You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 46.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips,

tricks and insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games, and

beyond. And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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This week, I'm excited to share with you an interview I did with a voice actor who has been an inspiration to me

and who I'm fortunate enough to call a friend. Mr. Steve Bloom. Steve has worked extensively in

animation, video games, and anime, playing major characters in all three art forms. Whether he's playing

Wolverine in the Marvel animated versions, voicing Spike Spiegel in the popular anime series Cowboy Bebop,

or setting a Guinness book world record playing more characters in video games than anyone on the planet,

Steve is everywhere.

I was eager to talk to Steve about his career and to get his advice on voice acting

because the story of how he broke into

the industry is so unique. I think you'll really enjoy it. And now the feature segment.

So greetings everyone. Welcome to the podcast. Today I have a very special guest. Mr. Steve Bloom is with me to chat about voice acting. Hi, Steve. How are you? Well, hello and hazza. Haza. Very proud to be here and very happy we finally made it work. Yes, yes. Steve and I are actually at a convention right now in the D.C. area. And we finally squirled away some time to get together and talk about

voice acting. Isn't that sad that we have to travel all the way across the country? I know.

But somehow, that's how we got the time worked out, so we'd actually be next to each other to do this.

So basically, Steve, for those, for the tiny minority out there who might not know who you are

and what you're about.

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