Interviews – David Kaye Master of the Beasts!!!

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Returning to the Geekcast Radio Network is the

one, the only, David Kaye. Hello. How are you

doing, David? I'm good. How are you? Doing well.

Good. I have my... I have my wine. I didn't have

any yesterday, so I thought this evening I...

I brought a little up. It's 7 o 'clock. It's

after dinner, so I have a little, yeah, just

enjoy a little California sunshine. I guess that

says a lot about us here at the Geekast Radio

Network, folks. Our guests have to be drunk to

be on the podcast with us. That is absolutely

not true. No, it's... I kid, I kid. I hope nobody

takes that and runs like... It's a joke, folks.

No, it is a joke. No, I have, it's just, it was

just, it was a good, good busy day today. And

I had dinner. I went, you know what? I got a

little something. And you are a bit of a wine

connoisseur, are you not? I'm a nerd when it

comes to wine. I mean, you know, yeah, wine geek,

bottle nerd. I don't know. I just, I love it

because it's like, yeah. It's got history and

geography and topography and things. It's farming.

It's hard -ass work. It's blood, sweat, and tears.

I don't know. It's a bunch of old guys squishing

grapes with their smelly feet is what it is.

Well, if you're enduro, that's what happens,

making port. But no, it's a lot of young people

getting dirty. I had a chance to do that. I actually

felt like I was doing something for, you know,

not that this job is not like you're doing something,

but on my 50th birthday, I was at a winery in

Napa, and I got a chance, my wife and I, to bring

the grapes that are coming in. It's harvest,

and I'm doing punchdowns, and I'm bringing the

grapes in. I'm stacking crates, and I left one

thinking, now that's work. That's real work,

and I felt like I didn't want to go. I thought,

what am I doing? Making goofy voices. This is

people, you know, working their butts off. Anyway,

it's hard work. It's hard work, man. Definitely

the appreciation for it. Yeah. Anyway, I digress.

So before we get started, it's been a while since

we've talked to you. The first time was in 2009

and then in 2011. So what's been going on in

that time since we last talked to you? Oh, boy.

Kind of sounds like my agent said. I haven't

seen my agent. He's retiring, the main agent.

I haven't seen him for three years, and we meet

at a restaurant. He goes, okay, I want the whole

story. So what happened? What's going on? Where

are you? You're living out here now? What's happening?

And so I gave him the whole tour. But yeah, we

live in Ventura County now. We moved north of

the city of Los Angeles, and I can sleep. I hear.

owls and crickets and frogs in the gully as I

can see mountains and I can see ocean. I go,

oh God. So yeah, the great migration during the

pandemic where everybody thought, okay, what

are we doing? What's important? What's going

on? We ended up moving up here and yeah, it feels

good. So yeah, we're a little further north of

LA now and the conventions are coming back, have

done four already. Always been, you know, I was

always nervous about getting out there and doing

them, but everything's so far. Knock on wood.

It's been great. BotCon is back when it was in

Nashville. And I've met a lot of great people

there and friends I haven't seen for quite a

long time. A lot of people have beards now. longer

hair which is like yeah you know it's kind of

scary i've had a beard since i was 28 and that

was back in 2008 so yeah so so since we you know

since 2009 and now there's a lot more gray hair

and some more beards uh and younger fans which

is kind of really cool the parents are now exposing

their kids to uh the beast wars it's amazing

man i mean look who knew 20 it's been over 25

years and and uh people you know they still want

to hear this pleasant surprise you know so it's

um yeah i'm grateful grateful you know the only

thing wrong with that button is it has the wrong

faction symbol on it which one the new one should

have the right one Really? There's a new one?

Oh, yeah. This is the second run. Actually, the

symbol was designed. We didn't want to do any

crazy copyright stuff. The new one's designed

with the actual Predacon logo, but it's designed

by... She designs the wooden buttons. Oh, Candice?

No, not Candice. Again, she's, she's phenomenal

talent and she put a big yes across it. So we,

uh, these are selling really well. Yeah. These,

they're, they're, uh, they're a hit. Apparently

the first one's a bit of a copyright infringement

deal and we had to put, uh, we had to put a stop

to that. So, um, yeah. Yeah. I just watched that

video on your channel. I was like, you know,

Steve was like, yeah, that's the wrong faction

symbol on that thing. What, the new one? I've

seen the new one. No, the old one. No, the old

one. It had the Decepticon or something on it.

Oh, yeah. No, no. Yeah, that was a mistake. That

was old. Somehow it went, how did I not catch

that? That's been corrected. Yeah. It looks very

cool now. Mm -hmm. So can you give us the scoop

on what's going on in your world currently, and

are there any upcoming projects you're allowed

to kind of talk about or reveal? Well, there

was one project I cannot talk about, but I was

in the studio for it. I was in the studio for

the first time two days ago. What's today, Thursday?

Yesterday, I was in the studio for the first

time in two and a half years. Oh, wow. And you

walk in, you smell that sort of dusty electronic

smell. You go, oh, my God, I'm home. Because

my studio smells like home. Uh, when you go into

the studio, it's all, it smells like, Oh, this

is, it's like if you're an actor and you do stage

work, you walk into the theater and you smell

that grease paint and that sweat and fear and

you go, Oh yeah, this is it. I love this. And

it was just great to sort of interact with people

on the other side of the glass. You know, uh,

I really, really miss that. So last thing we

were doing, uh, before we're all shut down is

a He -Man masters of the universe and, uh, you

know, battle cat and, uh, and, and we were having

a ball at the whole cast. We're still actually

on a text thread. If somebody does something

stupid or we'll text each other. I mean, Freddie

Tatasciore is on it. Tom Candy. We're all, you

know, we're all still on this. It's such a great

cast. And we had to go home after that and did

the rest of it on, you know, over Zoom and in

our home studios. So, but there's, yeah, Farzar

is out there. It's a crazy, you know, way out

like a wacky adventure in space. Not for the

faint of heart. Not a family show. Yeah, it's

very Ren and Stimpy. Yeah, very. It pushes every

boundary. It's further than Ren and Stimpy, man.

Yeah, exactly. It pushes every boundary. And

that was fun for me to do sort of a primetime

comedy show, work with Waco, Gwynn, and Roger

Black. And so, yeah, that's out there. I mean,

there's still people talking about Psychonauts

2 and Honey Pepper Ballback and Four Crawlers

back, and I worked with Jack Black on that one.

And the Ratchet and Clank thing is out. James

Arnold Taylor and I actually, speaking of Ratchet

and Clank, are finally doing a con together.

I can't believe we actually have not done one

together as a duo. I think it's in Pensacola,

Florida in February. So that'll be exciting.

That's if Florida survives. There's a lot of

things going on down in Florida right now at

this moment. It's just... What do you say? I

have a lot of friends down there. I have a family

that's actually down there. They went down to

put new windows in their house down there, and

I'm not sure if the windows might be standing,

but I don't know. It's hard to say. So hopefully

by the time that comes around in February, things

will be a little better situation. Everyone in

Florida, stay safe and stay away from Cheetor.

It's all Cheetor's fault. Oh, Cheetor. Ian. My

finger. Oh, my finger, Ian. Yeah. I think you

do a better Gary Chalk than Gary Chalk does a

Gary Chalk. It's funny because over the course

of the pandemic, we're all desperate to reach

out to people. And we're seeing doing Zoom and

FaceTime and talking to people we haven't talked

to for a while because no one knows where this

thing is headed. So the phone rings one day and

it's early in the pandemic in 2020 and it's like,

Hey, David Kaye. I go, Gary, how you doing? Not

bad. I haven't talked to Gary. I've seen Gary

for so long because I'm a Californian. I left

in 2007. He's up in Canada. Him and I, actually,

we talked more during the course of the past

two years than we had in the... All the years

I've been down here, which is just great. Ian,

I've seen Ian numerous times, and he splits his

time, I think, between here and the desert and

up there, I think. And who else? Yeah, so it

really has been. And the first convention I'd

done in a while where the Canadian crew that

I used to work with were in Dallas. And it was

like all home week. And, man, we couldn't stop

talking and laughing. And it was such a great

thing to see everybody that I'd sort of started

with and used to hang out with. in Vancouver,

some great, great memories. And yeah, it's like

time had never, had never ceased to exist. It

was, it was fantastic. But yeah, we're all still

friends. We all still hang when we can. Absolutely.

All right. We're going to talk about acting for

a moment. And obviously acting is the general

term for the craft, but we all know that there

are differences and different. genres of acting

from voiceover to on -camera, whether that's

film or television, there's stage acting. What

is it about acting that you love the most after

all these years of being an actor? Not having

to be yourself all the time is number one. Oh,

I don't have to be me? Oh, good. Thank God. Well,

you know, the whole idea of people, it's acting

is the thing they call it. I tend to call it

just being. I keep telling people, you know,

when you step in behind a microphone, it has

to be every character you create and you're doing,

whether it's either on camera, on stage or behind

the microphone, especially because all the nuances

the mic picks up. It has to be truthful. It has

to be part of you. It has to be honest. It has

the character has to live and breathe and have

a heartbeat and laugh and smile and cry. You

have to bring all that to the character. Someone

who's a professional and someone who's, you know,

trying to get, you know, to that to that point

is the truth in it all. Whether you're reading

a narrative piece, whether it's a trailer, whether

it's a, you know, a character or this long form

it. Look, I spent many years trying to figure

out who the hell I am. And it's one thing about

acting teaches you. It's you start to figure

out who you are. And for the most of our lives,

including me and everyone else, we wear masks

every day. We go around and. We think we know

who we are, and we put on this facade and this

face and this mask, and we get home, and our

pajamas are on, and we're watching, and we're

ourselves. So my whole thing is to tell people,

look, you've got to be yourself. You've got to

be who you are, and especially the mic's going

to pick that up because the mic calls bullshit,

and it's easy. We've all heard commercials and

spots and shows and characters. We go, I don't

believe that. It just sounds like they're reading

it. Yeah. for the most part. It's hard to get

to that point. So my little thing on acting is

what I love about it is it teaches you about

yourself and who the hell you are. And to be

able to figure that, you've got to, man, you've

got to travel. I think, what, 14%, 15 % of Americans,

we travel. And everybody in Australia, they're

traveling. Like, you can be in the middle of

the Gobi Desert in the middle of nowhere, and

the first person you come across is, can I, Mike,

what's going on? Oh, Australia. Yeah, because

they're in front of a freaking island, and they've

got to go. You got to go somewhere. You know,

you go nuts, but it's travel and read as much

as you can. And, and, and, and empathy is a big

thing because you got to, if you're going to

be playing a character or doing something, you

have to empathize with their situation. You have

to know how that feels. Right. And it's got to

be fricking truthful. So it's a game. It's a

fun game to play to see if you can get to, if,

if, if the character you're doing is, is it comes

across as real and believable. Yeah, absolutely.

Oh yeah. So following that up and kind of focusing

on the voice acting from animation to video games

to narration, you know, with all the different

types, what is your favorite type of voice acting

to do? Wow. I mean, I love, you know, look, everyone

loves animation cartoons. I mean, God, we all

grew up with cartoons. My favorite thing to do

and what I always wanted to do was trailers.

you know, a career in trailers. One of my mentors,

Don LaFontaine and Donna became good friends

before he passed away. And he's the guy who invented

in a world, you know, there's something there

in trailer. There is a right way. And there's

a wrong way to do it. And I always tell people

there's a, when you're thinking of doing narration

for movie trailer, you know, okay, sell me the,

sell me the movie, but don't sell me the movie.

Give me everything, but give me nothing. It's

like this tightrope you walk in the reed. And

I always just love the game of trying to find

something, trying to, you know, out of that.

And it took many years of scratching. I'm still

scratching. It's been how many, frigging 15,

whatever it is, 12, 13, 14 years. And I get hired

more often than not these days. But in the beginning,

you're like, what am I going to do? And it was

one day. And I'd had, you know, jobs here and

there, and it's gone along pretty good. And I

finally was sort of, it was a frustrating day.

And I had this thing come across for Richard

Jewell, the Clint Eastwood, the Malpaso Productions

film. And I just, I said, geez, man, I have no

idea what to do. And I sort of stepped, stepped

up to the mic and was, Richard Jewell, rated

PG -13, in theaters Friday. You know, I just,

I did that. And I thought, okay, you know what,

I'm sending it. I don't know. And it didn't do

anything. And then I get a call back. Hey, they

love you for the, for the, I go, what? Because

yeah, they love, they want to put you in another

movie with, so they go. holy crap so i didn't

do anything exactly so so and there in life sort

of found me because in trailers i do these i

do this summer i do this sort of this christmas

i can do an old man like a storyteller i can

sort of put on a thing i've done english and

i've done Different things. I did. What was it?

Coda on the Academy Award. Coda in theaters Friday.

Just a younger version of me. And and so I realized

that if I just do nothing and just be me, that

it works. I'll go. That's me. Because, yeah,

because I've tried all my life and trying to

feel who am I? What is my read? What is the David

Kaye read? And three little words in theaters

Friday, you know, whatever. I go, oh. Well, that's

okay. So that's, so I could finally hang my hat

on something. Cause I was always doing characters.

So it was just trailers has always, it's been

a thing for me. And I've ever, since I was a

kid and went to the movies in my hometown and

saw a legend of boggy Creek, it was like a Halloween

thing. And my, my, my, my friend went to, we

were very young. I'm at 12, 13. I don't know.

And I heard the voice coming this summer. You

know, the reads were different back then. And,

um, And I thought, oh, I never forgot that. I

never forgot that voice. And I always thought

all along when I get into radio and I, I thought,

I want to do that. How do you do that? I want

to, how do I get into that? And, uh, it's just,

so for me, when I do a trailer and I listened

to it back, I get goosebumps. Cause I think that's,

that's a dream come true. That's like, oh my

God. Uh, so that's one of my favorite things

to do out of all of it, but Hey, it's all good,

man. It's all, it's all good. That's very awesome.

Yeah, absolutely. And as far as I know, to this

point, because of the delays and everything else

and all that's going on within Hasbro, I don't

think there have been any trailers yet or any

anything. for rise of the beasts can you imagine

if they got you to do the voiceover for the rod

transformers rise of the beasts well i would

love i would love that now here's here's another

thing um i was i did the eternals as arishem

and um i did and i i they booked me the uk i

do a bunch of trailers in the uk as well they

have american voices they hire over there and

um and i did the trailer for the eternals you

know it was eternals available now and you know

And it was kind of cool that I was in the movie

and I did the trailers. So that would be kind

of cool to be. And at this point, it might be

the only way I'll ever get close to any of this

fancy schmancy film work to do with Beast Wars

or Transformers. Dave Kaye's not on their radar

as much as I'd love to. But look, it's their

deal, man. And, you know, it's nothing to do

with me. I mean, still, that would be amazing.

It's just like when you hear Don's voice on any

classic trailer that Don ever did. It's the same

thing. Like, Steve and I both, to him a little

bit more than me, because he does a facsimile

of Megatron. He's probably the best one that

does it. I try. Go ahead. Don't try. Do. Yes.

Welcome to All Things Transformers. Yes. That's

not bad. Get there. I hear the Sean Connery in

there. I hear the, yeah. Yeah. I thought you

were made of sterner stuff. Oh, wow. You're.

No, Mike, Mike has fun throwing me under the

bus when we record the, uh, the beast wars, uh,

comic, like the, uh, the reading the, through

the dialogue of it. Cause I can do, I can do

like the dino bot and tarantulas and all of those

characters. Yeah. Those are so much fun. I do

like, I'm the same way when I read comic books,

I have to put the voice in my head or I have

to say, Oh yeah. It makes us so much better.

Yeah. And my point in saying that is it would

be really, really cool if, again, like I mentioned

with the Don LaFontaine stuff, if, oh, my God,

it was the voice of Beast Wars Megatron and TFA.

Like, oh, wow, he's doing the trailer for a Transformers

movie. That would be great. Yeah. Paramount,

if you're listening, hire the man. I just quickly,

before we go to the next, I was just talking

to another, I was doing another show the other

day and I said, you know, it is, you know, Hollywood

is this thing. And if you're doing your own movie,

you have your own people and it's your, your

vision is in your whatever. The fact that I get

to inhabit these characters for five minutes

is outstanding to say the least, but it's always

great. And as Transformers fans, we all know

it's always great when the powers that be. listen

to the fandom oh yeah and listen and and sort

of listen to what the fans would like is it's

always such a rush the people who don't know

go oh yeah it was a great movie you know they

really but the fans are what keep the franchise

alive and they know this the backstory and they

they they're a very uh hip and they're very well

aware of every character involved in their place

in the universe and You got to listen to the

fans, man. Get an idea of what's going on in

the fandom. It's great to do your project and

do a thing, but you can glean certain things

from the fandom that would just pop the movie

or pop the project. It's little Easter eggs or

fun little things because people dig that stuff.

Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah. All right, sir. You

are, as the next section says, you are now the

Master of the Beasts because you are now a part

of two of the biggest franchises ever in Transformers

with Beast Wars Megatron, TFA Optimus, and more,

as well as now being the voice of Cringer slash

Battle Cat in the new CGI He -Man and the Masters

of the Universe. What's it like now being a part

of two of these long -running franchises? I remember

when I was living in Canada and living in Vancouver.

Of course, that's where things started with G

.I. Joe and stuff. But I remember Michael Donovan

and some of the other people I knew and Scotty

McNeil, Gary, I think, they did He -Man up there.

I can't remember. Was it Deke Animation, DIC,

or who was up there? New Adventures, I think,

was Deke. I don't remember. It was always stood

for done in Canada. But I remember, oh, man,

I wanted to be so I kind of I kind of arrived

too late on the scene to kind of get involved

with that. Who knows if I had ever, you know,

got a part on it. But I always was disappointed

as it was a series that I remember when I was

a young kid, I had. We all had some toys laying

around, and I didn't have a ton of those toys.

I went into goofy stuff like Tex Avery and Bugs

Bunny. I was a bit of G .I. Joe. I had a couple

of the characters and a couple of the Amigo dolls,

I remember. But I did have a He -Man. I remember

my friend and I was into it, and I always said

it would be kind of cool one day to be in He

-Man. Then, of course, it came out, and then,

oh, it came out again, and I wasn't able to read

for it. Then, all of a sudden, there's... two

series and I read for both of them. Um, I know

I got close on something with the other one,

but the one I really wanted was the one I got

and which, which a battle keg. That's awesome.

I know that it wasn't what the original was.

It was kind of a goofy voice, and they played

it a little differently. And I thought, here's

an opportunity for me to use one of my favorite

actors in the Game of Thrones series, Liam. Liam,

what's his name? He was the, who was the king?

I have no idea. Yeah. Anyway, people who've seen

it might know who, but he was kind of a protector

of the, of one of the Kings. And then Liam Neeson

has always been a favorite actor of mine. I've

always voiced doubled him a few times. I saw

this Irish American sort of here, you know, this,

and then this other Liam on game of Thrones and

has this sort of English part. And I sort of,

I wanted to be a protector of Adam. I wanted

to have this thing, this fatherly figure and

to be, to watch out for him. And I just thought

it was a perfect opportunity to kind of bring

that out. And it seemed to fit. We did a sort

of demo cartoon. And then, yeah, they cast me

in that role. And it was just such a thrill because,

you know, he's iconic. Before Steve asks you

the next couple of questions, I have said since

that CGI series has come out, it is today what

filmmation was for us as kids in the 80s. It

is the new, the next new, like. Anyone who has

kids today should be showing their children this

CGI He -Man thing to build them up, just like

how our parents, my parents in the 80s, showed

me the Filmation He -Man, and I grew up on that,

because it is the next best thing for kids. Yeah,

it's great. I'll say this here and now, that

there's not many things that I have done of all

these IMDB stuff, and even I'm like, I didn't

do that. I did that? I can't remember. But I

rarely have seen anything all the way through.

I think I've seen like three or four Beast Wars

all the way through. If that, maybe. TF animated,

maybe I've seen a few. If that. And I sat down

and I said, okay, this came out because we're

still in pandemic mode pretty much. And when

this dropped, I said, okay, I'll just binge watch

this. Everything else is depressing. And so I

cranked it up. Five episodes in, I'm thinking,

I'm still watching this. And I forgot about,

this is a cool thing is when you're in it, you

couldn't listen to your, you're paying attention

to what you did. And for the most part, I hate

everything I do. So, but I stopped listening

to me and I just was into the story. And I went,

oh, hey, that's kind of cool. I was into it.

And I thought it was great. I still have to go

back and finish it. But I really, really was

enjoying it. And, of course, season three has

just recently dropped. And, you know, I can't

wait to get there. Don't tell me. No spoilers.

Because I can't remember. It was really good.

It was good. Good. But, yeah, it's pretty cool.

I liked it. I liked it as well. Big style. Brian

Q. Miller, if you're listening, awesome. Everybody,

yeah. Very cool. Very cool. How do you separate

your character voices from talking as Beast Wars

Megatron to, say, talking as Cringer or Battle

Cat? It's all music. It's all doing music on

a scale. It's all jazz. It's all rock and roll.

It's all different parts of, to me, it's like

kind of music, but it's voice placement. Megatron's

very... Very, you know, in the chest and in the

throat here. And Cringer's more of a fatherly

figure, a little softer, but powerful. And, you

know, so Shomer is kind of back in, you know,

whatever he is. And then Clank is more like a

robot. It's kind of like I envision sort of the

voice in different parts of my, you know, from

the mouth all the way down to the diaphragm and

where it's coming from. It sort of all comes

from a different spot. And it is all music. Clank

is very, he's a personality, but he's robotic.

We want you to care about him. So we give him

sort of a personality. Ratchet, I miss you. You

know, we want people to care about him. And Megatron's

very Shakespearean. Battlecat, Cringer is the

protector. So there's certain words that I say

and hear, and I kind of know where I want to

place the voice. And, you know, other characters

much the same. TF animated Optimus is pretty

much me, basically. Just a little more swagger.

You know, who's with me? We got to stop. I just,

you know, whatever that was. It took four or

five episodes to sort of feel comfortable with

that character. But again, it's more like me.

gee whiz uh being uncomfortable with being who

you are is the bane of our existence so i tell

people be comfortable who you are because that's

that's what you want to be that's what you got

to figure out not that i'm going to do this but

i really want to subtitle this interview title

now he is uncomfortable in his own voice Yeah,

exactly. Right. It's true. I mean, it's, but,

but up until, up until probably about five years

ago, I was like, well, who, what, you know, and

it was trailers that got me out of that. Just

don't do anything. Be you. And it's just freeing.

Once you, if you're like 18, stop caring what

people think. Put the social media is a pain

in the ass. It's, it's. Just be yourself. And

that's where the magic is. And we're trying to

be other people or be this. One of the greatest

lessons I learned was from a listener once. I

was 17, I think, 17 or 18. I was working on the

air overnights on the radio station in my hometown.

And I was into Letterman at that time. And I

loved Letterman. And I used to do his bits on

the air because I didn't know what I was doing.

I'm 17. So what? I'll do Letterman bit. And I

did some kind of top 10 thing or whatever it

was. And then some listener called. And I was

like, hey, it's the KPT around the air. Stop

doing Letterman. And he hangs up. And I was like.

I was scarred. I was like, well, why did he say

that for? But he's right. Whoever that was changed

my trajectory of my career because stop trying

to be other people and figure out who you are.

And everything, all these characters are an element

of what we're made of and our experiences. So,

yeah. Does that make sense? Absolutely. I rambled.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I, I've discovered that just

doing voices on my own, uh, started out emulating

and then, uh, I ended up inadvertently creating

one that now I'm, I'm doing. So like your own

voice is fantastic. You could be like the star

of like Rick and Morty. Like you don't need to

do anything. It sounds like, Oh, this guy could

be on Rick and Morty. This is, this is hilarious.

You don't need to do anything. You know what

I mean? It's brilliant. Yeah. So, uh, that's

what I love about it. People spend all this time

going, well, how do I do this? And how do I just,

just be yourself. Just be genuine. Genuine. And

have fun with it. Yeah. Yeah. There's a couple

of times that I'm no voice actor. Steve is the

voice actor amongst the two of us. But there

are times where I've tried to turn it and go

deep. But I'm holding my throat as I'm doing

this. Yeah. So I can't do it. I'm not. What you're

doing is, I have an old acting teacher. So you're

acting. You're acting. Stop acting. And I go,

I never figured that out. I go, oh, like you're

– oh, I see. You're forcing it. Okay, I got it.

Yeah. Yep. So do you have any particular way

that you kind of sort them up in your head so

you can call them up much easier? No, it's only

like if we're coming back to do a show we haven't

done in a while, they'll have reference, obviously,

audio ref. But it's more like a – I don't know.

I kind of place it. If I remember the laugh or

a particular phrase. When I'm at a convention

and I have to do Megatron against me, you know,

how many years has gone by, I always do the phrase

like, oh, Commander Rattrap, what a pleasant

surprise. And I kind of get into it. No, side

guns. Oh, you know, this whole alpha and omega.

I just sort of find it there from certain things

and phrases I remember. And that's how I sort

of find it. I love keywords or phrases or a laugh

or something that gets me. Right back into it.

Awesome. Very cool. So do you have kind of switching

gears to narration on commercials? Do you have

a favorite ad that you've done narration for?

Yeah. Well, recently I did work for Fox Sports

for the baseball game in Iowa, Field of Dreams.

And it was the opening for Field of Dreams. And

they did a whole. These guys and girls for Fox

Sports write. The writing is freaking amazing.

I've worked for them a few times. I've also worked

for CBS Sports and done stuff for. for soccer

for the opening, uh, of certain matches. Um,

uh, and, uh, it's a bit of a character read.

It's, it's, uh, the writing number one is, is

amazing. You can really dig into it. And I remember

doing one, uh, job for CBS and, and, and I kind

of felt like, uh, it kind of called for, it was

in Rome and the sweeping vistas and the, and

the coming over the Coliseum. And it just called

for something, uh, British and something more

along the lines of a Russell Crowe type, um,

And I sort of started in here. And I just kind

of found that through reading through it. And

when it came across the computer and I was reading

for the project, I just felt, I just kind of

dropped in because the writing is so good. um

for the field of dreams it took a bit i was really

worked on that one because i knew it had to be

truthful because they were looking for i'd seen

the movie was still the one to this day one of

my favorite films of all time is field of dreams

just because that the message about you know

about it and uh i know all i could think of was

is that house in the middle of A very, you know,

a big cornfield, nobody around, and there's a

big porch, and there's an older guy sitting,

and he's looking out, you know, after a hard

day. He's worked the land for many years, and

I thought, okay, there's the guy. And he's talking

to maybe his grandson about baseball, about what

it meant to him. And I sort of... I had that

vision, and I went in with that, and I started

to find the truth in it. And I would do it a

couple times, and it just doesn't sense. It's

not there yet. Not there. And I would start to

add breaths and nuance, just like we talk as

human beings. When people start to do voiceover

and commercial work, there is certainly a time

limit. You have 30 or 60 seconds. These, thank

goodness, there's not a big time limit. They

kind of leave it open. And that means you can

be a human being and breathe. and have thoughts

between a sentence, you know. So when you say

something like, I don't know, there was a time

in my life I thought, you know, you just sort

of take a moment. You can live your life for

a second and not worry about time constraints.

And that just came across, it seemed to work.

I don't know. The words are great. And I want

to listen back to it. It's one of the few things

I go, well, that kind of, oh, man, I got goosebumps

because you see the visuals. You see a bit of

the, you know, the movie that I loved. And then,

you know, it's such a story in baseball, such

a story part of Americana. You kind of feel like,

you know, you're contributing to the story of

baseball. And as an expat, you know, an ex -Canadian.

In my home country, when they asked me one year

to do game seven of the Stanley Cup playoffs,

the opening, much the same type of narration.

But, you know, all those slow motion shots and

the great goals. All the stuff. And I could just.

I just found this voice and this storyteller

and it took me back to a time as a kid and maybe

see an uncle or an elder telling a story about

the great game of hockey. And then when they

played it in my, this is, you know, I'd been

out of Canada for quite a while. And when they

played it, my mother called me and said, now,

for those of you who don't know, Ron McLean is

a, he's worked for the CBC and Hockey Night in

Canada. And Ron was, is. is sort of one of those

personalities that everyone in Canada knows who

Ron McLean is. He's the guy that opens Hockey

Night in Canada. He's the voice of reason. He's

the face and voice of hockey in Canada. And my

mother called me and said, hey, we were just

watching. It just sounded so good. I said, Ron

McLean said your name. I go, what? I don't know.

Ron McLean doesn't know who I am. He goes, no,

we heard your father and I. He said, come in,

Lynn, come in here. He said you said David's

name. And I go, no, he didn't. You know, you

think your parents are telling the story. But

what the hell would he say my name for? Who even

knows? Anyway, so I get a copy of it. And the

guy said, oh, yeah. He said, Ron McClane sent

me the copy of it. And I played the thing in

the game seven. Game seven. Stanley Cup, you

know, was this whole thing. And then it ends

and the music and everything else. And then they

come out. And Ron McClane says, the voice of

David Kaye. And I go, holy shit. As an ex -Canadian,

well, as I'm dual citizen, but as a former Canadian

citizen, I thought, my God, they like what I

did. My own country recognized me. That's awesome.

I had to leave my country to get recognized by

my country. That's crazy. Holy crap. And so in

Canada, hockey, it's religion. As we know, like

like baseball is is here. And so to be able to

narrate the national sports of these two great

nations is a thrill. And to give it, you know,

depth and nuance and really tell a story was

I love that. I just those are really important

milestones for me. It was those those two events.

So there you go. Very, very cool. So you've been

putting these these ad run throughs on your YouTube

channel. And is this to be kind of like teachable

moment, like a behind the scenes to kind of show

other people how it's done? I guess I look, I

enjoy them. I know. And a lot of people do it.

It's neat. I never know. I think I always think,

well, no one's going to no one cares what I what

I do. But. And my publicist says, stop it. She

says, stop that. This is what you do. This is

what, you know, bring joy to people. And because

I don't really quite think about it, but I started

doing these things because I wanted people to

sort of know how it came together and what it

looks like. Because it's quite, for a lot of

people, it's kind of a mystery, you know. And

I don't like the idea of it not being a mystery.

At the same time, they are teachable moments

because you realize that a lot of people would

love to get into voiceover. And God bless them.

Go for it. Go and do it. Just the nuance. There's

a certain skill that it took me, I don't know,

30 years plus to try and figure out just to get

to the point where I'm getting asked to read

for that stuff. I don't know, maybe somebody

gets something out of it. It's about truth. And

so it's a behind -the -scenes look at what I

do. And if it brings people joy, that's great.

My relationship with social media is a fractured

one. I have a publicist, and she's wonderful,

Michelle. She's phenomenal. And she helps me.

Let me help you. Help me help you. I said, can

you do, can you do this? Cause I, I always go

on, I get depressed and then I don't want to

do it anymore. And then I got it. Then I got

to do it. Rob Paulson. I had this conversation

back and we're, when was it back? We're doing

a Transformers animated. It's dedicated. It was,

or it was Ben 10 or something. I'm the reason.

Can we be getting paid for this? I mean, I don't,

I don't, I, it's unbelievable. Like we're having

fun and they're going to give us money. Are you

kidding me? I mean, cause I never think about

that. I never think about, I'm actually getting

paid. I go in there and go, Oh, right. Right.

There's a paycheck after that. I forgot. Because

you're in there making goofy voices. Can you

believe this? Boy, we fooled somebody. They're

going to find out. I don't know, man. It's just

such an honor to do. It's a social media thing

for me. And Rob said to me, and my point was

Rob said, this whole social media thing, when

it was getting going, he said, it's like a job.

It's a second job. And it is. It's like and some

people are so good at it. So great at it. And

I'm like, oh, man, my day is done. I'm like,

I want to binge watch something or watch. Look,

it's important. You guys important for you guys

because it's on. You know, this is what we're

doing. But. This is the great thing about it.

The thing I don't like about it is how it can

make you feel. Now, if I'm a 50 -some -odd -year

-old male and I look at something and it makes

me feel like shit, I can't imagine if it's a

13 -year -old who has no life lessons and doesn't

have a point of reference. I go, oh, I can see

how that can really F somebody up. So that's

my issue with it. That's where I kind of go,

you know, Roger Craig Smith and I have these

existential conversations about this and about

we wonder without it, would the nation be a little,

you know, less fractured, a little less, you

know, torn apart? And I kind of wonder, yeah,

I don't know. Maybe, maybe, maybe so. So like

the Internet and like the yin, the yang, there's

always with the good, the bad. It's good versus

evil. It's the same stuff. And so as long as

you use it for good, I guess. Absolutely. This

is my take on it. Yeah. No, I agree. I came from

the generation that didn't have it. We didn't

have it. Neither did. Yeah. I was born in 80.

I mean, I'm not as, you know, I'm a little younger,

but like. I was born in the 80s, Steve was born

in the 86, so we didn't grow up having it either.

No, we were still the generation before, like,

when dial -up was fresh. Yeah, I remember that.

Those stupid AOL chimes. Oh, God. Yeah, it's

like an MRI machine. That's what I know. It's

doing such a scan. Yeah. I'd rather hear Mimi

Driver strangling a cat in Goldeneye. There you

go. All you need for an audience. I'm strangling

the cat. Strangling a cat? That is Irina, my

mistress. Pretending to go? Irina! Take a hike!

There's a point of reference. That nobody but

the three of us are going to get because that

movie is almost 30 years old. But they'll dig

it out again. They'll dig it out. But yeah, so

that's where we're coming from. But yeah, kids

now, it's like a piece of furniture. It's just

the way it is. It is what it is. We're here.

Your phone, your computer, your tablet, they're

all your armchairs now. Yep. That's right. So

I am – well, I'm originally from Massachusetts.

So I have a love affair with sports because if

you're from Massachusetts, sports is kind of

a big thing. Oh, yeah. Love it. And I loved it

before Brady was there and I loved it after he

was gone. So it doesn't really – it isn't about

one person. It's about the team. So your sports

stuff that you've done and the specific one that

I remember is the Nationals versus the Astros.

How did you come up with the cadence for that

ad? How did you change your voice to do that?

Yeah, which one was that? Now, I remember that.

I love that one because there's another one,

World Series. Yeah, it was World Series. It was

Game 7, I think. Yeah, that was a huge. What

a series that was. Oh, my God. Yeah, that was

amazing. I'm just sort of looking it up here

for a second just to remember. Because it was

one of those things, again, about how important

the writing is. Oh, yeah. And I don't know if

they realize how good they are. think they do

and i'm sure they do yeah but i really don't

know if they realize how bloody good they are

writing that i'm just looking for uh i don't

know where they would uh if my if marcus my my

uh my web guys put it it sits somewhere around

here if you can find it the original one that

was houston yet game seven man uh damn Because

I really love that. I'd love to hear that again.

Game three, World Series. Can you remember the

last time the World Series was played in D .C.?

You can't, can you? Well, new history is being

written. Just not with a quill and ink. What

a start for the Nationals. The nation's capital

is now at the center of the baseball universe.

In a city where monuments define our nation.

These players look to leave their mark for future

generations. Nationals up two games to nothing.

In their path, a group eager to take it back.

There it goes. Goodbye. But here they stand,

closing in on history in a city that defines

it. It's game three of the World Series. That

was a hell of a series. It also helps, look,

if you're not into baseball, if you're not into

sports, and they want you for the job, you bloody

will have to sound like this is your life. So

that's where the acting comes in. That's where

you have to be somebody else and make it truthful.

That's the fun of it. And I can't find, if you

guys can find it, great. It's buried somewhere,

Marcus put it. I don't know where it's gone.

But yeah, the cadence, because I want to hear

what you meant by the cadence. Well, it's like

you've changed your voice to be something like,

it's not. In a world. But it's similar to that,

and it's like, oh, my God. When you hear a voice

or when you hear something like that, my idea

is, when I'm reading it, is to try and, much

like what Don said to us and to me, is when you

hear, in a world, you want to be taken out of

your world and put into this one. Because maybe

your life is shitty, and you don't want to think

about that right now. You want to be in a dark

room. taken away from yourself and into some

other world. And that's exactly where that phrase

came from in a world. Okay. Lights are down.

You don't want somebody going in a world. That's

going to, Oh my God, it's natural. Um, you know,

uh, a story about him. Okay. Story. You're, you're

like, it's sucking you in, you know, and that's

what I'm trying to do with these, these things.

I'm trying to honor the words. Number one, because

it's so bloody brilliant. But, um, yeah, the,

yeah, the writing on that one was just great.

Let's see. What was it? It was Houston. Game

three, yeah. Game three or four. I think. Houston

versus. Who was it? Houston versus. It was Houston

versus the Nationals because it was all about

the history. It was about the, you know, history

will be made. Right. Opening. I don't know. Gosh,

that was a long time ago. 2019. Jeez. Yeah, long

time ago. It seems like such a... 2019. Remember,

that was like way back in the day. I remember

2020, I was at a big New... What was it? A New

Year's Eve party, and we're all screaming, 2020

is going to be awesome! It's going to be the

best year ever! Woo! Little did we all know.

Little did we know. That's it. That's the case.

How did you do that? It is said home is where

the heart is. Yet in this world series, home

is where the heartbreak is. In an unprecedented

twist, the home team has been humbled in all

six games. In a best -of -seven championship

series, that's never happened in any sport. Which

brings us here to an improbable one -shot winner

take all. The Nationals, on the verge of bringing

the World Series title home to our nation's capital

for the first time in 95 years, start their ace

in the Lone Star State. The Astros, dominating

in D .C., hammered three times in Houston, still

stand ever so close to an astonishing second

trophy and a spray of champagne. Is Washington

king of the road? Will the Astros rock it in

their raucous home sweet home? Tonight, the two

greatest words in baseball. Game seven. What

a fall classic. The World Series on Fox. I don't

know. It's sort of like, I'm not sure where.

it can't it comes from it's a it's a place i'm

looking at like one of the highlights and it

brings you back to that that was a hell of a

series oh my god yeah well and just the way that

you had voiced that it was just again going to

what you're saying about them writing it but

we as the people whether we're just watching

the ad not your behind the scenes stuff but the

at the the final product we hear that and we

think, okay, yes, somebody wrote that, but that's

David flipping K voicing that. And it's like,

Oh my God, where, you know, part of that is like,

you know, and history will be written, but it's

not going to be written with a quill and, and,

you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, How

did he come up with that part of his voice to

do? It's sort of, and this is a very intimate

thing. So what I'm going to say, the word is

intimacy. So it's between you and I, and I'm

sucking you in, and this is the storytelling.

And it sort of comes in here. And if I text you

the voice and put it down on the throat, it becomes

a different person. It becomes somebody who I'm

telling a story to you. And the voice doesn't

need to be, you know, every syllable and constant

doesn't need to be. It's a real person. It's

not like an announcer. Yeah. So, you know, history

won't be written with a quill and ink. It's sort

of a, I don't know, there's this quality, there's

this softness and this texture. It's the gravel

that Christian Bale should have had as Batman.

Yeah, this is incredible. Yeah. But, yeah, man,

it's hard to say where these things come from.

Honestly, when people say, well, how do you prepare?

How do you do this and all that? You know what,

man? Sometimes I open the mic and hope something

comes out and hope it sounds good. Like, the

best thing for me when I get a script is I don't

even read through it. There's all these things

that, oh, you should read and mark the thing

and read it down from time to time, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah. And look, if that works for

you, fantastic. For me, it comes in. I don't

even know what the direction is. All I do is

just start reading it, and I might find something.

And then after I finish it, I go back and read

the direction. Oh, well, that was completely

wrong. Or, oh. The words sometimes dictate what

the feel should be. With these sports things,

like anything, it has to come from truth. It

can't sound like you're reading. It's got to

really sound from the heart. That's the only

thing I can say. I'll say that forever and ever

and ever. It's got to come from your heart, man.

It's got to be truthful. Truth. Who is it? Bob

Odenkirk. Talking to him, it was a snippet I

saw somewhere of Bob Odenkirk. They asked him

a question about acting. How is importance and

all this sort of stuff? How do you this and how

do you that? He said, you know what? Make acting,

make it like second or the third thing in your

life. Make living your life number one. Make

that the priority. Acting maybe two, three, four.

Make your life a priority. And as a voice actor,

a voice performer, whatever, I think it's really

important for people to hear because some people

don't think they're enough. They don't think

they're worthy. And I say, you know, everyone

has their own journey, their own life, and you

got to live your life because that's what interprets

how you. a piece of copy or something you're

reading. It's your life experience. Yeah. So

without that, you know, I remember, man, early

in my career, I was doing some on -camera stuff,

but when I was living in Vancouver, did a couple

X -Files episodes and different series up there.

It's kind of cool. And I liked it, but I was

always the guy who was, they couldn't find on

set. Where's David Kaye? Has anybody seen David

Kaye? I'd be hanging with the audio guys and

the DOP and behind the scenes. I'm like, because

I thought that was really interesting. And I

got kind of like, oh, I got to learn lines. Oh,

shit. So I was like, like, I loved it. And I

think it was kind of cool. But I don't know.

It wasn't me. What was the point I'm trying to

make? The point you're trying to make is acting

isn't the overall... No, everybody, yes. Everybody

thought it was, oh my God, it's the most important

thing we're doing. Oh, you can't be late. Oh,

you can't this, you over this. And it is, it's

important. There's a lot of money riding on this

project. No, absolutely, but it's not the everything.

No, a lot of people, a lot of actors, figured

it was the world revolved around them and this

is the only thing and this is the most important

thing in the world right now. I thought, well,

it's more important for me, you know, that a

fireman saves someone's life or, you know, a

cop is helping somebody out or somebody, you

know, doing something good for somebody or helping

them do their math homework. I mean, that to

me is like, well, that's a lie. That's good.

That's stuff right there. That's real stuff.

What we're doing is make believe, you know, we're

trying to make a project that those people can

watch. to take them out of their lives and make

it truthful. But it wasn't like brain surgery

or saving someone's life. Some people treated

it like it was the most important thing in the

world, and it was like, come on. But the thing

is, to kind of counterpoint that really quickly,

the thing is, and trust me, I know I went through

brain surgery in 2019. You are a person who has

contributed to all of our lives in some point

or another, whether it was your radio days, whether

it was your live actions. Like, literally, Christmas

of 2019, right before everything started happening,

I got a package from VEI Entertainment. It was

the Complete Series DVD set of Viper. From 1994.

And I'm watching through this show because I

remember this show. I love this show because

it was like, oh, my God, Knight Rider's over.

Fine. No more David Asloff. Fine. Oh, hey, here's

Viper, this transforming car. And all of a sudden

I'm like halfway through the series and I see

an episode. I'm like, what the hell is David

Cade doing in there playing a villain? What's

going on with you? You and your character's wife

were like these. evil televangelists or something.

I don't even remember what it was, but I'm like,

Oh my God, David Kaye has brown hair. Holy crap.

Yeah. You know, but you're a person just like

everybody else in our lives that has, like you're

saying about the entertainment, the escapism,

you have helped us escape for 30, 40, however

long you've been doing this. You know what I

mean? Like it's surreal. Yeah, absolutely. No,

I agree, and that's our job. And I'll add to

that saying one of these Transformers conventions

we were at, and it was Bumper and Tara and I,

and a mom was with her kid in the audience, and,

of course, people put up their hand and asked

a question. She said, so I don't have a question.

I just want to just make a point and just say

that, you know. My son went through a terrible

time. I think it might have been cancer. It might

have been something serious. And his son was

in the hospital for quite a while. And she just

wanted to let you know. And she started kind

of tearing up. He watched Transformers animated,

and it kept him going. And we all started trying

to swallow our tears. And I went down, and I

said, hey, man, come on. I brought him up on

stage, and I had him sit with us. And at that

moment, it was awesome. Oh, okay. Now I get it.

And there's another moment was in, in, in Detroit

doing a con. And some, uh, girl comes up to me,

you know, dressed as Trey's Gush Renata. And

she, uh, we had a good talk and she's like, she

gave me a letter and she said, look, I hope you

don't mind. It's just that I just want to let

you know that this character, uh, you voice,

it helped my, I had some horrible times at home

and I guess things were pretty, pretty bad. And,

and she said, I think it probably saved my life.

And I'm like, huh? So yeah, that's when I realized

that, you know what? yeah, this is our job. This

is what we do, and this is what makes it worthwhile.

And I hope people don't, you know, my point is

don't ever take this job for granted. Don't ever

forget that. It's not about, you know, being

a celebrity or personality. That's what makes

it special, you know. At the end of the day,

that's what really matters. And Bob Odenkirk

has a point. Make your life your priority. Absolutely.

All right. Just a couple of random questions

and then we will go through the closing. All

right. So if there was a chance for a live action

Beast Wars movie to happen, would you try to

be in it? Yes. Next question. Yeah. That was

an obvious thing. But no. Do you do you miss

getting to work with anyone in particular from

the cast? There are a few from the team that

aren't doing much anymore. Have you had contact

with any of them? From the Beast Wars folks?

Yeah. I really miss all of them. From Blue Mancuma,

Alec Willows who played Tarantulas, Venus is

just a sweetheart. Her and I did the first BotCon

together in Rochester way back. Yeah, who else?

I mean, Richard Newman. I was in contact with

him. I haven't heard from Richard in a bit. Hope

everything's okay. But him and I sort of touched

base again last year. Gary, I talk to all the

time. Ian, I talk to all the time. Scotty, I

haven't talked to for years. I'm not sure where

Scotty is. I think he's still doing his thing.

Yeah, we would love to get him on one of these

interviews. Yeah, I have no idea. Yeah, I lost

contact with Scotty. I still, you know, the Dobson

brothers are all, you know, friends of mine and

Sam Cuth. And so the group they used to live

in Vancouver with, you know, still around. And

I still see them once in a while. Peter Calamus.

They weren't in Beast Wars, but that's that group.

Yeah. Voice actors. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't

know. Oh, right. Yeah. I remember it was so weird

for me as a 16 year old hearing Venus as a evil

character in Beast Wars. I'm like, what is Princess

Lana from Captain? I had a crush on her in Captain

and the Game Master. I'm like, wait a minute.

What's Princess Lana doing as an evil spider?

What's going on here? No. And again, all of you

people, all of you actors that. that have contributed

to our lives. Just thank you because yes, it's

made them better every time, you know, Steve

goes through episode. Like I remember, and this

is funny and he's probably going to kill me for

saying this. He was at a dentist or a doctor's

appointment laying on some extra. I was doing,

um, You're doing plasma. He was having his blood

sucked out of him by a vampire. He's laying there

watching The Agenda Part 1 or something. Thank

you so, so much. Before we let you go, where

can people interact with you online if you would

like to give that out? Oh, please. Of course.

Twitter is where I'm most active. And from time

to time, I'm on Insta as well. But Twitter at

DKVO, D -K -A -Y -E -V -O. That's where I'm most

active on there. Stuff like what's coming up

and little things. There's the website. There's

the YouTube channel as well. You can see all

those videos where I've done some of the behind

-the -scenes stuff. You just do a search and

it'll be up there. IMDB, which I'm always afraid

to look at. I haven't really looked at it for

quite a while, but it's there. Oh, so it's funny

you mentioned that. As we were doing this, I

actually tried to look it up and I typed in and

I typed it in the way it's supposed to be typed

in. And apparently there's more than one David

Kaye. Yeah, he's another Vancouver actor. Younger.

I think he was my son. Yeah, like seriously,

I'm looking at your picture that they have and

his. I'm like, holy crap, David Kaye had a son

that looks like Chris Evans? Wow. All right then.

Nope. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Thank you so, so much.

This has been awesome catching up with you. Yeah,

no problem at all. Great questions. It's neat

to spend. Spend an hour just going over my stuff.

But yeah, I really appreciate it. I mean, we

wanted this to be a little bit more conversational

because this is our third time talking to you.

And it's like, hey, let's just catch up. Well,

we're going to have to do this again. Now I sound

like Vin Scully. I do this again. Great day for

a poor old, you know, because there's about.

Five different projects that you're going to

love. A couple in particular you're going to

freak out over when I talk about it. You'll have

to have me back next year. Oh, yeah, definitely.

All right. Well, we're going to go to a quick

ad break, and we're going to come back and close

the show after this. Of course, off air, we're

going to pound David to figure out what all these

new projects are that we won't be able to talk

about for a whole year. I know he won't tell

us anything, but we'll be right back after this.

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