You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 200.

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.

Greetings. My name is Crispin Freeman. And for this episode, we're going to be doing something a little bit different.

Back in episode 154 of the podcast, I interviewed my good friend and fellow voice actor, Julie Nathanson.

During that interview, she offered to turn the tables and interview me in return someday.

So I thought it would be an interesting experiment to ask Julie to take over as the host of this particular segment, and she graciously agreed.

So, as a special treat for this 200th episode, Julie will be interviewing me on my own podcast.

A word of warning, though, this interview was very in depth, so I'm

splitting up our incredible four-hour conversation into four separate episodes. To be honest,

we probably could have spoken for even longer, but we really did our best to restrain ourselves.

And so, in an unprecedented first for voice acting mastery, I'm very pleased to hand over my podcast to the very capable Julie Nathanson.

Julie, take it away.

Hi, I'm Julie Nathanson.

Welcome to the first part of my interview with the wondrously multi-dimensional

and multi-talented Crispin Freeman. You may recognize him from his performances in Naruto,

Helsing, Ghost in the Shell, Young Justice, Stephen Universe, Adventure Time, Demon Slayer, The Cowboy Bebop movie, Howells Moving Castle,

and, recently, The Bad Batch. Unsurprisingly, Crispin has also lent his voice to many of your

favorite game franchises, from Kingdom Hearts to Call of Duty, to Diablo,

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