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Death Note Panel with Brian Drummond, Alessandro Juliani, Shannon Chan-Kent & Brad Swaile
Mar 31, 2025
Join us for The Notebook panel at Anime Corpus Christi, where Brian Drummond (Ryuk), Alessandro Juliani (L), Shannon Chan-Kent (Misa Amane), and Brad Swaile (Light Yagami) discuss their experiences working on Death Note!
From behind-the-scenes stories to their thoughts on the show's legacy, this panel dives into what made Death Note one of the most iconic anime of all time.
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hey guys welcome to the panel I hope you're
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enjoying Saturday so far this is a Pats little room how are you guys doing
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today are you excited there's a particular inter that this fell us might be known for I don't know I've never
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seen it so we're going to bring them up right now we' got Brian trowman Alandra juliani Shannon Shan and
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braad
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very couch which is sponsored by Ashley's Home Furniture oh I love it thank you Ashley's Home Furniture yes
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thank you Ashley's Home Furniture well the death not
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K we censor him ignore him he's just
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hello we're going to start off little round table get a little bit of a as guessing you guys were here mostly
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pertaining to death not so let's talk about who you portray and the fact that there's no no spoiler warnings are on
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the board you've had the chance to watch it if you're worried spoiled walk away
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but don't really cuz we want to see your KES in the crowd so isn't this panel called The Notebook I was expecting
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Brian Gosling to be no it was on in my hotel room last night and I got sucked in for a little bit okay death okay hi
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I'm Brad Swale a voice actor from Vancouver Canada and I play light yam AKA
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[Music] K hi my name is sh I am also from
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Vancouver Canada and I play Nisa Amman and second
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[Applause] up hello everyone my name is Brian Drummond and I play the cutest death God
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there is Mr [Music]
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ruk hi everyone and I want to tell you I
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am now as you guys may know this is a Q&A panel so as much as I'd love to talk
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their little heads off they want to hear from you guys they are here for you if you have a question if you want to know
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anything about them particular one person all persons line up right to that microphone we got a wonderful little
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Chopper hat volunteer who is ready to take your questions bre screen it and line you up so we don't run out of time
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don't be shy come on nobody's standing up don't be shy start so many
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people no questions okay panel's over all right so we're going to go eat I
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will Mo off with the first question I know for a majority of anime production
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voice action production it's done isolated was that the case for death death now exactly the case for death not
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all dubbing pretty much that we don't get to work together together we've seen each other the most we ever see each
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other on being able to come to these conventions and hang out with you guys we never all four of us rarely sit
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together like this on the sofa unless we have a party and everyone comes over but Shannon usually cancels and won't come to our party so that's really no um we a
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couple therapy sessions too that look like yeah we just pass each other when one comes out and one goes in so this
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has been great to actually sort of um connect on on sort of the the Death Note tour look fun though yeah we actually
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like each other yeah a love crazy or we're really good actors oh amazing
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actors in that case we're going to open up the first [Music]
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question husb who would be the better
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catch depends what kind of wife you are that's
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um well there'd be no shortage of dessert if L was your
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husband I wouldn't want to marry light good God I mean it's pen there's episode
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one and two light and then there's episode 37 light very different
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personalities so yeah if you don't get too far into the series I think like could be a a good Homemaker and husband
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but given how he treated Misa I don't think I would propose to Le and if he
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proposed to me I think I'd run away unless going tied to gurn and
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blindfold it is your thing no judgment here thank
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you thank you for your question all right
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[Music]
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yeah there weren't any references Dragon Ball Z was before well before so it was like 1995 when I auditioned for Dragon
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Ball Z and was that first voice of Vegeta on there there was this character descriptions that's what we get sent to
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our agents and our agents send those character descriptions to us and it said Vegeta was this small diminutive super
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powerful you know Prince arrogant and I just made a choice um in my head for
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what I would do for him um for ryuk I wasn't asked to audition for ruk I actually showed up to audition for
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lights dad and a couple of the detectives and when I went in the room I had seen the picture of ruk on the wall
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and thought that looks like really cool character and I asked Carl the director if I could read for him and he gave me
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the Sid and gave me two quick little tips because I said can I read for the bad guy demon there and he said oh
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firstly he's not a demon and he's not a bad guy he's actually a death God but not the villain in this series and he
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has kind of an interesting laugh and that's just for not I had like 5 minutes to come up with an idea and because he
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looked so wizened and um white and pale he looked like a smoker that maybe died
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in bed after 10 packs of cigarettes a day like it just had looked like the idea that that that I came up with a
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kind of a coughing sound for him for his laugh and that's why it was sort of
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that and then I kept the voice in that range and did my audition and I didn't get any characters I read for but I
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got it was fun yeah thank you worked out well in our
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[Applause]
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favor Mr I please this is my perfect Victory that's right I win I don't
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really need a microphone for that but I'll hold it really far away so terrify everybody
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[Laughter] what do you think of that hell this is
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my perfect Victory that's right I
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[Applause] [Music]
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[Music]
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win well I I feel like Shannon sitting here
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right now would probably leave it alone what am I say like or would I use
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it I don't know I think knowing me I would probably
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leave it alone but you know it's been a long life and uh I feel like if few names
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could go in there possibly you never know what C's going to show up that
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exactly really might only be one [Music] option how about you Bri oh um I know
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enough about the show to walk away from the Death Note but that being said I
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could not I would pick it up and then I would tuck it away somewhere very safe
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cuz as much as I don't trust myself to use it there are many many other people
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in this world that I would not trust it in their hand so I would put it away somewhere safe
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maybe in like a secret room something like a crush out of Tom and Jerry or Scooby-Doo or something like that and
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then try and forget about it but I would always know it was there and then if anybody rub me the wrong way or cut me
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off in traffic or didn't use their blinker um I get the license plate and a name and go from there maybe so ultimate
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ultimate road rage thank you thanks
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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actually I found you don't get wait as long as you br ceries by using your
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brain well light I told you in the very beginning that I would be the one
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writing your name in The Notebook when you died
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if I see you with another girl I'll kill
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her there's so many good lines in the series I just I can't think of
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one I I rra my brain maybe while I'm thinking I'll take a potato chip and eat
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it love I that that was in your bag waiting for the
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moment gotten so many free potato chips because of this show and I think that can also get away with just munching on
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potato chips sitting on during a panel we we were trying to give him an apple I think it it all good yeah I got a candy
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apple yesterday it was amazing i' like to ask you now I'll you
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that question so more
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a favorite collectible of a character that that is a good a great question I
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have a family of nerds in so we have a lot of stuff Brad well we got lots of things all over us and things we
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collected from fans but I might need a minute to think of all the things that all over the walls well I can feel the
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time while you think Brad know hasad amazing stuff just one no forget it um
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I'll narrow it down to one so Funko Pops anybody familiar with those right so the
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Death Note ones got way too expensive so forget about that um but they made a bunch of Dragon Ball Z once and I played
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Gohan in the original ocean Group D with Dragon Ball Z so I was oh thanks awesome
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so I was not going to TW Funko pumps but my sister at some point sent me a text message with a picture of light Funko
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and said is this you in that sh I said yeah that is me in that show she goes do you want me to buy this for you I said I'm not doing Funko Pops she bought it
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for me anyway I'm glad she did cuz she probably paid $12 for like uncoop which
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is now worth a couple hundred or whatever so I didn't want to make that same mistake with Dragon Ball Z so I got
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myself a Gohan and I'm like I'm good and then they came out with another Gohan oh I got to get that one too and then they
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got another one oh no and then there's say man and there's like you know the the chase version and the glow version I'm oh no but I I better get them now
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while they're cheap but I also like to customize everything so I'm currently working on a Gohan
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funco poop where I've taken the head off of my favorite like ultimate Gohan version and I got a a Goku body where
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he's doing a Kamehameha and I got like the little lightning energy blast from a different
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on Copa and I've boiled them all and pulled them all apart so it looks like a
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massacre in my place right now but I'm working on like a super duper Kamehameha Gohan ultimate Gohan funa hooray now we
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be your that's pretty cool I'm thinking of what stands out to me in my studio and
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it was made for me by a fan they were never for sale um by anyone but it's a
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beautiful I don't know every anyone ever saw crypto the super dog it was a series that was on I played streaky the Super
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Cat he was a really fun character that I got to play and someone made me this like he's kind of a long Slinky cat and
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they made a stuffed toy of it but it was custom done and very well done so it's
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the only one in in existence that they made for me and I love it it's my streaky the super cat yeah so much of
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this profession is um like childhood wish fulfillment so like I was very
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lucky to be in a show called Battle Star Galactica um some of you may have seen or some of your parents may have seen
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and uh I as a kid had played with Battle Star Galactica action figures and I had
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a Battle Star Galactica uh board game and I watched the show as a fan so when
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I was lucky to get on that show and we did a few seasons they eventually
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released an action figure of my character and it was this full circle moment of like playing with myself you
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know we know what you mean this is a PG panel by the way yeah who there's family
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here I I mean being a part of My Little Pony
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and being in in that Universe all the toys all the plushies
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pinky um there are some silver spoon ones and I feel like that I didn't watch
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My Little Pony growing up I was very aware of it oh one show I did do was Care
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Bears and I remember they made um a little I was like a little mouse in Care
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Bears and they made a little stuffy and that was pretty cute
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but yeah toys all the toys all the cute toys thank you thank
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you you can bend to town yeah Bend to town don't worry yeah just tilted it
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there you
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go okay what what did you
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[Music] find what and we have to name
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it Brad's a nice name yeah
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[Music] yeah what did you
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say that's a good name you spell that a lot of owls
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o o o o b l e e o
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[Music] o
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oh turn in the road of life I didn't know it was a thing I was going to be a
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Broadway star after I graduated from theater school but but but most Broadway
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Stars I realized are triple threats and I was a single threat
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so I stuck with the acting and left the uh singing and dancing to the pros um
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and then kind of fell into voicing after about 5 years of doing theater and film and TV stuff and dropped into my first
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series in late mid 90s I got a GI Jo series and then Vegeta was right after
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that and at a certain point about 5 years of doing theater and film and voice voice just kind of took over I was
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so busy on shows film and TV dropped to the side and I was this became a voice
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guy and loved every been build yeah I was fortunate to start the
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very first gate I ever had was a voice gig in a cartoon called Captain and the game master Captain
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Nintendo when the first console came out way back 1987 I think so that was my
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first ever gig and it was a voice gig so that was my in into the industry in some
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ways I had a my voice had just just was starting to break with puberty and I had
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the squeaky voice and it was the perfect perfect voice for the character and the rest is
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history um I I always like Brian I wanted to be on the Broadway she's more
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of a triple threat though like Sing Act Dance but I I
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remember going to my first voice over but uh no I remember wanting to be like
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a Disney princess but not really wanting not that I wasn't up for the acting but I was like I'm going to do the singing I
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was like I'm that back then they were hiring you know singers for the actors
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and all that stuff and I and I was like that's something I really want to do and then I I got my first show my my first
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audition was um why I'm looking at AJ my first audition was for AJ my first
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audition was for um a feature uh called my fair meline um based on uh do you know the
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Maline books we we love but but most of all we love each other you know little
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French medine a little French medine and and yeah the rest is
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history um yeah I fell into it by accident I when I was a kid I wanted to be an astronaut um I know better now
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because of you know the corporate race into low earth orbit there's too much space junk now so I'm terrified of space
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um but I started off doing theater and then there was an agency kind of right across that was a tangent wasn't it
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there was an agency right across the street that would kind of watch the kids that were coming through the theater so I was approached they said do you want
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to join our agency we'll start sending you out on auditions for like TV shows and movies and commercials and stuff so
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I was doing on camera work and then I got my first audition for a cartoon which was a series called my little ponytails and I got it and it woohoo I
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that that was great um and then it just kind of went from there and we're you know more and more cartoons and eventually I phased out doing the on
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camera stuff because I my skin wasn't thick enough for that part of the industry um but I love the voice side so
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I've always um you know I have a regular full-time job like most people but I've always positioned it in a way that I can
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always disappear for Studio sessions or auditions or things like that because this is something that I love to do and
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feel very fortunate to be able to do it at all so there you go thank
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you [Music] yeah apple that's a great question oh
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that's rough because my phone is an
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Android everything else in my home is an apple which is bizarre you know what I I
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ended up in this I don't know the fight all the my wife and my daughters got
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apples they have Apple phones and my son and I were like no we're not going to be sucked into it and we we have Androids
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and have since but I think I'm on my last cycle with my Android because never texting with other people there's always
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stuff's getting missed and weird things happening and um I'm going to get St to get sucked into into apple apple is my
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favorite fruit I'm the only one that eats tons of them it is not my phone but it's everything else in my in my house
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wait but on your family chat like is it so annoying cuz you can't like chat with
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your whole family I still can chat it's a little sometimes it's messed up but it still works it's
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yeah more Androids are sold in the world than Apple just so people know don't get don't get on my b it's
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true than
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[Music]
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there's a lot of wow what is that really hurt my throat Dragon Ball Z I did a Warhammer 40,000 video game as a an orc
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War Boss that killed me um brutal but yeah I I remember losing my voice and
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there you won't Escape my wrath sequence of Dragon Ball Z I had nothing left and I still remember to this day cuz we went
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up for dinner with my wife and family afterwards and some friends and I had to order like on a piece of paper cuz it
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wasn't just sort of sore it was gone I was like it was like that and I was writing
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what do you want Brian I'm scribbling it on paper and or pointing to the menu so um I really remember working on Dragon
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Ball Z and it hting my voice the most from in the early days of recording Dragon Ball Z2 it didn't seem like there
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was any kind of limitation for how long they would bring you into the booth so sometimes you would be there for a very
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long day and just powering up power power in up powering up for episode
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after episode and I do remember there was times where you know young Gohan was
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you know doing some crazy power up scream or something and then because it was on TV at the time it would cut to a commercial and so You' do like a 30
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second or 28 seconds of a 30 second scream before it cuts to Commercial and then it comes back to Commercial and
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he's still screaming so that's okay you do have a break but you know 28 seconds into a 30 second
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scream and the minute you start to kind of go down a little bit ah cut we're
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going to commercial it's got to be right up there until the the the break all right let's do it again okay
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okay oh no see you brought it down a little bit okay one more time one more time and there were a couple times where I remember you know practically waking
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up on the floor going did I get it did I do all 30 no that was 29 and A2 okay one more time let me have some more stories
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you've heard of people almost passing out doing Dragon Ball Z are very true probably any actor that had to do fights
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sequences like the room just goes and you feel like you're stag your back a little bit from yelling and it
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does feel like they've kind of limited the the number of hours in a row that you go in for for certain sessions for
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like a dragon ball for certain video games and stuff there was another video game I worked on call Street Fighter Tekken and I
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did nice I played Jim Kaz so that was a big deal for me um but I flew myself
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down to Los Angeles for that one cuz that's where it was recording so I recorded the entire game in one session
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and I learned a lot of little you know family remedy ancient remedy tricks one
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of them was called fart juice because apparently makes you fart I got the ingredients for that the recipe for that I didn't try it out I think they were
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playing a joke on you Brad maybe yeah um but yeah so there's been some some pretty heavy sessions for
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sure thank
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you hi Eno all guys
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[Music] your
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faite our favorite roles of all time I talked to a couple people this weekend
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about it um and it showed some folks they said they had to take a while guess cuz the picture was on my poster and
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they they had to guess cuz he was my favorite character in the comic books as a kid and those who could guess maybe
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how old I am were looking at the pictures of and post have figur it out and it's I got to play Wolverine in five
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movies and my favorite X-Men I love him as a to grow up and get to actually be
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his voice a lot of people W's voice but to be his voice for even a short period of a number of movies was was like I
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felt like I reached sort of a a pinnacle and I got to do that that's still one of my
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favorites my first ever on camera job was in the MacGyver Christmas special in
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1986 I played Julio the piano playing street kid at the homeless shelter I had to learn how
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to play Heart the herald angel sing on the piano and I had a tap dance cuz I
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was a really very talented Street kid and I had one line it was probably the lamest
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episode of MacGyver ever I think there was like a b lady Angel who saved the
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homeless shelter there's no action in it at all but guyver's big thing was moving
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the stage uh there was like a boxing ring in the homeless shelter I don't know why um
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that they had to move the boxing room across the gym to make room for the
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stage and my guy were figured out if they used the barbells from the wait
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room and put them under the stage they could roll the stage across the gym and
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so my one line was wait for Wheels why didn't we think
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of that just like the Egyptians did and
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that was your favorite role ever that might have been my favorite my I might have peaked very early yeah mver find
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that one on imv that's a deep dive I feel like I've got a couple but I
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feel like one that really stands out when I think about having the most fun was probably when I did the Biscuit
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Twins in um the littlest pet shop they were just really sassy and like really
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dry and I got to do whatever I wanted in that show so I feel like that one stands
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up for me I kind of agree with Brian like anytime you get to work on a property
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that you're already a fan of and then you get an audition for it and you get kind of geeked out and then when you get the call saying you've been cast it's
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kind of amazing um I got to play Nightcrawler at X-Men evolution
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stin you I love this SM of bacon in the morning KY no um but more recently I I
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played Baby Groot in Marvel battle world and I didn't know anything about Guardians of the Galaxy until that first
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movie came out and oh boy did I fall in love with it so when I when I had an
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audition for something that had Gro in it and I got to play Baby Groot that was a a pretty big deal for me another
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custom fun pill pop that I'm working on don't don't ask good question thank you
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[Music] I note The Notebook is it well if you
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want to really have a nice night with your significant other Ryan exactly two Canadian leads in that
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one just so you know we're all Canadian and both the leads in the notebook are Canadian you should watch death note if
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you like good shows that
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involve uh elements of detective cat Mouse psychological
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thrillers supernal supernatural horror great music great
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music great voice actors um yeah great Direction excellent
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shipping I don't know what else best shipping
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y you also want to be prepared for when the Death Note musical actually comes to North America yeah you got to know some
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great
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music what would we do if we were like our character I'd be 300 lb because I
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cannot burn calories like H and if I eat that much sweets I'd be in trouble I
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would do therapy light needs to a good smack
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upside the back of the head he's got to treat me so better than he did yeah I probably wouldn't put up with
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as much uh [ __ ] as um I did but you know
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what in terms of fashion and being a pop star I keep it all the same W what would I do if I was a death
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God that's an excellent you know what I probably would because I know Earth very
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well all fairly well myself already right now if I was a death God I think i' zip back up there just to check it
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out because some of those other death gods are very cool I'm hoping for a spin-off that has a little more of the
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death God Realm involved it would be fun maybe light and L there now death God a
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death God reality dating show death God reality dating show finally got your own
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call
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how does it feel well we've had her time with the book you go get him
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kiddo thanks thank you my name is John Smith by the way spelled with a
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Y hello
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first animated character mine was a in a series called gii Joe
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extreme I was a very um big fan at the time I'm less so now but I I was a very
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big fan I grew up on a thir bed racehorse Ranch we watched a lot of westerns and um I was a big fan of
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Clintwood and when I had my very first audition for for a pray series called G
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Joe extreme there was a sharpshooter named ballistic and they kind of wanted a Clint Eastwood
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is Vibe so I wanted to make him really kind of Clint Eastwood he was the Sharpshooter they ended up changing his
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name to eoli because they thought ballistic was too violent but that was my first animated role ever with the
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amazing um animation director Su blue so I fell in love with it she is um he would work with Su on Beast Machines
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with us she directed Teenage Ninja Turtles she was just the Superstar of uh animation directing and I got cast I got
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to work with her my first show ever as ballistic on GI Jo extrem I work with Su
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on Camp candy with John C even before that yeah yeah which is a real deep cut
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I don't know where you would even see that maybe it's on YouTube Somewhere I was one of the camp kids of that show
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that was just after Captain N the game master in the 80s my as I mentioned before my first
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role was the character Ace in my little ponytails and as far as nice as far as
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ponies go he was kind of a badass Pony meaning that he was a bit of a jerk um but we had a pretty legendary voice
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director on that series too a guy Nam Wally B um who I only ever heard through
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my headphones which was kind of magical in itself he had kind of like a Godlike voice anyway and I'm a little kid going
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oh my goodness who is this guy and my first one was um I can't well
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I can't really remember the title I book I I worked on two things that at around
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the same time I mean my S mateline was my I guess my first or second one but the other one was another show Ruby
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something ruby slippers or something like that I don't know I don't know but I was
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happy thank
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you next question next question I I actually still haven't seen
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it yet cuz every time I tell somebody oh I still want to watch that that's you go don't so but it just keeps falling
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further down my list now I did hear that William def R did a really good job that's the one thing that that seems to
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be a common is so how is it how was it William fo was really good he wasn't
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that good settle down he could have been better of
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course yeah we uh I watched it as well great cast like when I saw the cast well
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before it came out all the actors in are excellent in so many other things I've seen them including William defo I was
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thrilled that he was the guy they cast but when I did see it I was like what I really thought that they the research
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from the production side and the directors um and producers it felt like
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they didn't really watch the the anime or read the Manga and wanted to follow
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with that much they wanted to kind of do their own thing with a bit of that story and the same character so but for people
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who did not watch the the anime or read any of the manga I have run into people that only saw that on Netflix I'm like I
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kind of liked it and then went to the anime and like oh the anime is better but I've only seeing it alone liked it
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so it's tough without seeing it it seems strange to me that you have a property
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that has that much resource material there's an entire manga there's already
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pretty good Japanese live action movies that were made and they did a series of them inste of try condense everything
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into one movie and there's a whole anime series and it sounds like they basically went no we're going to make our own
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movie why you you could do shot for shot from the manga and be amazing but they
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didn't do you probably have heard The Duffer brothers who do stranger things those producers have the rights to De
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note um as a series and now producers can have 10 series lined up to do I hope
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they do it sometime soon but I think the great work that they did um on Stranger Things I hope they do Tim sh is yeah
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come on yeah it it could be
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fabulous
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[Music] all oh yeah favorites I do love horror
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movies um favorite of all time I think uh my alltime favorite
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still I can go back to it and creeped out con is the shiny yes I
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love come and play with us daddy twins yeah I watched that in um
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in fourth grade and I was at a girlfriend's house and I started I had
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asthma and I started having like I needed my viline until my mom had to drive it over to me because I was so
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scared I've never been so scared in my life I'm in fourth grade watching that in fourth grade no I
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was also going to say the shiny or The Exorcist those are really obvious ones but I did just watch long legs on I just
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watched long legs too that was pretty it was pretty was pretty great was pretty creepy yeah it age believe it or not and
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it's yeah like Shannon clearly I grew up watching like really nasty horror movies
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when I was way too young to be watching them so I got very desensitized by you know Nightmare on Elm Street and
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Halloween and all that kind of stuff but shining is still the one that freaks me out to this day um there's just
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something really creepy and Eerie about it but I was talking with my my babysitter this weekend Jay um we
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somehow got into a horror rant and he reminded me of a movie that we both saw again probably too young called
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Sleepaway Camp anybody familiar with sleep Bo Camp the only thing I can say
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for you for Sleep Bo Camp is hey that's enough if you've seen it you know
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exactly what I'm talking I repressed that memory and it came flooding back just this weekend so your question is
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that's why you had a night that's why you had a nightmares last night I feel like the six cents is pretty good and like very scary for me
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too thank you good question thank you hi
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question question More You Wish yeah well we've been a couple years doing so
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this is probably only maybe our second or third time all four of us have been doing a panel together um always
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strangling someone ask a question you've never heard before like the one you just did ironically um because you know we do a
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few of these and often some of the questions are the same and we get tired of hearing each other's each other's
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same answers so anything fresh is always fun um yeah I'm trying to think if
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there's a kind of question no not really I think we I love doing these panels I
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think it's kind of the most fun to get direct a conversation going with fans
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it's why we do this um so I always look forward to them you do you know we'll
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have a panel like this called you know the notebook which again kind of confused me a little bit but you know
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Death Note uh but because at an event like this we can also be at a table for most of the weekends sometimes you will
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get a lot of people to come up and ask kind of out of the norm questions whereas they might not want to ask it in
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in a panel that's called Death Note but they'll come up to the table and ask them for me I love when people ask about
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some other things that I do aside from voice acting and if we can find a hobby in common um or a sport we play or music
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then I really geek out because you know this is definitely being able to talk about you know voice acting and shows we
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worked on but when it's just me having a oneon-one conversation at at my table and we're talking about favorite bands
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or horror movies or things like that then you can really engage just a different part of people's personalities
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and see what what else they're interested in and for me that's always very interesting it's great to hear from anyone out there who wants to share as
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well the reasons what uh made you want to watch Death Note not just questions
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for us sometimes it's fun to hear you know why what drew me into it or what I got out of Watching Death Note or when I
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first watched it it's just as fun for us to hear some of those stories from from uh from you as it is for us to tell
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ours thank you [Applause]
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looking at it over here like I was surprised when that happened we probably all were were like what well plug your
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ears if you haven't watched it all yeah I mean I kept hoping Beyond hope that it was all a dream or it was all part of
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his masteral plan he was going to come back at the end but that was definitely pulled the rug out for me it's a bit
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late for spoilers for Death Note cuz the Ser Show's been up for so long so can I assume it's too late for spoilers for
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Harry Potter as well I think if you haven't seen Harry Potter I agreed right I'm not going to be the bad guy when
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when we lost double door like that to me was equivalent
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to L well like what no it can't no no it's it's a trick what did I miss do I
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have to go watch it again like there's going to be some way that he's going to come all that kind of stuff now I will say something that surprised me a little
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bit and shouldn't have um was what happened to light in episode 37 and the
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reason it shouldn't have been a surprise is because very early on ruk says hey it's going to be me writing your name in
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my notebook and I'm like nah we're going to become friends it'll be fine and then
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it happens you're like oh crap he wasn't kiding so I shouldn't have been surprised but I kind of was and I'm
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still a little bit Meed yeah that's so El's the loss of
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El's probably the biggest surprise I was a little surprised in every rewat it just recently how violent like can get
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like when he took out the detective following him and his wife I was like what I was like come on man dude like it
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was it's rough as as heartbreaking as that was and for a lot of people they stopped watching the series for a while
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when that happened they're like no no they put it in the freezer um and then pull it back out like years later but
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anybody that watched Game of Thrones um it was one of my favorite series to watch as it came out and I learned early
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on don't get too invested any of the characters and anytime that they're willing to destroy a whole L of
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character on a show it just makes the stakes that much higher and makes me more invested in it cuz I know it's not
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all going to be Bubblegum and happy endings it's going to be bad so so good
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so bad it's good thank you thank you [Applause]
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they have same answer for this one too one two three
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[Music] a that was you know I grew up like probably most of us on Tom and Jerry and
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Bugs Bunny like those were the cartoons and of course you know trans GI Joe te
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all that kind of stuff um but when I first saw Akira or Akira if you prefer
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um was high school and that was the first time I saw animation do what it
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did in that movie and my mind was blown away that like oh animation doesn't have
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to be for kids or goofy or zany it can be gritty and dark and disturbing and
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stuff and that really became a gateway to all Japanese for a while but oh
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they're they're on to something here right and then I discovered giant robots and all this other great stuff too it's
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a good question I we've uh Aira was my first one as well but I I didn't even
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know what anime was I just thought it was a great animated movie I thought it was really cool so different but I think I probably knew and understood and fell
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in love with more anime throughs to jibli and um I had a young family at the time so watching my neighbor Joo and
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then we just got all of the we watched we've seen every single one of them and they're they're ex said I haven't seen
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the last one the Aaron Ro the Aaron is the the only one I haven't seen yet I'm waiting for a time for all of us to
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watch it together but that's his work is unbelievable I just loved it honestly
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Death Note was like my first my also my Gateway I like didn't really know what
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it was I got sent to the audition and I was like oh this looks fun and and that was kind of my first my first kind of
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least of it I know it is kind of I feel like I've been a bit spoiled you know that I was
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like oh yeah thank you thank you I will
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say we are heading very closely towards the end of our time we
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this last question let's make it quick
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oh I jump on the roll Z in a heartbeat Mr milardo piece crap I love working got way very fun very cool in a heartbeat I
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do another C Series now the rub to that is we're in Vancouver Canada and if one of those shows gets rebound like
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rebooted or reamped or whatever um they don't necessarily automatically think to
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get the original voice CS to do it so there's been Mobile Suit Gundam origin I
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was not om in that although I was om in the original mob SU Gundam um they recently did some kind of a reboot of
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Gundam SE Destiny um I played diara in that and when they did that nobody ever
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talked to me and now I mean this is flattering this Johnny Young Bosch that's playing diara in the newer
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version or whatever and little Side Story mam Roi who's the Japanese voice
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actor for light um it seemed like for a time anytime an anime series came and it
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was recording in Vancouver I got the r that he would have done in Japan and if it was in Los Angeles or in Texas it was
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Johnny Yash so now Johnny is doing me doing M like full circle craziness but
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no to answer your question absolutely I love G I mean did you see my backpack
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come on ring robots yes sir thank you so much thank you thank
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you so much for your question and everybody please thank your lovely beautiful panelists
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everyone we'll be our tokens for a little bit longer today before we uh
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pack up and take off but come say hi if you didn't get a question answered we're still open even if you're not getting autographs and stuff we're open to to
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chat and answer questions at our tables for open too so thank you so much everyone thank you
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