Charles Martinet Hangs Up the Red Hat - NVC 675

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Everyone's at Gamescom except us and, apparently, Nintendo, so Rebekah, Kat, Brendan, and Travis are holding down the fort talking about Charles Martinet's retirement as the voice of Mario and how Mario Wonder will handle the change, Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3's low Switch framerate, and Travis' time with Palia.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What is up, super name friendos. Welcome to episode 675 of Nintendo Voice Chat. I'm your
0:14.9	host Seth Macy, except I'm not Seth Macy. You got me. It's actually Rev Valentine's
0:19.2	Seth is out at Gamescom right now and I'm taking over for him with some fabulous friends.
0:24.2	I'm joined today here in the studio in San Francisco by Cat Bailey. Hello. Travis
0:29.8	Northup. Hello. And far far away somewhere. Brandon Graver. Hi. Hello. I'm like in a couple
0:35.1	miles away. It's fine. We shouldn't have gotten you in here. Yeah. That's a fire here by
0:41.0	still. Oh my god. Okay. Well, maybe not. I'm glad you're okay and not on fire. I'm glad
0:47.2	you're here. Yay. We've got so much to talk about today and we are going to start off with
0:53.1	maybe probably the biggest Nintendo news of the week and maybe a little sad news. Charles
0:58.2	Martin A announced with Nintendo on Monday that he is no longer going to voice Mario and his
1:05.4	friends starting with Super Mario. Brothers wonder. We have a statement from Nintendo about it. A
1:10.6	very sweet statement. Charles Martin A has been voicing him as far back as Super Mario 64 and he's
1:15.8	moving into a new role that they are calling Mario Ambassador. Not sure what that means.
1:21.6	But they sent him off with this lovely message and I thank you. They're going to do a video
1:25.4	later with Charles Martin and Shigeru Miyamoto to sort of say goodbye. But yeah, how? What?
1:31.0	This is sad. It's got a bummer. Every Chris Pratt's the new Mario. No. Put him in everything. No.
1:38.3	Is that the first to go to respond? So I'm one point out that the last voice for Mario or the voice
1:45.3	he did in the Mario movie was as Mario's dad saying those are my boys. I was about to say that
1:51.4	it was a cameo where he wasn't playing Mario. Yeah, that was his last performance. But he's like
1:55.8	passing the torch on a way in that scene. I'm just like, oh, yeah. Terry, not a little bit. Don't do
2:01.4	this. Tyring, did he get too expensive? Like, what happened? I mean, look, I've seen a lot of like
2:07.5	people like it in a little conspiracy theory. They are. Yeah. The dude's what? Like, 60-something,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from IGN & Geek Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of IGN & Geek Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.