Episode 145: StocktonCon Summer 2024(FT Talks/ Justin Greenwood, Mary Gibbs, Marty Grabstein, and more!)

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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Uncle Dad Talks.

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And if you hear that noise in the background, that's right.

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We're live again at the one and only Stockton Conn Summer.

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What's up? And I'm not alone. I'm with the man, the myth, the legend,

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the real Slim Shady himself, Mike Hampton. Please stand up.

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Indeed, indeed. Hey, man, how are you? I'm kneeling down.

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Okay, but how are you?

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Well, I'm just taking a knee. Okay. Well, you heard him.

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Yeah, we're here at Stockton Con. This is probably, how many times now have

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you and I done the show here?

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Five times? Six times? How many times is the sunrise each year?

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Yeah. Well, we did it twice a year. Wait. Whoa.

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We've done it a few. Yeah. Okay. You know, I like to say this,

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that it's basically Uncle Dad Con. Let's be honest, Mike.

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Well, you know, we're kind of regulars here, and so we hobnob with the other

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regulars here. And the good thing is a lot of them are good,

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fun folks that we like to hang out with and talk to.

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You can't beat that. You can't beat it. You cannot beat that at all. We're not alone.

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We're hanging out with the amazing Callie Dunlap Art, as I like to always call her.

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Callie Dunlap Art is here, and she's working on her – she's branched out into

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pop culture after hanging out with the likes of us.

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And now she's doing Star Wars paintings. That's very exciting. It's very exciting.

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You guys can't wait to see it. I can't wait for you guys to see it because it's

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going to blow your mind whole. Not only that, we also have other regulars around

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us. We've got our man Dan Brereton here.

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You've got Lonnie Millsap. You've got Jesse Hernandez.

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You've basically got the whole alumni in the house. Am I right?

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You have the Stockton Con alumni here in the house. In Stockton.

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Hopefully, we'll get some fun interviews. Hopefully, we'll – I want to try some

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new things here today. I was thinking about doing some more games with guests.

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And since you are the first guest, even though you're the host.

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I can't be a guest on my own show. Yeah, I mean, you have been in the past. Yeah, that's true.

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So, Mike, we're going to play a game that we just started called Two of a Kind.

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Okay? Do you remember that game? Is it the one we just played?

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The listeners should say yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

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How it works is I'm going to give a category, and we're going to see how in

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sync we are, and we're going to say there's a first word that pops in our head,

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and if it matches, you win a point.

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So, we'll see if it actually happens. who wins a point the audience they win

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they win they win we win exactly so mike ready here we go.

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A 80s horror film. Three, two, one. Halloween.

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Oh, I'm just trying to prove that you and I are in sync, but we're not. Wait.

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Those two are often butting heads. Yeah, true. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

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Well, we'll be right back after this break.

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Hopefully we'll have some cool interviews. Mike, what are you trying to make

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happen this weekend? Besides selling goods.

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I'm trying to make rent. But besides that, just trying to make you happy.

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The audience. That's right.

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Not you, not Uncle Dad. Don't worry about me. And Kelly didn't laugh hard.

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There you go. It's all about the audience. All right, everybody.

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We'll be right back after this break.

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Hi there. This is Dave Mandel. I'd like to think you know me as a writer for

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Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm or Veep or even Eurotrip or,

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I don't know, The Dictator.

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Clerks, but you probably know me from Cat in the Hat. Oh, well.

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Anyway, you're listening to Uncle Dad Talks.

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Speaks. Talks.

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All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here hanging out behind the booth with arguably

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one of the coolest looking dudes in this business.

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That's right. Let's give it up for Justin Greenwood. Justin,

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how are you? Great. Took me a long time to get these good looks.

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All I do is hang out with people who have good looks. Mike, what is the key to that?

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You just look for people with good looks and you hover around them

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until they acknowledge you that's about it right that's pretty

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good mike you know

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you're an artist you know this world very

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well so i want to go ahead and hand you the lead and ask the

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first question just ask the first question uh yeah so

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justin so you know i i know your work i'm very familiar with it getting very

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up close and personal when i do a lot of the graphics for stockton khan and

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and yeah i see it and i and i kind of sometimes times I modify the background

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to extend it to allow for optimal space for logos and copy and stuff like that.

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So what's your approach when coming into working on something that's a promo

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for something like StocktonCon?

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Well, it definitely needs to look cool. That's the number one approach.

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I think Mike usually hits me up with an idea. He comes with something in his

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mind that he really wants to... He really likes these combo.

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We do a lot of combo characters.

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So one year we did like Batman and Venom.

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One year we did, I think it was not a combo of two characters.

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It was like a Thor and Spider-Man, like a little mix.

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But recently he's been wanting to theme them towards which Doctor Con it is.

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So I'm getting ready to start one that's for the winter show.

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Like the one that's here now is Save the Day, right? That Hulk drawing.

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Did you make that poster too?

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Yeah, I did. Yeah, it came out red.

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So you've done a lot of these pieces. What has been your favorite one that you've done so far?

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I think my, well, Ramon and I, the other thing is when I started doing these

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posters, cause Ramon does them on the regular and I came on doing them for the

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winter version of this show.

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But what we started initially, we were doing them where we would go back and

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forth. One of us would draw them and one of us would ink.

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And so that was pretty fun. Cause you get to riff on whatever somebody else is doing, right?

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Like, or see, see how an idea that you came up with gets fleshed out by somebody

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else. That that's actually super cool.

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As an artist, Do you ever find yourself looking at other art and not necessarily

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asking yourself, how can I emulate that?

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But how can I do something that is like that, if not better?

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Yeah, for sure. I mean, I feel like if you're an artist, you probably,

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hopefully have a strong desire to get better, right?

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Like you're always seeing, it makes you curious, like always curious.

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I had a teacher when I was in school who used to say, you know,

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the minute I stop learning is when I stop being an artist.

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Like the minute I think I know what's going on and I have it figured out,

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I'll probably stop growing. in which case it's just going to be boring. Right.

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So I feel like every time I'm drawing every project, every project I see somebody

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else's, I'm thinking about what's cool about it, what I would do different.

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And, and I'm twice as critical on my own work. You know, there's every book

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is hopefully better than the last one. And I just want to keep getting better.

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You know, Mike, you're an artist. Do you ever find that as a challenge to like,

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not being overly critical on yourself?

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Oh yeah. It's, it's very easy to be overly critical, which is good.

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I mean, that's what, that's what caused you, you know, like you're,

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you got to test yourself against yourself.

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But, but also like, you know, you mentioned working with Ramon,

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you know, I've, I've worked with other artists where we've done the same thing,

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pencil, ink, back and forth, one of us color.

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And it's almost like a third artist comes out of that, which is really cool. Like, uh, like, yeah.

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So, but you also learn a lot just from doing that, just from how someone else

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draws and inking over their stuff.

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A hundred percent, especially when their style is a lot different,

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right? Like Ramon, very detail oriented where I tend to be more like,

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I don't know, shape focus or shadow focus or something.

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And what you get is a really, yeah, you're right. You get a really interesting

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combination of sensibilities. And I think, I mean, I learned a ton from it, you know?

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So you, now correct me if I'm wrong, am I able to say you are one of the creators of Stumptown?

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Yes, one of the co-creators. I didn't start that book initially.

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I came on with volume three and we did volume three and four and we've talked

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periodically about doing a fifth one.

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So did you have any involvement in the TV show? Yeah. Good.

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Can you talk about that a little bit for those who don't know what Stumptown

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is? Yeah, there was a TV show adaptation of our comic and I mean,

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I didn't have a lot of involvement. I mean, we came on as producers,

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so we got to kind of get things in advance and check it out.

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But I mean, I'm sure Greg had a much more active involvement than mine was.

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I really just came to things as as they were rolling out.

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But it was awesome. I mean, getting to see something reimagined and on screen

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versus the way you thought of

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it sitting at your desk at like two in the morning is pretty incredible.

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You know, you have it the way it turned out. Oh, yeah, that's great.

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That's a great adaptation.

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We were really lucky. The only part was unlucky was just timing because we hit

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during COVID and the book, the show rather, was just un-greenlit due to bad timing.

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And then also you had something great going for you. You had Maria Hill,

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right? You had Colby Smulders in that.

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And who doesn't want Maria Hill, Colby Smulders in your show,

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right, Mike? That's right.

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Yeah, that's what I think every day. I wake up and I go, man,

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I wish Maria Hill was here right now. Now, Justin, before we wrap up,

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is there anything, or how can our audience connect with you and learn more about

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your art and all that good stuff?

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I would say the number one place, I have a website, justingreenwoodart.com.

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If you have social media, the social media that I'm on, you can grab from there.

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So if you go to that website, you can find everything.

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Awesome. Mike, any last words? What was the inspiration between the Batman-Conan character mashup?

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That was a case where I don't think Mike made that suggestion.

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I think he just said, let's do a combo.

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And then I knew Brad was going to color it, Brad Simpson. And so I said,

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I know he loves Conan and I was drawing something in fantasy at that time.

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So I'm just like, you know what, let's just do like a, it'll be easy rift.

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That'd be identifiable. Batman is very iconic, right? Like the shapes are really iconic.

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So you can kind of do anything with Batman and it'll feel Batman ish.

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So that was probably just what it was. It was, it was an easy solution and it

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looked cool and it was fun to draw. So it kind of fit everything.

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Okay. Mike, good question. All right, everybody check them out.

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Great stuff. Go to justingreenwoodart.com and we'll see you guys all right back

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in one second. Thank you, Uncle Dad.

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All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here hanging out with another member of the Uncle Dad alumni.

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That's right. Give it up for the one and only, the muscular man himself, the Raysian, not Cajun.

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Give it up for AJ Kirsch. Thanks for having me, man. Appreciate the kind words.

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I have been working very hard lately in the gym and keeping the diet dialed in.

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So thank you for noticing. I can see that. Mike, look at those guns.

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Look at those guns. I know. I looked and then I look away. It's shame.

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You that's that's how you feel imagine how i feel how do you feel do you want

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to make this a therapy session we'll do it again yeah i feel horrible how do i get better,

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i mean where do you start where let's see

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believing you can do it wanting to do it even if

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you don't want to do it knowing that you can do it choosing what

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you want most over what you want now that's

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kind of that's really kind of it it's like making healthier

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choices on an ongoing going basis going to the gym when you don't

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necessarily want to because you want to be in better

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health more than you want to enjoy the

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i don't know french fries and like not doing anything

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and just staying home so it's it's it's knowing that it's worth it but doing

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it long enough so that you start to believe it wow mike what do you think i

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think we might have had a similar conversation on the show about this before

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am i right or am i wrong probably but this time but But this time,

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I'm trying to really do it.

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So actually, what you don't know is me and him had a little side conversation.

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I think we're going to try to make it happen between me and him.

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And he's going to train me to be the man.

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Well, clearly, if anyone can, it'd be AJ. Of course.

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And AJ, how much you mentioned? How much? I don't know.

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I'm not kidding. I don't know. The numbers don't matter to me.

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I go more off of how it feels when I'm doing it.

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And you know when you're working hard. I could be putting up,

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I don't know, 10 pounds in each hand, but if I've done it long enough or I've

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done enough reps where my body has to struggle to make that happen,

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then my body's going to be forced to adapt, which means get stronger.

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So I don't know how much I bench. I don't care. I don't care how much I squat.

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I care about how hard I'm working when I'm doing it.

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And there are ways to make very little weight feel like the heaviest thing in the world.

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Well, Mike, we'll go over all this. I am a freelance personal trainer for your

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listeners who might be interested.

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And because you and I are going to talk about making that happen,

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which I'm very excited about.

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Yes. And I think when we go through

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it, our first session, I would like to record it. What do you think?

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Let's do it. Yeah, absolutely. And then I think people can hear how good he

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is, and we'll get him more clients. What do you think about that,

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Mike? Yeah, do I get to watch?

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That's the next... Watch us working out? Oh, yeah. Please, yeah. Why not?

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I mean, the more the merrier. I'm always up for a laugh. Oh, damn.

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He's fired. You got him.

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Shots fired at Stockton Con, and shots are usually fired in Stockton,

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right? That is true. That is true. True.

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So, AJ, you also have a very great, what do I call it, personality, alter personality?

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How do I, what do I say? How do I, how do we describe this other being? Broseph?

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Let's see. How do we describe Broseph? He's a living liability.

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He's been crashing in my apartment ever since COVID hit and is making up more

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and more excuses to not move the F out.

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No, I mean, in all seriousness, yeah, he's an alter ego. He's a character I

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made up that I enjoy portraying from time to time.

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What is the future? Can we learn about that or no? Yeah, I mean,

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Broseph recently decided to leave Hood Slam. I decided to recently leave Hood Slam.

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This will not be the last that we see of Broseph. There are a couple things

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lined up both in and out of the wrestling space that are, you know,

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unless something takes a sharp turn elsewhere, that will be happening.

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And I'm very excited. I always enjoy hosting and applying my public speaking

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to new arenas and new platforms.

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And so for those reasons, I'm very, very excited about what the future holds for me and Broseph.

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So Mike here has also his own alter ego, and that's called Cap,

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Captain A-Hole. Right, Mike?

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That's correct, yeah. Who would win in a wrestling match, Broseph or Captain A-Hole?

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I mean, no, all due respect to Captain A-Hole, I feel like Broseph.

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You can just say Broseph would win. Okay, great. I'm glad you said it so I didn't have to.

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He was trying to make you an asshole on our show. No, I wasn't.

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Yeah, okay. I'm trying to make him the hero.

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The hero. It's far more comfortable being the villain. Okay, okay, okay.

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I think we have two villains here. If your name's Captain A-Hole,

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then it would just be like, who do we hate less? And I think if people were

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to watch it, they would want both to lose.

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I think, Mike, we should make this match at pay-per-view. What do you think?

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All right. We'll fill out some paperwork later. We'll get to work on it. Sign some waivers.

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So, Mike, before we do a little segment we've been working on,

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do you have any questions for Mr.

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AJ Kirsch? AJ. So have you – I don't know.

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There's all this buzz around the new Eminem's album where he is – it's called

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The Death of Slim Shady, which is also – everyone knows that's his alter ego.

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Do you think there would ever be a time where somehow you could stage and AJ

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wrestling with Rosev? Like, how would that look?

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I don't know if that would be a wrestling match or if it would be an interview

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series or if it would be an acid trip. I don't know.

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I don't know how to make that real. Maybe I'll find you at Burning Man on the

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Playa and maybe acid may be involved.

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Who knows? And it might happen. Hypothetically, of course.

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Hypothetically. The possibilities are endless. We say all kinds of weird stuff

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on this podcast all the time.

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Right. This is probably not the weirdest thing that's happened or been said. Definitely not.

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I like that idea, though, of you having your own little podcast series where

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you're talking to Brody.

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I've thought about that. Okay, so I've thought about starting a podcast for a while now.

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I have no earthly idea what it would be about because there is so much I want

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to talk about and so many people I want to talk to.

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So i don't know if it would just be like an interview

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thing where i'm interviewing random people or if it's me sharing insights i

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don't know if it's 10 minutes or hours long but i do think

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there's something to be said for like what would

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happen if somebody were to interview a character that they embody so like if

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i were to interview and this is just coming to me randomly will ferrell and

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he talked to the elf character or something like i'm gonna say anchorman or

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Or Anchorman, or any of them. You know what I mean?

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Like, what would happen if Johnny Depp had an interview with Captain Jack Sparrow?

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Like, I don't know. I just think there might be something there.

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And it would probably start with me interviewing Broseph, which would be,

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you know, I think it would be interesting.

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Sorry, I'm doing a podcast at the moment. I may not be able to say hi.

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That's okay. We have people in the crowd. People are waiting.

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You can fix it in post. Can I, like, keep an eye out for you?

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Yeah, it's all good. I'll find you. I'll find you. Bye-bye.

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It's all good. We can fix it. Okay, great. Yeah, yeah. So if you want to start

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a podcast, I know somebody who makes podcasts, and I can help you.

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Okay, I appreciate that. We should talk about it. Let's talk about personal

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training, and then we'll talk about the podcast thing. I love that.

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Mike, any last questions before we get to our game?

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No, I think I've asked enough. You've asked enough? Okay, okay.

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Yeah, you really need to pipe down a little bit. All right.

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All right, so what we're going to do is we have a new game we've been playing

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called Two of a Kind. Sorry.

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Two of a Kind. And that game came from me and Mike trying to be very similar,

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or we are very similar, right maybe totally yeah right right he looks just like a mexican i know right.

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And so we were playing with

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this idea like if i give you a subject can you guys be in sync and say the same

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thing i'm curious to find out i don't know i so it's interesting because i'm

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like okay who would you say and then you're probably like who would he say so

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i think it'd be best i I don't know what the strategy is. If we just say what

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comes to our own brains first.

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So then it's like an authentic, you know, are we in sync or not?

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Exactly. Are the benefit of the audience really?

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Yeah. They get the points, right? They get the points.

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The audience wins or loses. We'll find out shortly. Exactly.

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So we have three categories here. Okay.

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Mike, AJ Kirsch. First one. I'll keep it very easy. Okay.

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Just when I, when I, when I point the mic at you, you guys just both say it

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loudly. Okay. But we get like three seconds. Yes. Yeah. All right.

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DC superhero. Three, two, one. Superman.

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Do we have to fight now? Oh. All right. One more. Two more. Two more.

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Two more. Two more. Here we go.

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90s rap icon. Three, two, one. Tupac. Tupac.

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90s? It was 80s. Oh, it was like 89.

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I don't know. 89? Okay. I don't know. This is what the internet's for.

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I'll look it up when we're done.

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Okay okay last one last one we're over too i don't even know why that even came to my mind,

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because you see what aj is working with and then whichever one i said you were

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going to say the other one i did not anticipate sir mix a lot she thought for

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sure you guys were going to say tupac or biggie for either one yeah yeah yeah

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all right last one last one last one a video game on the nes,

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Three, two, one. Super Mario Brothers. Damn it! I thought that!

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Those were on the same cartridge, though, at least. They were. I believe, yes.

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Well, clearly, you two are not a package deal, so no two of a kind here.

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We're Backstreet Boys. No two of a kind, but let's see if Mike are in sync and

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I. Ready? An N64 video game.

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Three, two, one. GoldenEye. I was going to say GoldenEye.

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I thought my brain GoldenEye. I did that on purpose Have we ever done this with three people?

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We can do it Let's do it with three Three of a kind My audience has lost Do you have a category?

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Do I? Ooh Remember it has to be specific So you can narrow it down Yeah yeah

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yeah Okay Oh Okay I got one Alright Okay,

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90s Grunge Song Song Three Two One Smells like a spirit Yeah.

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There it is Yes, there it is. So sometimes three heads are better than two.

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That's right. We proved it just now.

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That was science and math at the same time. Just like Three's Company.

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Three's Company, indeed. Thank you, AJ Kirsch. Let's take a picture where we

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all jump. Just like this. Yeah.

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AJ, thank you so much for being a part of this. Thank you for hanging out with

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us. And, of course, where can our audience learn more about you and connect

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with you and all that good stuff like that?

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Yeah. So you can find out more about me at AJKirsch.com.

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That will take you to my link tree. then there's my

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social my whatsapp my reels all the work

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that i do blah blah blah blah so aj kersh.com is

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probably the best can you spell your last name i sure can great you thank you

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for saying that it's so it's aj k-i-r-s-c-h that is amazing go check them out

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and mike i'm so proud that at least i connected with all three of us and you

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couldn't do it once with one other guy well that's how it goes as we get out

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of here usually what we do all right everybody we'll be right back after this break thank you guys,

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Hi, my name is Duncan Wickle. I'm a musician from the band Rising Appalachia,

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and you're listening to Uncle Dad Talks.

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Hi, everybody. Uncle Dad here, and we're with a very special guest from the

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dark side. Would you agree with that, Mike?

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He's very dark, yeah. He's very dark? The darkest guy I know.

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Yeah, okay. We are with C. Andrew Nelson. And C. Andrew Nelson,

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I'm going to say your whole name because I want to.

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I don't want to say the incorrect thing so could you tell our audience what

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and who exactly you are well I'm C.

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Andrew Nelson which is the third choice on a multiple choice quiz I'm an actor,

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visual effects artist animator, voiceover performer and genuine dark lord of the Sith I spent about,

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12 years playing the character of Darth Vader for Lucasfilm and the Lucas Companies

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for film and television and games and commercials and print and everywhere the

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character was needed it ended up being 70 times over 12 years I know this because

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my wife made me keep count.

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So I'm in the special edition of the original trilogy as Vader.

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I'm in the video games like Rebel Assault 2 and Dark Forces playing Vader.

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I'm in a massive amount of commercials as Vader.

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Lots of print ads, magazine covers, toy packaging. I'm even on a postage stamp,

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a U.S. postage stamp as Darth Vader.

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I thought you had to be dead to be on a postage stamp, but apparently not.

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Wow. Oh, there's more because I'm also... But wait, there's more.

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It's like those annoying ads. But wait, there's more.

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I'm also, like I said, a visual effects artist and animator.

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I spent about six years at LucasArts helping design and create lots of Star

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Wars games and other games as well.

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Then I moved over to Industrial Light and Magic, worked on the effects for the

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Star Wars prequels and movies like Galaxy Quest and Jurassic Park 3 and Perfect

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Storm and a whole bunch more.

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Then I'm also a voice actor. I do voices for games and animation.

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In fact, I even did Luke Skywalker's voice for some of the LucasArts games when

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Mark Hamill wasn't available.

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I got the uncle-dad thing beat. I am my own father or my own son.

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I don't know. However you want to do it.

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I don't even think I need to ask any questions. He did everything for us.

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He said it all. We can go. Okay. All right. Bye. That's the end of this.

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Thank you, everybody, for listening.

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No, in all seriousness, first off, thank you for taking the time to talk to

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us. I think it's exciting.

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I want to ask you this just straight. Wait, what is the one mundane thing you

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could do as Darth Vader? What would you do?

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Ooh, must for one, you know, it's actually, I did this in a commercial.

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I did this on a commercial. We did, we did a commercial for, for singular wireless.

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Back before it was AT&T and it's, it's mostly it's Chewbacca in the commercial.

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So Peter Mayhew was, was, was playing Chewbacca for the commercial there.

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And it's a Star Wars ringtone commercial.

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So it, the whole commercial is Chewbacca's in

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a recording booth and he's supposed to be doing his growl for these

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ringtones so it's like you know like that

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and then the director goes that's great and now now do

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it like you're happy all right that's

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great now do it like you're sad it's the same every time that's the whole joke

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i love it now make me hate it you know it's like so at the end of the commercial

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he's been doing this all day at the end of the commercial you see all these

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other star wars characters sitting in the lobby waiting for their turn to get

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in there and do their ringtones and vader's flicking his lightsaber on and off

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on and off on and off That's the,

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that's, that's the mundane thing I would do just sitting there flicking it on

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and off, just killing time.

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What would you do? I don't know. Probably look at my phone or something like most people these days.

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Why won't the emperor text me back?

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I've been DMing him for the last two weeks and nothing.

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Andrew, I've seen you at many shows over the years, and it's always a pleasure.

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I don't think I've ever seen you not wearing a black shirt or jacket of some kind.

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And you named lots of times you played this famous character.

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What are your top three favorite Darth Vader appearances or times you've played him?

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Oh, wow. Okay. I would have to say that the three that I would pick is when

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we did the special edition.

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That was probably the most amazing thing. I'd been playing Vader for about two

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years up until that point, but it was mostly for commercials and television

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and things like that and live appearances.

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But when I got to do the special edition, it was like, now I get to actually be part of the movies.

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And I almost didn't get to do it because the day we were supposed to shoot,

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this was in, in June of, of, uh, gosh, it was 30 years ago, June of,

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of, of, of 94, excuse me. Yeah. Yeah. Excuse me. Oh, 96.

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It was 96, June of 96. So it was, you know, it was almost 30 years ago.

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My daughter was due to be born. My first child due to be born the day we were supposed to shoot.

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So they kept calling me up and saying, so baby born yet? No,

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not yet. They're trying to hold it open for me.

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Mercifully, my daughter was born two weeks early, so I got to do it.

427
00:25:57,554 --> 00:26:01,114
But that was definitely one of the experiences that I really enjoyed.

428
00:26:01,454 --> 00:26:08,494
Another one that I thought was really good was I was doing one of the Kenner commercials that I did.

429
00:26:08,594 --> 00:26:13,014
The first Kenner commercial was just a lot of fun to do. It was for a toy lightsaber.

430
00:26:13,334 --> 00:26:19,414
And so I had the real lightsaber, which was a plastic rod that they would then

431
00:26:19,414 --> 00:26:24,294
use as a guide So that when later on in post-production, they knew exactly where

432
00:26:24,294 --> 00:26:26,614
to put the, you know, the visual effects for it and everything.

433
00:26:26,774 --> 00:26:30,754
And the kid had a, one of those hollow telescoping lightsabers and they had

434
00:26:30,754 --> 00:26:33,734
rigged it up. So it would show up on camera and nice and bright.

435
00:26:33,794 --> 00:26:37,274
They'd rigged it up with a halogen lamp that was in the base of this thing with

436
00:26:37,274 --> 00:26:41,714
a cord going down his sleeve and, and down his, his leg, pant leg. So you wouldn't see it.

437
00:26:42,714 --> 00:26:46,094
But we found out that that was heating that, that, that toy lightsaber up really,

438
00:26:46,174 --> 00:26:49,994
really, it was practically melting it. And so when we go to clash,

439
00:26:50,594 --> 00:26:53,514
it's like his just sort of wrapped around mine and then started to melt.

440
00:26:53,574 --> 00:26:56,094
And it's like, no, okay, we have to rig this up differently.

441
00:26:56,234 --> 00:27:00,054
So finally, we had to do the whole fight scene without making any contact at

442
00:27:00,054 --> 00:27:03,014
all for this commercial. But it was a great commercial to do.

443
00:27:04,354 --> 00:27:07,754
The third time, gosh, let's see.

444
00:27:08,134 --> 00:27:11,934
It would have to be when we shot all the footage for Rebel Assault 2,

445
00:27:12,014 --> 00:27:15,294
the LucasArts game, because we had a half hour of full motion video.

446
00:27:15,434 --> 00:27:16,534
It was actually the first live

447
00:27:16,534 --> 00:27:20,234
action Star Wars footage that had been shot since the two Ewok TV movies.

448
00:27:20,514 --> 00:27:23,974
And so it was great. We brought out all the original costumes and everything for that.

449
00:27:24,214 --> 00:27:28,674
But it was a lot of fun, but at the same time, it was a lot of work.

450
00:27:28,674 --> 00:27:33,494
There was one shot that the director, Hal Barwood, one of George Lucas's old

451
00:27:33,494 --> 00:27:38,614
USC film school buddies, was directing all the live action footage for us.

452
00:27:38,694 --> 00:27:40,954
He was a game designer at LucasArts at that time.

453
00:27:41,194 --> 00:27:46,214
And there was one shot that Hal wanted me to bring my hand right up close to the mask.

454
00:27:46,354 --> 00:27:51,394
I'm doing a force choke and I'm, you know, dispatching one of my admirals who

455
00:27:51,394 --> 00:27:52,694
was disappointed me for the last time.

456
00:27:53,034 --> 00:27:56,794
And so he wanted it up in frame in a very specific spot.

457
00:27:57,174 --> 00:28:01,354
Well, you can't see there's no, no peripheral vision whatsoever with the Vader

458
00:28:01,354 --> 00:28:03,774
costume. You can only look what's direct. You see what's directly in front of

459
00:28:03,774 --> 00:28:04,834
you through the lenses of the mask.

460
00:28:04,914 --> 00:28:08,194
Or if you kind of crane your eyes down a little bit, you can see your feet through

461
00:28:08,194 --> 00:28:10,074
the chin and that's about it. Everything else is a blind spot.

462
00:28:10,294 --> 00:28:13,814
So I couldn't see where my hand was. So I had to do kind of like a muscle memory

463
00:28:13,814 --> 00:28:15,934
to try to bring it up into, into the right spot.

464
00:28:16,074 --> 00:28:18,594
So we kept rehearsing and rehearsing it without the mask on.

465
00:28:18,634 --> 00:28:21,554
Then we started shooting it and how I go, that's great.

466
00:28:21,594 --> 00:28:24,554
That's wonderful, Andrew. That's beautiful. Let's do it again. Okay, fine.

467
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:28,334
We do it again. again that's beautiful that's fabulous that's fantastic

468
00:28:28,334 --> 00:28:32,614
andrew let's do it again over and over and over that's beautiful that's fabulous

469
00:28:32,614 --> 00:28:36,534
i'm not hitting the mark you know so that's wonderful and meanwhile the poor

470
00:28:36,534 --> 00:28:42,374
guy is having to hit the deck every time because he's dying in this thing so

471
00:28:42,374 --> 00:28:47,954
finally we go through like like 20 something takes and finally the last one he goes okay that's good.

472
00:28:49,122 --> 00:28:51,722
What happened to I'm beautiful I'm fabulous I'm one of no no we got to get on the

473
00:28:51,722 --> 00:28:54,522
next shot it's like but that was a lot of fun to do so those

474
00:28:54,522 --> 00:28:57,702
are my probably my three favorites those are great choices yeah

475
00:28:57,702 --> 00:29:00,622
good answer yeah it's hard it's like 70 times

476
00:29:00,622 --> 00:29:03,302
I played Vader but it's so it's kind of hard to not narrow it down it's like

477
00:29:03,302 --> 00:29:06,142
you know Sophie's choice like which which one of my children do I you know

478
00:29:06,142 --> 00:29:09,382
pick or something so I want

479
00:29:09,382 --> 00:29:12,302
to ask you in the world of since you worked on the games there's so

480
00:29:12,302 --> 00:29:15,502
many great games out of that game of the Star Wars are you

481
00:29:15,502 --> 00:29:18,882
a game of yourself first no i'm that's the

482
00:29:18,882 --> 00:29:22,222
funny thing i i played when i before i got

483
00:29:22,222 --> 00:29:24,862
hired at lucasarts i played adventure games like point and

484
00:29:24,862 --> 00:29:28,182
click adventure games i played the old zork and infocom text

485
00:29:28,182 --> 00:29:31,282
adventure games that's the kind of stuff that i like i like story type stuff

486
00:29:31,282 --> 00:29:35,502
i'm terrible at like first person shooters and everything so i can't play dark

487
00:29:35,502 --> 00:29:39,122
forces i can't play jedi knight i'm terrible at those things you know i was

488
00:29:39,122 --> 00:29:42,622
never good at quake or doom or anything like that so i haven't even played half

489
00:29:42,622 --> 00:29:45,202
the games i've worked on but i appreciate them i love

490
00:29:45,282 --> 00:29:48,242
watching other people play them but i'm just no good at them so no

491
00:29:48,242 --> 00:29:52,382
i'm not really i'm a i'm a game i appreciate games but i'm not a gamer i'm a

492
00:29:52,382 --> 00:29:57,242
game designer i'm not a gamer how that goes right you you write comics but you

493
00:29:57,242 --> 00:30:03,002
don't read comics right i read comics i don't say you yeah those people yeah

494
00:30:03,002 --> 00:30:06,122
those people exactly i've seen you read a comic book before so,

495
00:30:07,154 --> 00:30:10,534
So before we wrap up here, I actually had a question. I don't know if you've

496
00:30:10,534 --> 00:30:14,434
been asked this before, but I'm just curious. Do you have any horror stories from panels?

497
00:30:16,754 --> 00:30:20,194
No, not from panels specifically, but here's the horror stories I get.

498
00:30:20,274 --> 00:30:24,614
When they will send out a local news crew to interview me, they always send

499
00:30:24,614 --> 00:30:28,634
out someone who knows nothing about Star Wars, knows nothing about me.

500
00:30:28,814 --> 00:30:32,994
And it's always that. So we have here with us Mr. Andrew C. Nelson.

501
00:30:33,114 --> 00:30:33,794
That's C. Andrew Nelson.

502
00:30:34,054 --> 00:30:36,734
So you worked on Star Trek. No, Star Wars.

503
00:30:37,154 --> 00:30:42,054
And I swear to God, this is real. And it was like over and over and over again.

504
00:30:42,134 --> 00:30:44,474
It was just the worst questions possible.

505
00:30:44,614 --> 00:30:49,514
I was like, why didn't you send somebody out that knew something about this

506
00:30:49,514 --> 00:30:51,034
stuff? But those are the horror stories.

507
00:30:51,194 --> 00:30:53,494
Now, I haven't had any problems really with the panels too often.

508
00:30:53,974 --> 00:30:56,714
Those usually go really well. I love doing panels, actually.

509
00:30:57,474 --> 00:31:01,334
Awesome. Well, I'm shocked. What about podcasts? What about podcasts?

510
00:31:01,634 --> 00:31:04,054
Oh, those are the worst. Especially this one.

511
00:31:05,194 --> 00:31:07,334
We're not really doing this. We're just standing around chatting,

512
00:31:07,554 --> 00:31:08,994
right? Exactly, exactly.

513
00:31:09,214 --> 00:31:12,394
So before we wrap up, I have one last thing I want to do really fast.

514
00:31:12,494 --> 00:31:14,794
We've been doing this game called Two of a Kind.

515
00:31:15,074 --> 00:31:19,874
And what that game is is to see how in sync we all are with each other's auras and their powers.

516
00:31:20,554 --> 00:31:23,894
So what I'm going to do is between you and Mike, I'm going to give you a category.

517
00:31:24,254 --> 00:31:28,094
I'm going to count down to three. So let's say an example would be Marvel Super

518
00:31:28,094 --> 00:31:31,114
Hero. I would say three, two, one. And then you would say the first thing that

519
00:31:31,114 --> 00:31:31,914
comes to your mind. Okay.

520
00:31:32,054 --> 00:31:36,314
If you guys can get it in sync, our audience wins a point. All right.

521
00:31:36,454 --> 00:31:38,954
Okay. We want our audience to win points. Isn't that right, Mike?

522
00:31:39,114 --> 00:31:41,674
They got to win points to win the game. Exactly. Exactly.

523
00:31:42,054 --> 00:31:44,714
Are you down for that? Oh, sure. Absolutely. Okay. Here we go.

524
00:31:44,894 --> 00:31:48,514
Mike, see Andrew Nelson. I'll be ready. Yes.

525
00:31:49,394 --> 00:31:53,534
It's an easy one, the first. Hopefully it is. A Star Wars villain.

526
00:31:55,434 --> 00:31:58,254
Three, two, one. Darth Vader.

527
00:32:00,174 --> 00:32:02,854
Wow. I got it. All right. Who would have guessed? All right.

528
00:32:02,854 --> 00:32:04,574
All right. All right. Let's do it for real now. Okay.

529
00:32:04,934 --> 00:32:16,954
All right. a this is for you an action a bruce willis movie that's not die hard three two one.

530
00:32:19,091 --> 00:32:24,931
I couldn't even think of it. This is so sad. I almost said moonlighting. That was a TV series.

531
00:32:26,551 --> 00:32:29,351
All right. Well, clearly, again, nobody's in sync with Mike.

532
00:32:29,831 --> 00:32:33,111
Nobody's in sync. I'm on an island by myself. You are. But that's okay.

533
00:32:33,191 --> 00:32:36,231
C. Andrew Nelson. Joy Fatone or Justin Timberlake are in sync with him.

534
00:32:36,951 --> 00:32:40,231
That's good. All right. Before we wrap up, where can our audience connect with

535
00:32:40,231 --> 00:32:41,991
you and learn more about all the great things you do?

536
00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:45,131
Absolutely. Well, they can go to my website, candrenelson.com.

537
00:32:45,271 --> 00:32:48,211
It's being worked on right now, but it'll be up again very soon.

538
00:32:48,211 --> 00:32:51,471
The whole revamped version of it. You can find me on social media.

539
00:32:51,571 --> 00:32:54,451
I'm C. Andrew Nelson on Facebook. I'm C. Andrew Nelson on Instagram.

540
00:32:55,031 --> 00:33:00,211
You can also find me and the company that I co-own with producer Jerry Cornell

541
00:33:00,211 --> 00:33:04,531
called Adventurous Ideas. We produce audio dramas, full cast music and sound effects.

542
00:33:04,691 --> 00:33:07,711
It's the modern equivalent of the old radio plays from back in the day.

543
00:33:07,831 --> 00:33:10,591
And so you can go to adventurousideas.com.

544
00:33:10,811 --> 00:33:14,711
You can also go to our YouTube channel, which is youtube.com slash at,

545
00:33:14,811 --> 00:33:18,911
the at symbol, at Adventurous Ideas. And you can actually hear some of our work up there.

546
00:33:18,971 --> 00:33:21,811
We have samples of it up there, including the whole first episode of our current

547
00:33:21,811 --> 00:33:24,991
project, Heroes of Extinction, which is a seven-part superhero story,

548
00:33:25,171 --> 00:33:28,751
which has a great cast of actors that have been involved with Star Wars,

549
00:33:28,911 --> 00:33:31,231
Disney, Marvel, Pixar, even Super Mario.

550
00:33:31,571 --> 00:33:35,511
And we also have a podcast up there. So I'm not immune to podcasts.

551
00:33:36,251 --> 00:33:40,671
But we have a podcast called The Lowdown of the Down Low, hosted by Jason Brayden,

552
00:33:40,771 --> 00:33:42,131
who is one of our voice actors.

553
00:33:42,371 --> 00:33:46,191
And he's got interviews with all of our different actors from our projects.

554
00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:49,291
And that's up there. There's about 11 episodes of those up there right now.

555
00:33:49,991 --> 00:33:53,951
So that's, and you can also find Adventurous Ideas on Instagram and Facebook as well.

556
00:33:54,031 --> 00:33:57,231
So check that out. We've got two shows in production right now,

557
00:33:57,271 --> 00:34:01,511
audio dramas in production, two that are being, just finishing up the casting stage.

558
00:34:01,971 --> 00:34:06,971
We've got about nine others that are being written and another 75 plus in development, all audio.

559
00:34:07,371 --> 00:34:10,811
And we've got wonderful actors from Star Wars, Star Trek, Game of Thrones,

560
00:34:10,971 --> 00:34:13,531
Doctor Who, Harry Potter, everything you can think of.

561
00:34:14,950 --> 00:34:20,350
Mike, any last words? What about an actor for moonlighting? Ah, great.

562
00:34:20,730 --> 00:34:24,910
Now I got to go look for a moonlighting actor. Said no one.

563
00:34:25,950 --> 00:34:29,550
Thank you, C. Andrew Russell. It was an absolute pleasure. And we'll be right back after this break.

564
00:34:30,550 --> 00:34:36,330
All right, everybody. Uncle Dad here. Back for day two of the legendary StocktonCon 2024.

565
00:34:36,990 --> 00:34:40,370
Day two? Yeah, legendary. Very legendary.

566
00:34:41,890 --> 00:34:44,850
Legendary. dairy. What's your favorite kind of milk?

567
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:48,450
You know, honestly, I'm an oat milk guy, number one. Number two is going to

568
00:34:48,450 --> 00:34:50,750
be almond milk, and number three is slimy milk.

569
00:34:51,030 --> 00:34:54,710
So you're an alt milk. Alt milk. Some would say San Francisco milk.

570
00:34:55,310 --> 00:34:59,490
I'm into alt milks as well. What's your top three? Yeah, I like oat.

571
00:34:59,810 --> 00:35:04,330
I think coconut is good because coconut is also good for your brain.

572
00:35:04,650 --> 00:35:08,850
I've never had coconut milk. And then third would be almond just because it

573
00:35:08,850 --> 00:35:12,030
takes so much water to make almond milk. Is that true?

574
00:35:12,930 --> 00:35:15,530
Absolutely. I actually didn't know that. Well, now you know.

575
00:35:15,990 --> 00:35:19,210
Wow. So now I shouldn't drink all my milk. It's an educational podcast.

576
00:35:19,670 --> 00:35:21,510
It is. We should just ask people what your favorite milk is.

577
00:35:21,970 --> 00:35:25,290
You want to ask somebody? Hey, what's your favorite milk? Let's ask our next guest.

578
00:35:28,590 --> 00:35:33,810
All right. I really like that one. That was good. Because I can go so many ways, I feel.

579
00:35:34,590 --> 00:35:37,750
My sir, it is day two here. We're hanging out in your booth, chilling.

580
00:35:38,490 --> 00:35:42,390
Overall, the vibes are very chill today. What do you think? Yeah, it's a chill day.

581
00:35:42,950 --> 00:35:47,370
I think it's the day of our Lord. You're right. It's the Sunday Lord Day.

582
00:35:47,730 --> 00:35:51,590
Now, I'm curious, are we going to try to get some more interviews today? What do you think?

583
00:35:51,990 --> 00:35:56,770
Well, I think we've put a few feelers out there, so we should test them out and see what the vibe is.

584
00:35:57,030 --> 00:35:59,690
Let's see what those vibes are. And to keep the momentum going,

585
00:35:59,850 --> 00:36:04,550
my sir, let's play a game of two of a kind. Here we go. Are you ready? Yeah.

586
00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:12,230
A basketball player, modern. Modern meaning not retired? Not retired.

587
00:36:12,750 --> 00:36:15,630
So look at me. We're just giving each other the moves, yeah? Okay.

588
00:36:16,890 --> 00:36:20,050
Three, two, one. Anthony Davis. Do your own box.

589
00:36:22,370 --> 00:36:27,510
Davis. There you go. All right, baby. We'll be right back after this break.

590
00:36:29,330 --> 00:36:33,330
Yo, what up? This is Jesse Hernandez, the Urban Aztec, and you're listening

591
00:36:33,330 --> 00:36:36,150
to Uncle Dad Talks. Nacho Mama.

592
00:36:38,509 --> 00:36:41,549
All right, Uncle Dad here, hanging out with Mike. Mike, we have a very special

593
00:36:41,549 --> 00:36:42,829
friend of the family here.

594
00:36:42,989 --> 00:36:48,369
It's the one and only, the massive man himself. Give it up for the Retro Gaming Nomad.

595
00:36:48,769 --> 00:36:51,169
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Please, no applause,

596
00:36:51,309 --> 00:36:54,029
please, thank you. Holding, holding? Okay.

597
00:36:55,109 --> 00:36:58,149
Yes, we host the podcast as well, Mike, if you haven't heard it.

598
00:36:58,369 --> 00:37:02,969
It's called The Game Papas, which you can find exclusively here on the Uncle Dad Talks platform.

599
00:37:03,349 --> 00:37:05,869
Isn't that great, Mike? We have multiple shows. It is great,

600
00:37:05,969 --> 00:37:08,149
yes. Multiple shows for multiple topics.

601
00:37:08,869 --> 00:37:10,849
Exactly. Now, what are you doing here?

602
00:37:11,669 --> 00:37:15,649
I'm scoping it out, man. I came to support you guys along with looking at some

603
00:37:15,649 --> 00:37:18,209
retro games that I might not have in my collection.

604
00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:20,769
See if the price is right. It's going to be in the bag.

605
00:37:21,169 --> 00:37:24,109
Oh, it's like he had that pre-planned. That's very well said,

606
00:37:24,189 --> 00:37:28,209
right? It sounds like a script that you have ready to go. Is that true?

607
00:37:28,389 --> 00:37:32,389
Or is there like a script in your wallet that you keep folded up and recite from time to time?

608
00:37:32,769 --> 00:37:35,709
Absolutely not. everything's off the top of my head and i credit my

609
00:37:35,709 --> 00:37:38,729
early days of freestyle rapping back in well i

610
00:37:38,729 --> 00:37:41,889
won't even say the dates because that's going to age me well you don't

611
00:37:41,889 --> 00:37:47,109
have to worry about that but okay uh so this whole weekend we've been playing

612
00:37:47,109 --> 00:37:51,629
a new game called two of a kind and we're trying to learn how in sync we are

613
00:37:51,629 --> 00:37:55,529
as people and the way this game works is basically i will give you a category

614
00:37:55,529 --> 00:38:00,309
an example would be marvel name a marvel superhero i'll then count down three three, two, one.

615
00:38:00,529 --> 00:38:04,709
And then the group will say whichever that comes out first in their mind. Okay.

616
00:38:04,769 --> 00:38:08,729
And then if you say the same answer, guess what? The audience wins a point.

617
00:38:09,891 --> 00:38:12,831
Got it what do you think how many points has the audience won so

618
00:38:12,831 --> 00:38:16,531
far not much when i'm playing so we're

619
00:38:16,531 --> 00:38:21,971
gonna see how in sync you and mike are all right all right so kind of come a

620
00:38:21,971 --> 00:38:31,191
little close the first category is a football video game three two one super

621
00:38:31,191 --> 00:38:35,091
10 fltk5 wrong well not wrong but But no match.

622
00:38:35,371 --> 00:38:37,991
No match. We're not in sync. All right. One more. One more.

623
00:38:39,711 --> 00:38:44,331
A Nintendo 64 color. Lime green.

624
00:38:44,551 --> 00:38:46,691
Well, I wasn't saying. He gave me a look, so I didn't think he got that.

625
00:38:46,851 --> 00:38:48,571
All right. We'll change that one. Scratch that one. Scratch that one.

626
00:38:48,591 --> 00:38:49,871
They did different colors? Yeah.

627
00:38:50,591 --> 00:38:54,751
I mean, they did different colors. Exactly. That's why you should listen to

628
00:38:54,751 --> 00:38:57,871
the game, Papas, and you would know. All right. I'll listen.

629
00:38:59,131 --> 00:39:02,971
All right. Here we go. For real this time. them name a popular

630
00:39:02,971 --> 00:39:07,611
chevy vehicle three two

631
00:39:07,611 --> 00:39:10,451
one 64 impala does that

632
00:39:10,451 --> 00:39:13,631
count that counts yeah impala all

633
00:39:13,631 --> 00:39:19,751
right that's one point for the audience did you hear that wow finally i'm finally

634
00:39:19,751 --> 00:39:23,811
in sync with someone i know dude how does that feel i feel validated you should

635
00:39:23,811 --> 00:39:26,811
now let's go take that validation and go get some interviews done what do you

636
00:39:26,811 --> 00:39:30,771
think uh yes all right before we go with with our friend here, Mr.

637
00:39:30,911 --> 00:39:32,931
Nomad, working on our audience. As always, connect with you.

638
00:39:33,491 --> 00:39:38,871
Oh, on Instagram at RetroGamingNomad is my handle, all one word.

639
00:39:39,251 --> 00:39:46,311
Look for the picture. My little icon is a TurboGrafx Express handheld.

640
00:39:46,891 --> 00:39:49,731
Is that it? Yeah, pretty much. And you can listen to the podcast,

641
00:39:49,791 --> 00:39:51,831
of course. And we just, and that's it.

642
00:39:53,822 --> 00:39:55,542
Hey, everybody. Uncle Dad here, hanging out with Mike. Mike,

643
00:39:55,562 --> 00:39:57,162
say hello, as always. Hello.

644
00:39:57,522 --> 00:40:02,522
We are with one of the coolest, coolest voices in this business,

645
00:40:02,642 --> 00:40:05,822
one of the most legendary animated shows of all time.

646
00:40:05,982 --> 00:40:11,802
We are with Marty Grabstein, the voice of courage, the Cowardly Dog. What's up?

647
00:40:12,082 --> 00:40:15,962
All the things I do for love.

648
00:40:16,482 --> 00:40:19,742
See what I did there, man? I do. Wonderful.

649
00:40:20,362 --> 00:40:24,762
You built me up. I spoke.

650
00:40:25,002 --> 00:40:28,862
I gave a land with the juicy stuff.

651
00:40:29,402 --> 00:40:34,142
I was going to say something else, but this is a GP rated.

652
00:40:34,442 --> 00:40:37,742
It could be GP or it could be rated R, whatever you want.

653
00:40:39,922 --> 00:40:48,182
On a slippery slope with that one. By the way, let's make this clear for all the listeners.

654
00:40:49,142 --> 00:40:56,142
Marty Grafsey, myself, is recovering from a stroke that he had about five and a half months ago.

655
00:40:56,242 --> 00:41:00,462
Why am I referring to myself in the third person?

656
00:41:00,622 --> 00:41:03,042
I am recovering from a stroke.

657
00:41:03,522 --> 00:41:11,222
Anyway, so this explains my slightly stilted holding speech patterns.

658
00:41:11,222 --> 00:41:14,202
But it doesn't matter because nobody cares.

659
00:41:14,362 --> 00:41:16,742
They have their own lives to deal with.

660
00:41:17,562 --> 00:41:21,302
Who worries about my stroke? I worry.

661
00:41:21,382 --> 00:41:26,402
A lot of people out there maybe already had a stroke. You don't even know. All right.

662
00:41:26,742 --> 00:41:30,122
I'm going to shut up and let you answer your question.

663
00:41:30,742 --> 00:41:33,762
Now you're going to answer. You got to ask them.

664
00:41:36,902 --> 00:41:44,262
You're going to ask and he's going to answer. that's a dynamic right so you ask,

665
00:41:45,822 --> 00:41:51,282
and I answer yes I love it so Courage Cow and Dog is one of my favorite shows

666
00:41:51,282 --> 00:41:56,062
growing up and so I want to know this for you was there ever an episode that actually scared you,

667
00:41:57,046 --> 00:42:04,586
Interesting, because nothing scared me, per se, because I recorded it in the booths, you know.

668
00:42:04,646 --> 00:42:12,706
So I became acquainted with what's happening before there was any tension, you know.

669
00:42:12,706 --> 00:42:23,046
But the episodes that actually get me a little creeped out were actually Freaky Fred.

670
00:42:24,146 --> 00:42:30,746
Which actually when I saw with the music and the tonality of the wonderful Paul

671
00:42:30,746 --> 00:42:36,006
Schaeffler as Freaky Fred, the shaving crazy man.

672
00:42:36,506 --> 00:42:46,726
And also I love a little mess up, but a big exorcist guy in my historically a big exorcist guy.

673
00:42:46,946 --> 00:42:51,946
So the demon in the mattress kind of freaked me out a little bit.

674
00:42:51,986 --> 00:42:55,166
Seeing Muriel all demoned up.

675
00:42:56,186 --> 00:43:00,526
I did have a moment. A lot of people like King Ramsey's curse.

676
00:43:00,586 --> 00:43:06,066
I know returned the slab. I actually did find it a little weird,

677
00:43:06,446 --> 00:43:15,966
but mainly I think that fearfulness was very much the special effects driven

678
00:43:15,966 --> 00:43:18,766
because they had a three dimensional,

679
00:43:18,946 --> 00:43:22,986
you know, effect in a two dimensional world.

680
00:43:23,286 --> 00:43:29,306
So in that respect, it was creepy, but didn't get me as much as the other ones.

681
00:43:29,486 --> 00:43:36,346
See how long the answers are. I love it. Long answers to your podcast questions.

682
00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:42,926
All right. We like long answers. How much of yourself do you put into the character

683
00:43:42,926 --> 00:43:45,826
when you're doing it? Is that... Yeah, please.

684
00:43:46,990 --> 00:43:49,410
It's all myself.

685
00:43:51,890 --> 00:43:58,410
Actually, because when I got the role, actually, a friend of mine called me

686
00:43:58,410 --> 00:44:01,030
up and thought that I would be right for this.

687
00:44:01,190 --> 00:44:07,170
I haven't spoken to her in maybe five years before that point.

688
00:44:07,310 --> 00:44:12,590
She called me up out of the blue, said, I'm working for a guy named John Deworth.

689
00:44:12,590 --> 00:44:20,030
He's casting for the lead character in a new cartoon series he's having called

690
00:44:20,030 --> 00:44:21,230
Courage the Cowardly Dog.

691
00:44:21,390 --> 00:44:28,230
He's listened to every voiceover artist in the city and over 300 voices can't

692
00:44:28,230 --> 00:44:30,830
seem to arrive at an answer.

693
00:44:31,090 --> 00:44:36,490
So basically, you know, I said, I'm going to ask some people.

694
00:44:36,570 --> 00:44:45,150
I know maybe we have better luck. So I went in really not having any expectations,

695
00:44:45,750 --> 00:44:53,790
no preparation, because pretty much it was the next day I went into the audition.

696
00:44:54,430 --> 00:44:59,750
So I went in. It was an interesting reality.

697
00:45:00,730 --> 00:45:05,670
This is because I didn't have a panel this weekend. I didn't have a panel,

698
00:45:05,750 --> 00:45:07,810
so I'm doing the podcast.

699
00:45:09,130 --> 00:45:13,790
They didn't give you a panel? Next time Mike's going to give me a panel.

700
00:45:14,530 --> 00:45:15,770
We've got to talk to Mike.

701
00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:22,230
That's okay. I said it at my table the whole time.

702
00:45:22,810 --> 00:45:27,930
Committed. Committed to signing and signing all day long.

703
00:45:29,590 --> 00:45:40,110
Anyway, so essentially I was talking about But I was in a curiously powerful

704
00:45:40,110 --> 00:45:48,570
position because I figured a lot of actions in general don't, you know...

705
00:45:49,736 --> 00:45:53,876
Actors in general, we're insecure, we're nervous, we're thinking,

706
00:45:53,956 --> 00:46:02,256
we want the job, and you're going to present this, give it to us, not give it to us.

707
00:46:02,396 --> 00:46:09,936
The same thing with promoters and comic cons, philosophy, we want what you have,

708
00:46:10,276 --> 00:46:14,336
give it to us, but interesting thing.

709
00:46:14,336 --> 00:46:25,436
So in this situation, the power was over to my side because I was figuring he had to be exhausted.

710
00:46:26,456 --> 00:46:31,436
But listening for four months of voices and voices and voices,

711
00:46:31,436 --> 00:46:33,736
he can't arrive at an answer.

712
00:46:33,896 --> 00:46:40,216
I figured I'm in a position to alleviate his tension.

713
00:46:40,216 --> 00:46:43,796
I can actually solve his

714
00:46:43,796 --> 00:46:46,796
problem you knew he was the answer i i

715
00:46:46,796 --> 00:46:50,256
felt that that was the answer so i

716
00:46:50,256 --> 00:46:58,336
rare that i in that position any actor is in that position right so it was so

717
00:46:58,336 --> 00:47:07,856
cool you know i went in fearlessly and my fearlessness definitely was a big deal because i've just,

718
00:47:08,376 --> 00:47:14,996
launched into instinctive ideas about how the cabaret should sound, you know, because.

719
00:47:16,576 --> 00:47:24,256
Neurotic, the way I'm talking right now, this is the way I delivered the line.

720
00:47:24,716 --> 00:47:28,716
The things I do for love, all of that, right?

721
00:47:28,816 --> 00:47:36,016
He loved all of that, kind of an ethnic Jewish, New York-ish kind of a sound, right?

722
00:47:36,176 --> 00:47:43,796
So he said he was laughing and everything. The only thing he said, can you pitch it up here?

723
00:47:44,156 --> 00:47:48,076
Can you pitch it up here? When I did, he...

724
00:47:48,710 --> 00:47:58,230
We got it. So he got this lower pitch, raspy guy going above his natural ability to speak.

725
00:47:58,610 --> 00:48:02,130
And that was what nailed the job.

726
00:48:03,350 --> 00:48:06,610
Look at that. That's amazing. It kind of always goes back to what we talked

727
00:48:06,610 --> 00:48:07,850
about, about manifestation in some respect.

728
00:48:07,950 --> 00:48:11,170
He knew he was the answer and he got it. What do you think about that?

729
00:48:11,250 --> 00:48:12,570
He walked in like he owned the place.

730
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:16,370
That's what you got to do, right? I was Neo, essentially.

731
00:48:16,650 --> 00:48:19,250
I was going to say Tom Brady. No, Neo.

732
00:48:20,790 --> 00:48:26,170
Screw Tom Brady and the blown up footballs.

733
00:48:27,330 --> 00:48:32,030
No Tom Brady here, I guess. Sorry. I have to tell you, Marty,

734
00:48:32,090 --> 00:48:33,030
it's an absolute pleasure to talk to you.

735
00:48:33,070 --> 00:48:35,790
We don't want to take too much of your time, but just thank you so much for

736
00:48:35,790 --> 00:48:39,050
taking the time. Your show has meant a lot to me and a lot of people growing up.

737
00:48:39,410 --> 00:48:42,490
Just thank you for being a part of that. And your legacy will always live on

738
00:48:42,490 --> 00:48:45,370
in that show. Thank you so much. Yes, absolutely.

739
00:48:45,670 --> 00:48:47,550
Absolutely. Thank you. Nice to meet you.

740
00:48:47,910 --> 00:48:50,990
Thank you. And we'll be right back, everybody. Great, man.

741
00:48:51,990 --> 00:48:54,810
All right, everybody. We are back after that incredible interview.

742
00:48:54,930 --> 00:48:57,670
We have another interview for you. Mike, say hello first. Hi, hello.

743
00:48:58,290 --> 00:49:01,170
Mike, we're with somebody who actually knows you very well, I think.

744
00:49:01,750 --> 00:49:05,250
Right? Oh, sorry. I'm thinking of a different Mike. I'm thinking about the one

745
00:49:05,250 --> 00:49:06,790
and only Mike. What was his name? Can you say it?

746
00:49:07,070 --> 00:49:11,070
Mike Wazowski. That's right. You guys can't tell because she has grown up.

747
00:49:11,270 --> 00:49:14,290
But this is the voice of Boo from the original Monsters, Inc.

748
00:49:14,510 --> 00:49:18,610
Film. How are you? I'm good. Yeah, puberty happened. So I don't sound the same,

749
00:49:18,670 --> 00:49:20,650
unfortunately, but I'm still doing good.

750
00:49:21,210 --> 00:49:24,170
What's the closest you could get to that voice? Mike Wazowski.

751
00:49:24,790 --> 00:49:27,630
I'm not an actress. I'm not an actress. I was three.

752
00:49:28,450 --> 00:49:32,590
I talked to you about your name and I didn't even say your name. We're with Mary Gibbs.

753
00:49:32,910 --> 00:49:35,950
So my question to you, how did you get that role? I don't think a lot of people

754
00:49:35,950 --> 00:49:37,390
know about that. So how did you get that role?

755
00:49:37,650 --> 00:49:41,250
Yeah. So I mean, being so young, my dad was actually a storyboard artist.

756
00:49:41,590 --> 00:49:45,830
He worked at Pixar and Disney for over 30 years, happened to be be working on Monsters, Inc.

757
00:49:45,950 --> 00:49:48,410
Right meeting at the right time when they needed a little girl.

758
00:49:48,470 --> 00:49:49,750
And it was originally just to draw.

759
00:49:50,050 --> 00:49:53,370
And so I would I would be brought in. My mom put my hair in pigtails,

760
00:49:53,430 --> 00:49:57,850
which is why she has pigtails now. And I would just run around the studio and they would sketch me.

761
00:49:58,130 --> 00:50:01,070
And as the movie progressed and they're looking for voice actors,

762
00:50:01,250 --> 00:50:04,370
a lot of times they'll have older people do kids voices because they could actually

763
00:50:04,370 --> 00:50:07,090
direct them. But they're like, well, she's comfortable in the studio.

764
00:50:07,610 --> 00:50:10,990
Let's just try to bring her into the actual recording studio with the big crew.

765
00:50:11,170 --> 00:50:14,170
And, you know, my mom thought I was going to freak out. And apparently Apparently

766
00:50:14,170 --> 00:50:17,810
I walked in like I owned the place and for like two years of my life,

767
00:50:17,830 --> 00:50:21,570
they followed me around with a microphone and yeah, it's pretty easy for me.

768
00:50:21,710 --> 00:50:24,870
Mike, that same theme of just walking in like you own the place.

769
00:50:24,970 --> 00:50:26,930
Yeah. Well, that's what we just talked about with, with,

770
00:50:27,258 --> 00:50:30,238
dog man over here so you were

771
00:50:30,238 --> 00:50:33,238
you were the the model of boo and then became the

772
00:50:33,238 --> 00:50:36,018
voice of boo so like that's essentially that's that's you

773
00:50:36,018 --> 00:50:39,678
when we're watching it totally right yeah yeah good way to put it uh it was

774
00:50:39,678 --> 00:50:43,778
gonna be a 12 year old girl with a bob when i was brought in that they're like

775
00:50:43,778 --> 00:50:47,118
oh it makes more sense for her to be young and just more curious and less scared

776
00:50:47,118 --> 00:50:52,278
as like a 12 year old to be it but yeah you're exactly right i i am boo is that

777
00:50:52,278 --> 00:50:55,398
like a fun party trick you pull out sometimes and you're just like, hey, Mike Wazowski.

778
00:50:55,658 --> 00:50:58,898
It's definitely a good, a good fun fact. Oftentimes, like it's not going to

779
00:50:58,898 --> 00:51:02,618
be the first thing that I introduce myself as, but then I'll get to know someone

780
00:51:02,618 --> 00:51:03,818
or maybe we'll be at a party.

781
00:51:03,878 --> 00:51:07,838
It's later in the night, you know, and I just like drop a bomb on people and

782
00:51:07,838 --> 00:51:09,178
it cheers people out. It's great.

783
00:51:09,338 --> 00:51:11,998
I love it. I mean, that literally happened to us. We were all like, wait, what?

784
00:51:12,838 --> 00:51:15,778
Yeah, that's the best way to find it. So what have, if you don't mind us asking,

785
00:51:15,858 --> 00:51:17,258
what have you been up to since those days?

786
00:51:17,518 --> 00:51:20,978
Yeah. So when I first did Monsters, Inc., I was five when it came out.

787
00:51:21,258 --> 00:51:24,218
A lot of different companies wanted me to just keep acting and

788
00:51:24,218 --> 00:51:26,858
I got a couple roles but gratefully my mom pulled me out

789
00:51:26,858 --> 00:51:30,318
of it so I didn't end up like crazy child actress just crazy

790
00:51:30,318 --> 00:51:35,278
that's all clearly no

791
00:51:35,278 --> 00:51:39,918
and then just now I'm studying Chinese medicine and I'm a massage therapist

792
00:51:39,918 --> 00:51:45,038
I was a yoga teacher for a few years so completely different world but I actually

793
00:51:45,038 --> 00:51:48,678
so I've been doing comic cons about for about seven years so that's kind of

794
00:51:48,678 --> 00:51:52,218
my how I stay in touch with this business a little bit I travel around and get

795
00:51:52,218 --> 00:51:53,858
to meet fans and sign autographs,

796
00:51:53,858 --> 00:51:57,258
kind of like where we're at now. I don't have a booth here though, but either way.

797
00:51:57,598 --> 00:52:01,018
And through that process, I met a guy named C. Andrew Nelson,

798
00:52:01,178 --> 00:52:02,398
who actually has a booth here as well.

799
00:52:02,598 --> 00:52:05,398
He was just on the show. Okay, cool. So nice. He probably talked about it.

800
00:52:05,438 --> 00:52:08,038
He started a company called Adventurous Ideas. He did.

801
00:52:08,178 --> 00:52:10,698
And Heroes of Extinction is one of their first projects.

802
00:52:10,898 --> 00:52:14,278
And when I met Andrew like four years ago, he was like, you know,

803
00:52:14,278 --> 00:52:16,458
I really see he was one of our main characters in the show.

804
00:52:16,598 --> 00:52:20,078
And I was like, I was three. I never did acting,

805
00:52:20,158 --> 00:52:22,858
like maybe some theater growing up, but you know nothing crazy and he was

806
00:52:22,858 --> 00:52:26,158
like I have faith in you I see you know I see you as that role and luckily

807
00:52:26,158 --> 00:52:28,818
he's such a good director because I mean I have a whole new

808
00:52:28,818 --> 00:52:31,838
respect for voice actors doing this because you're alone in a booth having to

809
00:52:31,838 --> 00:52:34,518
like make up all these emotions out of thin air and I was

810
00:52:34,518 --> 00:52:38,338
just grateful for him to like I was like firsthand acting school like he was

811
00:52:38,338 --> 00:52:42,218
like teaching me directly and like and directing me and just because he was

812
00:52:42,218 --> 00:52:45,778
such an awesome director I was able to like make myself cry at one point like

813
00:52:45,778 --> 00:52:48,778
things I never thought I would be able to do It was like I was doing it and

814
00:52:48,778 --> 00:52:53,758
he just because he had that faith in me So that's like dipping my toes back into voice acting um.

815
00:52:54,544 --> 00:52:58,004
Might do some more projects with them and we'll see where it goes but yeah wow

816
00:52:58,004 --> 00:53:00,824
it's it's crazy how life can just take you on those journeys

817
00:53:00,824 --> 00:53:03,564
right like you do one thing and then you're like i'm not really gonna do

818
00:53:03,564 --> 00:53:06,384
that then now you're studying chinese medicine and all it's just how does

819
00:53:06,384 --> 00:53:10,184
like what do you think like what's that for you how do you think you get to

820
00:53:10,184 --> 00:53:13,664
one eight point to the other well i think what you're talking about like it

821
00:53:13,664 --> 00:53:18,104
you're not you're not pigeonholed into one thing right like you know life is

822
00:53:18,104 --> 00:53:25,484
big if you make it big you know and it sounds like you you found a niche with being in this circuit,

823
00:53:25,604 --> 00:53:30,524
but also like you can also do Chinese medicine and be mindful and like have

824
00:53:30,524 --> 00:53:33,304
intentions in the world. It doesn't have to be just that.

825
00:53:33,584 --> 00:53:37,884
It doesn't have to be just Comic-Con world and autographs. It can be both.

826
00:53:38,024 --> 00:53:40,844
And for some people, it feels like it has to be one or the other,

827
00:53:40,884 --> 00:53:44,604
but I'm glad you found that there's a medium between it all.

828
00:53:44,864 --> 00:53:48,844
It's all about that balance, you know. Balance is key. So before we wrap up,

829
00:53:48,844 --> 00:53:51,604
up we've been playing a game called a two of a kind

830
00:53:51,604 --> 00:53:54,524
and what this game is it's we're trying to see how in sync

831
00:53:54,524 --> 00:53:58,984
we are do you have to go no no i just said no they were no worries uh we have

832
00:53:58,984 --> 00:54:02,524
this game called two of a kind we're to see how in sync we are as people i'm

833
00:54:02,524 --> 00:54:06,444
going to give you a category so let's say the category is marvel superhero i'll

834
00:54:06,444 --> 00:54:09,404
count down three two one after one you say the first thing that comes to your

835
00:54:09,404 --> 00:54:14,344
mouth that's spider-man right what's gc versus marvel okay.

836
00:54:15,124 --> 00:54:18,264
That's not gonna be the category i'm gonna make it very easy all right here

837
00:54:18,264 --> 00:54:18,984
we go are you You ready, Mike?

838
00:54:19,124 --> 00:54:21,584
So we say it at the same time? Yes, you two say it at the same time, yes.

839
00:54:21,784 --> 00:54:25,524
And here's the thing. If you guys are in sync, our audience wins a point.

840
00:54:25,764 --> 00:54:28,484
All right, all right. We want them to get points. We want them to get points.

841
00:54:29,264 --> 00:54:31,964
All right, here we go. You ready, Mike? All right.

842
00:54:33,804 --> 00:54:37,804
A character from Monsters, Inc. that is not Boo.

843
00:54:39,264 --> 00:54:43,224
Three, two, one. Mike Wazowski. There we go.

844
00:54:44,004 --> 00:54:50,724
Oh, wow. Do you hear the audience? Wow. I'm finally in sync with someone. There it is. There it is.

845
00:54:50,844 --> 00:54:54,124
Where can our audience learn more about you and connect with you on any social media?

846
00:54:54,504 --> 00:54:56,524
So I'm on Instagram at Visual Boo.

847
00:54:56,964 --> 00:55:01,044
And I have a YouTube channel that's been dormant for a while, but Boo Grown Up.

848
00:55:01,144 --> 00:55:04,704
I have a little series of videos that I eventually want to start filming more,

849
00:55:04,764 --> 00:55:07,844
but you can learn some random things about my life on that channel.

850
00:55:07,944 --> 00:55:10,324
But yeah, Visual Boo on Instagram is the main one. So.

851
00:55:11,153 --> 00:55:15,033
And marygibbs.com is actually in the works where I'll be selling like merch

852
00:55:15,033 --> 00:55:17,973
and different things. You can find out what Comic-Cons I'm at and stuff too.

853
00:55:18,113 --> 00:55:20,733
So are you going to be at San Diego Comic-Con?

854
00:55:21,133 --> 00:55:26,033
I'm so not as a guest. Unfortunately, they won't wave like up and coming people.

855
00:55:26,093 --> 00:55:28,133
You know, they don't care about Monsters, Inc. anymore, unfortunately.

856
00:55:28,273 --> 00:55:31,013
But I've been working while I'm at this Comic-Con, Stockton Con.

857
00:55:31,193 --> 00:55:34,933
I've been working with my management to film and working on their social media.

858
00:55:35,093 --> 00:55:38,093
And so I'm trying to weasel my way in there with a media pass.

859
00:55:38,093 --> 00:55:40,933
So but you will be at something called

860
00:55:40,933 --> 00:55:43,913
mouse con right yes i i will

861
00:55:43,913 --> 00:55:48,013
i'm gonna be at mouse con i believe that's october 19th

862
00:55:48,013 --> 00:55:52,053
correct me if i'm wrong but mouse con in salt lake city utah so definitely check

863
00:55:52,053 --> 00:55:55,493
that out it's gonna be it's gonna be great and go see boo and tell her uncle

864
00:55:55,493 --> 00:56:00,113
dad and just mike sent you she would be like what who are they oh fun fact i

865
00:56:00,113 --> 00:56:04,393
i'm doing the promo materials for that so i i'm the one that puts your name

866
00:56:04,393 --> 00:56:06,313
on the thing so good to know spell it right.

867
00:56:07,213 --> 00:56:09,053
Yeah, that's spelled right, Mike. Is it a picture?

868
00:56:10,473 --> 00:56:13,713
Well, thank you guys so much, or thank you so much. We absolutely appreciate

869
00:56:13,713 --> 00:56:15,973
it. Go check her out, and we'll be right back after this break.

870
00:56:16,753 --> 00:56:22,333
Awesome. Thanks. All right. As I say, all things good must come to an end,

871
00:56:22,413 --> 00:56:28,273
and we are done with StocktonCon Summer 2024. Mike, how do you feel?

872
00:56:28,813 --> 00:56:33,973
All things good and bad will come to an end. That's true. And sometimes,

873
00:56:34,093 --> 00:56:36,653
even when they come to an end, And they don't just end, they transform.

874
00:56:37,233 --> 00:56:40,493
And then they keep going. Do things really ever end?

875
00:56:41,173 --> 00:56:43,753
Nothing ever ends. And that's it.

876
00:56:44,713 --> 00:56:51,073
But yes, it's all over now. Mike, probably one of our most festive of the Comic-Cons

877
00:56:51,073 --> 00:56:52,413
that we've covered in Stockton. What do you think?

878
00:56:52,593 --> 00:56:57,713
I think Stockton Con is always a fun coloring book of different things, right? Yeah.

879
00:56:58,133 --> 00:57:01,893
I love the way you put that because that's true. Every time there's always something

880
00:57:01,893 --> 00:57:06,913
else that happens each time that kind of outdoes the last time, right? It's like life.

881
00:57:07,353 --> 00:57:11,973
It's a, you just never know. Just never know. Indeed. So Mike,

882
00:57:12,033 --> 00:57:13,933
as we wrap up here, we're going to wrap up here.

883
00:57:15,952 --> 00:57:21,372
Do we want to say where we are next or no? What are your top three moments of this Stockton Cod?

884
00:57:24,992 --> 00:57:28,652
Well, I'm not going to say who, but I was playing with some celebrities.

885
00:57:29,052 --> 00:57:31,992
We played a game of flip cup. That was fun.

886
00:57:33,192 --> 00:57:37,712
Number one. Number two. Always hanging out with my man, Mike,

887
00:57:37,932 --> 00:57:42,092
and his partner, Callie Dunlap-Bart.

888
00:57:44,932 --> 00:57:47,872
And of course i always love when we get alumni

889
00:57:47,872 --> 00:57:51,132
in so having more people that have been a part of the show and part of the family

890
00:57:51,132 --> 00:57:56,152
absolutely makes it top three great answers i like it yeah good answer good

891
00:57:56,152 --> 00:58:00,292
answer but yes should we tell them where we are next or no go yeah let's tell

892
00:58:00,292 --> 00:58:04,652
them okay where we are next we're gonna be at san diego comic-con that's right

893
00:58:04,652 --> 00:58:06,012
it's just a couple of weeks.

894
00:58:06,332 --> 00:58:08,652
Do you know the booth number you want to say yet or no?

895
00:58:09,252 --> 00:58:12,392
I believe it's 1619 is our booth.

896
00:58:13,152 --> 00:58:16,532
Let's just go with that. Okay. Okay. Lots of surprises this year,

897
00:58:16,572 --> 00:58:18,912
I think. Maybe, hopefully we'll be there hanging out.

898
00:58:19,052 --> 00:58:23,012
We'll be doing some coverage, bringing you your own, as we like to do here,

899
00:58:23,172 --> 00:58:27,072
bringing you your own backstage pass to the hottest cons, the hottest festivals,

900
00:58:27,152 --> 00:58:29,272
period. What do you think about that, Mike?

901
00:58:29,432 --> 00:58:33,292
You can always just look in the program under Mike Hampton Art,

902
00:58:33,292 --> 00:58:36,392
and it'll tell you what booth number we're at. That too. Yeah.

903
00:58:37,032 --> 00:58:41,312
Wait, what did you say? I was like, he totally just disregarded what I said,

904
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:44,192
but that's fine, that's fine. It's been a long weekend, let me tell you people.

905
00:58:44,732 --> 00:58:49,552
So check that out. Be sure to, as always, follow us on Instagram at UncleDadTalks

906
00:58:49,552 --> 00:58:52,412
and of course, follow my man Mike at Mike Hampton Art.

907
00:58:52,652 --> 00:58:55,632
I think that's it, man. I think that's all she wrote. What do you think?

908
00:58:55,792 --> 00:59:00,352
I think we've probably already said it in another episode or at some other point.

909
00:59:00,432 --> 00:59:03,692
So I hope you guys enjoyed the show. go well one last

910
00:59:03,692 --> 00:59:07,192
thing we got to do one last round of take

911
00:59:07,192 --> 00:59:12,692
i keep saying it takes two a last round of two of a kind mike here we go here's

912
00:59:12,692 --> 00:59:21,152
the category a bruce willis movie that is not six cents moonlighting which is

913
00:59:21,152 --> 00:59:26,072
not a movie die hard or armageddon or fifth element now it's gonna

914
00:59:26,112 --> 00:59:34,452
get tough three two one hostage breakable hostage hostage is great I,

915
00:59:35,012 --> 00:59:39,792
love hostage I I saw it there I just I'm surprised you said that I said unbreakable

916
00:59:39,792 --> 00:59:43,332
because it's a comic book movie or at a comic convention so well.

917
00:59:44,652 --> 00:59:48,912
That's it again once again we're not in sync and with our friends voice up there

918
00:59:48,912 --> 00:59:53,212
that means it's time to go we'll see you all next week and remember we're not

919
00:59:53,212 --> 00:59:56,052
uncles we're not dads we're just someone one you could talk to.