Narrator: Prepare to get seriously buzzed with your hosts Chuck Duran and Stacey J Aswad!

Stacey: Is it true or false that you got in trouble when you went on the Ariel's Undersea Adventure?

Chris: A little bit, a little bit yeah...I mean

Stacey: Confess, what did you do?

Chris: Well right, I guess the ride was a soft opening

Chuck and Stacey: Yeah

Chris: And so Pat Brady, my agent - the reason I have a career, you know, she said

Stacey: *Inaudible*

Chris: Yep exactly and she had some of her clients that had done voices for the rides like we're all over that Park - between us and some of the other guys were on a few rides, so we went on the Little Mermaid ride and

we're up in the very first car in the front seat and Scuttle starts the ride, you know "Gonna tell you a story about Ariel and the rest of the gang". And I just thought well I'm not gonna miss, this took out my phone, start recording it.

Stacey: That's not good!

Chris: It was just for me, you know I don't even have an active Twitter.

Stacey: Something for you.

Chris: Exactly, I know so we go through the ride have a blast and then at the end of the ride two smiling

you were recording the ride." And I said "oh yeah, yeah, see! Ya, you don't know this but, yeah, I'm Scuttle! They said, "yeah, that's great, can we see your phone, please?" I said well, yeah sure. And he says "We just have to erase this." I said yeah but, but I'm Scuttle! That was my voice I was recording! "Sure, yeah I know and that's great and that's wonderful, you're Scuttle, there you go!" and so...

Chuck: Wow!

Chris: He had to erase it. of course, now on YouTube, you can see the entire ride from every conceivable angle!

better be, it's VO Buzz Weekly, eh?

Stacey: Love Gobber, Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy...

Chris: yeah, Final Fantasy, yeah, yeah

Stacey: You have some very devoted fans!

Chris: I, there...yeah...

Stacey: He's a kooky one, that guy...

Chris: He's a, yeah, he's got that...I always gave him kind of a redneck voice.

Stacey: Yeah?

Chris: Yeah, you know, yeah, I mean he's a lot of guys I grew up with just like Cid once they get a couple of beers in them, you know? There was a guy I went to school with up at the University of Georgia, he was from Appalachia and he had a bit more of a country accent. He used to tell me, "man, last night I drank enough liquor to float a battleship." That...well, yeah...but I've noticed that some of the most devoted and rabid fans are anime fans.

Stacey: Yeah...

Chris: Yeah, I made the mistake of posting a credit a little bit too early...

Chuck: No!

Chris: That was...only happened once I did some dubbing for Naruto and...actually no, it was for the Final Fantasy thing and before the movie got released I just sort of put it up on IMDB that I Cid Highwind and Pat called me and said did you "did you put up your Cid Highwind credit?" And I said, yeah, yeah, cuz it's

offline and said "this is what he sounds like! He does orange juice commercials..." Like, well yeah, it was a Tropicana spot...yeah that paid my pension. That was my pension credit that year, buddy! You know? Yeah, I realized, yeah, they do care.

Stacey: Yeah you don't mess with the anime...

Chris: They care lots, yeah, yeah...

Chuck: They're serious about their anime.

Chris: Yeah, I do this character named Hidan on Naruto who's the most despicable, evil, depraved character ever. So, of course, he's fun to play...

Chuck: What does he sound like?

Chris: He actually, he kind of sounds like me but just an incredibly cocky version.

Stacey: A cocky, creepy version?

Chris: If I were also homicidal. Yeah and at an extremely short fuse, you know, he gets mad a lot and he kills a lot of people and of course, it's on Disney XD...

Chuck: Oh my God!

Chris: Well it was, originally, and that I think they moved it.

Stacey: Yeah.

Chris: You know they realized "yeah, this is a bit strong..."

Chuck: Well, that's what the X is for!

Chris: Yeah, I thought do they realize, you know, this is like xxx? It wasn't...I don't think... it's just really...it's just a really intense show...but...yeah. Like, I don't do very many conventions...or I didn't, I'm gonna step into that world a little bit more, I think in future...but people at the conventions love that. Like, you know, do Hidan into my phone and do his laughs and all that. And it's like they're...yeah.

Chuck: So, I have to take you here man...

Chuck:...impersonator!

Chris: Thank you!

Chuck: And there's no way that we're going to let you leave this...

Chris: Okay...

Chuck:...without showing our audience out there,

Chris: Because...

Chuck: ...some of your freaking a-list impressions.

Stacey: Not necessarily your typical, uh...

Chris: Right...

Stacey: But you can also find this on youtube, you guys.

Chris: Yeah, I did a few. I have friends who are always telling me "Look at this guy! This guy does like 80 impressions and it's in one minute!" and he's got all these cuts in there and "You should do one of those!" I

Chris: Well, that's a little seventies...

Chuck: You're freakin' face...like, you, you look like him!

Chris: It's cause I used to do these on stage and you have to kind of sell it.

Stacey and Chuck: Yeah!

Chris: Like I do...I would do Peter O'Toole on stage like a Charlie Rose interview. Peter O'Toole every question he gets asked, his answer has to do with alcohol...like...

Chris as Charlie Rose: Peter how do you prepare for a role?

Chuck: Hey, Chris?

Chris: Yes, Chuck?

know'. I had one line in the audition and I read that and I booked it and I've been doing that for nine years and it's just one audition that went well out of...I don't know how many I had that week...15 or 20?

Stacey and Chuck: Yeah.

Chris: So you know, yeah you...you never know which one is going to be the one that clicks. If I go back and look at the things I've booked, I can't always remember what I did for the audition or what I was thinking...if I knew...

Stacey: Are you a harsh critic of your work or do you kind of just do...

Chris: It's funny...

Stacey: ... go in and get out and move on...

Chris: If I'm at the agency and there's a booth director directing me, I'll go in and I'll usually get it in one take, maybe two and that's it I'm done. I'm completely happy with it and if I'm at home seven eight nine takes because I'll go "yeah, I could do better, I could do better, I could do better. I think that happens to all of us.

Chuck: What are you listening for?

Chris: I just...it's a feel. I just like to imagine if I was the casting director and I was listening to that, would I like it?

Chuck: But you don't you know...

Chris: They give you the breakdown, yeah, but you don't know if that's really what they're gonna go with

because I'll remember certain parts...I'll see it on TV and I think that's not what they were asking for they changed their mind! Right, you know, or someone came in and so blew them away with a different take they thought forget what we wanted that's what we want!

Stacey: Yeah

Chris: They don't know what they want until they hear it sometimes that's...that's probably the way we would all be in that job. It's a tough job.

Chuck: It is!

Stacey: So at this point, you know, hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of jobs later and thousands of auditions later are you pretty much fine tuned with I go with my gut and...

Chuck: I think you have to.

Chris: Yeah, I mean, I've tried second-guessing myself and it's usually the same result as going with my gut. I mean there's the rare thing where if they want something uber specific then you can be uber specific with your read...but basically they shotgun it out there and the fine-tuning happens on the day... you know. I did something for the movie Chappaquiddick which is out now and I read just a couple of different lines with a Boston accent and when I went in to do the gig I did it with an ADR group then they separated me for that one thing and that's when they started to tweak. "Alright try this, try this, try this." I didn't have the ability to do that for the audition.

Stacey: Right.

Chris: I gave him one thing that I thought I could do well, they heard it and thought ok that's what we need and we can work with them from there. So as specific as you want to get...I think when you get too specific you're giving them less than you think you're giving them. If you get tied into one kind of read you're going all out with that, that's great, that might work, but sometimes it's better to let them know that you could go either way. Put in more than one take if you can. Yeah, if you can do more than one thing and if they say it's okay, do it! You know give them more than one way to think of you doing the job.

Chuck: Do you clean your auditions up?

Chris: I do. I'll take some breaths that you know, if I'm at home and I know I've got the...the time, I'll take a good breath so I can get through a long piece of copy, where you can tell they don't want you breathing in the midst of it. So, yeah, I'll clean that up because why let them have to wade through that? You know? Why leave it for them to do it? So I give them something as pristine as possible.

Chuck: Yeah.

Chris: I think it can only help.

Chuck: Yeah, good. You're a good boy.

Chris: I try!

Stacey: He's cleanin' up his act.

Chris: Right.

Stacey: So your brothers...you have a very creative and artistic...

Chris: Yeah, three brothers...

Stacey: ...group of siblings and you guys...is it with one of your brothers that you're creating...

Chris: Mmhmm, my brother Dave.

Stacey: Yeah

Chris: Yeah, my older brother Dave...

Stacey: Hey Dave!

Chris: Yeah, hey Dave!

Chris: Well we have a little side hustle, I like to call Edgy Brothers and...

Chuck: Edgy Brothers?

Chris: Yeah, you know we're Edgerly and we try and be a little bit edgy with what we create. You know, originally like my brother is a very talented artist - I always like to say as good as I am with voices, that's as good as he is with graphic design, with sculpting, with animation...he can do all of that. So we originally created something for Kickstarter. We created a deck of cards because apparently, you can design a deck

of cards and Bicycle, the US playing card company, will print them for you if you give them enough money and so people go on Kickstarter and they design these decks of cards and they get funding for it and then they...BOOM, they go have bicycle make them! So we did a few decks of cards that did pretty well and then we've sold all those. And when you have a physical product you've got to store it, you've got to inventory it, you've got to do wholesale deals, you've got a ship to buyers, and we thought, well enough of that we like to create, we don't like to deal with all that other stuff...

Chuck: Yeah

Chris: So, we finally have settled on just making digital content. So my brother is an animation whiz, he found a good animation program. I'll record these voices. I'll email them to him and he'll animate to them. So we came up with this one-minute series of clips we call Happy Hour. And I asked my brother, what's the easiest thing for you to animate, and he said something with no arms or legs because that's the least amount of movement possible. So I thought all right, well what about what about glasses and cups and things? He goes "perfect, we'll do that!" So he just put mouths on these glasses and it's these bar glasses talking to each other and one of them sounds like Jeff Goldblum, one of them sounds like Harvey Fierstein, one of them sounds like Gary Busey. Like the beer is Gary Busey, the Collins glass is Jeff Goldblum, the hurricane glass where you put pina coladas and fruity drinks is Harvey Fierstein. We have a shot glass, it sounds like Martin Scorsese...he talks really fast and he goes from subject to subject and then he changes his mind every now and then, somebody drinks and he puts them back down, we gotta get filled up again before he talks some more, you know, kind of like that, yeah, and we just have them all interact with each other and we do these quick one-minute clips and we put them up just on YouTube for people to enjoy. And we have, like, the not-safe-for-work version.

Stacey: Right.

Chris: Which is just on Patreon and we don't really have anybody supporting us at the moment because I've barely talked about it.

Stacey: Yeah

Chris: But we put it up on Patreon and we would love to be able to generate some support so we can just pay for being able to make them.

Chris: Yeah, whatever voices I sent him he's gonna animate and we'd just sort of like it to be this living breathing thing this is what we're gonna pivot to but...the point is we want to be able to think of voices to do, write something for them, I send it to my brother, he animates it, boom we put it up online, and let's see if anyone wants to support us.

Stacey: Totally cool, it's a family...keep it in the family!

Chris and Chuck: Absolutely!

Stacey: And to be able to generate content and nurture your creativity is fantastic!

have to kind of support us to see that. You know like, again, a dollar a month.

Chuck: Hey, why don't we help them out?

Stacey: Yeah!

Chris: Why not?

Chuck: Edgy Brothers!

Stacey: Yeah

Chris: For a buck a month you can see all the stuff we've done.

Chuck: That's so cool.

Chris: Thank you, thank you, it's fun!

Chuck: Hey Chris, what do you think are some of the keys to your longevity besides your awesome talent?

Chris: Why thank you!

Chuck: And your wife's fashion...

Chris: She picks it out, I take it to the tailor and say cut it to give me muscles and boom! I honestly wouldn't be doing anything else. This is all I can...it's not all I can do, but it's what I want to do very very badly and I'm going to be a creator until the day I die because that's who I am. My uncle is a psychologist and he used

Chris: That's my tribe, that's who I am, that's who I hang out with and I mix it up with civilians all the time. I get along with everybody.

Chuck: Yeah

Chris: But there's a disconnect. I don't quite get them and they don't quite get me because they go to a job that can, for them, sometimes be a chore. But sometimes they go to a job that they feel in their bones the way I feel what I do. There are people who are accountants and they feel it in their bones,  that's what they do.

Stacey and Chuck: Yeah

Chris: And they've never worked a day in their lives...so longevity is...I stuck with it because even when I wasn't making any money doing it, it's what I wanted to do and if I was in it for results only, I probably would have quit.

Stacey: Yeah, it's exactly who you are.

Chris: Yes. And when I, like my wife got to go see me do a job where they didn't quite know what they wanted, but they had already worked with me and they said we're fleshing this character out, all this session is gonna be is us throwing ideas at you and my wife is a musician and I told her later I said "That was jazz, what you saw", because they said "Try it with this accent, okay try it from this part of the country, what if he's this age,

what if he's that age, what if he's feeling this or that" and I loved it! They were paying me to go to acting class.

Chuck: That's really good.

Chris: Yeah and I think anyone who's looking to get into it, you know if it's what you want to do, you're gonna because you're gonna take a pounding even after you quote-unquote made it. Even after you've had a year where you finally qualified for insurance or maybe you finally got enough money together to put down on a condo or a house or something and you're living like an adult. Yes! I've made it and then the next year it's gonna be brutal for some reason, you can't...you get arrested or whatever, you're gonna think...wait, I thought I had it! It's like no you have it, you still have it. It's never gonna go away, but the way the industry responds to you may change from year to year. But if you can deal with that, if you can deal with that uncertainty, you'll...you'll never quit.

Chuck: Yeah

Chris: You know...

Chuck: Because that's who you are!

Chris: Yeah, but I want to meet my great-great grandchildren and I want them...I want them to tell me how's it going?

Chuck: Yeah...

Chris: You know what's the world like? What do you like? Because maybe I'd have something to pass on to them. It's like, what do you like? What's...and I would ask them two questions, I'd say what do you enjoy doing? And what's giving you a hard time, what's bothering you? Aand whatever they're enjoying I'd say good, good, good tell me more about that. Tell me what you love about that so, you know, don't ever forget that and then whatever's bothering them we'll get that sorted out, you know, we'll give them the right attitude about that.

Chuck: Yeah

Chris: You know, so yeah, grandchildren.

Chuck: Great, fantastic man!

Stacey: You are good people, Chris Edgerly

Chris: I try! At least when I'm on camera!

Stacey: Thanks for being here!

Chuck: Absolutely, dude, and I gotta say, man, right from the friggin moment that we...well I mean, you guys have known each other for a little bit, right?

Stacey: Little bit, yeah.

Chuck: But we just met for the first time...

Chris:...over at the office

Chuck: over at the CESD

Chris: Yeah but you're one of those guys, everybody warms up to you...

Chuck: Well, everybody warms up to you, but well...no I mean like instantly, there was like when we left, I was like wow what a freaking cool guy!

Chris: Well yeah, because my life is charmed!

Chuck: Well, no, by the way, you were like hey why don't you guys come down to this thing and blah blah and you were like instantly giving us gifts, you know.

Chris: It was great!

Chuck: Which was so cool, thank you!

Chris: Thank you! I mean look, people have done it for me and I do it for other people and, and you just that's what makes the world go around!

Stacey: Well, now we have your fantastic journey on the Internet!

different voices... I got nothing...I got nothing...proper mic technique with Chris Edgerly don't shout your voice. Just read it the way you would normally, read it and then on camera technique is don't let your eyes cross if it happened...

Stacey: You're lensing...

Chris: No on camera for me!

Chuck: Well, that concludes our wonderful two-part episode with the awesome Chris Edgerly!

Chuck: What a cool guy man! So, so, so, cool, go out and support his stuff man cuz he's really really a great guy and leave your comments below for us

Stacey and Chuck: You always have time for a little buzz...