Brilliant Disguise: How to Find Your Voice, with Hank Azaria

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Hank Azaria created more than 100 voices for The Simpsons, including Moe the Bartender, Chief Wiggum and (formerly) Apu. So why is the single most talented voice actor of his generation, at 60 years old, suddenly the lead singer of a Springsteen tribute band? Because — in recovery from the fear that helped originate his superpower, the failure that forced him to embrace "character acting," the cancellation that became a case study, and the threat of A.I. — he was overtaken by Bruce Juice. And today, inside PTFO's studio, he takes the stage. • Catch Hank Azaria and the EZ Street Band on Tour https://www.ezstreetnyc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out.
0:02.3	I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:07.0	As we take our stand down in jungle land.
0:17.0	Right after this ad.
0:19.9	You're listening to Draft King's Network.
0:35.5	What's your regimen for you're coming off of band practice?
0:38.9	Yeah.
0:39.2	I appreciate you.
0:39.8	Just been singing like Bruce for four hours, you know.
0:42.8	Almost as long as Bruce sings.
0:45.4	You don't do like some fancy herbal tea, honey, right?
0:49.2	I have some spray that's like ginger-based that helps.
0:53.6	I have like a gargle that supposedly clears out your throat
0:57.5	which i occasionally bust out vocal warm-ups i've had to take singing seriously which i never had
1:04.8	before i'll be 61 in april i turned 60 last april which was too big a birthday to ignore, try as I might.
1:14.6	And it felt depressing to do nothing, but I couldn't decide what to do.
1:19.6	I'm not really a party guy anymore as I'm coming up on 19 years sober.
1:24.6	So I don't know how I came to this, but I i was like you know what might be fun is most of my
1:29.9	friends are springsteen fans what if i throw a huge party which is very uncharacteristic of me
1:35.2	tell my friends that i've got a springsteen tribute band coming but don't tell them that i'm going to
1:41.3	be the front man for it so i called it like a reverse surprise party,
1:46.1	which I pulled it all.
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