Live Magazine September 2017

talking to him, and I was like, ‘you
know, Rob, with all these people
you know you should do a podcast.’
And he just kinda ran with it, and we
started his podcast, I hosted it... I’m
still hosting it really, well actually,
he’s moved to the Nerdist now, the
Nerdist network with his podcast
but for the longest time I hosted it
on the Tech Jives Network for him,
and it just exploded. He gets tens of
thousands of listeners a month on
the show and Chris Hardwick, the
Nerdist Network, just picked it up
and now he’s doing this live thing,
but we just kinda built a friendship
from that original podcast thing I did
with him about 6 or 7 years ago.
Paul: Now you’ve been involved in
a little bit of voice acting. I see you
tend to do more of the behind the
scenes stuff...
Chris: Yep.
Paul: ... how do you find voice acting?
For someone who is normally being
the scenes, taking the role of the
actor.
Chris: Well, it is just another one
of those things you fall into. You
don’t really set out to... I’ll always
tell people I only know a couple
of different types of voices; the
southern dialect and the redneck
dialect, that’s pretty much it ya
know. *laughs* But it is one of
those thing you kinda fall into,
there’s a need there and you’re like,
‘ya know, I could do that!’ And you’re
in a position where, you know, I was
talking to my partner. For example,
I did the newscaster voice on the
Cluck Yegger video game, and I was
talking to my partner and I’m like,
‘you know, I think I could pull that
off.’ I recorded an example of it and
he said, ‘that’s fantastic, yeah’. And
we recorded the voice for it and put
it out there. I’m probably going to do
a couple of things in SpaceVenture
as well and we have an area of the
game called The Holotube where
the main character, basically he
lays down on the couch and he can
watch this holographic TV. It’s really
all just audio, you don’t see what’s
happening on the screen, but I’m
gonna do my own SpacePope
channel, and it’s gonna be like, ‘No
donations, no salvation’ kinda thing.
You know, ‘give us your money’...
Paul: Sort of the televangelist?
Chris: *laughs* right, exactly, yeah!
And I think my southern accent’ll
work great for that, so I’ll work on
that as well. But yeah, it is just one
of those things you just kinda fall
into. I know a lot of voice actors, I’m
friends with lots and lots of voice
actors so...
Paul: You represent some of them
as well, don’t you?
Chris: Yeah, and that’s yet another
thing you just kinda fall into. Like, I
represent Rob Paulsen as his agent,
so that’s another thing you fall into
from the standpoint of one day
somebody says, ‘you know, I don’t
have anybody representing me
doing that particular job. Would you
do it?’ And I’m like, ‘I’ve never done
it, but yeah, I’ll give it a shot.’ And
next thing you know, they introduce
you to another person and then you
get introduced to another person
and next thing you know, with me
I’m representing something like 60
or 70 people, something like that.
Paul: Who represents you?
Chris: *laughs* For now I just
represent myself for the most part.
Paul: Well thanks very much for your
time Chris. It’s been an absolute
pleasure talking to you.
Chris: Oh, you too Paul, it’s been my
pleasure.