Episode: 259

What’s Inside 259

Pat Fraley (https://patfraley.com/) talks about his upcoming appearance at Unicon in Las Vegas October 1st-3rd, 2021 (https://www.unicon.vegas/), his online voice acting courses (https://patfraley.com/pf/product-category/hsc/), and his amazing career voicing characters for TMNT, GI Joe, TaleSpin, The Centurions, BraveStarr, and more!

0:00 SEGMENT 1: Pat Fraley (https://twitter.com/PFraleyteaches) talks about voicing cartoons in the same room as his fellow cast members, when it’s okay to change a line in the script, how Pat’s courses teach students how to wow a casting director in the first 4 seconds of an audition, and the differences between how directors act whether it is a cartoon, video game, or narration gig.

16:56 SEGMENT 2: Pat Fraley (https://www.youtube.com/user/PatrickFraley) talks about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cast reuniting at Unicon in Las Vegas October 1st-3rd, the most interesting fan interaction he’s ever had at a convention, how animation really exploded after He-Man debuted in 1983, trading voices with Neil Ross, and the one role he wished he would have gotten.

31:56 SEGMENT 3: Pat Fraley talks about meeting Ed Asner after being targeted by Nazis, his 3 favorite projects of all time, admiring Don Messick and Daws Butler as a kid and then later getting to work with them, who made him a better actor, what celebrities do after a convention is over, and if he regrets not taking on more live action roles.