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Martin O'Donnell is a video game composer who has worked on numerous game but is famous for composing the original Halo up until Halo Reach, he also was audio director and oversaw sound effects and dialogue. He is considered one of the greatest video game composers of all time for his work on Halo.

SOCIAL MEDIA

WEBSITE - http://www.martyodonnellmusic.com

TWITTER - @MartyTheElder

YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ivNZIEmepeJ3YhrkK7PJQ

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/MartytheElder/

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:30 - Marty Being In GOAT Conversations

01:06 - How Long It Took For Marty To Realise The Impact Of The Halo Soundtrack

02:53 - Entertainment Conventions

03:32 - Marty’s Method To Composing

04:38 - Working Well Under Deadlines

05:57 - Writers Block

07:30 - Marty Open To Remixing Halo Themes For Smash Bros

08:57 - Evolution Of Work Environment At Bungie

12:09 - Microsoft & Bungie Initially Fighting Over Game Development

15:07 - Bungie Fighting With Activision

16:26 - Game Developers Becoming The Men In Suits

17:45 - Martin Thinks In Hindsight Microsoft Deal Was Ideal

18:30 - Halo Was The Golden Egg & Bungie Was The Golden Goose

20:23 - Marty’s Employee Contract With Microsoft

21:42 - Marty Butted Heads In His Last Year/Was Somewhat Aware He Would Get Fired

24:03 - Marty Was Shocked & Relieved At The Same Time From Being Fired

25:33 - Working On Sound Effects & Dialogue

28:29 - Marty Never Changed Any Of The Music By The Higher Ups

32:12 - Marty Open To Scoring For TV & Film

33:19 - Marty Met Peter Jackson For Halo Film

34:06 - Background Behind The Halo Film

37:19 - Halo Film Ideas Ended Up In District 9

39:20 - District 9 Being A Great Film

40:29 - WETA Designs For District 9

41:39 - Marty’s Relationship with Bungie & Microsoft These Days

43:30 - One Individual Can Influence A Whole Company/Bill Gates/Steve Jobs

45:66 - Geniuses Still Being Flawed

46:43 - Marty’s Future Endeavours/Highwire Games

48:59 - Tolkien Estate Contacted Highwire About Golem Game

51:00 - The Pain Of Trademarks/Copyright

52:20 - Getting Royalties For Halo Soundtrack/Music Publisher Tried To Pull Marty’s Own Music

54:40 - Marty’s Early Demos/Advice To Young Composers

58:01 - Marty’s Inception Stage

59:34 - Meeting Fans Expectations/Going Viral

1:03:58 - Marty’s Wife Keeps Him Grounded

1:05:06 - Where To Follow Marty/Highwire Games

1:05:45 - Marty Wants To Come To NZ

Fraser Grut is on an ambitious mission to film 10,000 peoples dreams and isn't due to finish this task until 2044. 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram - frasergrut

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro/Technical Difficulties

00:54 - How 10,000 Dreams Project Started

02:25 - Fraser Has Wanted To Quit Multiple Times

04:30 - Family & Friends Forced Fraser To Keep Going

06:32 - What Fraser Does Behind The Scenes/Fraser Loves Talking To People About Dreams

07:50 - How Fraser Got Celebrities To Do It

08:44 - Guessing Emails/How Many Emails Fraser Sends A Day

12:05 - Time Of Day Fraser Sends Emails/App So You Know When People Have Checked It

13:56 - Kaley Cuoco Blocked Fraser

14:30 - Domino Effect Of Getting Celebrities

15:33 - Wording Emails Correctly/Being Turned Down Multiple Times

16:50 - How Reece Gets Guests On Kiwi Talkz

17:51 - How Reece Got The Composers Of Dragonball Z On His Podcast

20:02 - The Guests Reece Would Like To Get On Kiwi Talkz The Most

21:05 - Fraser Uses An Email Template/Name Drop

22:25 - Reece & Frasers Email Screw Ups

24:11 - Fraser Screwed Up With Jack Goodhue

25:26 - Being A Perfectionist Filming Dreams

27:51 - Doing 10,000 Dreams Took A Toll On His Relationship

29:00 - Having Deadlines Can Be A Good Thing

32:07 - How Fraser Gets Out Of A Negative State Of Mind

35:04 - Fraser Tells Story About Mark Cuban

37:19 - Dreams Randomly Appearing In His Email Inbox

38:32 - Having To Complete The Mission Of 10,000 Dreams

39:56 - Being Young And Playing The Long Game

40:56 - Doing 1 Year Was Harder Than Doing 4 Years/Making The Impossible Possible

42:29 - Fraser Got Hate For His Camera Style/Reaction To The Project

44:00 - People Giving Up On Podcasts/Advantage That Fraser Has

47:43 - People Who Dont Have A Dream

49:14 - Fraser Runs A Freelancing Film Company

50:09 - A Lot Of People Reach Out To Fraser Now/Bigger It Gets The Lesser The Chase

51:50 - Fraser Only Wants To Film One Person A Day So It Takes Longer/Being An Historian

53:44 - Covid Can Be An OpportunityAdapting To Zoom

55:42 - Took Fraser A Long Time To Realise Its About The Dream Not About The Filming/Wiggles Story

1:00:34 - Taking NZ For Granted

1:01:31 - Where To Follow 10,000 Dreams/Fraser Grut

David Wise Is considered one of the greatest video game composers of all time primarily for his score on the Donkey Kong Country games, he is also one of the sampled video game composers as artists such as Drake & Childish Gambino have sampled his music in songs.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Website - www.davidwise.co.uk

Twitter - @David_Wise

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:33 - NDA’s

01:12 - Work Post Donkey Kong

01:58 - David Didn’t Realise How Big His Donkey Kong Soundtrack Was Until The Internet Blew Up

02:29 - OC-Remix

02:47 - Donkey Kong Country 2/Pushing The Tech For SNES

03:52 - Jamming Sam Miller/Compressed Sounds

06:06 - Delay Had To Be Simulated

06:52 - Chucking Grant Kirkhope In The Deep End With HEX

07:48 - Haunted Hall

09:43 - Being Isolated/Covid

10:14 - David Would Hum Tunes Before Recording In HEX

11:05 - Krooks March/Castle Theme

12:15 - Problem Solving

12:45 - Tropical Freeze Is What DKC Would Sound Like Without Limitations

13:29 - Live Instrumentation On Tropical Freeze

14:04 - Collaboration With Retro

14:45 - Kenji Yamamoto’s Involvement In Tropical Freeze

15:56 - Translators With Kenji Yamamoto

17:08 - David Praises Kenji’s Music On Metroid

17:47 - Time David Would Spend At Retro

18:28 - Writers Block

19:20 - Visual Cues To Composing Well Working On Donkey Kong

20:55 - Time It Would Take To Compose On One Track

21:33 - High Tide Ride

22:36 - David Was Largely Left To Do What He Wants

23:23 - Felt Nice To Do Tropical Freeze As Donkey Kong Put Him On The Map

24:14 - Doing Different Genres

25:34 - David Would Like To Work On Film/Advantages Of Scoring For Film

26:50 - Film Scoring Process Vs Game Scoring Process

27:40 - Escaping The Stigma

28:05 - David Would Like To Score For Smash Bros

29:00 - David’s Time In Japan/Nintendo Are Secretive

29:46 - Rare & Retro Culture Difference

30:40 - So Many Rappers Sampling His Music In Hip-Hop

32:05 - David Is Working On Multiple Projects Right Now

32:50 - Covid Has Caused Him Delays

35:40 - David’s Process To Compose           

38:30 - What Instruments David Uses To Compose

39:06 - Collaborating With The Former Rare Composes

40:25 - David Tries To Outdo His Previous Compositions

41:45 - Working Under Pressure/Mixing

43:39 - A Lot Of Different Instruments Used In Tropical Freeze/Quantising

45:26 - Stickerbrush Symphony Credits Music In Tropical Freeze

46:33 - Nintendo Told David When To Remix Previous DKC Tracks For Tropical Freeze

46:55 - Aquatic Ambience

48:17 - How Remixes In Tropical Freeze Ended Up There

49:58 - No 2 Days Are The Same When Composing

50:39 - Aquatic Ambience Took 5 Weeks To Write

52:38 - David Will Never Go Back To HEX

53:20 - Saving Time When Composing

55:17 - Where To Follow David Wise

Jim Johnston was the main composer for over 30 years at WWE and is responsible for some of the iconic themes from Ultimate Warrior & Undertaker to Stone Cold & The Rock.

WEBSITE jimjohnston.com

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:28 - Jim Johnston Wants To Come To New Zealand/Lord Of The Rings

01:19 - Yellowstone Park

02:46 - How Jim Composed At WWE & Post WWE/Having To Many Ideas

05:33 - Jim Realises In Hindsight He Needed WWE’s Strict Deadlines

06:17 - Jim Doesn’t Get Writers Block

07:27 - Vince McMahon/Information Jim Got About WWE Superstars

09:00 - WWE Superstars Would Try To Pitch Music To Jim

10:33 - Jim Wasn’t Approachable

11:38 - Deadlines To Compose/Jim Liked The Pressure

14:10 - Jim Didn’t Just Compose The WWE Entrance Music

14:52 - Jim Johnston Would Love To Compose For Hollywood Films

16:40 - Jim Always Wants To Convey Emotion Through Music

18:08 - Politics Of Hollywood/ Jim Is Confident He Could Score Well For Hollywood

20:22 - Stigma Of Composing For WWE

21:32 - Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson

24:29 - How Jim Johnston Is Able To Easily Write Different Styles

27:50 - Every Instrument Jim Can Play

29:06 - Jim Johnston Rarely Collaborates/Jim’s Stage Fright

32:10 - Stage Fright Hasn’t Improved Over The Years

34:38 - Jim Would Be Less Nervous Performing Virtually/Jim Is Anti Lip Singing

36:06 - Jim Does Want To Perform LIVE

36:43 - Jim Hasn’t Been Asked To Be In WWE Hall Of Fame

37:31 - Jim Doesn’t Understand Why He Hasn’t Been Asked In WWE Hall Of Fame

38:39 - Jim Was A Contractor/Workforce System Between NZ & America

40:57 - Jim Composed To Cope After Being Fired From WWE

43:31 - Jim’s Daily Schedule

45:02 - Ultimate Warriors Theme

48:10 - Simple Ideas Are The Most Effective

48:50 - Undertakers Theme

51:50 - Undertaker Walkout Wouldn’t Work Without The Theme

53:41 - Wrestling Isn’t Fake/The Ring Is Hard

57:18 - Social Media/Being Stopped In The Street

59:00 - Jim Still Loves Composing

59:40 - Jim Is Doing An EP Of Themes

1:01:48 - Jim Open To Composing For Video Games

1:03:58 - Melody Isn’t Heard As Much In Film These Days/Jaws

1:06:06 - Jim Likes Normal Conversations

1:07:30 - Cliche Interviews

The Armageddon Expo is NZ's biggest Multi-Genre Entertainment/Comic Book Convention and has been running for over 20 years. Bill Geradts is the founder of the expo.

SOCIAL MEDIA

WEBSITE - https://www.armageddonexpo.com/

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/Armageddonexpo

TWITTER - @Armageddonexpo

INSTAGRAM - @Armageddonexpo

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:25 - How Armageddon Expo Was Created

01:50 - Bill Is Surprised By How Big Armageddon Became/Contemplating Retirement

04:34 - Why There Aren’t More Conventions/Armageddon Isn’t A Corporate Company

07:29 - Regional Shows Vs Auckland Shows/Negative Comments

09:07 - How Bill Decides Guest List

10:20 - How Covid Changed How Armageddon Was Planned/Positives From Covid

13:45 - Things To Consider For Guests At Armageddon 2021

14:44 - Accomodation For Celebrities Guests

15:33 - Corporate Companies Prevented Proper Showings This Year

16:34 - Cons Of Singular Events/Armageddons Expo Advantage Of Diversity

20:01 - Armageddon Foot Traffic Annually

20:55 - How Long It Takes To Organise Auckland Armageddon Expo

22:20 - Bill’s Daily Schedule/Holidays

24:02 - Bill Is Inspired By Other Conventions Overseas/Comic Con

25:25 - Bill Cuts Off Trolls On Social Media/Fans Don’t Appreciate Jeopardising Business

27:02 - Dunedin Armageddon Expo Didn’t Make Money/Bad Press In Dunedin

28:34 - Armageddon Expo Wouldn’t Have Survived Without Wage Subsidy

29:35 - Armageddon Barely Breaks Even

30:29 - Balancing Business Vs Accomodating Fans

30:58 - Guests Bill Hasn’t Managed To Get Yet For The Expo

31:36 - Getting NZ Based Guests Is Difficult/Peter Jackson/Agents Are Difficult

33:40 - Cost Of Bringing Guests Over

35:07 - Certain Agents Are Difficult

36:51 - NZ Is Not Unique For Actors

37:28 - Armageddon Expo Is Limited By Small Venues In NZ

39:35 - Bill Could Get More Celebrities If Venues Were Bigger/Exploring VR

41:20 - Corporates Entirely Revolve Around America

42:04 - On Investors Buying Armageddon

42:40 - 2020 Has Been A Stressful Year For Bill

44:01 - No One Else Could Start A Convention Like Armageddon

44:56 - Armageddon Expo Usually Runs Very Well/Last Minute Problems

46:49 - Sponsors

47:53 - Bill Delegates A Lot Of Work

49:53 - How Bill Stays Up With Whats Going On

53:50 - Blocking Out Negativity/2021

55:08 - Where To Follow Armageddon Expo On Social Media

Jed Brophy is a great Kiwi actor who is most well known for working on a majority of Peter Jacksons films, most prominently multiple orcs in Lord Of The Rings and the Dwarf Nori in The Hobbit Trilogy.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Website - https://www.jedbrophy.nz

Twitter - @BrophyJed

Instagram - @jedibrophy

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:24 - How Jed Got The Jedi Name

00:57 - Jed Is Open To Being In Star Wars

01:36 - Agent In America/How The American System Works

02:46 - Jed Doesn’t Like L.A./Jed Believes NZ Is Amazing

04:10 - Jed’s Mental Health Takes A Downturn From Big Cities

05:09 - Jed Contemplated Living In Vancouver

05:35 - How Jed Became Peter Jackson’s Go To Actor/Peter Jackson’s Direction

08:10 - Playing Orc’s In LOTR

08:40 - Prosthetic Work/Jed Tells LOTR Prosthetic Work Story

11:27 - Different Voices For The Orcs/Fangorn Forest Story

13:40 - Shooting Differences Between LOTR & The Hobbit/Green Screen

15:41 - Sketches & Miniatures To Help Actors/Rohan Set/VFX

17:06 - Jed Interviewed Peter Jackson About Post Production

18:23 - Motion Capture

19:18 - Steven Spielberg Directing Tin Tin Via Satellite

20:08 - NZ Needs To Invest More In Technology/Film Industry Works Together In NZ

21:20 - Avatar 2/James Cameron/James & Peter Are Geniuses

22:13 - Jed’s Work On District 9

24:15 - Adlibbing On The Hobbit/Martin Freeman Loved Adlibbing

25:44 - Effort To Make Cast & Crew Bond During LOTR & The Hobbit

27:09 - iFit Job/Graham McTavish/New Zealands Beauty

29:25 - NZ Becoming Polluted/Underfunded Infrastructure

31:20 - NZ Should Fine People For Littering/Educating People

32:30 - Kiwis Not Appreciating New Zealand

33:01 - Film Crews On LOTR Made Conscious Effort To Protect Environment

33:58 - Jed’s Favourite Place To Visit In NZ

34:47 - Jed’s Fitness/Jed Lost Roles For Being To Fit/Competition

37:17 - Voice Acting Work/Mimicking Getting Jed Into Trouble

39:47 - Jed Doesn’t Rate Himself/What Jed Did During Lockdown

41:08 - Stand Up Comedy

42:00 - Positive Effects Of Covid-19/This Generation Suffering

43:30 - Problems Within NZ/Problems With Solving Housing

47:00 - Educating With Film

48:31 - Shooting Films Now On A Phone

49:44 - Staying Up Technology/Younger People Knowing Tech

50:39 - NZ Doesn’t Have A Mobile Film Festival/Film Commission Behind The Times

53:10 - Making The Film Commission Understand Shooting On Mobile Phones/Mobile Phone Films

57:19 - Warner Bros Interfered With The Hobbit

1:00:05 - Horse Gallop Scenes In LOTR

1:01:00 - LOTR Is Synonymous With NZ/Tourism From LOTR

1:02:30 - NZ’s Landscapes

1:03:44 - Martin Freeman Was Annoyed By NZ’s Beauty

1:04:19 - The Beauty Of NZ Is Unparalleled/Glenorchy

1:05:05 - NZ Offers Amazing Beauty In Close Proximity

1:06:41 - Where To Follow Jed Brophy On Social Media

ZAP is a hip-hop artist hailing from Tauranga who is a master of rapping double time.

Rap Beat Produced by Dr.Hayden

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook - Zap

Instagram - @zap_nz

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:46 - Zap Asks Reece Questions

01:50 - How Zap Got Into Hip-Hop

03:22 - American Culture/Gang Culture

05:17 - Who ZAP Is Inspired By/Scribe

06:21 - How ZAP Writes

07:18 - How ZAP Wrote Pieces/J.Dot & Hooligang

08:32 - Bad Mixing

09:20 - Who ZAP Would Love To Collaborate With/David Dallas

10:05 - Assholes In Hip-Hop

11:42 - Martial Arts

12:00 - One Main Source Income With Side Hustles/Unmotivated People

13:15 - People Not Understanding How Long It Takes To Write One Song

14:07 - People With Fake Lifestyles/Social Media

16:00 - How the ZAP Name Came About

17:07 - Being A Good Or Bad Judge Of Character

19:07 - Multicultralism Of Auckland

20:00 - ZAP Is A Fan Of Kiwi Talkz

20:32 - ZAP Interacting With Different Walks Of Life

21:51 - Pasifika & Maori The Main Demographic Of Hip-Hop

22:48 - Which Ethnic Group Has The Most Weirdos

23:52 - Reece’s Views On Religion

26:22 - Being Accepted As A White Hip-Hop Artist

27:42 - Reece’s Top Artists/Kendrick Lamar

28:29 - New School Hip-Hop

29:40 - What Impresses Reece/Club & Gangsta Songs

30:57 - Bone Thugs & Twista

31:40 - How ZAP Constructs His Bars

33:06- How Reece Writes/Chronicles Of Cancer/Sexy Doctor

35:52 - Songs Of Substance

35:30 - Battle Rap

37:52 - Skolar Vs Diz/Humiliation In Battle Rap

38:45 - Dlar

40:15 - Difference Between Studio & Zoom With Kiwi Talkz

41:20 - Reece Doesn’t Want To Just Do Hip-Hop Episodes

41:50 - Tyson Tyler

43:08 - Lockdown

44:20 - Wellington

45:05 - Feeling Old Clubbing/Clubs In Hamilton

46:23 - Living In Auckland/Immigrants In Auckland

47:22 - Traffic In Mumbai/Reece Tells A Story About India

48:40 - Meth/Why People Drink/ZAPs Drinking

50:40 - Chloe Swarbrick

51:21 - Reece’s Views On The Cannabis Reform

52:35 - Pesticides On Cannabis/Cannabis Legislation

53:38 - Frog In The Boiling Water Analogy

54:45 - ZAP Thinks Reece Eats Frogs

55:37 - Battling Chloe Swarbrick

55:25 - People Turning On Jacinda Ardern/ Reddit NZ Being Left Leaning

57:30 - Conspiracy Theories

58:45 - The Future For ZAP/Mai FM

59:33 - White People Being Disadvantaged In Hip-Hop In NZ/White Privilege

1:01:53 - Hip Hop Summit

1:02:25 - Where To Follow ZAP

1:03:28 - ZAP Praises Reece/Fake Personalities

1:04:23 - How Reece Gets On The Same Level As His Guests

1:05:44 - What Podcasts Reece Listens Too

1:06:21 - Reece’s Communicating

1:08:10 - ZAP Spits A Verse

Graeme Norgate was a former composer at video game company Rare. He is most well known for composing for a majority of Rare games such as Goldeneye, Killer Instinct & Blast Corps. He is also the main composer of Timesplitters.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook - Graeme Norgate

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:15 - Graeme Norgate’s Setup

01:11 - Evolution Of How Graemes Composing

03:20 - How Graeme Ended Up At Rare

07:00 - How Composers At Rare Were Picked To Compose Games

10:25 - Graemes Way Of Working At Rare

12:29 - Goldeneye’s Music/Bond Theme

13:37 - Egyptian Temple Theme

14:56 - How Graeme Composers

16:02 - Goldeneye Pipe Sound

18:43 - Composing For Killer Instinct

25:45 - Mick Gordons Killer Instinct Soundtrack

26:52 - Relationship With Robin Beanland

28:06 - Good Camaraderie With All The Other Rare Composers/Robin Helping Graeme

30:32 - Composing Timesplitters/Perfect Dark

35:26 - Audio Director At Crytek/What Is An Audio Director

38:39 - Graeme Is Currently Working On Mobile Games

40:56 - Graeme Doesn’t Work To A Routine & Doesn’t Know His Method Of Composing

43:44 - Writers Block

45:28 - Rare Staff Not Knowing How Well They Were Regarded

47:50 - Graeme Wasn’t Approached For Killer Instinct (2013)/

49:25 - Music Becoming Dated

50:16 - Mick Gordon

51:22 - Travelling To Research Music Not Possible In The Olden Days

52:55 - Graeme Doesn’t Want To Work On Film

55:35 - Game Music Is Diverse/Game Music Has Faster Turnaround

58:03 - TV & Film Industry Is Cut Throat/Differences Between Game & TV Music

1:00:15 - Gaming Is Only Increasing/Older Generation Don’t Understand Gaming

1:01:41 - Grant Kirkhope/Its Who You Know Not What You Know

1:05:03 - Where To Follow Graeme Norgate

Kimberley Crossman is a well known actress, author, presenter, producer, writer, director, dancer, stand-up comedian (Basically ridiculously talented). She also hosts a podcast called Pretty Depressed.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Website - kimberleycrossman.com

Instagram - @kimcrossman

Facebook - Kimberley Crossman

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

01:12 - What Kim Has Been Doing During Covid-19

02:56 - L.A. Humbled Kim/Realities Of L.A.

04:43 - Dealing With Rejection/What Takes A Toll On Kim

06:32 - Kim Believes She Is An Intense Person

07:47 - Kim’s Depression

09:40 - Chloe Swarbrick

11:50 - Interviewing Celebrities

13:13 - Celebrities Kim Gets Nervous Around

14:04 - Kim Prefers To Audition Rather Than Trying To Get Favours

14:43 - Taika Waititi/NZ On The Map Now In L.A.

15:35 - Kiwi Accent

16:55 - Kim’s Time In Syria & India And How It Shaped Her

23:05 - Clean Air In L.A. During Lockdown

24:24 - How Kimberley Ended Up On The Project

25:22 - John Campbell

26:03 - Kim’s Swearing/Brownyn Directing Kim’s Career

27:35 - How Kim Became An Actress

29:15 - Reece Tells His Shortland Street Audition Story

30:31 - More Opportunities For Men In Acting

31:07 - What Roles Kim Gets

31:51 - LL Cool J & The Rock Aren’t As Big As Kim Thought

33:00 - How Kim Sees Herself On Screen

33:30 - Sometimes A Director Cant Convey What They Want

35:08 - Things Kim Hasn’t Done But What She Would Love To Do/Hollywood Hierarchy

37:24 - Hollywood Vs NZ People

38:34 - Kim Has Been Offered Roles But Auditions If She Doesn’t Feel Right For The Role

40:05 - Kim Improvises Without Permission

41:54 - Kim Wants To Be In Amazons Lord Of The Rings

42:38 - Learning The American Accent

44:05 - Fake It Till You Make It

45:05 - Boundaries/Kim’s Bad Eating Habits

48:25 - Dealing With Fame/Politics

50:12 - Kim Was Disappointed By Kiwis Giving Her Shit About BLM

51:20 - Social Media/Kim Tries To Understand A Different Perspective

53:04 - What Reece & Kim Learned During Covid/Lockdown

54:57 - Where To Follow Kim Crossman

Stephanie Nadolny is a well known voice actor who is widely praised for her role as Young Gohan In Dragonball Z and Young Goku In Dragonball.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter - @StephVox

Instagram - @stephanienadolny

Facebook - Stephanie Nadolny

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:47 - How Stephanie Got Into Voice Acting & Got Cast In Dragonball Z

04:22 - Stephanie Was Always Singing, Playing Music & Mimicking Voices

06:10 - The Audition Process For Gohan/Working On The Early Episodes

08:36 - Playing Young Goku In Dragonball

09:40 - Syncing Vocals With Mouth Flaps

12:13 - Stephanies Directing Opportunities/Singing For Funimation

13:14 - Funimation Expanding Over Time

14:42 - Stephanie Is Not Very Tech Savvy 

15:59 - Difficulty Of Doing Gohan Yelling 

18:26 - Stephanie Was Notified Of Story In Advance/How Director Would Guide Stephanie

20:18 - Stephanie’s Favourite DBZ Moments To Voice

23:33 - Stephanie Tried To Lobby To Be Adult Gohan As Well

24:15 - Voicing East Kai

25:22 - Background Voices

26:48 - Why Stephanie Was Replaced On DBZ Kai Going Forward

29:58 - Going To Anime Conventions/Cameo

32:23 - Stephanie’s Time In New Zealand & Australia For Conventions

37:18 - Stephanie Loves New Zealand

39:20 - Perth 

40:58 - L.A. Based Industries Moving To Texas

42:22 - Stephanie Originally Wanted To Move To L.A. Before Dragonball Z

44:40 - Covid-19’s Effect On Stephanie’s Work

47:35 - Stephanie Loves Fans And Talking 

48:29 - The Hardships Stephanie Had Growing Up

51:04 - Anti Bullying Campaign

53:22 - Stephanie Tells A Personal Story

55:21 - Reece Tells His Story On How DBZ Helped Him

56:32 - Stephanie Working Through Hardships And Coming Out The Otherside

58:38 - Where To Follow Stephanie Nadolny