My man Maurice LaMarche was fantastic, he was great.
I wish we could do another podcast sort of thing that we did with Chris Hardwick for the video game app, which was a lot of fun, which was great. I mean, listen, if you build it, they'll come. Lastly, any Futurama in your future, be it a podcast, a script read, anything else? Or are you all done with that for now. But as of right now, yeah, we're just hanging out in limbo and that's okay. I mean, listen, the Land of Ooo has many, many, many, many stories to be told, so who knows what they want to do. But beyond this stuff that's happened for HBO Max, I don't know what else they're going to do. I mean, I did Jake for the stuff that's on HBO Max, if that's what you're asking. Can you talk at all about your involvement with that and potential future Adventure Time stories? But believe me, on social media, everybody will be the first to hear when we find out, you know what I mean?Īdventure Time is running these Distant Lands specials for HBO Max. And I've also been at home and recorded stuff, so we've done both. There's a bunch of episodes and we're cooking along. I don't honestly know what I'm exactly allowed to talk about as far as Disenchantment, but you are right.
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Can you offer any update on where you guys are with that? Are you in production at this point? If you don't mind talking about some of your other work, we know Disenchantmentis set for another season on Netflix. I just tell them to sit down, and shut up, and listen.
It's just the story being told and it's wonderful to hear it come to life with the different voices of the story. Listen, man, I just say, "Remember, back in the golden age of radio?" The people talk about how people would gather around their radios in the living room. If you were approaching someone who'd never listened to something like this before, and audio drama or audio comedy, do you have a way that you'd describe it or pitch it to them? How do they approach it? How do they listen to it? Why are they listening? It's just that thing in storytelling. I think it's up to the listener to decide what you're asking me about. Because of the story, of the direction, it's a lot less broad, but it's pretty much doing the same stuff, doing the same work. So I think it doesn't have anything to do with the performance. I think it's very primitive in our minds. I mean, stories being told goes back to the dawn of time, just hearing a story being told. But what happens really is that there's just a shift in the person that's consuming the product. When you're doing something like this where you don't have the animation to carry some of the characterizations, how does it affect the way that you play that character? Do you have to go bigger to get everything across? But at the same time, you know what they did, and they also had that stuff recorded most of the time, so if you want to hear what you're talking to, you can find that out, so all right. But sometimes people can't be there together, so you got to record by yourself. So just having something to react to is great, it's fantastic. It's one of the basic things you learn when you first start acting. You always had a feeling of what they would do and how they would deliver the line. But what was great was that you always felt everybody's presence that wasn't there. But there were times when due to scheduling conflicts, some of us couldn't be there. But the cool thing is that if you're involved in a show, for example, Futurama, we recorded that show as an ensemble and all together. In my experience, a lot of the magic happens when everybody's in the room. In your experience, does it feel like that has a significant effect on the quality of the recording and the production? I've covered a couple of Audible projects, including The Sandman a couple of weeks ago, and it seems like Audible really emphasizes trying to get the actors all in the room together.