The Voice of Olivia Hack

and everybody's sick. I mean, there's just so much going on in the world, right, Is everyone in your family sick? Because everyone around here is really I've got one child on antibiotics and another one that's you know, healthy on the mend, and a third child that you're married to that also has a sinus infection and has been gone for a week while we were moving in. Everything's good, though, like honestly, like I can't complain. You can. You got a big microphone in front of you can complain to

everybody you want to. That's the joy. That's true. I guess I could. And it's echo E two it is. I noticed you're in kind of a new cave. You have to we'll we'll have to de ecify your ecify. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'm going with itfy id your your room. But I like but in a weird way. I like the way that it makes my voice sound more womanly. Really, you think makes you sound more womanly? Weirdly, I feel like more sexy. Is that what you think? It sounds ephemeral?

What does that word mean? Even? I feel like I know what that word you're asking. Ephemeral. Ephemeral is the largest bone in your leg. I broke. I broke my ephemeral when I was a kid. I'm kidding. Hold on now, I really want to Now you want to know what it is? I would tell you, but I'm not going wrong. Hold on if I actually got this, yeah, no lasting for a very short time. Fashions are ephemeral, ethereal. Then that's what I meant. Don't use words you don't know

what they mean. I do that every now and then. I'm just I'm sorry. I'm just looking back as my as my career as a lover, and being called ephemeral, I realized was not was not the compliment I thought it was. I was like, man, was totally aphemeral, And she had to tell me quickly um oh no, that's so funny. How are you so you're are you not sick?

You're not sick. I don't know. I'm mom sick, which basically means like, especially like our producer can share our sentiment as well, Um yeah, I'm mom sick, which means you really can't get sick. It's like you're sick, but like you laugh at it because you have to keep going and pretend like it's not really happening. Yeah. My wife Sue says that I'm one of those people where I sneeze once and I've got to be in bed for a month, or it's like don't don't come here

of yourself, take care of yourself. That's important, honestly. But no, I get that. Like we we've been doing a lot of different podcasts, both of us have separately from each other, and and obviously we're doing our next con together. We're doing is in San Francisco. San Francisco. Yeah, and we're doing a live I hear voices at San Francisco Comic Con,

which is great. Which is I think it's the twenties fifth it's right after Thanksgiving, the day after thanks You, it's November, putting my pie fork down I'm heading exactly. We're actually having Thanksgiving in San Francisco with our with my my stepdaughter and new son in law, so it will be there. Yeah, that's where they live. So though, oh my gosh, that's great time. So they will be there for Thanksgiving, the giving of thanks Um and have turkey in the city. I haven't had turkey in the

city and as long as I can remember. And some chowder what why would there be chowder? Do they have great clam chowder? First of all, you're talking to a guy from New England. Don't ever bring up West Coast chowder to talking to somebody who you're from. You, by the way, are from Connecticut. You should be all about New England white real clam chowder. This is what they serve though at the wharf Fisherman's work they serve both

types of chowder. I'm sure. I'm sure they're trying to get it just as good as in the New England clam chowder, and they don't. My friend canceled, canceled without the chowder. Fly your Connecticut flag high. You gotta fly your Connectic So I'm very excited about today's guests. Are you excited about today's guest. I am because I actually know our guest from way back, and we're going to

be able to reconnect because it's been years. For sure, it's been years, and um, I remember seeing her in audition rooms and whatnot, and I'm so happy that she's doing so well in our little voice over community now crazy well, I mean, we're talking about she was on Hey Arnold, and she was on Last Airbender, and she was on the care Bears, and she's been a Jedi, and it's Harry Potter video games and burn the Witch, which is a new crunchy role. There's so much to

talk about that. Frankly, I don't know if we're gonna be able to get everything. So I think we should just end this podcast here and not even bring her out, because I we're just not gonna be able to get to all the stuff that we have to get to. I can't wait to hear her on our little show, a little, our little vignette. Oh when we're going to do our across the Garden, which is great. We've got a fun fun across the garden today and have fun.

Um amateur voiceover actor, undiscovered voice over, I don't like the word amateur. An undiscovered voiceover actor like that is going to join us today, and that will also lead us to a wonderful conversation about the best way to be discovered, because we're going to help out with that with our amazing um contest, which I can never remember the name of christ can I don't even ask. I can't remember what it's called. What is it? What is

it again? Dude, you're so good. I'm just curious if you can remember what it is, because it's out of my head. What's it called again? It's got out of my head to you know. Come on, Google, come on, it's completely drawing, It's completely Maybe if I keep drinking my diet code. There you go. It's the super Awesome Contest to become the next voice Actor, Next Big Voice. The super Awesome Contest to become the next voice actor the Big Voice. Yeah, the next Big Voice. We'll get it.

We'll get it, we'll get it. I think the first thing you're gonna have to do is learn the title to win. But oh my god, who do we have today? Who's joining us? Christie? We have Miss Olivia Hack. Let's get into it. Hey, it's all happening. It's all happening. She's here. How you doing? I'm happy, Christie is Olivia every single time, every single time a guest comes on, Christie is amazed they're actually here. It's so funny. It's

like whatever. I like, It's like we've been planning this for weeks and then the person actually pops up like you're here. First of all, yes, because I'm so grateful when people come on to our our show, and ours has had everyone on those seriously, we continue to well done, Olivia. Dude, Olivia, when's the last time I saw you? I don't know, fifteen years ago at some club in l A or something probably okay, think okay, so club in l A. Sure, but I thought we were I thought we were like

the same, we were agent or CSD. Yes, yes see I was right, you know will Okay, I'm still still I've been with C E. D. S D for twenty years. But I don't want to skip over the club in l A story. So I don't, you know, I don't know young people in l A. Whatever. Do you guys still live in l A? I feel like neither of you do. I'm basing that on. I do nothing I don't live in l A and I don't go to club. It's so sad that I live in l A and

I've never been to a club in my life. Good choices, yeah, because I know, but I'm now I want to get to do it. What was the last I don't know. He was literally like lood do or some I mean like back, Oh my gosh, day. I think Olivia and I hung out like all the time that day. I think we like. I think yes, and I miss you in my life. We are the cup. You're in Austin. Oh oh that's right. Yeah, as I moved to Austin, Texas. How do you like training here? It's beautiful. I've been

your two and a half years. I've found a beautiful house as well now, um that I just moved to. So I'm really comfortable and my girls are really you know, I have two kids, Olivia crazy crazy, I have to no club time. You don't need to do that. You really don't the babysitters club more like it. But yes, oh my gosh, this is so cool. I'm so happy to see your face, happy to see well, thank you for joining us, thanks for having me. Happy to be here.

Now I have to know. Are you in l a A. Yeah, raise if I die Hills, girl, if I die here, I'll be really disappointed myself. But you know it's probably gonna Did both of you grew up in l a too, No, we're actually both from Connecticut randomly, Yeah, but you were like kid actors. I feel like you're only a kid actor. Well, I guess kids come out for pilot season, then they

do that whole. That's what we did. So I was in the UID in New York and I would take the bus down, she would take the train, and then when Boy MEA's World started, I moved out here, so that I've been here since I was sixteen. Um, so I'm essentially have been a California person forever at this point. Well, and that makes sense Connecticut but really New York City. Yeah, so that's how that happens. Yeah, we were New York kids that came west. Yeah, that's kind of our vibe.

But I'm not a Beverly Hills. It says Beverly Hills on my like I AMDB, which is like unchangeable because I was like born at I grew up in Hollywood and then moved to Burbank and I'm still in Burbank, so but it is interesting because you don't meet a lot of people that are like from Beverly Hills or l A. You know. Um, both my daughters were born in One of them was born in Beverly Hills and then the other one was born in Newport when we

moved down to Orange County. But it is it is fun to see like somebody who's like from l A. What's a different vibe. Like my favorite people are the people that grew up here, because it's like, oh, that's that's why like you, because you're just relaxed into it, you know, because I think you meet a lot of people and they come to l A and they try and be l A whatever that is in their mind that they grew up watching or think that, you know, but I don't know that the locals are a little

bit more you know. Well, and Olivia always you've always struck me as and this is funny because this will trans this will transition into sort of just the sentiment of using your voice and whatnot. But like you have like a more East Coast sensibility to you, Like if if somebody would be like, hey, look at this actress.

Where would you cast her being from I think somebody would be like, oh yeah, she's kind of like sassy, and I feel like she could be more East Coast than people have asked me if I'm from New York. But it's just it's direct, like I have very male energy, which is just kind of I'm just more. I'm just direct. I don't know. I don't like, who is time for anything else? I like that. I like that. So let me ask you a question. Then, how do we talked

about being child actors? How did you start in the industry? I mean I literally it was like three years old. Started in commercials like all kid actors do, as as you do, you know, and then I started doing TV and then movies and all that stuff. Um. And that's why it's so funny because fans, you know, I do a lot of comic cons, and so the question is always like, how did you how did you start, you know,

voice acting? And the look on their face is just so disappointed when I tell my story, because I think there's a lot of especially anime actors and things that have these like I was just an office assistant and then I became a voice actor or whatever. And it's like for me, like my first animated series was a show called Hey Arnold, and I think I started that when I show it. You know, when you do something though you don't know, it's like what I have ever heard of Hey Arnold? If I wasn't on it, I

don't know. You know, when you do a project, it's weird, but uh, but yeah, I started doing that when I was like, I think I had just turned twelve and so, and I've done a little bit of voiceover before that, and so it's like not this origin story where as an adult I just started doing voiceover. So it's always a little I feel disappointing two fans that I don't have this like you can do it too story because

I've just been doing it forever. I don't know, but there's part of me that thinks that's that, in a way, is even a more interesting story because it's more rare. The A lot of the people that we're meeting are not people. I mean, you meet child actors that started on camera exactly the way you're talking about it. We all did commercials, so we kind of started or we started on stage and then you transition, you know, if

you're back East, you do a law in order. You know, it's every that kind of thing you always exactly so everybody does that kind of stuff. And then as you're older, you get maybe your first voiceover gig if you're you're lucky enough to transition into voiceover. So to meet somebody that has been doing voice over since they were young, I think is more rare in the industry. I can right now the people that have at least been on

this show. I can think of you. I can think of Marsden, Jason Marsden, um, and that's kind of it. We were young right when you were doing v O or not that we're not all super I mean I was like sixteen, so that's um no, no, I'm sorry it's seventeen with Kim. But but but I do find interesting with Hey Arnold was and then maybe you can speak to this experience. But it seems like with Hey Arnold, they really want wanted, like real kid voices. Yeah, and

that's why it's so cool. Like people always say like, oh, what's your favorite animated project, and they want me to say Avatar because that's so popular and Avatar is great and everything. Um, now that I finally watched that show after twenty years but another little tiny showy but but hey, Arnold, I was a kid doing it and it wasn't all kid cast, which was really rare for that time because, as you know, they don't want to do kids because

school and time and spans and all that stuff. Um, and you know, and voices change, like we had yeah yeah, so you know the girls, Allen and Arnold. Yeah, Philip van Dyke was another Arnold, um all these yeah. Well, and there's like a real sweet spot I think for boys where they have this like they've got this rasp and they have this certain I don't know, and then it's like twelve years old, and twelve years old is right when it you know, flips so flip instantly. I

had that happened because I sang as a kid. I sang and you know, and you know, I got the lead and everything in the third grade and fourth grade rolls around and then your voice starts to warble and that's it. You're like, now you better learn how to sing in a lower key, which I didn't. I discovered smoking, which I liked way better. Got to be such a weird thing like women, it just changes. But again, I never thought I was going to be a voice over actor.

But that's the thing that was so cool about Hey Arnold is it was not just a great show, but it seemed to kind of be taking the next evolution or step from the origin Charlie Brown stuff because that was all kids too, and one of the very rare things where they said, no, we're just going to use all children. So to kind of piggyback on that, Hey Arnold said, we're going to do the same thing. It might have been one of the last shows all kids

was Recess because Recess wasn't all kids. I feel like they do it stren now it's a little like more of a hipper thing to do. Um. But yeah, I don't know. I yeah, that show is just really special.

I think it's really ahead of its time. Like and to speak on your point about like the whole Charlie Brown thing, like yeah, I mean, if you go back and you watch that show, there's like an episode where this it's called Chocolate Boy, but he's like addicted chocolate and really he's a drug addict and like helda his

mother through the whole series. If you really are watching it, like she's an alcoholic she's always making these smoothies in the morning and it's barely awake, and you know, there's episodes where like Arnold gets mugged, or their city kids

and they grew up in the city. And so yeah, there's a lot of people come up to me all the time and talk about that show because it, I don't know, it dealt with like very topical issues as opposed to now a lot of animation is very a d D and just kind of you know, in your face. So there was a little more nuanced with that show

that I think. Really, Yeah, the eighties and the eighties and the nineties did this thing where because we're talking about it when we're going back and looking at a lot of nineties shows, even the on camera shows, they did these things where they were for multiple audiences. So you know, a kid would watch Hey Arnold and see one thing, an adult would watch Hey Arnold to see something else in somebody seventeen would watch Hey Arnold and

see something else. And the eighties and the nineties really, especially the nineties, really had that going where it was that kind of again, like you said, the kids and alcohol. The mom's an alcoholic, but you're you're eight years old watching that. You're never going to pick that up unless your mom is also an alcohol and your mom is

also but exactly, I mean it is. It's one of those things where it kind of appealed to a whole range of people, which is why Hey Arnold was one of those shows you would hear about college kids like, well, we'd wake up and we just watched Hey Arnold, and they would watch it completely differently than the kids that would wake up in the morning and do it. Was very Nickelodeon back in the day was doing stuff that was very cutting edge in that sense. Nicolodeon, do you

know what they I got slimmed. So that's how long ago I was on Nickelodeon. I've heard different things about like is it pudding? Is it like corn start? Like did it taste? How did it taste? It was, well the thing. So I got slimmed on the set of the original. You can't do that on television. Oh no, I was, I was nic I was, I was, I was on Nickelodeon. I started hosting a show on Nickelodeon in nighties seven called what Don't Just Sit There? Oh my gosh, best it was the best. It was a

you were a young Saturday Night Live. There was four of us hosting. We had a band, we had special kids like we had you know, new kids in the Block came on and Freddy Krueger came on and we will Wheaton's where I met Wheaton for the first time. So we were shooting in New York. And it's so funny because I know and well you we just had a reunion. We just had a don't just sit the reunion for the first time since at my house two weeks ago. It was great, it was but it's people

I hadn't seen since I was twelve. Did they write in your bathroom? They did? They did? Actually I have I'm sorry that for for the audience listening. I have a bathroom that is off a little screening room and there's pens everywhere, and you write up your favorite movie quote on the wall. So it's just the whole wall is just covered with with your favorite movie quotes. Will when you sell your house someday, that's going to be like valuable, Yeah, well, well we'll see. But that's why

we're gonna We're gonna triple the price of just that room. Um, but if so, they flew me up to the set of You Can't Do That on Television to interview all them for don't just sit there. And part of the thing was I had to actually do one of the skits and I got to say I don't know, and I grew up obviously, you know, a year or two before that, just watching You Can't Do That on television the original opening the lockers like, hey Lucy, Hey, alistair,

it was the coolest thing in the world. And then to kind of be there and there's just a guy on a ladder smoking a cigarette with a bucket and it's the thing that makes it all stringy is is baby shampoo. So it's like they're just dumping this like slimy oatmeally baby shampoo, and they were teaching me how to do it. It's like you're supposed to first get hit on the top of the head, and then when you feel like it hit, you're supposed to look to this guy like I can't believe this is happening, so

then it covers your whole face. Um, it was a whole Yeah, it was a whole thing, but it was like old school original, but it was some guy in Canada and Ottawa with a cigarette hanging out like Amy, We're gonna yeah. So it was, it was. It was interesting,

but that's that was Nickelodeon back in the day. And to get back to what we were talking about, Hey Arnold was then the next generation of Nickelodeon, like one generation removed from the start where they really started to capture I think what kids were about UM because they were doing this kind of multi level writing where it did it meant something to one generation, something to the next,

and something to the next. So I'm going through the same thing right now with the Nightmare before Christmas UM, which which works on those two levels. And my daughter is now obsessed with it and she wants it for her sixth birthday and it's kind of, you know, kind of kept me up last night because I was like, is it going to scare her friends? Is it? Or is it? Mostly just the tone of it. You can be enjoyed by the mayor in that movie Scary when I was young, but everything else is kind of I

don't know, it's whimsical. Yeah, I think so too, Yeah, I think so too. All right, all right, so you go from Hey Arnold, now I want to jump ahead a little bit because I see one word that always sticks out to me. I don't care what I'm reading or what I'm doing, but when I see the word jedi, oh yeah, yeah, just changes everything. So can you tell me a little bit about that? Are you? Is there a word for real? Quick? Is there a word for Star Wars fans like Star Trek fans or Trunk nerd

or Star Wars fans not like anyone. I guess that's weird, okay a nerd? Yeah, that was cool because when you do that show, hey, it's just cool, right. And when you do that show, you work with this guy, Dave Feloni, who's kind of be like, you know, okay, the guru

of Star Wars. I don't like the next George. Basically he's kind of in charge of and he's very hands on and so and every Star Wars fan when they see his name attached, including to a live action show, they know it's going to be awesome because they know that he loves the source material. So it's you know, you're gonna get It's not going to be some random person like I'm going to try a Star Wars project.

You see Feloni's name and you're like Okay, this is gonna be handled well, yeah, it's very cannon and you know, and so he was really instrumental now, so he was there for all the records, and you know, he's kind of like, I'm the direct line to George Lucas. You can ask me anything, you know. And I'm sitting there with like Greg Sipes. I don't know if you know

him voice you think, so, do Jedis have sex? And he's like, you know, Jedi's actually are allowed to have sex, and there's like a whole story about that, you know. And of course that and like you know, you'll be doing a scene and he's like, now, George for this scene, sat me down in the screening room and he showed me this movie from nineteen two and the scene is going to be like that scene and did a little

like he's so involved in it, you know. And the thing that was like cool and also unfortunate about that arc is that it's like a very specific arc because it was the first time that they explained like how lightsabers are made. Uh oh with the ki crystal, Yeah exactly. And Jesus, I'm a total nerd what so many things I've it's blue um, you think it's blue. I don't

know you Yes you do, yes you do. But but that whole the reason they gave us such an important storyline, if you will, is that was supposed to be a whole spinoff series of like Young Jedi's Padderwans or whatever. And then right is I mean, it wasn't like production and how to budget and stuff. And then right then Disney bought Star Wars and their thing was that any TV show that was going to get made had to fuel the movies and be tied in with that, and

so they canceled it before it whatever. Uh so, which is like basically the story of my career. Um, but we know we've all been there. Um. But yeah, so it's still a cool it's still a cool arc that people. Um, I don't know, it's important to a lot of fandom people because just that origin story of crystals now I know that, Yeah, the Kiber crystal of course, which is

also the thing that fueled the death start. We're not going to get into this, okay, So, um, I'm sorry, but as a total nerd, I go I go through your resume, which again, we could talk Avatar, we could talk old school, which is new school, old school with care bears, care bears um. But I want to get into who did you play in the Harry Potter game. Oh, it's not even out, well, it is out, but it's not out here in America yet. Her name is Lottie

and she's like this little artist and she's great. I've been I've been working on this video game for three and a half years and it's still not out domestically huge in China. It's like gigantic and China. I don't even think they it's so popular in China that I don't even think they care, Like it's supposed to come out this year. But I'm like, guys, October TikTok um.

But but I've really been enjoying it. I mean, I it's really it's a great It's been a great gig in terms of just like consistency and also fun to be you know, little little British chick. But yeah, oh she's very sweet and she's always just looking for her paintbrush. And you know, it's like I think it takes place after Harry's graduated or something, so it's a whole new cast of characters and the art is beautiful. It's really

stylistically beautiful. It's very different from other Harry Potter stuff. Um, but yeah, what I don't know. I don't know this if don't know, it's so funny because the guy who directs it, he's like, when I gave the audition, I put in all these very like specific Harry Potter lingo spells and words, hoping that that would you know, suss out that filter out the people that didn't know anything about Harry Potter. But this slipped in. I don't know. Well wait what what now? I want to know what

did you put in? You know, I'm a Harry Potter. I pronounced everything. Yeah, I don't know, but it's all those you know, incanto, phosphorus or whatever. I don't know that things are things don't know. Well, I just you don't need to just read the lines. But let's talk about like how you have this canon and how you approach a franchise. Then, um, you know, and still give

a great performance enough for you to be hired. Because a lot of people who are auditioning for things that are very much not they're necessarily they're casting or their interests or something that they know about. How do you find your way into a character that you don't know anything about. Well, I mean, at the end of the day, like it's acting. And so I mean people same thing at cons or whatever. We'll say like, well, how do

I get into acting? Into voice acting? And and they never said that to me when I was doing on camera work. There's something I think about voice acting that seems more accessible to just random people. But like, at the end of the day, it's like little V big a, right, Like, so it's all acting and it all comes from that. So I always say to people I go take an acting class and they go oh, and I'm like, yeah,

because you could do a million voices. But at the end of the day, it's right, yeah, you have to be an actor. And so yeah, I don't know. I just come at everything from that. And so like with her particular arc is like very emotional and whatever. So it's just about knowing you know, how to convey all that stuff and with your voice and and all that. So with the cannon stuff, I mean, you guys, I'm the worst. So when I did Avatar, I never read the scripts. So because I'm sure I tried to read

one script that's that's Will's mortal. That's the mortal sin of I'm terrible, You're gonna hate, Like I'm actually more

in your camp. So like like here's the thing, if it, if it makes sense, maybe, but like with Avatar, like I'm sure I got the first script and I was like Fire Nation, Water Tribe something lord like, I don't know, I don't know, and I'm sure I went there and they said, now this is this, and the four nations are fighting and there's one avatar that's going to unite everyone and the Chakras and and it just I didn't even whatever, right, So I get there and I see

my character and whatever, and she's pink and she's cute. So I just made her pink and cute. I don't know. So it wasn't until like eight years later. I was at my first comic con ever, this is like ten twelve years ago now, and someone said, like, what's it like to be a villain? And I said, what do you mean? And they said, well, she's a villain. And I had no idea, and that's why she's so like perky and cute and whatever, because I didn't know. I

thought she was pink, man. I didn't know. I didn't know, so you wait, were you literally not reading the scripts? You were just reading your line? Okay? And she you know, and she did a great jobs. So funny because we're talking just Star Wars' just the Last Airbender, Star Wars. I just read some of the biggest in some of the biggest franchises. So I take it you are not like you don't read fantasy novels. Then the world building

is not. I like sci fi, but fantasy is the one thing that just like doesn't do it for me. Like Game of Thrones. All that stuff like just does not came of Thrones isn't my favorite either, But that's yeah, interesting. I'm more of the Harry Potter and Game of Thrones. I'm more of a fantasy I guess are you? Are you watching the New House of the Dragon thing? You keeping everything? Don't tell me anything. I haven't seen it yet. I like to let the entire series come out and

then I binge it by myself. The kind of waiting thing doesn't just alone in a little hole, just in a tiny, little darkened room, dressed like a dragon. Perfect it's going to be. That's That's what I'm gonna do. That we always ask bowl, um, do you because you know, one of the other things that you're you're obviously known for on camera. You do a lot of on camera work. But the Brady Bunch movie sure yeah, um was was very big and then the sequels very big too, great films. Uh,

my question is is there one style you prefer? Do you prefer on camera to voiceover? Do you prefer voice over to on camera? Do you have one? You know, it's like my well, like it wasn't a choice to go into voiceover, right, Like my career just went that way, and I'm not I resist nothing, So I just kind of go with the flow with that stuff. So that's a really great mantra. I mean, you know, so it's like I like doing on camera, or liked doing on camera,

but honestly, like I love not memorizing lines. And so now every once I really I really don't do on camera anymore, but every once in a while I'll get an audition and just I when you don't have that memory or muscle that you've been using that uh you know, muscle memory for performing in line, I mean, it's it's just gone. It is gone. I don't know, if you guys something truly, but yeah, um so yeah, and also

too in terms of you want to hear something crazy, Olivia. Yeah, literally, when I get auditions, I have a teleprompter, like you have your professional teleprompter, but I have a teleprompter. It's basically a piece that you can put on your home device, your home camera, and you can upload your script and you can literally, well will you go. We can't see Will is like shaking his head with his head in his hands right now. You know why, because I don't

have the time or the energy either. But look, I still watch and I still look at my performance, and I still say, I am acting. This is rooted in reality, and I look great and I'm not stuttering, and I've been acting for so long and the odds are so like the odds. It is a very competitive thing. So that if you feel strong about your performance, no matter what it looks like, as long as you feel like

it's rooted personally. I think what Olivia is trying to share, and I agree with, Okay, is not to sweat the small stuff in your performances, like I'm sorry. The learning of the dialogue is not small stuff. The reading the reading of the material is not small go with me

on this. Maybe maybe it's just me, but like if it's written well, it's a lot easier to memorize than if it's just a Most things that you go on are terrible, and so you get these things and they don't flow or like I do still audition for commercials and I had this commercial audition the other day and I had to talk about cell phones and five G this into and I was just reading. They usually have the lines behind the camera and I was reading it, and after I did it, he was like, can you

do it more to camera? He's like, oh, yeah, but you know when it gets technical or any of that stuff, you know, you know, God, we sound like the laziest actors a lot. It's I didn't want to say that, but there's a guy on my street he went to Juilliard. What's going on? No, it's just there's there's a guy on my street who is Australian who is an actor and I always see him and he's out walking with his wife and his little baby and we always say hi to each other. But he's always memorizing his sides

and his lines. And there's Luke Cook. I don't know, Oh is it I don't know who Luke Cook is. Maybe you don't know who who this guy. I don't know who Luke Cook is. I could be Luke Cook. I have no idea who that um. But it's one of those things where and then I all people always ask like why is everybody that's getting cast British or Australian, And it's because they put in the work, that's one

of the reasons. Probably. So it's we we as Americans have have lasified out are acting chops well and also like as child actors too. It's like we've been doing it so long, Like there is a thing where like to our credit, you know, it's that ten thousand hour rule or whatever, like once you've been doing something ten thousand hours, like you're kind of a professional. And we all have and so I don't know what kind of rule is that you haven't heard about. That that's the mastery.

So it doesn't matter what you're doing. If you've done it for ten thousand hours, you're kind of an expert. Yeah, that's why they say the Beatles were so good because they played and played and played and played like way before and it's a whole thing. Yeah, I'm Malcolm glad, I gotta, I gotta go. I gotta put that on my teleprompter so I can read it later. It's called what's it called, Christie. I'm never going to live that

one down. That was an honest share and I thought I was in a safe space and again I'm not again though, But Olivia is percent right. If you don't exercise the muscle, you lose it. So if you get one of these jobs and you haven't been memorizing the lines, working that muscle, you're gonna have trouble again memorizing your dialogue. But here's the here's the real rub. What happens if you actually book it. That's what I'm saying, and I

would actually do the job. Okay, Well, speaking of speaking of acting, we've got a wonderful scene we're coming into. By the way I read, I also read that once too, So let's see how that's fine. As long as you've got all your spells down, we're going to be good. Um, and you are playing a villain. Safe space. That's what most important. Is a safe space. It's absolutely a safe but you are That's the other thing is you. Your

resume is ridiculous. You're talking before you got out here where it's like we only have an hour show and she's done so much, so very quickly. Then before we get into across the garden with our wonderful we don't like to say, amateur undiscovered voiceover talent, who's going to come and play with us for the day. Um, is there anything? I mean, you've got a crunchy role hit coming out, You've got the new, um Harry Potter game. Is there anything you Potter game? We're doing more Brats.

They've brought Brats back, another huge branch, another huge thing, and so we're doing episodes on that for TikTok and then I think they're trying to turn that into a series as well, and some video games and whatever. So yeah, that's god bless like gen Z or whatever. They're bringing all this Y two K stuff. They're making me all this Y two K stuff. Love that. That's very very all right. So it is hip. It's good think. I'm so glad. You know how happy Christie I are that

the nineties are important again. Jeez, I don't know what we do. I don't know what we would do. I guess if we want to go ahead and bring in our are It's Kyle. How are you good? Are you welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us, thank you, thank you for having me. I'm Will. That's Christie and that's Olivia. Yeah you too, you too? Hi? Where are you? Upstate New York? About an hour and a half from New York City? Where an upstate can? I ask? Okay?

I love that. We're all we're East Coast people here? Well three are two of us? Are East Coast people here? And then Olivia was born and raised in Beverly Hills. You can see it on her IMTB Paige. She's in a giant mansion too. By the way, is the year wrong or right now? It's all unfortunately very correct it is. Now do you age differently in giant mansions in Beverly Hills? I'm just curious. I mean, clearly, Look, I'm almost forty. Look at this, Look at this, Look at this phase?

Pretty dunk? So Kaylee, what has what has interested you in voice overacting? Um? To be honest, the show? Really, Yes, you're that's awesome. So I actually, um, I actually went to school for theater, live theater, um. And then just the kind of roller coaster that is live theater. Um, you know how Broadway shows have been closing up down left and right, And I actually, um, you know, kind of started dipping my feet into this show. And I you know, I had always done you know, voices here

and there, just for fun. But you know, when I came across the show, I was like, you know what, I think this might be. Uh this, I think this might be. That's amazingired somebody, Christie right now? So you want to will you will you play with us? Will you come and play Across the Guarden with us? Sure?

So for those of you joining us for the very first time ever, we play a fun game called Across the Garden where Christy and I came up with two very interesting characters right on the fly that we still look at each other and go, man, we wish we came up with different characters. But we've got our two little mice friends, Ricky and Mocha, who are trying to make it across the garden so that Mocha can see

her boyfriend, which is the story. Again we came up with on the fly, um, and they've been having trouble getting across the garden. So this week Olivia is going to be playing Rose and Kayleie, you're gonna be Jack if that's all right, All this is great. Christie once again will be Mocha and I will be We're just reading this like a scene, right, Yeah, just absolutely reading

it like a scene. And what we're hoping to have happen is that because we love people that are trying to catch a break in the animation industry, So we're going to take all the scenes that we've recorded with all of our undiscovered talent, and we're going to have amateur um animators animate the hire thing together and we're gonna have everybody's gonna get to see themselves in their own cartoon, which is going to be really really cool.

We can't wait. So here we are. I will be reading the stage directions and we will go from there. So we are fading in exterior woods continuous. We come up on Ricky and Mocha standing on the deck of a small ocean liner crossing the pond, the wind in their hair. This is actually pretty nice. Pan over to see Ricky hurling over the side of the boat. Yeah, it's magical. Well, I mean, at least we're finally going to get to them all it has been a bit

of a journey. Have you decided how you're actually going to dump your boyfriend? I want to see his face as I tell him what he's done to me. I want to look him in the eye when he knows that it's over. Or I'll just text him. As the siblings are talking to grasshoppers walk behind in mid discussion. One of them is dressed to the nines while the other looks a bit lower class. Oh, Jack, this just

can never work. My family has made me after Lord John Hoppington the second, and you won your tickets for this maiden voyage on the tot on the to tintic on a random game of chance a rose. I know, I'm just dependingless artists struggling to make it. But we can run away together in fine happiness. It won't work. It went shot. It was chant. Oh well, can I at least draw? You? Draw me? What draw you? You know as an artist draws a model? Do you mean? Yes?

Naked Rose wheels around on? Jack? Are you crazy? In this day and age? Something like that gets in the Internet and never disappears. Lord John's family would never accept me. Then Jack turns, Wait, you're still going to marry Lord John Hoppington, the second yer, watching the scene play out. Watch this. Of course I'm still marrying him. His family don't half the garden. But come on, man, you're a nice guy and all, but you're a fling. You're a

nice distraction. I can think about in the years to come when my mega wealthy husband is working too much and the tennis instructor stopped seeing someone else. Oh, I thought we really had something. I thought we were in love, and I thought you were the bell hop deliver in my bags. We all make mistakes, dude, a voice out. I spurg dead dead, Thank god. I would rather this whole built sinc Than spending out a second with you.

Back at your chief. I'm gonna go find a lifeboat while you hunt down some woman's close so you don't have to float on a door or something. She turns to leave, Tootles Jack is left in the deck by himself. Well that didn't go the way I thought it would. Ricky and Moka walk over. That's love, man, it totally sucks. No, No, that's not true. Love can be a beautiful thing filled

with passion and respect. How would you know? At Nicholas Barks novels, The gang just looks over in time to see a giant floating slushy cup clip the side of the boat. It immediately starts to sink. Well, here we go, Rickey, make look at each other, swim for it, swim for it. Good luck finding love, Jed, They jump off the boat. It's jack whatever. Yeah, Kaylee, thank you so much for

joining us. You were absolutely wonderful. Yeah. She dipped her energy up, which I feel like is so important, especially on the cold reads. Right, it was incredible. So where can people find you if they're looking for you on socials and stuff? So I am on Instagram. It's just my name, Kaylee Mercado, Kaylee Marcott with two ease, Yes, two ease M E R c A d O. And is there any of kind of voices you want to do? You want to showcase before you go? You don't have

to ums pressure. Um, what have you been working on since you were inspired from the show? Well, I don't know if if you guys have seen the Aristocats of course, Olivia Dave amazing Arista cats. Yes, yes, I can do, I can do Marie, I can do Napoleon do one. Let's here what you got, um, ladies, do not stud sights, but they can finish them very nice. All right, well,

thank you so much for joining us. Break your voice and keep listening to the show because with the contest coming out, you never know what could happen, so hopefully you're going to enter. Yes, of course, thank you guys much, thank you for joining us. Thank you. That's nice. Guys

do that. That's so cool. So it's kind of like what we offer on our show, you know, because it's like our show is is so community based and we love our fans so much, and like you said, Olivia, like people have come up to us too, all these comic cons and have asked us how do I start? How do I get into it? I'm so passionate. I

have all these voices I'm working on. And what I love about our show is that it's kind of a guidebook episode to episode on how to sort of build your you know, your footing in what you want to do and what you want to contribute to the voice acting world. It feels it's so much more accessible now, especially like, yeah, I don't know doing all these cons, and it's like it used to be such a small click and especially with anime and all that like, it's

just exploded in terms of accessibility. And then also we're all or a lot of us are recording from home now too, you know, so it's not like you have to be in l Are, you have to be in New York and and that sort of it does. It makes a big difference. And we love having the the undiscovered talent comes on, which which and that leads us to our thing we've been talking about now and I think we're we're stepping up to the point where we're actually going to be uh taking it live in the

next couple of weeks. So we are doing, of course the Super Awesome Contest to become the next Big Voice Actor. And we've talked about that before. So somebody out there is going to win some incredible prizes, including Voiceover Agent. So, uh, you get to sign with the voice Over Agent. And we are we we we say, you know, we don't get to to throw you into the business. We can't give you a career, but we can crack the door.

So what's what's the contest called again, Christie? I keep, I keep forgetting the Super Awesome Contest to become the next Big Voice Actor. Yes, you got it, man, finally tell that we are getting close to launching the contest exactly. That's exactly what I'm doing right now. I love thank you. That's very funny, Olivia. Thank you so much for joining us. You're so awesome. Thanks for having me. Guys, Like, I miss you. I miss you. I feel like I have

to I'm gonna have to message you. Yeah, oh, please to go to the club. And where can nice where can people find you if you're looking at the club? Honestly, the one club in Beverly Hills near the Giant House. I was, oh my god, kill me. Um, I'm on Instagram. It's like the Olivia Hack. You can find me there. And I'm basically at a comic con every weekend. So because I love that's awesome. Yeah, I'm surprised that we haven't seen each We're probably crossing pads of thousand you.

We will see each other next year, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. I did like twenty this year and I've already got like twenty lined up for next year. So nex yeah, I want any chance going? Did you know I want to this next year? Okay, you guys go. Last year, yeah, nineties con and Hartford was awesome. Yeah, she was the host and the cast deploy mean, Okay,

when's the next nineties con are you doing? I think there's one in March and Hartford that we're not doing the one in Hartford again, but then I think there's another one in Florida that I think we're doing, so yeah, so it's it's gonna be cool. But yeah, well we'll sure see you and check out Olivia, who I'm sure you can find on Instagram, and we'll tell everybody all of the convention she's going to so you can go out and uh see what it looks like when you

were raised in Beverly Hills by surrounded by wealth. Um up, awesome, Thank you so much for joining us. Check out everything she's doing because it's cool. And that Harry Potter game sounds amazing, and we're going to find out exactly what color that kaibra crystal is, um because that is also very important. But thank you everybody for joining us this week. And don't forget if you think you have what it takes to step up to the microphone, then put your

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