Matt Mercer Talks Critical Role, Body Dysmorphia, Cancel Culture, Internet A$$holes & More Ep. 46

A Conversation With...

Philip DeFranco

Entertainment News, News

4.8 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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00:00 - START

02:25 - Felicia Day - Geek & Sundry

06:12 - Being a People Pleaser/Empathic Person

09:34 - Dealing with Online Hate

12:57 - Critical Role

15:13 - CR Being Creator Owned

16:40 - How long do you want to do this?

21:00 - Phil Cancel Culture Rant

25:48 - Name Changing Buddies

30:49 - Middle School/High School Matt

35:58 - CD Projekt Red Controversy

40:38 - How do you get into the hobby of D&D?

49:03 - Would you classify what you do as a form of improv?

53:35 - Stephen Colbert Story

56:36 - Job Most Excited to Get, And Worst?

01:02:35 - Marisha Was “Sexy Ninja Girl”

01:07:03 - What does the PDS look like in 5 years?

01:11:36 - Men Don’t Talk About Mental Health Enough

01:17:21 - Amazing Race Audition Story

01:22:35 - Matt’s Hair Care Routine

01:23:17 - Career in Live Action

01:24:57 - Matt’s Thunder Sound Effects

01:27:23 - Solo Projects

01:39:34 - Who on the cast would take over DM?

01:41:07 - Carter F Word Story

01:44:13 - Capitol Attack Sadness

01:50:33 - How did you propose?

01:57:47 - My family was homeless living in our van

02:00:18 - What’s a piece of advice you’d give to someone?

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0:00.0	I spent most of my life trying desperately to please other people before I kind of pleased myself.
0:04.7	I came out weird.
0:07.3	But you can clip that.
0:08.4	Clip it, yes.
0:09.7	Hey, welcome to a conversation with my name's Philip DeFranco.
0:12.6	And today I'm very excited because we're having a conversation with Matthew Mercer.
0:16.1	Hello, sir.
0:16.9	Hi, thanks so much for having me, bud.
0:18.6	Thanks for popping on.
0:19.6	I got really excited.
0:21.4	I also, I didn't realize that apparently there is a big crossover in our audiences, which
0:26.5	is wide, just completely different worlds.
0:29.7	Yeah.
0:30.1	But the internet is a strange beast, and I have a lot of eclectic, weird tastes, so it just
0:35.4	makes me feel a little more comfortable to know the other people out there have weird spatterings of interests. Yeah. And because, I don't know, especially I've noticed
0:42.1	with the podcast, like we get in front of a bunch of different people. If we, if someone doesn't,
0:47.9	isn't familiar with you now or your body of work, how would you describe it? Oh, man. That's always, is it the odd answer to every
0:56.2	Lyft driver like, what do you do for a living question? You're like, yeah, oh, Lyft. Remember,
1:00.7	that was a thing. I would, I am a, I'm a professional voice actor for animation and video games,
1:09.4	as well as a huge nerd who has somehow turned his love of
1:14.9	role-playing games into an online media network with my friends.
1:20.7	So that's the best way I can describe it, specifically.
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