A Con Review: The 2025 Soda City Comic Con
This episode elucidates the vibrant and multifaceted experiences we encountered at the 2025 Soda City Comic Con. We delve into our extensive interviews with a plethora of distinguished guests, including notable figures from the realms of voice acting and entertainment, who provided profound insights into their craft and personal journeys.
The atmosphere of the convention was palpably electric, marked by an overwhelming turnout that surpassed previous years, thus affirming the event's significance within the community. Furthermore, we reflect upon the challenges and triumphs faced by the guests, particularly in relation to their respective roles in popular franchises. Join us as we navigate through these engaging dialogues, celebrating the artistry and dedication that characterize the world of comic conventions.
This episode includes interviews with Katee Sackhoff, John Heder, Macy Ann Johnson, Brian Mathis, NXT Wrestlers Jackson Drake and Sean Legacy, Derick Snow, Kent Williams, Matthew David Rudd, Pamela Dougherty, and staff and patrons of the 2025 Soda City Comic Con.
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Speaker C:Welcome, nothingers, to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:This is episode number 270.
Speaker C:I'm Barry Gruber, joined by Mr. Zach King.
Speaker C:We are.
Speaker C:We are here.
Speaker C: has been a week now since the: Speaker C:Zach, we're going to share all of our interviews with the guests that were the featured guests.
Speaker C:How did you feel like the the con went?
Speaker A:I thought it was the most packed con so far.
Speaker A:I think that the guest that we had, I think we got everyone, we.
Speaker B:Were able to intervene.
Speaker C:Yeah, I mean, yeah, totally agree.
Speaker A:Everyone who is there, minus one.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, yeah, and we talked about it a little bit on the Kind of Daily show, but Randy Quaid is just not available because he is.
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Speaker C:So we're going to get into it.
Speaker C:We got interviews with Matthew David Rudd, Pamela Dougherty, John Heater, Macy and Johnson, Ken Williams, both of the NXT wrestlers Jackson Drake and Sean Legacy, Brian Mathis, Katie Sackhoff, Caitlin Roebruck and Derek Snow.
Speaker C:So also we threw in a few more things with some of the staff and at least two of the guests that were there.
Speaker C:That was one thing we weren't super good at because I felt like a lot of our time was spent like trying to coordinate with the featured guests.
Speaker C:Guests when we could potentially pull them aside.
Speaker C:So we're going to jump right into it.
Speaker C:The first interview is with Macy and Johnson and then others to follow.
Speaker C:So Zach and I will be back here at the end of the show.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker B:Welcome to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C: e are the Soda City Comic Con: Speaker C:We're sitting with Macy Ann Johnson.
Speaker D:Hi.
Speaker C:Macy was telling me she is from Dallas, Texas.
Speaker C:What is, what is it like being in Columbia, South Carolina, from Dallas, Texas?
Speaker C:It's a different world.
Speaker D:Well, the weather is so much better.
Speaker D:Oh my gosh.
Speaker D:I can go outside and not melt.
Speaker E:Really?
Speaker D:Yes, it's, it's.
Speaker D:You guys have more green and trees and clouds than we have right now in Texas.
Speaker D:So I'm soaking that in because it's going to be a desert when I go home.
Speaker C:So tell us about some of your characters.
Speaker C:What do you have a favorite?
Speaker D:My favorite right now is probably just my latest girl pop step in My Hero academia vigilantes.
Speaker D:She's super cute and I'm so excited to be in the my hero world, which is just so many people that I've looked up to in my acting journey have been these characters in my Hero.
Speaker D:So it's really cool to get to join that universe.
Speaker D:And yeah, I love it.
Speaker D:I love the art style, love everything about it.
Speaker D:It's really fun.
Speaker C:What got you into voice acting?
Speaker D:I was a theater kid all growing up, so just doing plays and a bunch of musicals, lots of that kind of stuff.
Speaker D:And when I was in high school, I took a class at a local recording studio about anime voice acting, video game voice acting, and I got on that studio's audition list and then I was able to, you know, do a million auditions, get my first job, use that to start to get more jobs.
Speaker D:You know how it goes.
Speaker D:But yeah, so theater.
Speaker D:Short answer.
Speaker A:What do.
Speaker C:How many comic cons have you done over the course of your.
Speaker C:Because you have to call it a career now.
Speaker D:Oh, yeah, I've probably done.
Speaker D:It's been like the last two years that I've really been going to more probably early double digits, 10 or 15ish.
Speaker D:Maybe 10 to 15.
Speaker C:That's a lot of cities.
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker D:Maybe that's too high.
Speaker D:Somewhere in there someone can fact check.
Speaker C:That you, you do not have to say Colombia, but like, what is one of your favorite places that you've been to?
Speaker C:Oh, don't say Colombia.
Speaker B:Okay, fine.
Speaker B:Because we know.
Speaker D:I went to Black Hills area in South Dakota this year and I had never been up there and we got to see Mount Rushmore and all of this nature and I went to that kind of in the peak of Texas summer, like in July or something, and it was so cool and refreshing.
Speaker D:That's probably my favorite place I've seen so far.
Speaker C:When you went to the Black Hills, did you get to go check out Mount Rushmore?
Speaker C:That's amazing.
Speaker D:It was great.
Speaker D:And I just.
Speaker D:Yeah, I loved getting to do work at the Con and then just vacation, checking out the nature.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker D:The monuments and stuff.
Speaker D:It was cool.
Speaker C:Do you do.
Speaker C:Where do you do your recording from?
Speaker C:Do you do it from home?
Speaker C:Do you have to go to a studio?
Speaker D:Most of my Recording is done from Crunchyroll's location in Dallas.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:So, yeah, it works out nicely.
Speaker D:I do some stuff from home.
Speaker D:I work on a lot of video game stuff.
Speaker D:Yeah, I do from home.
Speaker D:So that's cool, too.
Speaker D:I like both.
Speaker C:That's very cool.
Speaker C:Yeah, we.
Speaker C:We are Crunchyroll subscribers.
Speaker B:So I'm Good.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker C:8.99Amonth.
Speaker C:It's there.
Speaker C:But when.
Speaker A:What's.
Speaker C:What you do Crunchyroll, you're doing video games.
Speaker C:Is there anything that you see in your future that you really want to do?
Speaker C:Is there a company you'd love to work for?
Speaker D:Oh, gosh, I don't know.
Speaker D:I don't know.
Speaker D:There's so many things I'd like to do.
Speaker D:I'd like to do like a typical Saturday morning type cartoon someday.
Speaker D:That would be awesome.
Speaker D:And just pretty different from the stuff I've done so far.
Speaker D:I'm trying to do more on camera auditions and things like that, so maybe something along those lines too.
Speaker C:Have you ever thought about radio or any?
Speaker B:Like, never.
Speaker D:I've never really had that come up.
Speaker D:If somebody wanted me to do it, there's a spot.
Speaker C:There's a spot on our podcast.
Speaker A:You're welcome.
Speaker C:You can phone it in from Dallas, but really appreciate you sitting down with us.
Speaker B:Don't want to take up too much.
Speaker C:Of your time because you get.
Speaker C:We've seen your line, so really a pleasure.
Speaker C:Macy Ann Johnson, who is a.
Speaker C:Watch, Watch my hero.
Speaker B:Watch the other.
Speaker C:Because you would not imagine how that voice, those voices come out of this.
Speaker C:So thank you very much.
Speaker D:Appreciate it.
Speaker C:Thank you so much.
Speaker D:Yeah, of course.
Speaker A:Welcome to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker A:I'm Zach King and I'm here with voice actor Kent Williams.
Speaker A:How are you, sir?
Speaker B:Very well.
Speaker A:So how are you enjoying Columbia, South Carolina?
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh, this place is.
Speaker B:This is amazing.
Speaker B:It's the first time I've traveled here, so I was expecting greenery, but as I was expecting much hotter, but I was not expecting this attendance.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, to walk him out of the hotel and just see the streets filled with people down to where I can no longer see.
Speaker B:Yeah, I'm blown away.
Speaker A:I think this is one of the biggest attendances that we've had that I've seen since we've done it.
Speaker A:Third time they were having to stop people from getting on the escalator because of the weight limit.
Speaker A:Yeah, there were like too many.
Speaker B:Year 10.
Speaker A:This is year 10 of the.
Speaker B:Okay, so it's big.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So it's an important year.
Speaker B:People know it's Here now they definitely know it's here.
Speaker A:So you do a lot of voice acting work with anime?
Speaker A:One of my favorites that you do.
Speaker A:Supreme Kai, Dragon Ball Z. I love Supreme Kai.
Speaker A:Once he showed up, he never left.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker A:Right, yeah.
Speaker A:So you did Daughters of Ro.
Speaker A:That was kind of earlier.
Speaker A:Dragon Ball Z.
Speaker B:He was the first.
Speaker A:He was the first.
Speaker B:My first.
Speaker A:He was your first.
Speaker B:That was my first character and he.
Speaker A:Had the Android Saga.
Speaker A:So all that, what do you enjoy?
Speaker B:And then got the head crunch and thought, well, that was my one way bus ticket home.
Speaker A:They were like, no, we have someone else for you.
Speaker B:You had no idea.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So what do you enjoy about the voice acting with Crunchyroll and things like that?
Speaker B:The longevity.
Speaker B:Yeah, for one.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:You know, and the fact that, you know, these roles aren't handed over.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:You know, there are auditions involved.
Speaker A:Sure.
Speaker B:You know, so to be able to have that longevity just shows that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean you have what it takes to stay in the game.
Speaker B:Like for a Texas actor who gets to stay in Texas, that's a big deal.
Speaker A:I bet that is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Stay home, Stay around there.
Speaker B:Well, you know, Texas is a place to be from, you know, and now it's more of a destination.
Speaker B:People are more and more actors on camera and off camera, both coming into Texas.
Speaker B:So our talent pool's growing.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:Let me ask you, how did you get into voice acting?
Speaker B:I think like most of us that started out with the Dragon Ball Z, we were on stage.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So because if you're in Texas, your working stage.
Speaker B:Because there's just very limited broadcast, print and you know, now increasingly there's more this little thing that came in sideways.
Speaker B:Anime.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Japanime is what we called it at first, you know, because we.
Speaker B:And no one really knew what it was.
Speaker B:I mean it took us like, hey, this is kind of like Speed Racer when I was a kid.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:And then nobody really understood what it was.
Speaker B:My family, you know, didn't really understand a cartoon.
Speaker B:So my agent said don't go.
Speaker A:Really?
Speaker B:It is the opposite now, you know, now, you know, the agents want to represent their fault.
Speaker B:They want their roster.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:A stable of anime voice actors.
Speaker B:Well, especially in Dallas.
Speaker A:Right, right.
Speaker A:What are some new projects that you have coming out?
Speaker B:Well, I'm still working on one piece with Dr. Vegapunk.
Speaker A:One piece.
Speaker B:We're still going strong with solo levelings and I've got Chairman Go Gun he for that.
Speaker B:I just started one that I want to.
Speaker B:I want to say what it is, but I'm you Don't know.
Speaker B:I'm scared.
Speaker B:I'm scared.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:But it has a lot of.
Speaker B:No, no, no.
Speaker B:That is out.
Speaker B:Lord of mystery.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Old Neil, Lord of mystery.
Speaker B:A lot of dialect.
Speaker B:Big challenge for us Texans.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:The Southern draw you can master with changing it up.
Speaker B:I've heard audio cassette recordings of myself when I was a little kid for Texas, and I talk just like that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Anywhere I go that's not in the south or Pennsylvania or anything, they're like, you have a Southern accent.
Speaker A:I didn't think I did.
Speaker A:But then when you listen to it, you're like, maybe I do.
Speaker A:Maybe I do.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Or they don't really understand what a Southern.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You don't know.
Speaker A:Like we always talk about Southern is like Xavier Leggett that wide receivers Panther.
Speaker B:Well, people say we're Southern, and we go, mm, Texan.
Speaker A:Texan.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Southern is here.
Speaker B:Southern is on the other side of Louisiana.
Speaker A:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Well, can't.
Speaker A:I don't want to keep you any longer than we have to, but I appreciate your time.
Speaker B:Oh, that was.
Speaker B:That was easy.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah, we do.
Speaker A:Quick.
Speaker A:We don't want to take your time.
Speaker A:We know you got people lining up to see you.
Speaker B:This is a busy con.
Speaker B:There are some demands here.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:About to do a panel.
Speaker B:Go back to the table.
Speaker B:But it is miles of smiles.
Speaker B:My cheeks aren't hurting from smiling yet.
Speaker A:But having a good time, so that's always a positive.
Speaker B:Having an amazing time.
Speaker A:Awesome.
Speaker C:Ken, just want to tell you real quick that you were standing up there with a me.
Speaker B:Her favorite voice.
Speaker C:You do as fruit baskets.
Speaker B:Hatori Soma.
Speaker B:Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker B:That one's special to me because my son is also on that show.
Speaker A:Oh, really?
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker B:Follow me in the studio at 12.
Speaker B:Ended up getting cast.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker B:Yay.
Speaker A:That is amazing.
Speaker A:Well, Kent, thank you so much.
Speaker B:Thank you so much.
Speaker B:Thank you so much.
Speaker A:And we'll still be seeing you around.
Speaker B:Oh, yes.
Speaker B:Oh, yes.
Speaker C:Barry and Zach, the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:We're at the 10th Soda City comic Con, talking to Poppy.
Speaker B:Welcome.
Speaker F:Hi.
Speaker C:This is your tenth Soda City Comic Con?
Speaker F:No, this is my fourth or fifth.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker F:I'm.
Speaker F:I'm a late start to.
Speaker C:That's okay.
Speaker F:Comic Con family.
Speaker C:What is it like to be a part of the 10th Soda City comic Con?
Speaker F:It's big.
Speaker F:We've got more guests than we normally have.
Speaker F:We've got bigger guests.
Speaker F:I mean, we've got three big names here today.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker F:So.
Speaker F:And Big cosplay contest for the kids tomorrow night.
Speaker F:It's just a lot going on for the 10th anniversary.
Speaker C:One of the things that you and I were talking about yesterday during the setup was how cool the T shirts are this year.
Speaker F:Oh, yes, our T shirts are awesome.
Speaker F:Would you like for me to turn around?
Speaker B:Yes, I have.
Speaker C:I have on this year, Dr. Doom.
Speaker F:That way so you can see the whole design.
Speaker C:Just for the record, we're getting Poppy to take her clothes off.
Speaker F:It's the suspenders.
Speaker C:Very cool, Turk.
Speaker C:Yes, very cool.
Speaker C:How big of a crowd are we expecting today?
Speaker F:I think it will be wall to wall, like normal.
Speaker F:Quite a few thousand people coming through here.
Speaker C:So take your anxiety meds.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker F:Yes, take your anxiety meds.
Speaker F:It will be loud.
Speaker B:It will be noisy.
Speaker F:It will be fun, though.
Speaker A:We can see the line forming all the way down.
Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker F:We already have a line around the block.
Speaker C:Very exciting.
Speaker F:Very much.
Speaker B:Thank you, Poppy.
Speaker B:Appreciate it.
Speaker F:You're so welcome.
Speaker F:Everybody come out and see us now.
Speaker C: ng podcast Soda City Comiccon: Speaker C:We are sitting with Brian Matthew, who is voice actor on many, many series as far as animation.
Speaker C:Tell us a little bit about yourself.
Speaker B:Where.
Speaker C:Where did you grow up?
Speaker B:What did.
Speaker C:How did.
Speaker C:How did you get to the point where you're at now?
Speaker C:I say short story, but short story.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:Let's see.
Speaker G:Grew up in Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:And started doing.
Speaker G:Well, I've been an actor since I was 19 years old, so you do the math.
Speaker G:Figure that out.
Speaker C:41.
Speaker G:We'll go with that.
Speaker G:And then I started doing.
Speaker G:I started acting then, but it was just another thing till we monetize my.
Speaker G:My skill.
Speaker G:Monetize my income and my skills.
Speaker G:But that.
Speaker G: tion Slash Crunchyroll and in: Speaker C:Crunchyrolls Teaching treating you well?
Speaker G:Yeah, it's.
Speaker G:I've got a few new shows coming out, shows that are out right now.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker G:And I've.
Speaker G:I think I have over 140.
Speaker G:140 titles.
Speaker G:140 titles or 140 characters?
Speaker A:How do you.
Speaker G:I should know that.
Speaker C:How do you keep all of these characters straight?
Speaker G:Well, the good news is, is that I don't have to do them all day every day.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:Because some of.
Speaker G:Some of the characters I've done have just been one offs.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker G:I've done them, you know, one time.
Speaker G:And we'll probably never see the.
Speaker G:See me see them.
Speaker B:Again.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:But some that, you know, revisit quite often.
Speaker G:You know, Admiral Garp from One Piece.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker G:Saintsworth from Ancient Megas Pride, Macau from Fairy Tale.
Speaker G:I have some.
Speaker G:Some new.
Speaker G:Some new things that are out right now.
Speaker G:Nazi Mates, Book of Friends.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:Which I get to be really crazy in that show.
Speaker G:If you've seen that stuff that just came out in the last few months.
Speaker G:Lord of Mysteries, it's a Chinese anime.
Speaker G:Really a beautiful show.
Speaker G:Beautiful.
Speaker G:Visually, it's really gorgeous.
Speaker G:And a lot of us are using our English accents, so that's a lot of fun.
Speaker G:Another new show called to be Hero X.
Speaker G:And another new show called with you and the Rain.
Speaker G:Very Chill.
Speaker G:It's about this young lady and her dog.
Speaker G:And I play her dog, doting daddy who loves her dog.
Speaker C:Did you get your start sort of in theater as well?
Speaker C:So classic theater, classically trained sort of theater.
Speaker G:Right.
Speaker G:Theater and musical theater.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker G:So as a matter of fact, I've got two.
Speaker G:I'm doing two plays in Fort Worth this fall.
Speaker C:Oh, okay.
Speaker G:Great professional company there called Stage West.
Speaker G:Be doing.
Speaker G:Actually be doing Ride the Site in the musical, Ride the Cyclone, and then doing another musical, another new musical called all is Calm.
Speaker G:And so this is my.
Speaker G:I have two more cons for the year.
Speaker G:I have a con coming up in Aurora, Colorado, and then St. Augustine, Florida, and that has some cons that are booked for next year.
Speaker G:I'm actually going to take.
Speaker G:Do my first con in England in March.
Speaker C:Well, that was gonna be.
Speaker C:My next question was what of.
Speaker C:Of all of the cons that you've done over your, you know, doing these.
Speaker C:What is.
Speaker C:What is your.
Speaker C:What is one of the places that's had the most impact?
Speaker C:What's one of the places that you have visited that you would absolutely do not have to say Columbia.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker C:Look, Texas, South Carolina is almost the same place.
Speaker G:Yeah.
Speaker B:If.
Speaker C:If not drier, wetter, you know, whatever.
Speaker C:You know, one is greener.
Speaker G:It depends on where you're going in Texas, but anyway.
Speaker B:Well, each.
Speaker G:Each of them have their own plus.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker G:You know, you.
Speaker G:You have a better monetary weekend.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker G:Or you have a really beautiful location or you just have really fun people and a great venue.
Speaker G:There's been a lot of cons that have just been successful for all kinds of different reasons.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:Anime Midwest in Rosemont, Illinois was okay.
Speaker G:Really?
Speaker G:And it was huge.
Speaker G:It was just huge.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:That was the.
Speaker G:Probably one of the biggest ones I've been to.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:The.
Speaker G:Oh, goodness.
Speaker G:I hate the fact that I've forgotten the name all of a sudden in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah, Wisconsin.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Beautiful.
Speaker G:Really, really successful con.
Speaker G:Lots of fun people and great staff, and I can't remember their name, and I hate that.
Speaker B:That's okay.
Speaker G:Shame on me.
Speaker C:You'll forget me after this, too.
Speaker C:I don't believe you.
Speaker C:Especially.
Speaker G:Please don't edit that out.
Speaker G:Do not edit that out.
Speaker G:Leave that in.
Speaker G:So he can use that as blackmail against me three years later when we go to another con and he goes, you.
Speaker G:I knew you'd forget.
Speaker C:I'm a few years older than you.
Speaker C:My dementia is setting, and so it's not a big idea.
Speaker B:Well, yeah.
Speaker C:I want to say, what is your impression of Colombia, Ben?
Speaker G:Oh, it's really.
Speaker G:Honestly, it's been fantastic.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:Super nice people, a gorgeous venue.
Speaker G:We are right across the street from a hotel.
Speaker G:That's a huge deal.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:Awesome fans, awesome cosplays.
Speaker G:We've got our panel coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker G:I'm really looking forward to that.
Speaker G:Really, really die hard fans for some of these shows.
Speaker G:We've had a lot of really fun film celebrities here.
Speaker G:John Hader, Randy Quaid, Katie Sackhoff.
Speaker C:Do you get to fanboy over?
Speaker G:I do, and I make no apologies.
Speaker G:Yeah, 100% totally fanboy over.
Speaker G:John Heater because stuff.
Speaker G:He's just iconic.
Speaker C:I. I went up and spoke with him, and I was wearing a T shirt yesterday.
Speaker C:That confused him almost immediately.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And I was telling Brock, who runs this.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:He said.
Speaker C:He said.
Speaker C:Did he.
Speaker C:Did he sound like Napoleon Dynamite when he talked?
Speaker C:I said, I think that's.
Speaker C:I think that's just how he sounds.
Speaker C:I don't.
Speaker C:I don't know that that's acting.
Speaker C:It's.
Speaker C:You know.
Speaker C:But, yeah, he sounded like Napoleon Dynamite when he was.
Speaker C:And I didn't think my shirt was confusing, but it was.
Speaker C:It was fun interacting with us.
Speaker B:That's cool.
Speaker G:That's cool.
Speaker C:But, yeah, Columbia.
Speaker C:Columbia is a unique place.
Speaker C:I. I have spent many, many weeks in Fort Worth, and.
Speaker C:And I think that Texas is a beautiful state.
Speaker C:Especially Austin.
Speaker C:Dallas.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker G:Austin is.
Speaker G:Is a beautiful city.
Speaker G:And I mean, for those of that have never been in Texas, East Texas is unusually green.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker G:And full of pine trees.
Speaker C:Texarkana and all that.
Speaker G:So if you've never been there, that people find that really shocking, and then they also find it shocking when they go way, way, way, way, way down south to the Big Bend national park where the mountains are.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker G:Well, people don't even know that there's mountains there.
Speaker C:I want to.
Speaker C:I really want to thank you for being on with us for a few minutes.
Speaker C:I know you've got a lot to do, but subscribe to Crunchyroll, honestly, because we.
Speaker C:I do.
Speaker C:My.
Speaker C:My family watches everything.
Speaker C:My kids, literally.
Speaker C:I told you.
Speaker C:I think I told you.
Speaker C:When I.
Speaker C:When I came home last night, they started pointing out all the characters, and I was like, oh, no, I hear Brian's voice.
Speaker G:Okay.
Speaker C:And we didn't get to talk that much, but I could hear your voice.
Speaker C:Oh, awesome.
Speaker C:It's fantastic.
Speaker C:Well, thank you again very much for being on.
Speaker C:Thank you very much.
Speaker C:And we look forward to all your success and maybe retirement eventually.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker C:I'll get.
Speaker C:When I get there.
Speaker C:I'll let you know how it is.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker G:And I won't forget this.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:Welcome back to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker A:We are live at Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker A:I'm Zach King, and I'm here with the magnificent Caitlin Rober.
Speaker F:Hello, everyone.
Speaker F:Nice to meet you.
Speaker A:How is the Con going?
Speaker F:It is so nice.
Speaker F:And there's soda everywhere, just like the name said.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker F:So I'm already happy.
Speaker F:I learned a lot about the city coming in on my flight.
Speaker F:Everyone comes in through basic training at Fort Jackson.
Speaker F:There's a big sports town.
Speaker F:It's just such a bustling area.
Speaker F:There's a Longhorn steakhouse, the best French onion soup ever.
Speaker A:True.
Speaker F:And then here at the convention, meeting all these wonderful people.
Speaker F:There have been so many amazing ones.
Speaker A:Yeah, we've talked to a lot of people, and you're our first reoccurring Con guest.
Speaker B:Really?
Speaker A:Second.
Speaker A:First one was Matthew Watterson.
Speaker F:Okay, we'll give that to Matthew.
Speaker A:Yeah, but you were the only one who's been on the pod with us, so you get to see Barrett's own little recording cage.
Speaker F:Yeah, but.
Speaker A:So you've had a lot of people come through.
Speaker A:What's their biggest request?
Speaker F:Their biggest request is Ms. Minnie Mouse, who I'm very fond of myself.
Speaker F:So I do love meeting people who love Minnie as much as I do.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker F:She's so important to me.
Speaker A:So since we talked last, we talked a myriad of different things when it comes to voice recording.
Speaker A:Is there anything new coming up for you?
Speaker F:There's a couple new things.
Speaker F:Something special is dropping tomorrow on Disney.
Speaker D:It is.
Speaker F:The advertisement's out, so I'm okay to say it, but it's a new Lego Disney Princess movie, a sequel to the one that came out about a year or two ago, so that new one should drop tomorrow.
Speaker F:And there's a couple of fun friends in the background, I think you might enjoy that.
Speaker F:I was personally quite fond to learn about myself, so I'm very fond of that.
Speaker F:There's a couple things that are in negotiations, but.
Speaker F:So I might get it, I might not.
Speaker F:You never know.
Speaker F:But that's kind of part and parcel of the process.
Speaker F:There's more new clubhouse coming out, lots more music, always good.
Speaker F:And a couple standalone shows from some series.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:Those ones are a little more niche and I can definitely talk about it on the day they drop.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker F:But I always make sure to update Instagram, Twitter, all that stuff to make sure it's reflective.
Speaker A:Okay, perfect.
Speaker F:And if I don't yell at me and I'll.
Speaker F:I'll be better.
Speaker A:Is there anyone here at the con that you've been like, I gotta go talk to that guest wise Katie Sackhoff.
Speaker F:Because her character of redacted word pudding on Robot Chicken is my favorite one and she's been doing it for years, but it makes me laugh every time.
Speaker F:And then I'm also fond because she's on the Mandalorian and in one particular episode, her and Din Djarin are going to a planet and they have to get into a transportation ship that will take them to the King and Queen.
Speaker F:And so I got to be the voice of that ship by saying, please scan your chain code.
Speaker F:Din Djarin and Bo Katan Kriz do not attempt to leave the vehicle or you will be shocked.
Speaker F:Like, you know, they may have cut that part out, I don't quite remember, but it was fun to be able to like.
Speaker F:I got to say their names and I was featured for four seconds and Jon Favreau signed off on it.
Speaker A:Nice.
Speaker F:Thanks, Jon.
Speaker A:That's hilarious.
Speaker B:Call me.
Speaker F:I can do more.
Speaker A:Well, that is awesome.
Speaker A:I appreciate you taking the time to catch up with us.
Speaker F:Thank you.
Speaker A:We will keep touching base.
Speaker A:So I don't know if we're going to intersect at another con, but we are still going to reach out for.
Speaker F:I've got a few more coming, so just.
Speaker F:You'll hear my name on the wind.
Speaker A:Maybe, and we'll share it on the pod too, so don't worry about that.
Speaker F:Could also be a car backfiring, so just listen closely.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker F:But yeah, I do hope to come back soon.
Speaker A:Well, again, this is Zach with the All About Nothing podcast with Caitlin Roebrook, and we appreciate it.
Speaker A:We'll see you soon.
Speaker F:Thank you, my dear.
Speaker F:Bye, guys.
Speaker C:All right, Barry Gruber here, the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:I'm sitting with Matthew, who is a voice actor in, well, basically just Crunchyroll.
Speaker C:I mean, you do, you, you're not just on My Hero, are you?
Speaker E:Oh, no, no, no.
Speaker E:So I, and not even.
Speaker B:Just not even.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:I'm, I do video games.
Speaker E:I do regular animation, podcast narration.
Speaker E:I do commercial voice acting.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:And, and anime.
Speaker E:Most times when people come to see me at a convention, it's for my anime stuff.
Speaker C:It's not for your Rice a Roni commercial, right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:Definitely not.
Speaker B:Definitely not.
Speaker E:But, but a lot of people, you know, I'm in a lot of good video games.
Speaker E:The Final Fantasy VII remakes and all that.
Speaker E:Starfield, Fallout 76, you know, a lot of cool video games that I'm also very proud of.
Speaker C:I'm going to ask you a question that's going to offend my co host.
Speaker C:How many Final Fantasy VII remakes are we going to get, do you think, before it's all said and done?
Speaker B:Look at his face.
Speaker E:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:There's always one more.
Speaker B:There's one more.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:So I think of the main story, there's going to be three total.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker C:I played Final Fantasy 20 years ago, Final Fantasy 7, like 20 years ago, and then.
Speaker E:But now you can play it with beautiful new graphics.
Speaker C:It is, it is, it is one of the most appealing video games to play.
Speaker C:That and gin and Impact.
Speaker E:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:Have you ever played that?
Speaker B:I.
Speaker E:So I have a lot of voiceover friends that are in it and in that world, but that's, that's not my style of game so much.
Speaker C:It has a, it has a very Legend of Zelda feel.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So, all right, so we're talking about Final Fantasy 7.
Speaker C:I was just making jokes.
Speaker C:We don't have to.
Speaker C:So what, how did you get into voice acting?
Speaker C:Like, what was.
Speaker C:What, what was.
Speaker E:So I didn't start until I was in my 30s.
Speaker E:I, I, I grew up wanting to be an artist, wanting to make animations, you know, that kind of thing.
Speaker E:And one of the most fun things that I keep revisiting because I was just talking to my mom about it, but I started drawing because I like Dragon Ball Z and I would like.
Speaker E:Okay, I was gonna say lots of tattoos, but, like, I would watch Dragon Ball Z as a kid and draw the characters, and now I'm in Dragon Ball, you know, as a voice actor.
Speaker E:So that's pretty cool.
Speaker C:But yeah, that's really cool.
Speaker E:That's, that's like a flash forward thing.
Speaker E:But yeah, so, so I went to art school.
Speaker E:In art school, I started, I started taking film classes and learning about editing and producing films and Stuff like that.
Speaker E:And then, you know, when you're making low budget films, you oftentimes are acting in it.
Speaker E:And so I did some acting in my own stuff.
Speaker E:I did some acting in other indie films.
Speaker E:I, I was living.
Speaker E:So after, after art school in Florida, which we talked about, I moved to Austin, Texas.
Speaker E:And there's a lot of south by Southwest.
Speaker E:South by Southwest Film Festival.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker E:Stuff happening around there.
Speaker E:And, and there was also just a lot of film production happening there.
Speaker E:There's TV shows like Queen of the south and American Crime and Walking Dead and things like that.
Speaker E:Where, that's kind of where I got my start.
Speaker E:I would, I would be background characters or I'd be zombies or I would, you know, I had a couple of episodes where I was, you know, a featured cast member or whatever.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:And really, you know, and that.
Speaker E:So that was pushing my late 20s and I really started getting into it and, and I was like, hey, you know, maybe I should try acting full time.
Speaker E:My, my wife, you know, thank goodness, was like on board.
Speaker E:She's like, sure, let's.
Speaker E:I'll find a job in Los Angeles, we'll move out there.
Speaker E:And we did that.
Speaker E:And then it's all just kind of snowballed from there.
Speaker E:It was definitely not an overnight success.
Speaker E:Like it's, you know, maybe 10 years of learning the trade, learning how to act, getting in small productions before I started with the stuff that anyone knows about the Jujutsu Kaisens or My Hero Academias or One Piece.
Speaker E:That all came fairly recently in like the grand scheme of me trying to be an actor.
Speaker C:Yeah, did.
Speaker C:When, when.
Speaker C:So when you were a kid, it wasn't, it wasn't about necessarily going into this voice acting, but like the, you were talking about drawing and things like that.
Speaker C:My, my children, one of the things that we try to foster in them is that art.
Speaker C:But, and, and they, they immediately gravitated towards like My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Z, those sorts of things.
Speaker C:They have adhd.
Speaker C:So, so watching, watching those.
Speaker C:They will only watch them in Japanese with the, with the subtitles.
Speaker C:So like when they come here, I'm like, I'm like, he's, he's, he's in My Hero.
Speaker C:You ought to go talk to.
Speaker E:They don't know the English.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, but, but they, but they look at, but they see you guys and then they go home and then they start, they start watching.
Speaker C:It's like they hear, they hear your voice.
Speaker C:They'll hear they're here.
Speaker C:Macy Ann's voice.
Speaker C:And it's just, it's such a really cool experience for them.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:How many Comic Cons have you done over the course of your career?
Speaker E:Yeah, so, so really, I started doing conventions after Jujutsu Kaisen came out.
Speaker E:That was the, that was a.
Speaker E:It still is.
Speaker E:It's a huge hit.
Speaker E:It's like in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most in demand anime of all time or whatever.
Speaker E:So that's kind of cool.
Speaker E:But so when that came out is when I started getting requests to do conventions.
Speaker E:And I mean, probably 28 years since then, something like that.
Speaker E:You know, somewhere between 10 and 20 conventions a year for the last five, six years.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:I mean, I mean, have you ever been to Columbia, South Carolina?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:No, this is my first time.
Speaker C:So what's your impression at Columbia?
Speaker E:I love it.
Speaker E:So we don't get a whole chance to really go outside of our little bubble when we're at these conventions, but love that it's a college town.
Speaker E:Love that.
Speaker E:I mean, we, me and the other voice actors walked around last night.
Speaker E:What's the street?
Speaker C:Starts with a G. Gervais.
Speaker E:Gervais.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:We walked on Gervais and just got some really good food, really good drinks.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker E:And then I was telling you when I, when I flew in, just seeing the greenery, it's just, it's beautiful.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:Nice.
Speaker E:Nice and humid and.
Speaker E:But not, but not.
Speaker E:I, I, I told you I lived in Florida, so it's not as bad as Florida.
Speaker E:So this is kind of in the middle for me.
Speaker C:Well, in Florida, you get humidity and pythons.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C:And it's sort of.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker C:But okay, so, so you, you've given your Colombia.
Speaker E:Sure.
Speaker C:What is one of the favorite place, your favorite places that, that I've been to?
Speaker E:I got to go to Australia this year.
Speaker E:Speaking of things that kill you, you know, thinking, yeah, I got to go to Australia this year, which was super cool.
Speaker E:I grew up with, you know, Steve Irwin and Crocodile Hunter and like, like, just Australia.
Speaker E:I think for my generation, in my mind, Australia is just like the cool.
Speaker C:That's the place.
Speaker E:You know, Chris Hemsworth's from there and Steve Irwin's from there.
Speaker E:Mad Max is Australia, you know, like all that stuff.
Speaker E:So I really enjoyed that in the States.
Speaker E:Let's see.
Speaker E:Washington's really beautiful.
Speaker E:I've been to Washington a few times Asan.
Speaker E:Anime Central in Chicago is such an awesome production.
Speaker E:That was one of my highlights, for sure.
Speaker C:So if you could do so.
Speaker C:So what we've come to learn over talking with a lot of the voice actors is that There is not.
Speaker C:You all don't get to do ensemble recordings.
Speaker E:Right, right.
Speaker G:With.
Speaker C:With your cast here and there in Dallas.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker C:Would an ensemble recording make things easier?
Speaker C:Would it?
Speaker E:So anime is such a. I'll speak to anime first.
Speaker E:Anime is such a technical challenge in itself.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:You know, you are dealing with animated flaps of talking that has already been animated.
Speaker E:And each session is not only the acting and the voice and stuff like that, but it's an engineer and a director really trying to make sure that we are matching those flaps, matching the intention, all the stuff that you need to do.
Speaker E:And it's, it's sort of antithetical to acting as you would think about it.
Speaker E:So for the specific case of anime, I don't think it would ever work.
Speaker E:It's just, it'd be too chaotic.
Speaker E:Nothing would get done.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:To a technical standard.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker E:But in, you know, when you think about shows like the Simpsons or Futurama, you know, comedy shows, it's really fun to get that ensemble cast together because the recording happens before the animation.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:So they can riff off of each other, they can goof around, they can, they can ad lib lines and then those will make it into the show.
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker E:You know, so that's a really valuable.
Speaker B:If you, that, you know, if you.
Speaker C:Had, if you had one animated show that's out there right now that, that, that you would potentially.
Speaker C:Let's say you had your shot.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:What is that one animated show?
Speaker E:I said Futurama already.
Speaker E:That's like my all time favorite.
Speaker E:Like, and I have.
Speaker E:What's funny is this is, this is a small industry.
Speaker E:I have friends now.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:I sleep at my friend Jonathan's house when I'm visiting Burbank.
Speaker E:And his dad is Maurice lamarche who is Pinky in the Brain and he's in Futurama.
Speaker E:And so like I, in my, in my friend group, I now am peers and friends with these people that I always looked up to.
Speaker E:But anyway, you know, out of the way, a tangent there.
Speaker E:But Futurama has always been my favorite.
Speaker E:That would be something cool if it were something not on the comedy side.
Speaker E:I always tell people I love X Men and now that they're redoing, they're doing X Men 20 or X Men 97.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker E:I've always loved Colossus and I would love to get a shot at being Colossus in that.
Speaker C:Do you already have a Colossus voice?
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker E:So.
Speaker E:So one of the reasons that I get hired for a lot video game work is I.
Speaker E:My family's History is Russian.
Speaker E:I play a lot of Russian bad guys and things.
Speaker E:If you look at my poster.
Speaker E:And, yeah, I play Victor Drago, who's the son of Ivan Drago from Rocky, you know, so, like, I do get hired to do a lot of Russian things, which is the only reason I'm thinking, you know, I have a shot at Colossus at all.
Speaker E:But, I mean, that would be a.
Speaker C:Dream, like, so I'm gonna.
Speaker C:I'm gonna do this.
Speaker C:Can you.
Speaker C:Can you just do a little bit?
Speaker E:Sure.
Speaker E:I mean, so he would.
Speaker E:He would.
Speaker B:I, I.
Speaker E:What would he be talking to?
Speaker E:Wolverine.
Speaker E:Big Wolverine jump on my hand.
Speaker E:I will throw cannonball, and you will.
Speaker B:Fly through the air.
Speaker C:That is so good.
Speaker C:I can see it.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:We'll talk to Watterson.
Speaker C:We'll.
Speaker C:We'll get it taken care of.
Speaker B:We'll.
Speaker E:We'll make the connections.
Speaker E:I love it.
Speaker C:Disney's a great company.
Speaker C:I worked for Disney for, like, 10 years.
Speaker B:Oh, cool.
Speaker C:When I was in radio.
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker E:And, hey, I'm not gonna beg, but I will beg for you to make that connection.
Speaker C:I'll start a group chat between the two of us, so.
Speaker C:Well, listen, Matthew David Rudd.
Speaker E:Yes.
Speaker C:It was fantastic.
Speaker C:Really appreciate you being on the show with us and absolutely hope for all the success.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:We are already Crunchyroll subscribers, so.
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker B:You've already.
Speaker C:You.
Speaker C:You had us before.
Speaker E:We already got you.
Speaker E:Okay, cool.
Speaker C:Well, thank you very much for being on the podcast with us, and enjoy your time in Columbia.
Speaker C:Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker C:And don't catch anything.
Speaker E:I'll try not to.
Speaker B:Thank you, sir.
Speaker C:Bye.
Speaker C:We're here with Steve.
Speaker C:Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker C:Steve, this is the 10th Soda City comic Con.
Speaker C:How exciting is that?
Speaker B:It's fantastic to have an event that has lasted 10 years and hopefully 10 more is an achievement itself.
Speaker B:And it's all due to the fans of South Carolina.
Speaker B:This show would not be here if it wasn't for the fans, people of Columbia, South Carolina, and surrounding areas.
Speaker B:It is a true support of the local community, and I think it just shows what we can do if we just put aside our differences and all just find something that we all enjoy and show up and support one.
Speaker C:When you say differences, you mean like Star Trek versus Star Wars?
Speaker B:Star Trek, yes.
Speaker B:The great thing is the.
Speaker B:The most heated conversation you'll find here at the show is somebody talking Star Trek versus Star wars or, you know, you know, Phantom Menace is better than Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker B:But, you know, it's all good fun.
Speaker B:All good ripping.
Speaker C:All right, so you find that Difference.
Speaker C:Which one are you, Star Trek or Star Wars?
Speaker B:Oh, I'm Star Wars.
Speaker B:Star Wars.
Speaker C:I know.
Speaker B:I'm, I'm probably going to take some shots for this, but I'm a Star wars guy.
Speaker C:Well, we got a couple of ensigns.
Speaker B:Walking past right now, and I appreciate Star Trek.
Speaker B:I grew up watching Next Generation.
Speaker B:I always thought it was a very well written show and very interesting, so.
Speaker B:But I'm, I was just born and raised in the original trilogy, but you.
Speaker C:Guys do a fantastic job.
Speaker C:Zach, you got anything?
Speaker A:How difficult is it working with Brock and to corral him and make sure he does his job?
Speaker B:Oh, it's, it's, it's.
Speaker H:It's My way into heaven is where.
Speaker E:I'm looking at it.
Speaker H:I know I'm getting in.
Speaker A:Yes, you definitely are.
Speaker A:Oh, you can't even get them to show up on a scheduled podcast when you supposed to.
Speaker B:That's par for the course with this.
Speaker A:That one.
Speaker C:And I just like to point out he doesn't invite you to come along on the.
Speaker B:I know, right?
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker E:I know.
Speaker A:What is the problem with that?
Speaker A:We're just going to get to you next.
Speaker B:I called him.
Speaker B:He's like, oh, I'm about to do a podcast.
Speaker B:I was like, oh, really?
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:Okay, let me know how it turns out.
Speaker C:I've got your number.
Speaker C:We'll just, we'll set it up.
Speaker C:We'll set it up so that you're.
Speaker B:You know, you need better sound bites, you know.
Speaker C:There you go.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:All right, we got Steve from Slow City Comic Con.
Speaker C:This is the Ted Soda City Comic Con, and we're celebrating, you know, basically, pop culture here in Columbia, South Carolina.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C: re at the Soda City Comic Con: Speaker C:We're sitting with Derek Snow, who is a voice actor on Crunchyrolls with such roles as in My Hero Academia.
Speaker C:Are you.
Speaker C:Tell us, tell us about all of what it is that you do.
Speaker I:Oh, my goodness.
Speaker I:I've been very lucky to.
Speaker I:Basically, in the last 12 years, I've been voice acting probably about 230ish different anime from.
Speaker I:Yeah, My Hero Academia to One Piece to Fire Force and newer shows like Blue Lock Chainsaw Man.
Speaker I:Anime's been pretty good to me.
Speaker C:You feel like you've got.
Speaker C:Is it job security at this point?
Speaker I:Well, as long as I have a vocal cords, yes.
Speaker I:Although I am voicing a new show called with you and the Rain where I don't actually use my vocal cords at all.
Speaker I:So there's a chance that no matter what I can make pops and clicks and still get paid for this.
Speaker C:Say, you have to explain that.
Speaker C:Is it, is it literally just pops and clicks?
Speaker I:Well, it's, it's.
Speaker I:So there's like, it's, it's this little tanuki dog.
Speaker I:He's the most cute.
Speaker I:Cute aggression, precious little thing.
Speaker I:So it's like, you know, just little tiny naturalistic things that.
Speaker I:Very strange to do in the booth.
Speaker I:It's very fun to watch a voice actor be.
Speaker I:I'm usually a muppet in the booth, but with this, it's like, how do I make my gelatis make a weird dog sound?
Speaker I:What a challenge.
Speaker C:So I know you've been doing voice acting for several years.
Speaker C:Before COVID did you ever do any ensemble recordings?
Speaker C:Was it.
Speaker C:Or you always been in this anime sort of technical directional.
Speaker I:Well, um, I mean, like with, with other groups just behind the mic or.
Speaker I:I mean, I have had the pleasure.
Speaker C:I'm going somewhere with this.
Speaker B:Okay, okay.
Speaker I:In the booth with voiceover, I've been very lucky to do like, I love doing this thing called Walla, like a background group where it's almost improv, where you, you can sound like you're something, but you don't want to be too.
Speaker I:You want to blend in.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker I:So as long as you're blending and you could be like high schoolers in the background of a, of a, A school talking about the next class or if you're a Big soldiers.
Speaker B:You know, we're all big fellas here.
Speaker B:You know, let's talk about something, but not too specific.
Speaker I:We're not going to talk about our brand name of cola that we enjoy the most.
Speaker I:You know, that kind of stuff.
Speaker I:That's great.
Speaker I:Yeah.
Speaker I:Yeah.
Speaker I:But I still do a little bit of that.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker I:And.
Speaker I:But a lot of the times in anime, magically, you know, when you're doing a scripted stuff and you've got a lot of lines, it's just, it's just me and the.
Speaker C:In that little booth and the directors across the way.
Speaker I:Yeah.
Speaker I:You got a director you're looking at through usually a window and then the engineer and I, I, I have done a lot of.
Speaker C:With.
Speaker I:I have a booth at home and I work with, you know, the coasts on, on stuff.
Speaker I:But it's, there's something special about being in the booth and you can see the director and you mess it up and they're going.
Speaker I:You're like, I'm going to do another thing.
Speaker I:Don't even need direction for that.
Speaker C:How long have you been touring around doing conventions?
Speaker I:My first conventions was Was basically when the world started opening up after Covid.
Speaker I:So I had some stuff that was booked thanks to shows like Fire Force particularly, I think was early on, things that were kind of finding me some success.
Speaker I:And then once the world started opening up a bit.
Speaker I:Yeah, that's.
Speaker I:That's when things started kind of hopping for me.
Speaker C:Columbia, South Carolina.
Speaker C:What do you think?
Speaker I:Listen, I'm just here wherever I go.
Speaker I:I look for great food and I've enjoyed my time here.
Speaker I:The magic of this area.
Speaker I:You've got that college town vibe, but also city vibe.
Speaker I:An old, old city vibe.
Speaker I:Very old American country stuff.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker I:But it's all very dense and it's great and walkable and I love that kind of stuff.
Speaker I:So I've been hopping around to all the restaurants I can possibly eat.
Speaker C:That's local.
Speaker I:Delightful.
Speaker C:You do not look like you have tried all the restaurants you can see inside.
Speaker I:But sure, I work out and I eat tiny portions.
Speaker C:That's gonna get expensive.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So let me ask you, of all the places you've been, though, I assume that you've been to some cities that you may not have imagined you'd ever go to.
Speaker C:What city stands out as one that was just iconically perfect?
Speaker C:What place that you would potentially consider retiring to?
Speaker C:That's.
Speaker I:Oh, retiring.
Speaker I:Well, so there's.
Speaker I:There's two modes of convention.
Speaker I:Like, my first big anime convention was in Sacramento, California.
Speaker I:It's a.
Speaker I:Got a pretty cool vibe and there were lots of great people there, and that was fun.
Speaker I:But then on the other hand, if it's an interesting venue where.
Speaker I:If it's a cool city or a cool location, then suddenly my wife wants to come.
Speaker I:So then it becomes like a.
Speaker I:Not exactly a vacation, but Armageddon in New Zealand.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker I:Incredible.
Speaker I:Like, I mean, they're anime lovers, but also I'm a big nature fiend.
Speaker I:And.
Speaker I:And so I. I love.
Speaker I:I. I took an extra, like, week.
Speaker C:Yeah, Geez.
Speaker C:Week and a half.
Speaker I:I lost work, but I enjoyed it.
Speaker C:New Zealand is.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:One of those places.
Speaker C:Like, I look forward to visiting one day.
Speaker C:Well, Derek, I really appreciate it.
Speaker C:I know you absolutely.
Speaker C:A lot going on and.
Speaker C:But really appreciate you being on with us and hope that one day you'll come back to Colombia when you have more time to try more food.
Speaker I:Yes, please.
Speaker I:Thank you.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:Check out Derek Snow.
Speaker C:Make sure you get your Crunchyroll subscriptions, because I pay for my Crunchyrolls.
Speaker I:That makes you a hero.
Speaker C:All right, everybody.
Speaker C:I am Bear Gruber.
Speaker C: re at the Soda City Comic Con: Speaker C:We're sitting with Pam Doherty, who is a voice actress with roles on Crunchyroll as well as you.
Speaker C:Do you do some fairly iconic characters?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Madame Christmas with full metal arch.
Speaker C:Yeah, No, I was gonna say.
Speaker C:Is that what the character's name is?
Speaker C:The only reason I ask is because it's the very large character with.
Speaker F:That's Big Mom.
Speaker C:Big Mom, Okay.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:She's probably the most iconic.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:But a couple more are Madame Christmas from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Lady Ofuku from Basilisk, who's pretty evil.
Speaker F:And some grandmother roles that seem to be the main thing I'm getting these days.
Speaker F:And Rendini from Fairy Tale, which a lot of people love.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker C:How long have you been voice acting?
Speaker F:Since before you were alive?
Speaker F:I.
Speaker C:That might not be.
Speaker F:I think it's probably the case since the 70s.
Speaker C:I was born in the 70s.
Speaker F:Which part of the 70s?
Speaker A:Very late.
Speaker C:The very late or like.
Speaker C:Like, like almost nine months before the 70s were done.
Speaker A:So what.
Speaker B:When you.
Speaker C:What did you do before voice acting?
Speaker C:Because, I mean.
Speaker F:Well, I mean, I studied.
Speaker F:I grew up wanting to be a classical pianist.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker F:I took a speech class in when I was a sophomore and it just sort of turned left into acting.
Speaker F:And I've been.
Speaker F:That's what I have been doing ever.
Speaker F:Ever since.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:I do film, television, radio, audiobooks, political radio, all of it.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker F:I mean, that's what you have to do to really have.
Speaker F:I mean, unless you're a celebrity.
Speaker F:I mean, like a big celebrity with multiple repeating roles on television shows and films and stuff like that.
Speaker C:You said political radio.
Speaker C:What's.
Speaker C:What sort of political radio are we talking about?
Speaker C:Well, because I got a sense of it when we were downstairs.
Speaker C:We are a very progressive radio podcast, so.
Speaker F:So it's okay.
Speaker F:I think that the vast majority of entertainers out there in the world are pretty much blue people.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker F:But I live in Texas and it's a very red state.
Speaker F:What's interesting is that most of my work comes out of Washington, D.C. okay.
Speaker F:And I. I mean, I think I've done one commercial, one radio political for a Democrat in my entire.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker F:Career.
Speaker F:It's all Republican and pays the bills.
Speaker F:It pays the bills.
Speaker F:And.
Speaker F:Well, I like to say I always tithe 10% to Obama.
Speaker C:One more third term.
Speaker C:That's all we do.
Speaker C:One more third term.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker A:Okay, so.
Speaker A:So you.
Speaker C:You mentioned TV.
Speaker C:You do theater too?
Speaker F:Oh, yeah.
Speaker F:Almost all the actors you're seeing, voice actors, state theater, movies, film.
Speaker F:We all started in theater.
Speaker F:Most everybody.
Speaker F:There are a handful who started in, you know, bang DJs or something like that.
Speaker F:But for the most part, we trained as theater actors.
Speaker C:Of all the characters that you do, which one is your favorite?
Speaker C:They aren't going to know.
Speaker C:You can tell us.
Speaker F:Oh, you mean theater or.
Speaker C:Oh, no, I'm sorry.
Speaker C:Voice acting.
Speaker B:Currently.
Speaker F:Oh, probably Big Mom.
Speaker F:Yeah, Big Mom.
Speaker F:Because she's just.
Speaker F:She's so over the top and fun and crazy and an evil.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Of all the places that you've traveled for conventions, do you have a favorite?
Speaker C:You don't have to say Columbia.
Speaker F:No, no, no.
Speaker F:It's not that.
Speaker F:It's that people think that, oh, we've been to all these.
Speaker F:You go to all these great cities, and what's it like to see all those places across this great country?
Speaker F:And the truth is, we see the inside of an airport, the inside of an airplane.
Speaker F:The inside.
Speaker F:The most you get to see of any given city is on a trip from the airport to the hotel.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:And then it's the hotel to the convention center.
Speaker F:And from the convention center straight back to the airport.
Speaker F:And so that's.
Speaker F:Unless you have the time and the money to stay two or three extra days to see that place.
Speaker F:I will say that I found some cities have very unique characters, like Albuquerque, El Paso, Phoenix.
Speaker F:So far, they've been very Southern for me, Southwestern cities.
Speaker F:They have real characteristics that no other cities have.
Speaker F:And I love architecture, so I love.
Speaker F:I appreciate.
Speaker F:When I drive through, like, I'm going from LaGuardia in New York to White Plains.
Speaker C:Sure.
Speaker F:So I'm seeing Northeastern architecture, and it's very, very different from.
Speaker F:From the south.
Speaker F:Yeah, it's just very, very different.
Speaker F:It's more up.
Speaker F:They built up, not out like we do.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Well, I really want to thank you for being a part of the 10th Soto City comic Con.
Speaker G:This is.
Speaker C:This is a big deal for.
Speaker C:For us, and I really want to thank you for sitting down with us.
Speaker C:So check out.
Speaker C:Definitely get a subscription to Crunchyroll because there is so much animation, but definitely check out My hero, Hero Academia.
Speaker C:Honestly, there's so many.
Speaker F:There's so many.
Speaker F:Attack on Titan is a popular one.
Speaker F:My hero.
Speaker F:I wish I could have a role in that, but there's just.
Speaker F:No, it's all kid roles.
Speaker C:Oh, you're right.
Speaker B:You're right.
Speaker C:No, but Attack on Titan is that.
Speaker B:That's a big deal.
Speaker C:That one started out.
Speaker C:So do you watch any of the anime?
Speaker F:Not as much as I would like to.
Speaker F:Not as much as I would like to.
Speaker F:I have been watching the live action One Piece because it's helping me really understand the very beginnings and some of the very most, the earliest strong characters who've stayed with the show.
Speaker C:And One Piece has thousands of episodes.
Speaker C:That's job security.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:Unless you get killed off.
Speaker C:Well, Pam, it's been a pleasure having you on with us.
Speaker C:It's had a pleasure having you here in Columbia.
Speaker C:And really, really thank you for being on the show with us.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker C:So my name is Barrett with the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:This is Zach.
Speaker C:We have a podcast that we do and release, but we're here at Soda City Comic Con talking to a lot of the patrons that are here.
Speaker C:What is it?
Speaker C:What is one of the things you're looking forward to here at the Soda City Comic Con this year?
Speaker B:I mean, Napoleon Bottom.
Speaker C:That's cool.
Speaker C:That's cool.
Speaker B:And Cousin Eddie.
Speaker C:Very cool.
Speaker C:Also Randy Quaid.
Speaker C:That'll be neat.
Speaker C:So you.
Speaker C:You all chose to go with the vendor or the VIP passes this year.
Speaker C:What was the reason behind that?
Speaker C:What was something that you're looking forward to more over just the regular tickets.
Speaker B:Would like getting in early.
Speaker C:That's nice.
Speaker B:And you get free more stuff.
Speaker C:Okay, very good.
Speaker C:What is.
Speaker B:Have you.
Speaker C:Do you all usually come and check out any of the vendors downstairs?
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, we'll look around.
Speaker B:Do you.
Speaker C:Are there any vendors from the past that you kind of want to look forward to?
Speaker B:It's been a few years.
Speaker B:I think we last came when Mike Poulter was here.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker B:It's been several years.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So what's your name?
Speaker B:Patrick.
Speaker C:Patrick, nice to meet you.
Speaker C:Where are you all from?
Speaker B:Lawrence.
Speaker C:Lawrence, okay.
Speaker C:So not too far away, but that's a decent drive.
Speaker C:Do you feel any of the earthquakes this morning?
Speaker B:No, I found out about them, but I didn't.
Speaker B:Didn't feel them.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:All right, well, thank you for being on with us and have a great time.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker B:Sometimes you got to do interviews with people that you don't like, and I don't like him, so.
Speaker B:Perfect.
Speaker B:There we go.
Speaker B:Feeling is mutual.
Speaker C:Are you allowed to make physical.
Speaker B:You know what?
Speaker E:Okay.
Speaker B:We ain't going.
Speaker B:We ain't going to do that.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:All right, welcome back to the All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:Want to welcome Mr. Sean Legacy here.
Speaker C:I get that.
Speaker C:Right, right.
Speaker B:Sean Legacy.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:You gotta get this right, Jackson.
Speaker B:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:There's nothing there.
Speaker B:There's absolutely nothing there.
Speaker B:Skin and Bones o'.
Speaker B:Brien.
Speaker A:No brains.
Speaker G:Skin and bones, baby.
Speaker B:Popping pecs.
Speaker B:Pecs for life.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker C:One of the Things I gotta understand is.
Speaker C:Is when.
Speaker C:When they have wrestlers in next face off against each other for interviews.
Speaker C:What is my role supposed to be?
Speaker C:I'm not supposed to keep you guys from breaking and, like, fighting.
Speaker B:Your role is supposed to be exactly what you came up to us, you know, you're like, hey, can I do this little podcast?
Speaker B:Can do this interview.
Speaker B:And we agreed now it's our job to have respect right now and not to flip this table and throw him over this balcony.
Speaker C:But I'm not going to.
Speaker B:I'm ready.
Speaker B:Ain't going to do that.
Speaker B:How much in no universe would he do that ever?
Speaker C:How much desire do you have to.
Speaker C:To.
Speaker C:To pop him?
Speaker C:1.
Speaker B:Honestly, 0.
Speaker B:You know, this guy is really busy talking about being the evolved champion 247 while I'm busy being the evolved champion 24 7.
Speaker B:That's just how it is, you know, it's.
Speaker B:I get it.
Speaker B:He's the evolved champion, you know, I know he's in a group called the Virginity Project.
Speaker B:I meant the vanity project, so.
Speaker C:But hey, 100%.
Speaker B:You need to clock him for that one.
Speaker B:Dude, let me check him for that one.
Speaker B:You didn't let him talk that way on your interview.
Speaker C:That's crazy.
Speaker C:Let me just say, growing up watching wrestling, I know that there is always this idea that it's not real.
Speaker C:Whatever.
Speaker C:Even if that were the case, the amount of abuse and the strength you guys have to have, I am just floored.
Speaker C:And it's phenomenal the amount of work you guys do to even protect yourselves.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Is incredible.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:What.
Speaker C:What got you into this line of business?
Speaker C:Like, what was me?
Speaker B:I mean, I've been a fan.
Speaker G:Yeah, I've been a fan my whole life.
Speaker B:You know, my dad got me into wrestling, and every Monday night he would.
Speaker G:Call me in his room and we.
Speaker B:Would watch wrestling together.
Speaker B:And I just fell in love with it since.
Speaker B:Gotcha.
Speaker C:What about you sounds so sweet.
Speaker B:Yeah, man.
Speaker B:You know, my friends liked it, and I'll be honest, I was a little bandwagon kid.
Speaker B:You know, they got into it, I got into it, and they grew out of it.
Speaker B:I just never did it.
Speaker B:Always stuck with me to the point that I felt a unyielding desire to get in there and do it myself.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Make my own legacy.
Speaker C:What's the worst injury you got?
Speaker C:What's the worst injury you guys have.
Speaker B:Ever had in wrestling or just like, in general?
Speaker C:Let's go in general.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Well, I got hit by a car when I was 15 and I broke my leg.
Speaker B:Did you not see it coming?
Speaker E:No, we didn't see it coming.
Speaker B:I was actually.
Speaker B:I lost my rest.
Speaker B:One of my wrestling hats, it flew out the window and it went into.
Speaker B:It went into a.
Speaker B:We were at an intersection, right.
Speaker B:And the other light was on red.
Speaker B:Like the lane.
Speaker B:They were on red.
Speaker B:So I thought I was good to walk across the street and get it.
Speaker B:I picked it up and as I was walking back, fade to black, dude.
Speaker B:I don't remember nothing.
Speaker B:Apparently I did like a 6:30.
Speaker B:Hell, yeah.
Speaker C:What about you, dude?
Speaker B:I can't.
Speaker C:It wasn't.
Speaker B:It wasn't like that.
Speaker B:That's hilarious.
Speaker B:I would have died laughing if I saw that in person.
Speaker B:Of course I would have checked.
Speaker E:I'd be like, hey, you good?
Speaker B:But as soon as I would have heard the.
Speaker B:Then I would have done.
Speaker B:I would have been not.
Speaker B:That is great.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, No, I broke a finger.
Speaker C:You know, just the fingers.
Speaker C:You got one of these things where it points off.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I got like that.
Speaker C:Yeah, I got that.
Speaker B:But that's about it.
Speaker B:I'm pretty good at paying attention and, you know, looking both ways before I cross, so.
Speaker C:Deny that.
Speaker C:So being in Columbia, South Carolina, you used to live here?
Speaker G:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to live.
Speaker B:Here for a couple months when I was training.
Speaker B:Training to be a pro wrestler?
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Man, I was working a job in Amazon.
Speaker B:That job really sucked.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:And as soon as I got the.
Speaker B:Thumbs up for, like, you know, you're good.
Speaker B:And I was.
Speaker B:I left Columbia because I did not like my job and I went back to Georgia and Augusta.
Speaker C:Okay, so you're originally from Augusta?
Speaker B:Yes, Born and raised in August, Georgia.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Georgia Bulldogs fan.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:What about you?
Speaker B:Georgia Tech.
Speaker B:Georgia Tech.
Speaker G:Okay.
Speaker B:Baseball there.
Speaker B:Oh, really?
Speaker G:Okay.
Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker C:I was recruited by Georgia, but I passed it.
Speaker C:I was.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker G:Because Georgia Tech's definitely going.
Speaker B:So when we talk about.
Speaker B:Instead of Georgia.
Speaker B:Jesus Christ.
Speaker C:This is your first time to Columbia, South Carolina?
Speaker B:Yeah, it is.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Where are you originally from?
Speaker B:I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Home of the.
Speaker C:You ever seen the.
Speaker C:The Red House furniture store just a.
Speaker A:Little ways down the road from Greensboro?
Speaker B:No, I can't say I have.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:Oh, no.
Speaker B:I don't shop for furniture.
Speaker B:I shop for supplements.
Speaker C:You grew up in Greensboro?
Speaker C:Yes, North Carolina.
Speaker C:This is where the zoo's.
Speaker C:Zoo's at.
Speaker C:Is that where the North Carolina zoo.
Speaker A:Is in North Carolina?
Speaker C:Don't tell me you don't know.
Speaker B:No, the Greensboro Natural Science center is in North Carolina.
Speaker B:How are you going to talk about.
Speaker C:He doesn't Know.
Speaker B:Trust me.
Speaker B:What's from where I'm at.
Speaker C:He doesn't know.
Speaker B:That car hit him good.
Speaker B:He doesn't know that car got him good.
Speaker B:You did let us know.
Speaker C:You did let us in on a little thing.
Speaker B:How many people.
Speaker B:How many people.
Speaker B:I opened up and now I'm getting made fun of for it?
Speaker B:How many people try to be vulnerable?
Speaker C:How many people know the story about.
Speaker B:Why I am the way I am?
Speaker B:Well, I guess the world knows about it now, right?
Speaker C:Well.
Speaker C:Well, we'd love for the world to know about it, but.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah, but, like, when you grew up, was.
Speaker C:Was wrestling something you wanted to get into?
Speaker B:Was this?
Speaker B:Oh, since I was 7.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Since the tender age of 7.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Got into it when I was 13.
Speaker E:21.
Speaker B:Now I'll be 22 in seven days.
Speaker B:How old are you, Sean?
Speaker B:30.
Speaker B:About 29.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Oh, okay.
Speaker B:I'm 29.
Speaker B:Well, okay.
Speaker B:Still young.
Speaker B:Still young.
Speaker B:Still got time.
Speaker B:You're all right, kid.
Speaker B:2030 is your year.
Speaker C:2030.
Speaker B:I'm gonna strive for it.
Speaker B:Jags.
Speaker A:I'm striving.
Speaker C:You do that growing up.
Speaker A:Who's.
Speaker C:Who was your favorite wrestler?
Speaker B:Randy Orton.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker G:John Cena.
Speaker G:Very nice.
Speaker C:Very nice.
Speaker C:I see.
Speaker C:I think back, Sting, Ric Flair, like, those were.
Speaker C:Those were the guys while I was into it because I'm.
Speaker C:I'm twice your age.
Speaker C:More than twice your age.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:Damn, bro.
Speaker C:It's all right, though.
Speaker C:Hey, listen, I don't want to take it too much of your time.
Speaker C:I know you guys are busy with fans coming to meet you, but really appreciate you being on with us.
Speaker B:Of course.
Speaker C:It's absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker B:I appreciate it, man.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:There's nothing there.
Speaker B:You're gonna get zero views now.
Speaker B:You're gonna get negative views every day.
Speaker B:You know, this whole time, I thought.
Speaker B:This whole time, I thought he was showing off his abs, but he's showing off.
Speaker B:Car hit him this whole time.
Speaker B:My leg, dumbass.
Speaker C:Thank you guys very much.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker C: We are at Soda City ComicCon: Speaker B:Barry Gruber.
Speaker C:I'm here with a couple of T. Rexes that showed up.
Speaker A:What's your.
Speaker C:Where are you guys from?
Speaker B:What's.
Speaker C:What's your names?
Speaker C:Okay, terrific.
Speaker C:What do you all like most about the Soda City Comic Con?
Speaker C:Great.
Speaker C:All right, well, okay, so let me ask this.
Speaker C:What is something you came this year to see very specifically?
Speaker C: we're at Soda city comic con: Speaker A:All right, welcome to the All About Nothing Podcast.
Speaker A: At Soda City comic con for: Speaker A:I'm Zach King.
Speaker A:I'm here with John Heater.
Speaker A:John, how are you?
Speaker H:I'm good.
Speaker A:So you enjoying Columbia?
Speaker H:I mean, I've been outside all of like two minutes.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker H:But it's a cool name.
Speaker H:I like their sportswear.
Speaker A:Might be the same.
Speaker A:I can't confirm.
Speaker H:Nor it might be.
Speaker H:It might not be.
Speaker A:So you said you don't do a lot of cons.
Speaker A:You try to keep the.
Speaker A:Keep it, keep it demand high.
Speaker H:I'd like to make it sound like it's my choice.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker H:But I think the demand is low.
Speaker H:So we're just at the beginning of a bear market for me.
Speaker H:And then by the end of the year, people were like, oh my gosh, demand is high.
Speaker H:We need more.
Speaker H:And I'll be like, fine.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:So who, who do you.
Speaker A:Who.
Speaker A:When people are coming to you, fans are coming to you.
Speaker A:At these cons, what do you get the most requests for?
Speaker H:Probably there's a cartoon I did called Pickle and Peanut.
Speaker H:Disney.
Speaker H:You guys heard of that company?
Speaker A:That's who they're coming for.
Speaker H:Disney xc, Disney X. Disney plus.
Speaker H:You can go on Disney plus.
Speaker H:Check it out.
Speaker H:Pick on Peanut.
Speaker H:People are kind of hardcore.
Speaker H:It's got a major fan base.
Speaker H:I think it opened up in the Asian markets years ago and it's just kind of blown up since then.
Speaker H:So if you think anime is popular, go check out Pickle and Peanut.
Speaker H:We are in over 180 countries worldwide.
Speaker H:I think we're opening up a convention on the moon based solely on Pickle and Peanut.
Speaker A:Well, let's talk about a little underrated film you did.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker A:Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker A:You remember being in that at all?
Speaker H:I remember.
Speaker H:I remember everything I've done.
Speaker H:I don't like to watch everything I've done.
Speaker H:But that one I've watched.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So for me personally, I was.
Speaker A: I was in high school, around: Speaker B:We loved it.
Speaker A:We felt like that was made for us.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Especially from South Carolina.
Speaker A:The being around in the middle of nowhere and having uncle who always talked about glory days of football.
Speaker A:I had a llama named Tommy.
Speaker H:Tommy, really?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:We did not feed her ham, but every time I fed him.
Speaker A:Tina, come get your lard.
Speaker H:Tommy sounds like a good brother to Tina.
Speaker H:Like Tommy fat lard.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And Barrett had mentioned one of his favorite movies, the Bench warmers.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Where just fantastic.
Speaker H:Thank you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And for me to one the one of the ones me and my brother always Bonded over was Blades of Glory.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker A:Now, Jimmy McElroy, famous.
Speaker A:What would Jimmy McElroy be doing today?
Speaker H:Today, he'd probably be coaching, because that's what everybody does after they.
Speaker H:Well, right.
Speaker H:Or announcing coaching.
Speaker H:Or announcing ice skating competitions, local ice rink competitions, maybe filling in at the.
Speaker A:Skate shop a little bit.
Speaker H:No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker A:He's above it.
Speaker H:He has certain.
Speaker H:Yeah, yeah, he has.
Speaker H:He's a gold medal winner.
Speaker H:Like, they.
Speaker H:You can't downgrade to that level.
Speaker H:You can downgrade a little bit.
Speaker H:Not that low, but.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Making sure people stay modest.
Speaker B:Impure him.
Speaker H:Exactly.
Speaker H:There's like, no strapless gowns or.
Speaker B:Or.
Speaker H:Or leotards or anything like that.
Speaker H:You gotta cover it all.
Speaker A:What would Napoleon be doing today?
Speaker A:Napoleon would probably be mixed martial arts champion.
Speaker H:I think he'd probably be begging for food on the streets.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker H:He's not doing as well as we thought.
Speaker H:No.
Speaker A:Pedro has moved on to campaign.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah.
Speaker H:Pedro's just, like, dropped that dead weight and just, like.
Speaker H:All right, you were my campaign manager for a hot second.
Speaker H:Now let me go get a paid one and.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker H:And do this for real.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So Randy Quaid is kind of.
Speaker A:Let's call him your booth mate next door.
Speaker H:Yeah.
Speaker A:Have you had any discussions?
Speaker A:Maybe let's get a buddy duo comedy going on.
Speaker H:With Napoleon and like.
Speaker H:Oh, just him and I. Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, I'd pay.
Speaker A:You could do a ting pin, too, with you in it.
Speaker H:And King Bin too.
Speaker H:And he is.
Speaker H:He is the.
Speaker H:He has gone out.
Speaker H:What's that word for the.
Speaker H:The.
Speaker H:The Quakers, when they.
Speaker A:They get to go do it.
Speaker H:The Amish.
Speaker B:When.
Speaker A:Rum Springer.
Speaker H:Rum Springer.
Speaker H:So he did Rum Springer.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker H:And he tasted the fruit and he liked what he tasted.
Speaker H:So he has since become, like, jaded by the world and also sucked in.
Speaker H:And I am from.
Speaker H:From the same Amish community, and I've come to rescue him, to bring him back, to bring him back, to show him life on the farm.
Speaker H:And so it's kind of a.
Speaker H:An original fish out of water, back in the fish.
Speaker H:Same fish pond.
Speaker H:I love something like that.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, we will not take any more of your time.
Speaker A:John, thank you so much for getting with us.
Speaker H:Thank you.
Speaker A:I hope you enjoy the rest of your time here.
Speaker A:If you want, you can come bother me and Barrett at any point, because I know it's so boring in there and just come sit down and talk about podcasts.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker H:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thanks, Josh.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C: re at the Soda city comic con: Speaker C:I am Barrett Gruber host of the.
Speaker B:All About Nothing podcast.
Speaker C:We were sitting with Katie Sackhoff.
Speaker C:Katie, it is an honor to meet you.
Speaker J:Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker J:It's nice to be here.
Speaker C:What do you think about Columbia so far?
Speaker J:You know, these conventions are such a whirlwind for me.
Speaker J:I always fly in land, usually head straight to the hotel and not, I don't get to see much of anything.
Speaker J:And so the people have been wonderful and that's usually how I judge a place.
Speaker J:And everybody's been super kind and it's been really great.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:How many conventions do you wind up doing a year?
Speaker J:So up until about three years ago, I really only did probably two a year maybe if I was lucky enough to be able to do that many.
Speaker J:The last three years since my kids were born, I probably did between 8 and 10 a year because it was such a wonderful thing to be able to do and be able to spend time with my kids at home as well.
Speaker J:But next year, back to probably none.
Speaker J:Maybe one, two, next year.
Speaker C:That's great though.
Speaker J:Yeah.
Speaker J:So this is the, this is the last year that I'm going to probably be out in full force, so.
Speaker C:Katie Sackhoff, the Sack off podcast.
Speaker J:Yes.
Speaker C:How, how much of your schedule is that?
Speaker C:Because you're, you're publishing weekly.
Speaker C:We, and we publish weekly.
Speaker C:We try to do what you do, but we're, we're, we're, we're doing like three or four episodes a week that we're trying to release.
Speaker C:But you've got the numbers.
Speaker C:Fantastic.
Speaker C:But, but how much, how much time does that take?
Speaker J:It's a lot.
Speaker J:It's a full time job and I, I have a whole team that I hired which I had to do.
Speaker J:And it's, it is a full time job.
Speaker J:The hardest part of doing a podcast is booking guests.
Speaker C:Yes.
Speaker J:And having to work around guests schedules.
Speaker J:And then the second hardest part is when I am working, trying to do interviews.
Speaker J:So while I was up in Vancouver filming Carrie, I was trying to get interviews in person in my hotel room when I was off for the day.
Speaker J:And that's just, it's a lot of work on top of another full time job.
Speaker J:Raising kids is like three full time jobs.
Speaker C:And you're actually doing that.
Speaker C:You're doing the, trying the schedule.
Speaker C:I haven't gotten my phone call yet.
Speaker B:No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker C:So real quick, just want to ask you, we recently saw an article talking about doing Mandalorian.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:And how, how that was just that.
Speaker G:Broke you that this was a very.
Speaker C:Difficult role for you to do.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:What.
Speaker C:What was that?
Speaker J:You know, it's.
Speaker J:It's so interesting.
Speaker J:And you know this as well as I do, that when you're doing a podcast and you're talking about yourself, you always try to make sure that you get back to the guest as quickly as possible, because the podcast isn't about me, it's about the guest.
Speaker J:And so I really didn't go into exactly why it was so difficult for me.
Speaker J:You know, the character was established in animation.
Speaker J:It wasn't established by me.
Speaker J:So I was almost working backwards trying to figure out who she was in live action and find her in my belly.
Speaker J:You know, I mentioned finding a character in my belly, meaning that I'm walking in their shoes.
Speaker J:I'm talking the way that they.
Speaker J:I'm thinking the way that they do all of those things that have come naturally in other characters, because I established those characters in Mandalorian.
Speaker J:I didn't establish her.
Speaker J:It was about me making sure that I was consistent with the animation and that, and that she felt like she fit in the world.
Speaker J:And, you know, I was going through a lot in my personal life as well.
Speaker J:My daughter was born in the middle of shooting season three.
Speaker J:You know, she was going through a myriad of health struggles during the.
Speaker J:The.
Speaker J:The.
Speaker J:When the publicity when we were airing, it was just a really hard time for me, and I was having a really hard time identifying with Beau, and I put a lot of pressure on myself to be everything for the fans and for that franchise.
Speaker J:And it was just a lot of pressure.
Speaker C:Well, it paid off.
Speaker C:I really don't think that anybody else could have done it.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker C:Between Longmire, Battlestar Galactic, your movies, tv, absolutely exceptional career, and really appreciate you sitting down with us and coming to Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker J:Thank you so much.
Speaker C:And we'll get to see you again in Myrtle Beach.
Speaker J:I know soon with Sam Wit, where you said.
Speaker J:Right, yeah.
Speaker A:Sam Witwer.
Speaker J:Yes.
Speaker J:He's like my better half these days.
Speaker C:Well, just so you know, Sam, if you see this, we know you can't get rid of Matthew Wood the same as we can't get rid of Matthew Wood.
Speaker J:So is Matt Wood coming too?
Speaker J:Yes, of course.
Speaker J:It's the three of us.
Speaker D:There you go.
Speaker C:Exactly.
Speaker C:So thank you very much for being on with us.
Speaker J:Appreciate it.
Speaker C:And Katie Sackhoff, thank you.
Speaker F:Bye.
Speaker C:Well, Zach, I gotta say, I did think that because we were 97% successful with interviewing everyone that we could.
Speaker C:I think that it was a successful con for us.
Speaker E:It was.
Speaker C:I. I do want to thank especially Steve and Brock and Amy and RJ and Frank and Deneen and.
Speaker C:And everyone.
Speaker C:All of the staff that, that, that run this Soda City Comic Con, because I don't know.
Speaker C:I. I couldn't do it.
Speaker C:I. I don't.
Speaker C:The hours they.
Speaker C:Yeah, the hours they put in.
Speaker C:Also, big thanks to Ami for being there the whole weekend with us.
Speaker A:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker B:Ami.
Speaker C:Welcome to Wonderland podcast.
Speaker C:Yeah, Bill was there with us on Saturday.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And just so everyone knows, the reason that the interview at the beginning with Macy and Johnson was so overly exposed was because Bill didn't know how to operate a camera.
Speaker A:So I, to be fair, I said, I think it's okay.
Speaker A:I think it's just the camera.
Speaker A:And then I was like, well, I guess it wasn't the camera.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'll take.
Speaker A:I'll shoulder some of that blame.
Speaker C:Well, I wasn't aware that it was that exposed.
Speaker C:Like, when he said it was exposed, I just.
Speaker C:I was just like.
Speaker C:I was like, all right, well, I'll check that out, but I'm sure it'll be fine.
Speaker C:I can probably unsaturated or whatever, but I couldn't.
Speaker C:So we'd be amiss.
Speaker A:Not to say you did send a professional wrestler after me.
Speaker C:I did.
Speaker A:I responded in wrestling, kind of.
Speaker C:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker C:Go check Zach's TikTok arnetKing07 because I thought that that was a hilarious.
Speaker C:And Sean Legacy was just unbelievably awesome for participating in that.
Speaker C:Like, I think during the course of the day, both Saturday and Sunday, especially, like in the afternoon, like, as we were getting towards the end.
Speaker C:Yeah, he was, I think, bored out of his mind because for the most part, everyone had gone to watch the cosplay contest, and that was where everyone was starting to migrate.
Speaker C:So he didn't.
Speaker C:He didn't have a lot to do.
Speaker C:He also wound up being the third judge in the kids cosplay contest with a.
Speaker C:Me and I. I don't remember who the winners were.
Speaker C:One of them was in a giant outfit from five Nights from Freddy the Big.
Speaker C:The Big Bear.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah, the bear.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:And then I don't remember the other ones, but it was a really good time.
Speaker C:And there was.
Speaker C:There's a video that I will share.
Speaker C:At some point there was a Coldplay kiss cam catch that did occur.
Speaker C:So I'll.
Speaker C:I'll leave that out in the world.
Speaker C:You'll have to follow us on all of our social media.
Speaker A:And a little scandalous.
Speaker C:All right, that is going to do it for this episode.
Speaker C:Number 270.
Speaker C:Thank you very much, Zach, for being here.
Speaker C:Appreciate it.
Speaker C:Thank you to again everyone at the Soda City Comic Con.
Speaker C:The staff, the featured guests, everyone that that we got to participate with and sit down with and talk to.
Speaker C:It was a lot of fun.
Speaker C:Just for future reference, Zach and I are available for Bar Mitzvahs and weddings as entertainment.
Speaker A:Public executions.
Speaker A:Sure, as long as they deserved it.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker C:Yeah, we could talk about that another episode.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker C:Links.
Speaker A:Definitely.
Speaker A:Beatings.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's right.
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