The Voice of Brock Powell

team to be involved with, isn't it. I mean, honestly, I'm crushing really hard on them, And I say, your other podcast is killing it, um, you know, and I'm happy to be a part of that family. Now, I am too. And if by other podcast you're talking about pod Meats World, check that out. It's another great podcast. But no selfless plug. Um. One thing we did want to talk about with with our I Hear Voices family

out there and it's so unbelievably exciting. Um. But it's gonna be a little different for the next say four or five episodes. Uh. You know that we normally do we bring in our special guests, which of course we're all going to do because we love learning about voice over. In the voiceover world, but then we used to bring in. It started with um amateur artists sending us their art and then we put some fun voices to the artwork,

and then it went from there. It grew to Across the Garden, which we did every week, where Christy and I played the little mice getting across the garden and an amateur actor got to come in and join us to actually do his own or her own recording session, which was a ton of fun. We had a blast. But my heart has been able to make our ultimate dream come true, which we've now been able to talk about a little bit where we are gearing up as we speak. Four. I'm sorry, did I should I not

have done the dunta dada? I feel I should do it with you if you want, you want to do it? Ready to three? Wow? Wow, we're never never actually in sanc is the problem, um, But we are announcing our official title of the super Awesome Contest to become the Next Big Voice Over Actor. Uh and you've got to say that five times fast. Title the joyous title this super Awesome Contest to become the next Big voice over Actor. And first of all, we should do should like announcer

voice ready do you want it? Ready? You want me to do it? Now? You do it? I always do booming voice, you do, but I don't know what you wrote in town. Literally, super amazing contest to find you really not know the title of our own contest, because that's pretty sad you wouldn't. I was just about to say if you don't, if you can't say the title, you probably won't be the next big voice over actor. And you literally can't say the title, which is pretty funny.

Stop it. Super amazing contest to already got it wrong, Super awesome, super awesome contest, Super awesome contest to become the next big voice over actor. Yes, yes, yes, I love the dramatic pauses that you took. By the way, because the stakes are high, people, this is an amazing contest with amazing, amazing rewards. I guess yeah, yeah, prizes rewards. Would I mean if you want to call the possibility of a professional voiceover career a prize, yes, that's literally

what we're offering. Um, that's what you win. We have so many prizes. Were not allowed to talk about a lot of them because, as you have to imagine, we're we're going nationwide. So because we're going nationwide with the power of my heart behind us. There's you know, we're not gonna lie to There's a lot of legal stuff that has to be worked out. This is where all the lawyers get involved, and we're making a full contest, like we're making a full idle style voice style contest.

And some of the things we can talk about because we have is we're not allowed to say exactly what yet because we're working out all the details. But you win a one year contract with one of the biggest voiceover agencies in the world, literally, and it's your first big break, right, we give you the opportunity. We can open the door for you. You then you then have

to have to run inside. But we can we can crack the door, which is often one of the most difficult things in this industry to do is actually getting an agent. So we're going to take care of that for you. We get to meet them. Yeah, they're coming to lunch. Well that because we'll have lunch with them and their new voiceover agents. So that's gonna be The lunch is on you. By the way, when the check comes, the winner, we have to pick up the tab. No, no no, no,

you'll be fine. And by the way, Christie, just I'm joking about you're picking up the tab. By the way, hey, Christie, just real quick, what was the name of our contest? Again? Super awesome contest to become the next big voice so at wow. I also love the way you're saying it. Uh. In the voice over world, that would be called a we need another take of that, but it's pretty genius the way that it happened. Um. So yeah, So bear with us as we're working out all the details of

the contest because we're so excited about this. It's gonna be an amazing amount of fund we're gonna be doing it, you know, not to give too much away, but we're gonna be doing it like March Madness style. We're going actor against actor. We're gonna weed it down and we're going to find the next big voice over talent in the country. And we will come at you with all

of the necessary stuff you're gonna need to enter. It's going to be free to enter for everybody over the age of eighteen and uh, of course we'll we'll let you know what the rules are when you're entering where you're going to enter. All that stuff will be coming in like the next month. So as we're holding off on that, as we're working on that, getting you know, a month month and a half, by the way, I

want to make sure I'm getting that right. But as we're getting all of that set up, to make sure that it is a completely seamless process so that you can go and win a career. Uh, we want to make sure that we are focused on that. And while we're doing that, we still want to be able to meet these awesome voice over actors and talk to these

awesome voice over actors how they got into the business. Uh. Meanwhile, giving the amateur actors that we normally bring on a show a break to study up, because yeah, it's about to get real up in remember the last last episode, Um, I suggested to people, Uh, somebody had asked us, was that that the Comic con, because you know, we do

these really awesome live shows. Now that was at the Con fan Expo, and at the cons somebody asked us, you know, how do you prepare or something like this, And I suggested to deep dive into all of our interviews thus far because there are some really good tidbits of information. I think the the Andrea Romano episode in particular,

is probably worn to start with. I would say our first episode to the Bows episode where he actually walked us through how he created a carrot, like, how he got to the voice, like he was like manipulating his instrument. You could see how he was working the throat and it was so Yeah. And then another great thing we talked about at the fan x boat was um improv classes, because improv classes are phenomenal to just get the acting chops up, get your speed, working on your timing, you

can workshop characters. It's another great kind of and you can find those. Usually in any city around the world there's have improv classes, which is really cool. I'm really excited about our guest today. I am too. I and not only excited about our guests, but I'm excited about the show that they're here to plug because there's some cool stuff happening. We recently had the show's creator on,

Dan Povenmeyer. Yeah, and Dan Dan. Actually it hadn't premiered yet, so um Brock Powell is our amazing guest today and they just recently announced, Hey, hey, how are you here? Are you? I'm good, I'm so good. I'm so excited to be here. This is like crazy, while thank you so much for joining us. This is really cool. Yeah, thank you. No, I'm I'm really I mean I feel like talking about you know, being on a Disney show with Disney Royalty is like, that's something you get to

do every day, right, are we Disney Royalty? That's so awesome. Yeah, just Disney lead you and then there's Disney Royalty. Would you? I think you get serious? Is that true? Brock? Welcome to Christie Land. Um, we've been, we've been so One thing that we love about Christie. Christie is like my sister, and she is the most scullable human being on the planet. It's so just trust that's probably makes you a really

good performer and also an interviewer. My fiance is the same way, Like I have to actually like I'm joking right after. Yeah, it was fun because the first time we talked about it, I said, well, you know that the reason you're so scullable is because it's a genetic trait. And she's like, really, oh my gosh, he's such a jerk. And you know, I should that's a genetic trait to Christie being a jerk. I actually kind of do believe that though see I can treat I can trace that one. Yay.

So Brock, we were just talking about how you um your creator Hamps oh my gosh, Hamster and Gretel's creator, Dan Povenmyer was just on our show. Yeah and you yes, he was. We got him to come on and it was really fun to talk to him. I thought he was going on a different show and it was halfway through we didn't. He was like oh, and we were like, no,

you're fine. I reconnected with Dan on TikTok and he's you know, he kills in TikTok world, and its way to get a hold of him, like if I have questions about script and I just I got a question about this, so and I just TikTok talk again. Show us the napkin that Phineas was on. That was like the creation was like it all started on a napkin, where as most as most things do. By the way, like my favorite fantasy series of all time, the entire map was drawn on a napkin in the middle of

a restaurant. So like my favorite series of all time, it's called the Belgaria and the Glorian Series by Dan By By David Eddings. It's the one that got me into fantasy as a kid. So that's like my that's like my my jam So that running this down you should Oh, I'll give you a what brock, I'll give you a whole list. You have no idea. I'm a fantasy nerd. But can we also talk very quickly about how Hamster and Gretel might be one of the greatest

named animated shows ever. It's pretty it's pretty great. I mean, Dan definitely has an ability, along with this creative partner on Phineas Swampy, to come up with really great names. So we have Phineas and Ferb. Then we had Milo Murphy's Law, which was the show in between Phineas and the one we're on now. Yeah. I don't know how they if they sit in a room or they have a robot they designed, or like a dufitator to come

up with the names. But Hamster and Gretel's definitely And it's funny too because a lot of people would go like, sorry, Hamster and Gretel, and it's it causes people to pause because I think it is such a great name, Like it's just based on the name, You're like I have to watch it is. It's a phenomenal It's a phenomenal name.

I also, we haven't really brought this up yet. I'm going to throw this at the first time, but I think we should start a contest where our guest gets to pick what's actually behind Christie on the green screen. That great idea. I think there's an image that will go back behind the green screen there, Yeah, you can. I think you can. She's got she's in front of a green screen because she normally likes to just do it in front of a giant picture, just my old

head shot. So what do you think, Brock, what do you think should be behind Christie at the end of the day. I feel like a napkid. I feel like it should just be a yes, right, maybe a hand drawn Kim Possible. I'm like the nakid. Yeah, I love it. Actually, we also saw Steven Silver when we were at Comic Con, but we he created Kim Possible. But you we missed you and we missed you right. Yeah, we were there. The entire cast are a large portion of the cast

was there. It an amazing panel. It was really really cool because this is the first time, you know, we've been going through, uh sort of, you know, the animation pandemic that the animation and so we all met there really for the most part, like at comic Con, which is a really it basically it was like camp comic Con and we were all hanging out, um, and it's really cool to fall in love with your entire cast and realizing, oh, you're all amazing people. Like everybody. We're

literally like we're planning a Disney trip right now. There's there's a whole bunch of it's cooling. Doesn't happen with everything, right, that doesn't happen with every every show. Now, I have a question for you because a lot of what one of the things we love about I hear voices is we we try to like pull the curtain on all of the animation world, and a lot of people don't really understand how long the process really takes. So we're now hearing about Hamster and Gretel. When's the first time

you heard the names Hamster and Gretel. That's a really great question. I actually might have to look at this.

I want to say, maybe like the first time I heard something regarding Hamster and got it might have been late nineteen because I know was when the show got greenlit, so that that probably would track um because we wrapped Candice against the Universe, which was the Phineas and for Um sort of decom Disney Plus movie that we did, which was really really cool because being a part of a Disney Channel original movies, like you know, a Kid of the Nineties dream. I didn't get to do the

one thing. I didn't get to do the wand but I've never done the wand either don't get me started. Can we do the wand? Do you want to do the wand? Everybody the one? You guys, you've done the one having your Tristan, You've done the wand right in the middle before brock is after I got in there. I got in there, guys. But I don't have any outtakes online. Oh you don't. My coast got one. Alexie Schooner, who played my supervillain Stibling, obviously got to do that

a lot. And she just posted a video of her recreating it at Disneyland, which people want to check that out. I think that's on our Instagram. Love her. Can I just tell you, guys, I just want to do a little moment for Alison stoner appreciation. Absolutely. She went on this other podcast, I Have um Vulnerable, and she was exactly that for me. And I just love her so much that she popped up with you in those pictures at Comic Con and I was just so ecstatic for her.

I didn't know about you know, I didn't know about it. Dan had recently been on her show but hadn't mentioned her casting. So it's just so great to see you guys together. And that's great that you guys got to meet and connect in that way because she's a really good person. Uh, Supreme. And what's crazy is so a little behind the scenes to your to your point, well, um, which so again child the nineties, do most people accidentally call you Eric? Because I'm really having a hard time

not to get yeah. I'll answer to most things, but yes, I will occasionally get an Eric and I'll just go yeah, see no, but he pronounces for del right anyway, So there you go. When somebody throws a sound my way, I just go yeah. To me. It's like, it's just I'm in the single syllable range to some most things. I'm just like, is that my name was saying? There you go, Mr Squirrels tell squirrels and speaking of like syllables and sounds. I know in your bio it's said

that you sometimes specialize in creature sounds. Yeah. Yeah, so I do a lot of monster creature sounds. On my Little Murphy's Law, I was a ton of aliens. I did a bunch of aliens in Candace against the Universe, um, and then weirdly on Hamster. I'm mostly getting to do

human villains. I've got a couple other like specialty characters that are gonna be coming up in episodes because five episodes are out right now and Disney Plus and like, my main character is Lyle Fist Puncher, but um, the team has been amazingly kind of generous, and I think right now I'm at maybe ten different villains on the series throughout everything. So it's really I don't how cartoons,

oh how. I think it's just the picture and the physicality and and you know you're talking about Alison Stoner. So the character that I do, Fist Puncher, is a twin that's younger by three minutes to Alison's character, and I believe Alison tracked her portion first, and so that made it easier for me because I was like, well, if they're twins, they probably would have some sort of similar vocal kind of tone and music. Um, so we

sort of are doing this like Valley siblings things. So sort of like Lyle kind of very much like he's got it down here voice, but he also goes up here when he's talking to his big sister, like because he's genuinely kind of concerned. Um, and it kind of has that too many vowels Polly Shore diff Tannon sort of thing. Um, but Aliston came first. Her her voice came first. I heard it in play back and then

that was kind of how we created it. I then for other matched you pretty matched the tone, didn't did her voice come first by three minutes? Because if it would be pretty yeah, that would be the pretty the coolest thing in the world. Did the very efficient with the recording timing. So I'd also like to point out that Christie actually managed to pull off the line speaking of sounds. Uh, It's like I'm a segue master, you

are you segue? That was genius like as sounds and syllables as no as no one as ever said Mr might be a Hamster and Rettle Villain. I think we should pitch that up. I love that. Okay, still question. Then you're you've got a character in front of you. You know, it's not gonna have a lot of dialogue. It's just going to be an alien sound. Where where do you go? I mean like, are you in your throat? Are you in your nose? The sounds? Yeah? Yeah? Where do you go to find just a sound like that? Yeah?

I'll show you. There are a couple of different ones. Um if it's on Disney Plus. So if people go and watch My the Murphy's Law, which the entire series is there, you can hear me voicing aliens from the pilot episode all the way to the end, and there's like twenty different aliens. Some of them speak language, some of them don't. Um So, so usually an alien, it depends if they're cute or evil. So if it's kind of like the friendly et kind of thing without language,

it'll probably sound like this. Wow, I's a lot of that kind of stitch placement, So then you're doing the articulators there. Then if it's like a scary like District nine kind of buggy alien being more like like that kind of thing. So it depends on the size. I always start with how big is the character? And um, you know, and and then I actually have a technique I call the monster mash, which is how I teach

myself to do creature voices. So please give us the monster mash if you don't mind sharing the monster mashed. This is brock Palells monster mash. Um the mouth, what does the mouth look like? Does the monster alien have a mouth? If it's like a gelatinous kind of like you have to figure that out right, because aliens may not look like us. Then the monster alien is the attitude?

Is it angry? Is it hungry? And it's always important to connect the creature with the human or the those primal emotions that we all experience wanting shelter, companionship, um. And then the size how actual like how big is the actual character? And is it like small dog syndrome where it's like a tiny gremlin but it makes it meaner um? And then how sacary is at the age.

So if you're doing something for like I work on a lot of the Disney Junior stuff, doing monsters and creatures for Mickey Mouse Funhouse, and obviously a dinosaur on that show would be very different than something that we would do on like hand, you're not going to want to scare a little so okay, so you've got the monster mash up, which I think is is amazing. First of all from an acting standpoint, cool man, I think

it's kind of amazing that you're putting that. And again, this to all the people out there that want to do this for a living. Brock is looking at a character that has no dialogue, that might be in the background, that isn't featured, and is putting a backstory to it, like, well, is it hungry, doesn't need companionship. This is that This is what differentiates somebody who is really good at this, has the talent and it is going to have a long career and somebody who's like, oh you you kind

of do voices. So if you're wondering what the difference is, that's one of the differences is putting that amount of effort into what is considered Oh, it's just a small part for an actor, there's no such thing. So I mean that's but it's true. It's like you've gotta you know, it's Brock is putting all I look at the picture and you put the like, does they want companionship. That's the that's what differentiates the talent from the not talented

hashtag not talent. But there I think there also is to like, if I'm not paying at ten, you know how I'm sounding, I'm doing something right. So the more you do with your body and the more you're in the moment, the less you're aware of how especially for creature voice, it is absolutely vile. You look like, I will leave blobber covered, and it's to make the sounds you have to you have to sort of like change

your change of faceship. And I was lucky because I grew up as a benefactor of like Frank Welker's work, right and Bradley Baker. Yeah, and it is. It's one of those things where you you One of the first times I was ever in a booth with Frank Um I think it was. It might have been he was doing the sounds for it was he was dubbing over Ace the bath Hound in Batman Beyond. I think, my child.

So we're sitting there and I've got my Terry mckinn his voice, and I'm just oh, you know, and they're like, all right, do Ace, and he starts barking like you know, we need a different dog too, can you make it smaller? And so he does a smaller dog and then like no, it's one pause injured, and he does start to making it and you're going, that's a small dog with an your Paul like, how is this? How are you even

contemplating doing these things? He's on another level. Frank is just i think, an expert of speaking of dog sounds. He was Ku Joe. Yeah, he was Marahote the eagle in Rescuers down Under, which is like, yeah, favorites, like the dude is from another planet's it's insane. He's an animal.

It's insane. And yeah we're doing when we're doing Transformers and I'm sitting in between him and uh, you know, um just the whole original like most of the original Gen one cast your It's like, I can't believe this is all happening right now. You've got Peter Colin on one side, and I'm just like, I'm just gonna keep my mouth shut. I'm just there were grown men that were we were in our forties trying not to cry.

So the first time Peter Colin looks at you and goes bumblebee, and I was like, you're like, he's talking to me. He's like, I have to answer him. He's talking is insane. So it's that same thing with the because that's a whole Another side of this industry that a lot of people don't necessarily talk about is creature sounds. I can't do those. I consider myself a pretty good voice over actor. I can't do that at all. It's a whole different skill set that either you can do

or you can't. Growing up, did you have one thing that you love? I mean, did you start doing funny creature sounds or did you do more of kind of the animated voices. Yeah. I did a lot of the cartoon voices and stuff. That was sort of how I made friends. And Um, I was definitely a latchkey kid and both my parents worked, and so I watched and

basically was raised on the Disney Afternoon. So when I got out of college and was like trying to figure out what I wanted to do with this theater degree, which is such an obvious like or just but I

don't know what it does. I wrote whatever um to Bill Farmer, who voices Goofy for Disney, and he was my first mentor and showed me the ropes of how classic acting and the impressions needed to be merged so that like I'm approaching like you mentioned, I'm approaching every scene with like it might be a talking ham sandwich or snaggle Puss, but they still have what does the character want? What's the best case scenario? What's the worst

case scenario? And I think often and where I was fifteen years ago, you're doing impressions that are only the things the character has said before. But even just a little scene that we were playing earlier that might have been excise at this point, being able to pivot in the character and put them in circumstances they've never been in.

I think that's really the test of it is if you can Bob Bergen, who voices Porky Pick, says, if you can do a Looney Tunes character doing Shakespeare, you know that you've got sort of a fleshed out, more than two dimensional character because you're putting them into circumstances. And that was something that I learned really early on.

But I still play with voices. I do a ton of sound a like Um, I do a lot of like impressions now professionally I'll come in and sort of be like the vocal stunt double for celebrities, which is really really fun. Who's okay, so you know where we're going? Yeah, you know the next questions we've got If you're bringing up who? So, I mean, who who do you do? If it's like, well we can't get X, Y and Z go get brock, who who are you doing? Yeah?

I mean I'm wearing this ironically right now. I have done Robert Downey Jr. For stuff, some some things that first of all, I can't I can't really go into that, but I gotta say there were some things that I did. Uh you know here, here's the deal. First of all, we have a wholk I know, ms frantas sure Greek um,

So I've done done a lot of that. I also have done sound alike for like some classic characters for Disney and Sony UM, which I can't I can't talk about those just yet because some of those projects haven't been released. And that's fun, I know. And then I also did I got to do a huge Ghostbuster fan and I got to work with the Ghost Corps team, and I did sound alike for um Bill Murray and Danak right for a ghost project. For it's like I'm kind of like an activation, which was really crazy. It

was really funny. I gotta hear your Bill Murray Brock Sorry, oh god. So you know it's funny because Bill Murray and Robert Downey Jr. Are actually not too far apart. But you know, like a specific can I curse on the show because the quote quote you can, but we will, we'll we'll bleep your curse. Okay. It's also in Ghostbusters, so if you're fine, but we came, we saw, we

kicked the tests, so that kind of you know, that's nice. Yeah, And it's a lot of that, you know, kind of what he does in Caddyshack, like well, you know I'm gonna get total enlightenment, so you know said there'll be he said there'll be no money. Yeah, you should received totally enlightenment. Yes, that's my other podcast. I just sit around quote movies. That's like my brothers and I. That's all we don't. Uh no, it's fine, We're we're a

movie quote people. Actually have a bathroom in my house where there's just pens and so when you you walk in and you just write your movie quotes up on the wall. So the walls are just covered with movie quotes everywhere. If I ever use if I ever use your bathroom, I'm going to write gullible on the ceiling. Well I think really it will. We'll be able to notice. It will be the only one in the ceiling, which will be great. Nice. Thank you. Christie's already talking about

ruining my bathroom. I love it. I love it. I'm going to face your otherwise very autographs. So okay, the question we like to ask certain questions. First of all, do you remember the first voice you ever did? Mhm, I want to stay? Might have been it was either gonem oh. That was that was popular when I was

in middle school. And then Christian Bale's Batman was really big, and those were, like I often say, like the lunch table in high school was where I socialized a lot of my Okay, that's where you work shopped everything because you're making everybody laugh and so you're different, you know, impressions and stuff, and were you just doing Christian Bale at that? You know, like it's what long hot dog day like that, like that kind of stuff. You feel

like it's not a judge, it matters. It's what the head. It's just such a great he can't get that vocal performance is the most insane choice, and I love well it's the same. It's how I look at like, uh, you know the Lex Luthor in Superman move in the New Superman movies, or if it's like if you're going to hit the wall anyway, run into it, full speech, swing for the fences. It's either gonna work or it's not. But nobody can't say you didn't swing for the And

that was Christian Bale. It was that, Yeah, that kind of but now I just oh, now, I just want to see you doing that voice ordering lunch in like middle school. I think that would be the greatest thing. I know. The next question you're going to ask him? What can I ask you? Then you ask it? Okay, So we're getting to that place now where we really truly are like family, where I can complain. I'm just gonna even if it wasn't, the question gonna be like you got it? You better Okay. So is there any

character or voice that you would want to do? You got it? Actually you did? Actually you did? That wasn't of course that's last because yeah, you get to pick who do you want to be. I mean, that's such a it's such a tough question because I mean, you both know we're such a tight knit community that you never want to say like in bad faith or your job, like I'm gonna come for your job, ron stoppable. Okay, and thanks Brock, thanks for coming on the show. This

character like Jerry Beginnis anyhow, he's had a big deal. Um, I would say my go to answer. And the one that really started me on the journey was the first character I became aware of, like from youth and who the actor was. I have a lot of respect for the work of Jim Cummings and say that if there was ever an opportunity to to protege or learn from or continue a care Poober would probably being the one. Okay.

And there's just just like and when I do them, and I've learned, and I've learned by watching, and I think that's one of the things I would encourage people. And and also to say, you know, I'm about to do the impression, just remember that when you do these things to me, it's about a community of respect and admiration. And you're never You're never I'm never learning these things or putting these tricks in the quiver to take an

opportunity away from someone or undercut somebody. Um, this is all about you know, someday these characters, hopefully you're going to outlive all of us. I hope that someday in

in eighty years. Fist Puncher three is being voiced by someone who's like, oh, the original actor was named Brock and you know, Um, with all that said, there's something very fun about having Rumbly and my Tumbly and being able to kind of hear the original Sterling Holloway who was the original actor, and then how Jim has sort of made it his own role and kind of going through like okay, kind of like again, I'm really nerdy about the stuff. So like the original guy just sounded

that way. So you had a guy who kind of he was also the Chester Cat on the Disney interviews. He was the Stork and dumbbo Sterling had just come in and do all this stuff. Lambert the Lion if you like those, I love Lambert. He narrates, that's Winnie the poo narrating that Lamber the line and he does that really soft kind of thing. And so when when Jim took over the role. He kind of found a very particular placement for it because he was doing Tigger

and Poo, which means you have to have that. He went right to the to the who right yeah, yeah, right, yeah, and it was crazy, okay, interesting, So Poo, I have, I have. I have a difficult relationship with Winnie the Pool. Really is that true? Yeah it is. Yeah, I have difficult speak about It's okay, we're gonna talk about you know. I when I was nineteen, I wrote the live action animation winning the Pooh movie for Disney, the one that just came out with with you and McGregor a couple

of years ago. And that's sad. We'll see. That's the thing. It's sat on the shelf for years and years and years, and then it went through a whole bunch of other hands and so when they finally put it out, it was totally different, and I got no credit. So I have I have a little bit of an issue with cutting this out too. Oh I don't care. Oh, I don't care at all. So I've talked about it before.

I've talked about it before. It was you know, so I wrote it twenty five years ago something that was my first screenplay that I sold my Actually, I lived Winnie the Pooh. I lived Winnie the Pooh for for a year when I was writing it. Oh my god, yeah, crazy yeah. So that was that's my and again and Jim Cummings. I love Jim. I love Jim. Jim is

one of the nicest people in the world. And by the way, you mentioned something that is super important, which is also something we're hoping to be able to have happened on her voices, is mentorship. Kevin Conroy was my mentor in the Voiceover World. Um, you talked about Bill Farmer was your who couldn't be a nicer man? By the way, you know Jason Mars and my best friend was in a good movie, so I've known Bill for

years too. Couldn't be a nicer man. But you can't overstate the benefits of having a mentor who is wants to help guide you. And that's one of the things when we get to a certain level of the contest, which we've talked about on the show. I don't know if you're aware of the contest that we're gonna be doing, Brock, this is really a thing. So tell you what it's called go ahead, go ahead, Christy, can you you just put yourself you've forgotten what it's called already, don't you

already forgot? So we're gonna find American Idol style the next big voice over actor, and we're gonna have to have you back because we're gonna have judges and mentors and creature based person but obviously you do everything well, maybe one of the levels one of the things we're gonna have to figure out because we're going to find

the best well rounded actor out there. And maybe we're gonna have to Brock come in because one of the things we want to do when we get to the final four or so is we're going to give them mentors, So everybody's going to get a v O v O mentor. Uh and Brock, we'd love to have you come and help us out because, uh, yeah, we we're going to need the best to help find the best. So that's well, I'm I'm honored, absolutely, that's awesome. And Christie, can you tell us one more time what the name of the

contest is, please? The Super Amazing Contest to find the next best voice actor. Not correct, it is the Super Awesome Contest to become the next big verse of over actor. Uh, but we love I love that. What's the acronym for that? Have you? Have you come up with the sactobe? I just think every time we edit it it needs to be in like a booming voice though, please please, I think we'll do that too. Yeah, we'll make sure that

there's a there's a boom. Super Hey, can you favor bron Could you say the super awesome contest to become the next big voice over actor as an alien? Sure? Perfect? That was perfect. I was going to give him crazy direction I want to hear if I want to make it hard for him, what's the crazy direction you want to Let's make the monster mash. Let's apply the monster mash. Wow. Oh, I like it. Okay, go ahead, describe the alien Christie. So the size is uh, it's the size of uh

this right here like a hale fall hale. Okay, it's a furry I'm actually gonna I'm actually going to have you voice what I did in a writing workshop, which I located as the picture of my inner critic. Okay, so no pressure, but you're going to voice my inner critic is a fuzzy pink ball that has very cute eyes, but when it smiles, it has a razor sharp teeth. Love it. Wow, little little insight into Christie. Go there.

This is like a little insight. There we go interesting and we just we're just rolling rest now and it's crying tears of acid enjoy. I like that. What do you got, brock Well, I'm getting what. I'm actually checking the line. I'm more worried about getting the name of Christie'll help you. What is it, Christie? What is it? Christie? Super awesome contest to find the next nope, big voice over a lot more time. It's the super awesome contest to become the next big voice actor to become Okay,

got it? Okay, you got a rock. Here we go, uh with Christie's inner critic a pink, fuzzy, cute eyed but big sharp teeth when it's upset. So here we go. Actually, we'll need a little water to this, and that's lesson one. And Christie is doing the doing the putting the razor sharp teeth in herself. Ladies and gentlemen. Oh, I can't wait to what people are going to do with the green screen behind you. Christie, you might have opened up a whole can of worms with the green screen. Uh,

here we go a contest that's big. Yes, I like I do too. Your inner critic is great, the razor sharp teeth, that's awesome. Rock you get in touch with my agent if we want to bring the character back, let's do it, and said, no, I'm sorry. We should have also told you everything you say on the show is owned by us personally, so we've actually already sold

the rights to that fuzzy critic. Well, and I was gonna say, like all things that happened in this in this uh, in this industry, we are now looking for a brock Powell type to voice it. That's just the way it always works out. We all know that I got replaced on a movie. I would say what movie? But I got replaced on a movie for a large streaming service that I worked on for two years, and they got David Crossing to replace me. And I wasn't even mad like at that. Yeah, and when you're like, okay,

that's pretty good. And the coolest part was he kept my improv choices because there were things that were written and it wasn't all quite animated yet, so to hear to hear somebody I really think of as a comedy icon. Keeping my jokes. I'm like, Okay, that's good. That's a win. That's a win. Don't you kind of didn't you kind of wish it was still just you though? Yeah, I

mean it was. You know, I've been replaced. And I think that's one of the things that I wish people knew, is a really becoming a common thing only because it happens a lot. It happens a lot, and I think being able to handle it with a certain level of grace and understanding and is this is Bill's advice that I will not take credit forward, but he says, uh, you got to remember you're a plumber and you're there to fix a problem, and you know, you've got a

tool kissed it, got the thing that you do. And at the end of the day, if something happens where they decide, hey, you know, actually we tried that. And there's a hundred of different things. And with vocal instruments, you have no idea who they're casting you against. You might sound exactly like to other people in the cast or um. At the end of the day, we're there to serve the to serve the story. And if someone decides that your vocal performance isn't the best thing for

the story, then that that is an easier way. It doesn't make it easier to lose it and hear someone else do it, but I think it does make it easier to go, well, I did, I did my job. My job was to serve the story, and ultimately I've sacrificed. There's also there's also a thing nowadays which is happening more and more, and this is one of the things

I want I hear voices eventually to do. I have a goal to where all actors, even huge like The Rock and all these people, when they do exactly when they do a voice over film, when they do an animated film, and everybody should. Everybody should try it. It's so much fun. But you are huge actors, and you should insist that at least of the cast is just

voice over actors. That's my goal. But one of those but that's one of those things is sometimes especially nowadays, they just want a bigger name, so your performance is fine, but then all of a sudden it's like, yeah, but now we got David cross Um and that's nothing against you, And you're right, David Cross is a comedy. I mean,

mr show is one of my favorite things ever. Uh but it's um, you know it does it still stings, But you're right, it's it's more and more common, and it's happening a lot people being been replaced will uh by an alien, not not on a you know this is no longer. No, I think we've all been replaced. I was. I don't even remember this show. Of course, of course I know. I know what show I was replaced on and were replaced on Family Guy, What who

were you? Unfamily? I was Quagmire's One night Stand and I was replaced, and I at the time was in contact with Seth McFarland, and he didn't really tell me the place. And then finally I found out that I was replaced, and I was like, that's oh, that's not me. I was replaced, Okay, that's okay. And then I only had one line because he had me do two different voices and there was another character that had like one line ended up one. Okay, so they gave you one thing.

That's good. Yeah, no again, I think I got the credit. I got the credit. I've been replaced on stuff. It happens a lot um. And there's also times where it's like that's why we talked about like Jason Marsden and UH and Josh Keaton and I will never do a show called Jason, Josh and Will because we all found the same So it's like, you guys do have similar instruments, right, so's you know who? I was replaced by Nicole Sullivan. She go herself. That's hilarious. Wow. Nicole and I did

a I don't even remember. It was four. We did a commercial together, like a voice of a commercial and I didn't and I forget like we I had. We were singing into some holiday thing. I can't even remember if an error what happened, but we were singing. We were singing and next to Nicole, they were like, hey, Brock, can you just like riff a little bit into mad Lips? And I'm like super aware that imagine the legend. I'm like, yeah, exactly,

a couple of couple, you know, knock knocks. That's Nicole though. That's she's the best. She's great. She's really cool, all right. Rock. So as to wrap up here, here's the thing. Uh, one piece of advice. So you you Bill Farmers, your mentor So now you've got a mentee, what's the first piece of advice you would give that person? Uh, well to Segway and also truthfully, UM, don't don't post about stuff as soon as it happens, because you start to

get connected. Um, your brain will start to connect social media with dopamine. And I think it's important to know that the wind isn't talking about the job, it's doing the job. I also like to my mentee, I would say, don't worry about getting the blue ribbon at the big sale. Come up with the best recipe you can for whatever whatever it is you do, and hone that recipe. Because the people that you're admiring and want to be like

have been doing this for forty years. I mean we talked about Frank Welker, who's been voicing Fred on Scooby Doo since nineteen sixty something. Yeah, he's been around since it was Old Hampshire. Like, the guy's been here forever. So yeah, he's amazing. So just focus on the craft of it and don't don't fall for the trap that all of us do, which is social media following is so important. Um, engaging with fans is important, but you

got into because you love the work. So don't ever trade the love of the work for the love of the admiration for the work, because you can't control that. Nice, nice, good ad. That's just interesting. Just to piggyback on that. Um, I'm I'm now almost three years without social media. Oh you are, really and it's the best ever. You don't. You don't use it at all at all. Nothing, No Twitter, no Instagram, no TikTok, no anything. I have no social

media presence and it's wonderful. Well, I mean, you know what they're saying about me on the internet because I don't, and it's the best. Well, but then you're focused on this and then you don't have to Yeah, that's cool. It's just it's it's for my own mental health. I just couldn't do it anymore. I could not do it. It It made me anxious every day and I just couldn't do it anything. I get that. I get that. I don't think people talk about that enough. But I love,

I love your advice. Focus on the work. At the end of the day, we're not voice over actors, were actors, So that's that's focus on that. Brock, You're the best. This is totally cool and now and now here's a bad segue. But we're on social media. Can everybody find you hilarious? Well, I'm I'm at Wilfred down because you

know that domains open Partiday. That's what that voice, you know the other I discovered new voices all the time through my own anxiety, and so if you're talking about your inner critic, that voice is like whenever my my fiance is an amazing driver. I have major control issues though with road stuff because every accident I've ever been in someone else was driving. And so whenever I'm in the passenger seat, that's the voice of hello, jeez, I

don't know where. Slow it down, Slow it down. Your fiance will be driving, and then you'll just you'll just start to speak like just like that. I think that was a yield yellow. I get that. We're there ever, um, you can find me on Instagram at Brock Talks, which is my name and my occupation, uh, which is b R O c K T A l k S. And then because there's a really sweet little old lady who runs a podcast in Maine, my Twitter handles different because

she owns brock Talks. Because really is Brock. Everyone go listen to Lindsay Brock's podcast. She's a sweet pie, but she's yeah, she's holding out the Twitter account. So I'm b r O c K t O c k s on Twitter. Nice after that, yeah, I like. And then of course where can people see you as zyle fist Puncher. Oh yeah, well you can check out Hamster Gretel a Disney Channel or also like, check us out on Disney Plus. Uh that and we air Saturday mornings at nine thirty.

Check your local listings. And then I think we're dropping to Disney Plus incrementally, so just keep you know, keep checking that. And we're trending right now on Disney Plus as we record, which is crazy. One of the best titles Hamster and Gretel ever put out there. Rock you made it. You made it to Saturday Morning. Yes, you're a Disney You're on Disney Channel on Saturday Morning. My friends, you have done it? My friend yeah, Bill, Yeah, you had a great time. Is amazing. Brack made it today.

You'll come back. And now Christie, well that's awesome. Christie. Can you take us out by one more time? Telling us the title of the contest. Make sure you join us on our podcast contest called go ahead. Well, no, that's all you Christie take us. Now you do it? Oh God, come on, what you got? Super awesome contest to fine Nope becoming Nope the next Ironically, folks, we are going to have to replace Christie with another actor doing it properly. Uh, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so

much for joining us. Everybody out there, thank you so much for joining us. We of you so much, and join us because yes, we are going to have our super awesome contest to become the next big voice actor. And if you can't say the contest, chances are you're not gonna be able to win. Christie UH is absolutely going to be able to say the contest. Yes you are. You know that. We'll rehearse it a little bit and

you're gonna be able to do it nine different voices. Hey, for the record, I've had it written down next to me the entire time we've been doing this. So we will get to all of you out there with all of the contest rules. They're being worked out right now. But this is amazing and you're gonna get to not only be mentored by people like Brock, but one person out there is going to be able to call them colleagues because uh, you're gonna have an opportunity to change

your life. That is not hyperbolee, folks, that is absolutely the truth. So yeah, so much fun with you again, and uh yeah bear with us over the next few weeks. We're lovingly going to be able to just sit here and talk to some of the most amazing people before the contest rolls out. So use this time to practice, rehearse, go do what Brock said, work on your instrument, do

what you've got to do. Go back and watch some of our other actors as they tell us how they get into character, how they find the character, do the Brock monster mash, because man, it seems like there are a thousand things you're going to have to practice to to win. But we are so excited, and just remember join us once again on I Hear Voices and keep your eyes out for all the rules for the super awesome contest to become the next big voice over actor. And if you think you got what it takes, don't

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