors

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stay away from the end products and some some

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like to watch them. Did you watch the movie originally

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back then and kind of. as it's had its different

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anniversary things, have you been someone who,

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who has watched it a couple of different times

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in the theaters or how has that experience been

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for you? Well, I've seen it a few times because

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of, you know, doing Q and A's for like the anniversary,

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that type of thing. I didn't see it when it first

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came out. And to be honest with you, I wasn't

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that interested in it because. And this is, you

00:13:53.250 --> 00:13:57.210
know, completely unfiltered Dan Yildizan. I was

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not happy with the script that they did. They

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actually took all of the main characters and

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made them very minimal characters. Right. And

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then they used a bunch of, I guess you could

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say, stars or celebrities, you know, Eric Idle

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and Nimoy and all these other guys. um and used

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them as like the main portion of the thing and

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i thought this is you know you're not being true

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to to what the uh the the audience is expecting

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you know i i mean i i it came out fine but i

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was not happy that uh spike and bumblebee were

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pretty much relegated to the first couple of

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minutes and then they were gone and that was

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true of a lot of the characters and of course

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they killed many many characters so when i when

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i read the script um i was like this this I'm

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not too thrilled with the way they're handling

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this. And this is my opinion. You know, that's

00:14:47.429 --> 00:14:50.610
just me. And it's because I tend to be very protective

00:14:50.610 --> 00:14:56.230
of what we did back in the 80s, from 84 to, I

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guess, 87. You have another story about how I

00:15:01.009 --> 00:15:03.309
found out we were done, too. Remind me to tell

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you that. So, yeah, I wasn't really, you know,

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too thrilled about it. I'm happy that people

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enjoy it and I'm happy that it's gone on to be

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popular. So don't get me wrong. I'm not disparaging

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the movie at all. I just wasn't pleased with

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the kind of the the angle that they took, I guess

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you could say. Well, and I think that was something

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as you know, the prime audience, because I was

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I grew up in the 80s. That was something that

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was hard to take as a as a child, too, because

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it was all the characters that you had. grown

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to uh appreciate like love whatever the the case

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may be for those first uh you know however many

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episodes aired before the movie and and it was

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hard too i think that's what kind of like led

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me to other franchises afterwards i think i got

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interested in maybe turtles the turtles or different

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things that came after that because i was like

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well they just they just killed off everybody

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that i liked or or they you know like i said

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brought in so many new characters that it was

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jarring as a as a you know an audience you know

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fan as well yeah well it's interesting you should

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say that because that's been my take since you

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know since it came out. I know you don't like

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this and I understand and I respect it, but here's

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my, here's my trajectory. All right. I saw Optimus

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prime die and I saw the, the whole movie and

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everything else. And over the last 40 years of

00:16:21.149 --> 00:16:23.509
my life, I was six. I didn't see the movie in

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theaters, but I was six when all that happened.

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And hot rod, Rodimus prime is my favorite character,

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but how I found like, like kevin said he went

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on to other franchises i did the same thing i

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thought transformers was done after the movie

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no seriously like as a kid i thought okay well

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unicron's head floats away and transformers till

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all are one and everything else like that's what

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i thought i thought It was done. I ended up in

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some video store. I found a VHS copy of something

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called The Rebirth and whatever. And I saw that

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and I liked that. That was okay. But there was

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one thing. I think it was during the return of,

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I think it was the return of Optimus Prime. That

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was right before The Rebirth because that was

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the season three ender. When I saw that. And

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I saw that certain number of other characters

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died off or were supposedly died off and they

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then were able to bring them back. I know you.

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Yeah, I know what you're going to say. Go ahead.

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You know what I'm going to say. Yes, I do. Go

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ahead. But it's because I love because you were

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back. I'm not just plain old Bumblebee. I'm a

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gold bug. You went and said it, didn't you? You

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went and said it. Yeah, it's well known that

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I was not happy with that decision. I understand.

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It was a toyetic decision by the company. I get

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it. Let's take a super popular character and

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do some... I don't even know if there was any

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design changes. We'll just paint him... There

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was. Okay, great. We'll paint him gold. Because

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everybody bought Bumblebees already. Bumblebees

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were already all sold out. Nobody wanted Bumblebees.

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I had a Bumblebee. Everybody had a Bumblebee.

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But nobody had a gold bug. So, once again, it

00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:29.680
was totally unnecessary. It was totally toy -centric,

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as you said. And it didn't last that long, unfortunately.

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It didn't. And the only reason why I like it

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is because, again... He wasn't gone. He wasn't

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dead. He wasn't gone. He was back. He just had

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a new paint job. The toy, I remember the toy

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because I had the Goldbug toy. I think it was

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not a jump starter, but it was one of the pullback.

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Jump starters were a different thing, but he

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had forward motion. Oh, really? That was his

00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:06.859
gimmick. That was Goldbug's gimmick was that

00:19:06.859 --> 00:19:10.019
he had the activate feature where if you pulled

00:19:10.019 --> 00:19:13.559
him back and let him go, he would enroll. I think

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that was what it was. I could be completely misremembering

00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:23.019
it, but I just liked it basically in spirit.

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Bumblebee made it through the whole series, even

00:19:25.769 --> 00:19:27.349
though they had to give him a new paint job.

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Well, yeah. I mean, I was happy about that. Actually,

00:19:32.650 --> 00:19:34.769
as the series went on, there were 95 episodes.

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98. 98, sorry. And I was called every week at

00:19:40.509 --> 00:19:42.049
the beginning, every week. There were actually

00:19:42.049 --> 00:19:46.589
12 of us, original voices. And we did the first,

00:19:46.730 --> 00:19:51.960
I guess, 13. And then, you know, it started actually

00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.160
as a five episode strip show and they wanted

00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.599
to see if it was going to work and it worked

00:19:56.599 --> 00:20:00.160
really well. So they went on with more. But as

00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.900
the show went on, I did less and less. My call

00:20:03.900 --> 00:20:06.779
would be every two weeks and then maybe every

00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:08.880
three weeks. And I was like, oh, I see what's

00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.819
happening here. I see it pretty, pretty plain.

00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:15.339
I was still involved even up to the very end.

00:20:15.380 --> 00:20:18.509
So I was happy. But it was, you know, Bumblebee

00:20:18.509 --> 00:20:22.470
had had performed his mission, which was to sell

00:20:22.470 --> 00:20:25.470
a bunch of toys. And so they needed, you know,

00:20:25.490 --> 00:20:27.769
they needed shelf space for the other for the

00:20:27.769 --> 00:20:30.069
other toys that were coming out all during the

00:20:30.069 --> 00:20:34.569
time. So and, you know, it was a toy based series.

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It was based on a toy line. So, you know, that's

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the bottom of everything. What I'm amazed at

00:20:40.250 --> 00:20:43.220
is. The people who created it, the Flint Dillies

00:20:43.220 --> 00:20:45.799
and all these guys, the guys behind the scenes

00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.559
who created this world, did an incredible job

00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.460
of setting up a world where you could go almost

00:20:52.460 --> 00:20:56.019
anywhere. And they have, with Beast, with Animated,

00:20:56.059 --> 00:20:59.299
with all the different types of series. And it's

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all based on this premise that these guys came

00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:04.240
up with, which is pretty freaking brilliant.

00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:08.819
And I think that's one of the reasons. I mean,

00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.359
there's been tons and tons of shows during that

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time that you won't even remember the names of.

00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.200
But because of the way this thing was constructed

00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:20.920
and the names that they gave them and just the

00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.240
care that they took, it turned out to be something

00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:27.720
much, much more than just a backup of a toy line.

00:21:28.339 --> 00:21:31.599
So you teased it earlier with how you guys found

00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:34.319
out that it was coming to a close. So did you

00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:36.480
want to share that? with us now? Yeah. Um, yeah,

00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:40.599
we had, uh, let's see, I was at a, uh, an industry

00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:44.700
event and, uh, I was sitting in my seat waiting

00:21:44.700 --> 00:21:46.599
for it to happen. And I felt somebody poked me

00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:48.880
in the back and I turned and it was Chris Lana.

00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.519
And I said, Hey man, what's going on? What's

00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:54.680
the deal? And he goes, Hey, you know, uh, transformers

00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:57.579
is over. I went, what, what do you mean it's

00:21:57.579 --> 00:22:00.400
over? Yeah. We did the last one, uh, last week.

00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.900
It's all over. It is. Yeah. Are you sure Chris?

00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:08.220
oh i'm sure and that's how i found out there

00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:10.700
was no rap party there was no announcement it

00:22:10.700 --> 00:22:14.839
just ended and I was kind of upset and sad about

00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:16.900
that because we'd been together for such a long

00:22:16.900 --> 00:22:19.759
time. And it's traditional. I did a show for

00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:22.259
Hanna -Barbera called Pound Puppies. And after

00:22:22.259 --> 00:22:24.980
the first season, there was a big wrap party

00:22:24.980 --> 00:22:27.519
of Spider -Man and his amazing friends. After

00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:29.880
the first season, there was a big wrap party.

00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:32.779
Stan was there and all the cast was there and

00:22:32.779 --> 00:22:35.539
all of the animators and all that stuff. Nothing

00:22:35.539 --> 00:22:39.680
with this. It just ended. And that kind of made

00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:43.079
me sad. Yeah, that is that. That's crazy. Yeah.

00:22:43.079 --> 00:22:45.420
And that's how I found out. Chris Latter told

00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:48.059
me. So I'm curious because, you know, obviously

00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:50.619
in the eyes of the fans and the audience, like

00:22:50.619 --> 00:22:52.680
it's easy for us to group, you know, different

00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:55.220
actors that were in shows together. But I was

00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:58.279
curious when it came to that group that was involved

00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:00.259
with Transformers, you know, especially the ones

00:23:00.259 --> 00:23:04.140
that were heavily involved. How often? I know

00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:05.799
you guys see each other again and you work together

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:07.599
again in different shows and things of that nature.

00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:09.819
But how often do you interact with the other

00:23:09.819 --> 00:23:12.799
actors throughout the years from the TV series?

00:23:13.359 --> 00:23:16.539
Well, because of the way it works now, everybody's

00:23:16.539 --> 00:23:21.440
at home doing recording singly. So the only time

00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:24.359
I see these guys are at conventions. I mean,

00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:27.539
the last time I saw Michael Bell was at a convention.

00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:31.650
I saw Greg Berger recently. I was with Townsend

00:23:31.650 --> 00:23:34.450
Coleman not that long ago. I don't know. Townie

00:23:34.450 --> 00:23:38.670
did some of these, I think. So that's the only

00:23:38.670 --> 00:23:40.509
time because the whole thing has changed. Back

00:23:40.509 --> 00:23:43.089
in my day, the entire cast would be gathered

00:23:43.089 --> 00:23:45.990
at one time and, you know, everybody would be

00:23:45.990 --> 00:23:47.750
together and it would be, you know, one great

00:23:47.750 --> 00:23:50.130
big party. And although we did have some work

00:23:50.130 --> 00:23:54.109
to do. There ain't no session like a Wally Burr

00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:57.349
session, baby. Oh, jeez. Don't even talk to me

00:23:57.349 --> 00:24:00.390
about that. You know, everybody, any hardcore

00:24:00.390 --> 00:24:03.990
fan knows about Wally and his quest for perfection.

00:24:04.619 --> 00:24:07.099
And I got to say, you know, Wally would drive

00:24:07.099 --> 00:24:10.480
me crazy as he drove everyone else crazy. But,

00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:13.880
you know, the proof is in the pudding. I listened

00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:16.319
to an episode not that long ago just to kind

00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:18.960
of, you know, get my feet wet again. And the

00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:21.759
voice work is really, really good. I mean, the

00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.680
animation shows its age. But to me, the voice

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:27.920
work and the camaraderie that was created is

00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:33.029
really good. You guys did an amazing job. There's

00:24:33.029 --> 00:24:34.529
a reason why so many people involved in that

00:24:34.529 --> 00:24:37.250
show did have the sheer number of credits to

00:24:37.250 --> 00:24:39.569
their name when it comes to especially the voice

00:24:39.569 --> 00:24:41.250
acting world. Well, yeah, first of all, I mean,

00:24:41.250 --> 00:24:43.650
that was not to pat myself on the back, but that

00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:46.009
was a creme de la creme of voiceover talent in

00:24:46.009 --> 00:24:48.069
L .A. at the time. You couldn't get anybody any

00:24:48.069 --> 00:24:51.079
better. And I was like, so I was thrilled because

00:24:51.079 --> 00:24:53.339
it was only my second show. The first was the

00:24:53.339 --> 00:24:56.819
Spider -Man show. Spider -Man. Yeah. And so I

00:24:56.819 --> 00:24:59.339
was thrilled to be a part of this. And I really

00:24:59.339 --> 00:25:01.559
felt I had to up my game to keep up with, you

00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:04.000
know, people like Frank and Peter and Michael,

00:25:04.099 --> 00:25:06.480
who'd all been they'd all done tons and tons

00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:09.920
of stuff before that. What about for any of the

00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.440
anniversaries? You mentioned that, you know,

00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:13.500
they've done some Q &As and things of that nature.

00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:16.200
Has a small group of, you know, the cast got

00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:19.019
together for some of those events? No, not really.

00:25:19.220 --> 00:25:22.859
No, it's kind of like, you know, it's like a

00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:25.220
show, man. You know, when you're doing the show,

00:25:25.460 --> 00:25:27.740
everybody's in love and everybody loves one another.

00:25:27.880 --> 00:25:29.599
And I'll see you all the time. It's going to

00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:31.900
be fantastic. You're like a brother to me now,

00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:34.700
you know, and then you don't see anybody anymore.

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.279
It's just because the show is over now. Occasionally

00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:40.420
you'll strike up a real, real tight friendship

00:25:40.420 --> 00:25:43.210
with one or two people and that may go on. But

00:25:43.210 --> 00:25:45.950
generally not, you know, generally we're not

00:25:45.950 --> 00:25:48.910
a group of people who, you know, hang out and

00:25:48.910 --> 00:25:52.390
play pool on Friday. You know, so as I said,

00:25:52.430 --> 00:25:54.809
the only time most of us see each other is at

00:25:54.809 --> 00:25:57.710
the conventions or like the thing we did last

00:25:57.710 --> 00:26:00.809
year for Hasbro, which was the 40th anniversary

00:26:00.809 --> 00:26:05.789
of the series. And we redid the first episode

00:26:05.789 --> 00:26:09.069
live, which was a lot of fun. So those are the

00:26:09.069 --> 00:26:11.089
only times that I really see these guys. And

00:26:11.089 --> 00:26:13.880
it's always a treat to hang with them. But, yeah,

00:26:14.059 --> 00:26:16.900
it's it's not like I mean, it's a it's definitely

00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:19.039
a club. You know, it's like somebody goes through

00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:21.920
the army with somebody and that like binds them

00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.380
for life. You know, somebody needs a kidney and,

00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:28.759
you know, I'm there for you. It's that type of

00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:30.380
thing. I'm not saying that, you know, that kind

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:32.759
of intensity was involved, but it's that kind

00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:37.319
of camaraderie that that sort of wove us all

00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:40.000
together. So when we do see another of us, it's

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.859
like. Ah, another club member. Come here, my

00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:48.299
friend. Yeah. Yeah. And obviously getting into

00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:51.400
voicing Bumblebee in the last 40 years, most

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:54.779
people know you as G1 Bumblebee, but you've had

00:26:54.779 --> 00:26:58.599
some chances to voice Bumblebee. In other projects,

00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:01.660
you voiced him in Transformers Devastation for

00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:06.000
video games, and then that was in 2010. In 2026,

00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:09.440
you voiced Bumblebee for N .G. Smoove's Dawn

00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.900
of War project. What was your experience like

00:27:12.900 --> 00:27:15.859
in each of those projects? How did they compare

00:27:15.859 --> 00:27:21.769
to your original experience? Well, there was

00:27:21.769 --> 00:27:24.329
really no comparison because, you know, once

00:27:24.329 --> 00:27:26.029
you enter video games, as I'm sure you know,

00:27:26.089 --> 00:27:28.890
and most listeners know, all of the voices are

00:27:28.890 --> 00:27:31.509
done one at a time. It's you alone in the studio

00:27:31.509 --> 00:27:35.470
and you just use an iPad. Now there's not even

00:27:35.470 --> 00:27:37.490
any scripts anymore. There's, you know, you flip

00:27:37.490 --> 00:27:40.049
an iPad, but, you know, it's just line after

00:27:40.049 --> 00:27:42.349
line after line. Whoop, can't go there. Better

00:27:42.349 --> 00:27:44.940
try here. Oh, that's locked. Got to find a key

00:27:44.940 --> 00:27:47.000
or whatever it's going to be. And just, oh, you

00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:50.039
know, oh, no. And at the end, then all the screaming

00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:52.220
takes place where you're falling and you're getting

00:27:52.220 --> 00:27:54.200
killed and all of that. Luckily, they keep it

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:57.779
to the end. So that's completely different. That's

00:27:57.779 --> 00:28:00.779
completely different. Now, for Randall, who's

00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:05.400
also behind the smooth stuff, he's been a friend

00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:07.579
of mine for a long time and he's done some wonderful

00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:10.259
stuff for me. And I was more than happy to jump

00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:14.619
in and help him with his presentation. And as

00:28:14.619 --> 00:28:17.880
far as the video game went, I mean, I was really

00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:20.380
glad to revisit the character. And I think that

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:23.180
they did a beautiful job with kind of invoking

00:28:23.180 --> 00:28:26.880
the G1 aesthetic in the game. And it was apparently

00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.339
very popular. So I'm always thrilled to go back

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:34.000
to it like that. And that's another issue that

00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:37.490
we may want to talk about. Yeah. That's where

00:28:37.490 --> 00:28:40.670
we're getting right now. Perhaps we buried the

00:28:40.670 --> 00:28:42.750
lead a little bit, but I did want to... One of

00:28:42.750 --> 00:28:45.190
the main reasons we wanted to invite you on the

00:28:45.190 --> 00:28:47.309
show today and do this interview is because obviously

00:28:47.309 --> 00:28:50.269
we've seen the social media posts, whether it

00:28:50.269 --> 00:28:51.690
be some of the text posts you've made, some of

00:28:51.690 --> 00:28:53.309
the videos you've posted and things of that in

00:28:53.309 --> 00:28:56.210
regards to the Optimus Prime Awakening short

00:28:56.210 --> 00:29:00.470
that followed the movie 40th Anniversary Edition

00:29:00.470 --> 00:29:03.430
in theaters. And we wanted to give you another...

00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:06.539
outlet another platform to kind of fully share

00:29:06.539 --> 00:29:09.140
you know what your reactions were to that what

00:29:09.140 --> 00:29:11.420
your thoughts were and opinions about you know

00:29:11.420 --> 00:29:13.420
some of the stuff revolving around that bumblebee

00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:15.980
character and what you've expressed online okay

00:29:15.980 --> 00:29:18.480
well first of all did you guys sign the petition

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.500
yes yes that's the correct answer um all right

00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:25.960
let me let me start at the beginning and what

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:29.160
happened was they released um I knew that they

00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:31.779
were going to do the 12 minute kind of add on

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:35.079
to the to the 86 movie. I didn't know what it

00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:38.200
was about. I knew it was some sort of reclamation

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:43.200
for Peter or Optimus, rather. And I knew Frank

00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:46.220
was involved as well. But I saw a piece that

00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:48.579
just just a hunk of it that was on the Internet,

00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:51.240
you know, not the whole thing. And here comes

00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:54.039
Bumblebee. He's evil, of course, which I wasn't

00:29:54.039 --> 00:29:56.779
quite understanding. And he doesn't have my voice.

00:29:57.289 --> 00:29:59.710
And I was like, wait a minute. Wait just a minute.

00:29:59.869 --> 00:30:04.450
That's my guy. What's happening here? Oh, Hasbro,

00:30:04.569 --> 00:30:07.910
what's happening? And what's happening was, and

00:30:07.910 --> 00:30:11.170
this is my surmise, I don't know any of this

00:30:11.170 --> 00:30:14.589
100%, but it looks to me, judging from the rest

00:30:14.589 --> 00:30:17.369
of the cast list that I looked at, that they

00:30:17.369 --> 00:30:19.769
went to Canada for the rest of these voices besides

00:30:19.769 --> 00:30:22.799
Peter and Frank. And the reason that they go

00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.460
to Canada is because the Canadian Actors Union

00:30:25.460 --> 00:30:29.039
do not require the producers to pay residuals.

00:30:29.299 --> 00:30:31.539
So it's cheaper for them. That's what they did

00:30:31.539 --> 00:30:34.519
with Beast Wars. Way back in the day, we did

00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:37.299
G1 and then came Beast Wars. Beast Wars was next.

00:30:37.380 --> 00:30:40.619
Am I right? Yes. OK, so Beast Wars was next.

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:43.619
They took the whole thing to Canada. Now, none

00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:45.720
of us were happy about that. In fact, we were

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.160
really bummed out and pissed off about that.

00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:52.180
These were all brand new characters. So we couldn't

00:30:52.180 --> 00:30:55.099
really say, you know, I own that. That's me.

00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.740
You know, yeah, these are new characters. So,

00:30:57.759 --> 00:30:59.599
OK. And they did a great job. You know, David,

00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:04.000
David Kaye and Gary Chalk. Yeah. Yeah. Gary Chalk.

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:06.259
Absolutely. And Gary's great. And so they had

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:08.900
some great talent working on it. In this case,

00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.900
I felt like this is a chance to go back to the

00:31:12.900 --> 00:31:17.539
origins and use the G1 voices. They also had,

00:31:17.619 --> 00:31:19.579
I think, one of the Insecticons, which was who

00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:23.339
was played by Hal Rail. And that was also voiced

00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:26.869
by, I guess, a Canadian actor. So I thought,

00:31:26.990 --> 00:31:31.309
what can I do about this? What can I do? And

00:31:31.309 --> 00:31:34.049
I talked to some of the fans and they said, you

00:31:34.049 --> 00:31:37.289
should do a letter writing or an email writing

00:31:37.289 --> 00:31:40.049
campaign. And you should put up a petition to

00:31:40.049 --> 00:31:44.130
say to ask Hasbro, not tell Hasbro, not demand,

00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:47.519
but ask Hasbro. If they would consider using

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:51.359
G1 voices, the original G1 voices, the ones that

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:54.339
are still around for any G1 centric projects,

00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.160
it only makes sense. It keeps the tradition going,

00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:02.660
the fans. And I'll tell you what, if Hasbro decides

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:05.480
to do this, and we don't know, I haven't heard

00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.339
a word from their side. So nobody knows. We're

00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:11.119
over a thousand signatures on the petition right

00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:14.319
now. And we can use, of course, a lot more. Obviously,

00:32:14.420 --> 00:32:16.900
the more signatures we have on the petition,

00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:19.920
the more weight it's going to bear. And also,

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:25.000
we did put out some of the at Hasbro email addresses

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.039
of these executives who are in charge of these

00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:31.539
types of decisions. And a lot of people had emailed

00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:33.259
them. So I'm not sure what kind of an effect

00:32:33.259 --> 00:32:35.319
that's going to have. It's either going to impress

00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:40.319
them or piss them off. That was my only question

00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:43.319
about about. You're giving out the information

00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:46.400
and stuff like the petition I agree with and

00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:49.480
everything else, but giving out their email addresses,

00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.519
is that? Just ask them a question. Oh, I understand.

00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:57.200
If it was their personal email account, yes,

00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:59.660
that would not be right. These are available

00:32:59.660 --> 00:33:03.099
online. You can find them almost anywhere. And

00:33:03.099 --> 00:33:06.359
generally, the people who work for a company,

00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:09.119
it's usually their first and last name, sometimes

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:12.450
separated by a period. at whatever company they're

00:33:12.450 --> 00:33:15.009
at. So it's not like some kind of major secret

00:33:15.009 --> 00:33:18.769
that we let out. I would never, ever ask my fans

00:33:18.769 --> 00:33:20.569
or anyone. I didn't think you would. No, I would

00:33:20.569 --> 00:33:23.670
never ask them to, you know, they all have personal

00:33:23.670 --> 00:33:25.630
emails and I would never, even if I knew it,

00:33:25.670 --> 00:33:28.230
would never put that out. So I thought this was

00:33:28.230 --> 00:33:30.470
still fair game because, you know, we're talking

00:33:30.470 --> 00:33:33.049
about basically, as I mentioned before to the

00:33:33.049 --> 00:33:36.390
fans who questioned me, this is a business decision

00:33:36.390 --> 00:33:39.250
these guys are making. There's no animosity on

00:33:39.250 --> 00:33:42.910
their part. They're just doing what they do to

00:33:42.910 --> 00:33:46.769
try to help the bottom line, basically. My point

00:33:46.769 --> 00:33:50.670
is, I think the goodwill that they will engender

00:33:50.670 --> 00:33:54.009
by this, the positive feelings toward Hasbro

00:33:54.009 --> 00:33:56.630
by the fans, is going to more than make up for

00:33:56.630 --> 00:34:00.089
the tiny, tiny, tiny bit of money that they're

00:34:00.089 --> 00:34:02.950
going to have to pay in residuals. Besides, YouTube

00:34:02.950 --> 00:34:07.009
videos pay so little. And these guys are making

00:34:07.009 --> 00:34:09.889
they're making billions of dollars off of this.

00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:13.530
It's not going to hurt that bad, guys. No, not

00:34:13.530 --> 00:34:18.150
at all. To use the G1 actors. And I know the

00:34:18.150 --> 00:34:21.550
fans would be absolutely ecstatic about it. I

00:34:21.550 --> 00:34:24.570
mean, the hardcore, you know, Transformers fans,

00:34:24.710 --> 00:34:27.690
the ones who consume the media, the ones who

00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:30.530
buy the figures. They're the ones, you know,

00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:32.630
they're the ones who are going to go, all right,

00:34:32.650 --> 00:34:36.610
Hasbro, you did the right thing. All right. So

00:34:36.610 --> 00:34:39.349
that's what I'm hoping for. I don't know if it's

00:34:39.349 --> 00:34:41.050
going to happen. I actually don't know what's

00:34:41.050 --> 00:34:43.690
going to happen. I would love Hasbro to put out

00:34:43.690 --> 00:34:46.210
a statement to say we've heard you and we've

00:34:46.210 --> 00:34:49.750
decided to do as you've asked and use the G1

00:34:49.750 --> 00:34:51.989
actors, the ones that are surviving, obviously,

00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:54.670
for energy. You know, I would just look I would

00:34:54.670 --> 00:34:56.389
love to see some sort of statement like that

00:34:56.389 --> 00:34:58.329
come out. Don't know if it's going to happen.

00:34:58.530 --> 00:35:01.789
May not. But at least we will have made ourselves

00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:05.480
our voices known. I think there's been two things

00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.119
that have always bugged me over the years and

00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:10.500
I've been, you know, somewhat very steeped into

00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:13.380
voice actors and the history and chronically

00:35:13.380 --> 00:35:16.179
in their, you know, work and credits and things

00:35:16.179 --> 00:35:18.199
of that nature. And I think one thing, there's

00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:21.039
two things that bug me in the world of, I guess,

00:35:21.059 --> 00:35:23.940
Hollywood or outside of it. But number one is,

00:35:24.039 --> 00:35:25.500
you know, like we talked about before when they

00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:27.460
go the celebrity, the quote unquote celebrity

00:35:27.460 --> 00:35:30.519
route. Yeah. And, you know, they just get a big

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:33.809
name who may not be as skilled. in the actual

00:35:33.809 --> 00:35:36.889
art of voice acting. Not that some haven't done

00:35:36.889 --> 00:35:39.929
a decent job, but it seems like it's taken away.

00:35:40.550 --> 00:35:43.849
And I don't know how much that name really does

00:35:43.849 --> 00:35:46.309
anything to sell the project. You know what I

00:35:46.309 --> 00:35:49.550
mean? I don't know if they really get an ROI.

00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:51.849
I don't know if some type of study could be done

00:35:51.849 --> 00:35:54.190
or has been done on that or whatnot. But that's

00:35:54.190 --> 00:35:56.550
one thing that's bugged me. The second thing

00:35:56.550 --> 00:35:59.070
is when it's not just bringing a new character

00:35:59.070 --> 00:36:03.789
in that is voiced by a... a celebrity star or

00:36:03.789 --> 00:36:05.849
something like that, but also when it's a character

00:36:05.849 --> 00:36:08.949
that already exists and the original voice actor

00:36:08.949 --> 00:36:13.809
is still working and able to recast it in any

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:15.650
way, shape or form. And we've seen that done

00:36:15.650 --> 00:36:18.010
in a variety of different franchises and properties.

00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:22.050
And I think both of them always sit not so great

00:36:22.050 --> 00:36:24.389
with the, with the fans and you know, the community

00:36:24.389 --> 00:36:27.210
that's consuming the art. Yeah, I think you're

00:36:27.210 --> 00:36:29.349
right. I think, you know, I think there's a,

00:36:30.550 --> 00:36:32.789
There's many levels of fan, obviously. There's

00:36:32.789 --> 00:36:35.409
some super hardcore fans. There's some ones who

00:36:35.409 --> 00:36:37.210
are really into it. And then as it spreads out,

00:36:37.289 --> 00:36:39.690
there's some people, as I said on one of my posts,

00:36:39.789 --> 00:36:43.050
it's like some people out there who are Transformers

00:36:43.050 --> 00:36:45.530
fans don't give a damn. And it's fine. We're

00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:48.030
not talking to them. You know, it's fine that

00:36:48.030 --> 00:36:49.929
you don't care whether they use the new voice.

00:36:50.010 --> 00:36:53.170
And even somebody commented, I've had a few negative

00:36:53.170 --> 00:36:56.269
comments, which I thank them for because at least

00:36:56.269 --> 00:36:58.809
they took the time to say something. You know,

00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:02.309
so somebody commented that, you know, step aside,

00:37:02.409 --> 00:37:05.210
let the young people, you know, do their thing.

00:37:05.289 --> 00:37:08.309
And I was like, you know, excellent, fine, excellent

00:37:08.309 --> 00:37:11.449
point. That's not how we're feeling. But, you

00:37:11.449 --> 00:37:13.769
know, you may feel that way. That's fine. That's

00:37:13.769 --> 00:37:16.690
not how a lot of us are feeling here. The really

00:37:16.690 --> 00:37:19.809
hardcore fans that I'm that I'm hearing from

00:37:19.809 --> 00:37:24.289
and associating with the response to this campaign

00:37:24.289 --> 00:37:28.730
has been remarkable. I mean, that. The petition's

00:37:28.730 --> 00:37:31.570
only been up for, I think, like five days or

00:37:31.570 --> 00:37:34.610
six days, and we have something like 1 ,100 and

00:37:34.610 --> 00:37:39.030
some signatures, and we got a lot really fast.

00:37:39.809 --> 00:37:43.449
So I want to try and keep the word going out

00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:45.369
there and just keep building on it because, as

00:37:45.369 --> 00:37:47.889
I said, the more signatures that we can show

00:37:47.889 --> 00:37:50.409
Hasbro, the more they're going to go, oh, wow,

00:37:50.590 --> 00:37:54.059
this matters to a lot of people. And that may

00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:57.340
help with their decision, whatever it may be.

00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:00.539
Have you gotten any feedback or response from

00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:04.920
fellow voice actors that have seen what's been

00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:07.800
going on or that you've clued in on? Yeah, I

00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:13.039
sent an email to Michael, to Hal, to Greg Berger.

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:18.239
to John Machida, to a few other people. And they

00:38:18.239 --> 00:38:19.719
all got back to me and they said, well, I just

00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:21.940
signed a petition. Thanks for doing this. And

00:38:21.940 --> 00:38:24.679
I'll put it out. Yeah, they're all they all feel

00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:30.079
the same way, obviously. I mean, as actors, sometimes

00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:32.800
you become involved with the character so deeply

00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.000
that it becomes almost a part of you. I have

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.840
a great affection for the little yellow guy.

00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:43.570
I have a great affection and a great. Feeling

00:38:43.570 --> 00:38:46.869
in my heart for him and I feel protective of

00:38:46.869 --> 00:38:51.610
him and to see him with someone else's voice.

00:38:51.969 --> 00:38:57.650
It just it does something to me. It's like, what?

00:38:57.690 --> 00:39:00.030
Wait a minute. Did I just switch reality somehow?

00:39:00.269 --> 00:39:03.690
Did I walk into a different timeline here? Why

00:39:03.690 --> 00:39:07.030
is this not the regular voice of Bumblebee from

00:39:07.030 --> 00:39:11.420
the very beginning? And I think it's just. But

00:39:11.420 --> 00:39:15.670
I think it's just that Hasbro doesn't really

00:39:15.670 --> 00:39:20.170
have – I don't know how to put this. I don't

00:39:20.170 --> 00:39:22.090
want to piss them off because I'm not angry with

00:39:22.090 --> 00:39:26.710
them. I'm more confused by this decision. I'm

00:39:26.710 --> 00:39:28.889
not angry. I mean, obviously, they paid Frank

00:39:28.889 --> 00:39:32.389
and Peter, and they have been even through the

00:39:32.389 --> 00:39:37.030
movies and all of that. But I just – it doesn't

00:39:37.030 --> 00:39:40.449
make any sense to me why you would take a legacy

00:39:40.449 --> 00:39:44.849
character. That was begun 40 years ago and then

00:39:44.849 --> 00:39:47.570
bring him forward in time and give him an entirely

00:39:47.570 --> 00:39:50.110
different voice. Right. Especially when the voice

00:39:50.110 --> 00:39:53.750
actor is available. Now, when we did the 40 year

00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:59.550
table read last year, there was Greg Berger was

00:39:59.550 --> 00:40:01.849
there, although he you know, the Dinobots didn't

00:40:01.849 --> 00:40:04.570
come in until episode, I think, 13. So it wasn't

00:40:04.570 --> 00:40:06.230
they weren't even part of the original cast.

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:09.619
So but Greg did a great job with what he had

00:40:09.619 --> 00:40:11.960
to do. But, of course, Peter and Frank were there

00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:15.900
and myself and Michael Bell. And I can't remember

00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:19.679
who did Starscream. Please help me. You guys

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.300
know he's really good. Frank Todaro, maybe? Yes,

00:40:23.300 --> 00:40:25.760
Todaro. Todaro is really great. So if you're

00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:28.099
going to do Starscream, give it to Todaro. That's

00:40:28.099 --> 00:40:30.239
awesome. You know, that's great. Get somebody

00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.860
who can do a great sound alike. But for the guys

00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:35.159
who are still around to do the characters, use

00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:40.059
them. But I just don't think it hits Hasbro in

00:40:40.059 --> 00:40:43.380
that way. I think they're more, I don't know,

00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.579
I don't think they're that finger in the pie.

00:40:45.900 --> 00:40:50.199
You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. I understand

00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.139
what you're saying, and I respect what you're

00:40:52.139 --> 00:40:56.500
saying. I want to give you a counterpoint. Optimus

00:40:56.500 --> 00:41:00.659
Prime Awakening, most of it is Optimus in the

00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:06.039
afterlife. So think of it as a... dream sequence

00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:10.119
kind of thing so when bumblebee appears to him

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:14.500
in the afterlife and it's evil bumblebee or it's

00:41:14.500 --> 00:41:20.179
a it's optimist thinking that he's failed bumblebee

00:41:20.179 --> 00:41:26.300
or something and as far as all my research jared

00:41:26.300 --> 00:41:29.380
lemaster who is the voice actor who is doing

00:41:29.380 --> 00:41:33.300
the voice this person is brand like he doesn't

00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:35.679
have a lot of credits to his name he's like literally

00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:39.559
brand new uh the lines are that the exchange

00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:43.139
from optimus and bumblebee is bumblebee starts

00:41:43.139 --> 00:41:46.019
the exchange and i'm not even going to try to

00:41:46.019 --> 00:41:48.469
put on voices when i do this but What have you

00:41:48.469 --> 00:41:50.989
done? I'm sorry, old friend. One day you will

00:41:50.989 --> 00:41:53.630
understand. Where are you going? To light our

00:41:53.630 --> 00:41:59.010
darkest hour. In the short, the way the master

00:41:59.010 --> 00:42:06.280
voices Bumblebee, he's angry. He's dark. He's

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:10.780
not your Bumblebee. Just like you don't like.

00:42:11.789 --> 00:42:14.769
I'm not just Bumblebee anymore. I'm a gold bug.

00:42:14.949 --> 00:42:17.369
Just like you don't like that. Just like you

00:42:17.369 --> 00:42:20.090
don't like that. upgrade of the characterization

00:42:20.090 --> 00:42:25.070
of your character when i watched this i didn't

00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:31.170
hear your bumblebee i think i i guess i'm on

00:42:31.170 --> 00:42:34.110
the same side as dan with this one because and

00:42:34.110 --> 00:42:36.829
i think that's been something that's been somewhat

00:42:36.829 --> 00:42:38.670
confusing i think for some of the folks online

00:42:38.670 --> 00:42:41.030
and some of the reactions and things of that

00:42:41.030 --> 00:42:42.849
nature is there's been a lot of different bumblebees

00:42:42.849 --> 00:42:44.909
over the years right and your point with this

00:42:44.909 --> 00:42:48.309
one specifically dan is that Even though Bumblebee

00:42:48.309 --> 00:42:50.949
may have existed in the live action films or

00:42:50.949 --> 00:42:54.250
in some other, in Transformers animated and all

00:42:54.250 --> 00:42:57.869
these different iterations, it was different

00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:00.010
properties. Whereas this one is specifically

00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:04.750
calling, it's being played after the 86 movie.

00:43:04.989 --> 00:43:09.030
It's the G1 Bumblebee. And that's what really

00:43:09.030 --> 00:43:12.210
has triggered the reaction for you, if I'm correct.

00:43:12.329 --> 00:43:14.769
You're absolutely correct. You've just watched

00:43:14.769 --> 00:43:19.719
a 90 minute movie. And he talks like this. And

00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.159
then you get to the end, and he has a totally

00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.539
different voice. So that, to me, was like, I

00:43:25.539 --> 00:43:29.039
don't understand the thinking behind this. Although

00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:31.159
it may just be, hey, we're going to save money

00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:33.079
if we go to Canada. He's only got a few lines.

00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:35.619
Give it to a Canadian actor. It's fine. And this

00:43:35.619 --> 00:43:37.400
would have been totally different if this had

00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:39.719
existed in some other... It wasn't playing after

00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:42.139
the 90 minutes. It wasn't connected to G1. It

00:43:42.139 --> 00:43:44.590
was just a... totally different interpretation

00:43:44.590 --> 00:43:46.730
of all of this, then that would be a different

00:43:46.730 --> 00:43:49.150
thing. I get that. But in counterpoint to that,

00:43:49.269 --> 00:43:53.690
let me give you this. I was asked to do a video

00:43:53.690 --> 00:43:55.869
game called Spider -Man Shattered Dimensions,

00:43:55.989 --> 00:43:59.429
where they were using four actors who had performed

00:43:59.429 --> 00:44:02.429
the voice before, and they wanted me to do Bumblebee.

00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:04.630
And when I heard it, I thought, oh boy, it's

00:44:04.630 --> 00:44:07.150
going to be that upbeat, great Bumblebee. No,

00:44:07.289 --> 00:44:10.889
this was Miguel O 'Hara. who's much darker, who's

00:44:10.889 --> 00:44:15.070
much, the voice is deeper. I did my Bumblebee,

00:44:15.110 --> 00:44:18.210
I did my Spider -Man, but with a different approach.

00:44:18.449 --> 00:44:21.369
If you asked me to do the evil Bumblebee, it

00:44:21.369 --> 00:44:24.730
wouldn't be this guy necessarily. You know, it

00:44:24.730 --> 00:44:27.710
would be something deeper, perhaps, or something

00:44:27.710 --> 00:44:31.309
a little more sinister. You know, I think you

00:44:31.309 --> 00:44:34.570
could still use the voice and still get that

00:44:34.570 --> 00:44:37.599
effect. You know what I'm saying? And then it

00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:39.780
almost translates even better because you still

00:44:39.780 --> 00:44:44.340
get the hint of the other character behind it,

00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:47.860
right? Exactly. I think it's more effective that

00:44:47.860 --> 00:44:50.119
way for sure. Dan, I did want to give you a chance

00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:54.090
too to like, obviously we'll post something or

00:44:54.090 --> 00:44:56.230
whatever, but as far as the petition that we've

00:44:56.230 --> 00:44:58.750
mentioned multiple times, how can people find

00:44:58.750 --> 00:45:01.929
that online? Yeah, it's easy. Go to change .org

00:45:01.929 --> 00:45:07.219
and in the search box, just put in G1, it'll

00:45:07.219 --> 00:45:09.639
come right up. Yeah, and I'll have a link in

00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:12.300
the show notes. Okay, great. Yeah, if you just

00:45:12.300 --> 00:45:15.179
put in G1 in the search box, it's the first thing

00:45:15.179 --> 00:45:19.460
that pops up. I'm happy to say that we've had

00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:22.760
a lot of response. There's something strange

00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:28.760
that they say petitions with more than a thousand

00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:32.179
names have a five times better chance of winning.

00:45:32.980 --> 00:45:35.739
And I didn't quite, and I still don't quite understand

00:45:35.739 --> 00:45:38.219
what that means. What do we win? Do we get a

00:45:38.219 --> 00:45:42.800
prize? Do we get, like, beanies? I'm not sure.

00:45:44.900 --> 00:45:47.820
It's currently sitting at $1 ,162. I just pulled

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:50.880
it up. Yeah, I mean, we're doing great, but I

00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.659
want to keep it going because, as I said, the

00:45:53.659 --> 00:45:55.179
more signatures, the more it's going to have

00:45:55.179 --> 00:45:57.320
weight with Hasbro if they get a chance to look

00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.199
at it. Apparently, at the end, When we decide,

00:46:01.420 --> 00:46:04.980
OK, we're done with the petition, we want to

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:07.719
present it, that change .org actually presents

00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:09.920
it to the people that are listed at the bottom

00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:13.039
who are the decision makers. So I'm looking forward

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:16.889
to that. And I would assume many of them. on

00:46:16.889 --> 00:46:20.570
Monday came in to a lot of extra emails in their

00:46:20.570 --> 00:46:22.989
boxes. And as I said, it either pissed them off

00:46:22.989 --> 00:46:24.949
or they thought, wow, there's a lot of people

00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:27.829
who really care about it. I don't know which.

00:46:28.469 --> 00:46:30.670
So I hope we haven't pissed them off. I didn't

00:46:30.670 --> 00:46:34.610
mean to. I'm all for Hasbro. Hasbro gave us some

00:46:34.610 --> 00:46:37.090
great opportunities and continues to, and they

00:46:37.090 --> 00:46:40.699
continue to put out great product. I'm just coming

00:46:40.699 --> 00:46:43.219
from this one angle and asking them about this

00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:46.619
one particular thing, and that's please. If you

00:46:46.619 --> 00:46:50.079
can find it in your hearts, use the G1 talent

00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:56.039
that still exists for any G1 -centric character.

00:46:56.179 --> 00:46:59.920
If you do a G1 throwback series, please use the

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:05.429
G1 actors. The fans would bend over backwards

00:47:05.429 --> 00:47:08.489
for you. You would be golden to them. It would

00:47:08.489 --> 00:47:13.159
be a giant PR plus for them, I think. And the

00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:14.760
fans that are, you know, especially if you're

00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:16.980
trying to introduce it, let's say, to a new generation

00:47:16.980 --> 00:47:19.480
or, you know, you know, the kids like my my daughter

00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:21.440
and things of that nature, the the parents that

00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.559
are making those decisions are the ones that

00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:26.420
grew up with that cast. Yeah, it makes sense.

00:47:26.480 --> 00:47:28.960
Like, you're absolutely right. Yeah. I just would

00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.179
like to see, you know, the legacy honored in

00:47:31.179 --> 00:47:34.159
that way. And that's as simple as that. Yeah,

00:47:34.219 --> 00:47:38.019
I agree. Thank you. Are there any other projects

00:47:38.019 --> 00:47:39.980
or anything else you've got going on that you'd

00:47:39.980 --> 00:47:42.099
like to remind the listeners about before we

00:47:42.099 --> 00:47:46.500
close out the episode, sir? I can't. There is

00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:48.500
one thing I am working on, but there's an NDA

00:47:48.500 --> 00:47:50.400
involved, so I can't talk about it. But it's

00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:53.940
similar. I will say it's similar to the work

00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:56.199
that I did for Robeson the last couple of years.

00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:58.300
I don't know if you're familiar with that. Very

00:47:58.300 --> 00:48:02.679
cool. Yes, yes. Now, Robeson, God bless them.

00:48:03.139 --> 00:48:06.320
They didn't hire some guy for 500 bucks off the

00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.960
street who sounded a little bit like Bumblebee.

00:48:09.019 --> 00:48:12.639
They got me. And they didn't pay a huge, I mean,

00:48:12.659 --> 00:48:14.679
they paid a decent amount of money, but it wasn't

00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:17.940
like an incredibly insane amount of money. But

00:48:17.940 --> 00:48:21.739
they were respectful enough of the continuity

00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:25.679
to use me for that figure, for both of them,

00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:28.440
as a matter of fact. They've done the same thing,

00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.019
obviously, for Peter and Frank. They did the

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:33.880
same thing with Berger. I understand. Well, I'm

00:48:33.880 --> 00:48:38.219
not supposed to say that. You have inside information.

00:48:38.380 --> 00:48:41.179
We'll have to get that from you off air. Sort

00:48:41.179 --> 00:48:46.480
of. Let me just say this. As they add more Transformers

00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.480
to their line, they will be looking at the G1

00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:53.090
actors. Yes, they will. Yeah, they're not going

00:48:53.090 --> 00:48:56.909
to be, you know, hiring some kid who might sound

00:48:56.909 --> 00:48:59.710
a little bit like it for, you know, $100. So

00:48:59.710 --> 00:49:03.429
my hat's off to them for that. And I have to

00:49:03.429 --> 00:49:05.269
say it was a total pleasure working with them.

00:49:05.769 --> 00:49:09.250
The guy who really, my point person was Logan

00:49:09.250 --> 00:49:12.710
Webster, who has his own company and works with

00:49:12.710 --> 00:49:14.869
them and, you know, puts all this stuff together.

00:49:15.070 --> 00:49:17.769
It was absolutely a dream. And it was, you know,

00:49:17.769 --> 00:49:20.230
once again, you know, it was by myself, but at

00:49:20.230 --> 00:49:24.000
least, I had that sort of upbeat feeling behind

00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.239
me. And when we finished actually recording,

00:49:26.460 --> 00:49:29.039
Logan said, is there any other phrases that you

00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.980
might want to include? And I came up with a few

00:49:31.980 --> 00:49:34.699
that I thought might be. And one of my favorite

00:49:34.699 --> 00:49:37.840
ones is some of my best friends are humans, which

00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.719
we added to the repertoire. So I was just really

00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.519
pleased that Robeson took the time, made the

00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:48.739
effort to use the original voices. And I think.

00:49:49.300 --> 00:49:53.239
And obviously, well, to my mind, at least, it

00:49:53.239 --> 00:49:57.039
improved the final product. Very cool. Very cool.

00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.119
Is there anywhere online where the fans can interact

00:50:01.119 --> 00:50:03.039
with you that you'd like to inform them about?

00:50:03.940 --> 00:50:06.360
Well, I'm on Facebook. So if you want to, you

00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:08.280
know, Facebook message me, you can. Or if you

00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:10.420
want to be. I've had a lot of friends in the

00:50:10.420 --> 00:50:14.300
last week or so. And I'm happy to do that. I'm

00:50:14.300 --> 00:50:18.960
also on Instagram. And I'm also on TikTok. There's

00:50:18.960 --> 00:50:21.519
all of that stuff. And, you know, if you want

00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:23.639
to say something or if you have something that

00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:25.559
you'd like me to consider, I'm more than happy

00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.090
to answer you. I want to be as connected with

00:50:30.090 --> 00:50:33.849
my fans as possible now, especially now when

00:50:33.849 --> 00:50:36.510
we're trying to get this done. Absolutely. Very

00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:39.920
cool. Very cool. We would like to thank Mr. Gilbazan

00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:42.340
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00:50:42.340 --> 00:50:45.260
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00:50:46.380 --> 00:50:49.280
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00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:14.440
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episode will tackle a piece of Transformers history,

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starting in 1984 and marching our way up to today.

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Hosted by me, Anthony Brutale, three -time Emmy

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Award winner and consulting producer on Netflix's

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The Toys That Made Us, and lifelong Transformers

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fan, we'll go on a journey through cartoons and

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comics, toys and movies, and all the weird esoterica

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from around the world, chronicling the adventures

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of everyone's favorite. robots in disguise listen

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transform and roll out Discover a world of vintage

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and modern toys that's more than meets the eye

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with the Triple Takeover ToyCast. Hosted by toy

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writers and photographers Toybox Soapbox, Sixo

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and TF Square One, this informal and chilled

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out series of discussions cover everything from

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vintage Transformers to Mask, Diaclone, Microman

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and more, be it nostalgic or current. Whether

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you're a seasoned collector or a casual robot

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enthusiast, all are welcome. Triple Takeover

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ToyCast. I'm finished. They are all restored.

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I see you're no worse for wear than I was. Optimus?

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Optimus, you're alive! You're alive! I don't

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believe this! I don't believe this! Do you guys

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believe this? It's Optimus! Optimus Prime, by

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gosh, is it really you? I must be dreaming. No,

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this is real. I'm back, and now so are you. I

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can't begin to tell you how great it is to have

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your back, Optimus. It's great to be back up.

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Yeah, let's go kick some Deceptitale. I'm already

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willing and able. You can't keep a good robot

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down, you know what I mean? Let's go, let's go,

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let's go. What are you waiting for? Chill out,

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Blur. We need a plan. Okay, Optimus, what's the

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plan? I have no plan. All right, folks, we are

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back here in the special interview of Mr. Dan

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Gilvezan on All Things Transformers and the TFGN

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podcast. And ladies and gentlemen, I am planting

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the seeds of the future, which technically lie

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buried in the past because I was supposed to

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have this done in 2014. But the TFG1 podcast

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will be coming back because we're going to do

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it right this time at some point. And what better

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way to start it off in the summer of 1987, or

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in this case, 2027, when the series actually

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ended. So that'll be coming up. Uh, and all that

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good stuff. Where can the people find you online,

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sir? And search me out at optimist solo. You

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can search the cinema geeks out, uh, on YouTube,

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Facebook, uh, et cetera. And you can get into

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contact with all stuff. And if I ever released

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another video, you can also find stuff on the

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geek showcase. I do have two of the, uh, the

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blaster hanger boxes of the transformers, the

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movie trading cards that I'm about to do a video.

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When I open those, I know you get the same, uh,

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The same 10 cards in all of them, but there's

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two inserts in each box. So we'll see what those

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are. Yeah, there's two inserts. I'll post that

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on the Geek Showcase. Yeah, I need to see if

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I can find those. I just want to buy them off

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eBay and get all the cards all at once. I mean,

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the first few times I was at Target, they were

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completely empty. The last time they had probably

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two pegs worth full. Oh, wow. Very cool. I think

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they're like 20 bucks. Nice. Very cool. Very

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cool. All right, folks, that's it for this episode

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of all things, transformers and the TFG one podcast,

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uh, transform and transcend. And we will catch

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you next time. It isn't even dead. Oh shit. What

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are we going to do now?