PLEASE NOTE: We apologize for the quality, this interview happened over a cell phone and we were also experiencing some sound issues with our equipment.

Join Amy Elk and Chris Pope in this very exciting interview with the one and only Billy West!

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About Billy

William Richard ”Billy“ West (born April 16, 1950) is an American voice actor. West is best known for his voice-work on Ren & Stimpy, Doug and Futurama. His favorite characters are Philip J. Fry (Futurama) and Stimpy(Ren and Stimpy), both of which he originated. West’s most notable film work was in Space Jam (1996) providing the voice of both Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. He has provided the same voices for other Looney Tunes films and video games. West has been very outspoken over his displeasure about the influx of movie star actors providing voice-over for films and major shows.West is also a guitarist and singer-songwriter with a band called Billy West and The Grief Counselors.

Selected filmography

Join Amy Elk and Chris Pope for another episode of On Vox, featuring special guest Jason Charles Miller

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Jason Charles Miller is an accomplished and multi-faceted performer, with more than a decade of professional experience as a musician, songwriter, actor and voice personality.

Miller is most widely recognized as the frontman of the rock band Godhead, the only band ever signed to Marilyn Manson’s Posthuman Records. The band has sold more than 200,000 albums, and toured the world with the likes of Manson, Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, Slipknot, Rammstein and Korn frontman Jonathan Davis. Godhead received a gold record for their placement on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, and Jason has another gold record for the song “The End Has Come,” which he wrote with former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody for the movie The Punisher.

As an accomplished songwriter and music producer, Jason has co-written with artists such as Marilyn Manson, Jeordie White (Nine Inch Nails), Ben Moody (Evanescence), Chuck Goff (Toby Keith), Nina Bergman, Rev Theory and even Paul Anka. He’s produced songs for various artists from Psyclon 9 to Bret Michaels. Jason also penned the all star collaboration “Forever In Our Hearts,” a song to benefit the victims of the 2004 tsunami in South Asia which included Brian McKnight, Mya, Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach, Nate Dogg and many more. Songs he’s written can currently be heard on HBO’s “True Blood” and “Hung”, “WWE Friday Night Smackdown”, and the wildly popular web series, “The Guild.” Jason was recently the music supervisor and music editor for the feature film, “Last Stop” and also was the music editor and a performing musician on the critically acclaimed series, “Dragon Age: Redemption.”

As an actor Jason has appeared in over 40 animated productions, dozens of video games and 8 live action movies. Some career highlights include “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (the Dai Li Commander and 5 episodes of various villains), “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” (Dollman and Black Condor), “Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit” (Shinji), “Code Geass” (Urabe), “World of Warcraft” (Prince Valanar, Commander Stoutbeard, Terrath the Steady, Hagrim Hopebreaker), “Super Street Fighter 4” (Guy), Resident Evil 5 (Robert Kendo), and Star Craft 2. You can even see Jason on screen as Strike Leader Jackson in the SyFy original movie, “Battle Planet” and playing himself in season 5 of “The Guild.” It has also just been announced that Jason is voicing a main character in the game “Guild Wars 2,” to be released in 2012.

Jason has been featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone, Billboard, Guitar World and many more. He’s also appeared on MTV, MTV2, Fuse and VH1. Touted by many critics as one of rock’s best and most consistent live singers, Jason continues to wow live audiences all over the world.

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Lisa’s voice has elicited teasing and nicknames like “squeaky” since grade school. Even as a sophomore in college, after giving an oral presentation in sociology class, her professor approached her privately to say, “Your presentation was great, but you know if anybody is going to take you seriously in the real world you’re going to have to do something about your voice”. And that’s exactly what Lisa did.

Lisa Biggs is a seasoned voice-actor who has been in the industry for the greater part of ten years–living and working in both New York City as well as Los Angeles. Clients have called Lisa “the one take wonder” and she has developed and mastered a wide range of signature sounds that kids relate to and parents respond to. She has a home studio and is available anywhere via ISDN.

When Lisa is not behind the mic, she enjoys making guacamole, learning to play the banjo and teaching acting to a very special group of students at the Frazee Dream Center.

Check out Lisa’s website!

http://lisabiggs.com

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Tara Strong is a Canadian-American actress, voice-over artist, comedian, musician, singer, and businesswoman, who is best known for her roles asTimmy Turner in the The Fairly OddParents, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, Princess Clara andToot Braunstein in Drawn Together. Ben Tennyson in Ben 10 and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Dil Pickles in Rugrats and All Grown Up, Rikku in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2, Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and her recurring role as Miss Collins in Big Time Rush.

She has appeared in live roles in National Lampoon’s Senior Trip, Sabrina Goes to Rome, Sabrina, Down Under, Mosquito Lake, and The Last White Dishwasher. She also made guest appearances on such shows as Forever Knight, Street Legal, Touched by an Angel, Take Home Chef, Party of Five, Comic Book: The Movie, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, and 3rd Rock from the Sun.^[1]She has the role of the character Miss Collins in Nickelodeon‘s live action series Big Time Rush. Strong has been nominated four times for an Annie Award, and once for a Daytime Emmy.^[1]

In 2004, she won an Interactive Achievement Award for her role as Rikku in Final Fantasy X-2. She also served as the announcer for the 2000Kids’ Choice Awards, appeared as a guest at several fan conventions (including BotCon, Jacon, Comic-Con International, and Anime Overdose), and was featured on the front cover of the July/August 2004 issue of Working Mother magazine, saying, “My son is now old enough to respond to my work. To me, that’s what it’s all about.”^[1][3]

Welcome to season 2 of On Vox! Uhh… yeah! That’s our story and we’re sticking to it!

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David’s Website: http://www.davids.com/

About David(From Wikipedia)

David is an American television and film actor, voice talent, network radio host, Internet entrepreneur, podcaster, demo producer, teacher and author.^[1][2] He was also the host of the daily The David Lawrence Show and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle.

The “XVII” in his name was a way for Lawrence to distinguish himself from previous David Lawrences already registered with SAG. At the time, he was the 17th David Lawrence listed on IMDB, and appended the number to his name upon his own registry. Lawrence’s appearances on network television include playing a Serbian doctor opposite Dennis Haysbert in the CBS series The Unit, created by David Mamet, a car wash manager on another CBS series, CSI, a rock and roll wanna be on TBS’s Frank TV with Frank Caliendo,^[5] and as one of the eponymous “villains” on NBC‘s Heroes. The Heroes role, that of puppetmaster Eric Doyle (one of the 12 escaped villains), was introduced in Volume 3, “Heroes: Villains” in Episode 2, “The Butterfly Effect“. The character began a multi episode arc in Episode 5, “Angels and Monsters“.^[3][6] Lawrence has also played the role as the station manager in Goodnight Burbank, Charles Bukowski in the musical Bukowsical!, El Gallo inThe Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children’s Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and the role of Barry Champlain in Talk Radio.^[3] He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. With director Dr. Bob Pondillo Ph.D., Lawrence played Wallace in the short film My Name Is Wallace Lawrence also was executive producer of My Name Is Wallace.^[3][7] In early 2009, he appeared in an episode of the BBC reality program Beat the Boss, in which his team designed a cheesecake. In 2010 Lawrence portrayed a taxi cab driver in the sixth season of Lost, in 2011 he guest starred in the NBC comedy action series Chuck.

Voice work

He is the voice of America Online‘s customer service lines, and the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems. Lawrence also wrote and produced the radio programs for the video game Saints Row. In 2007 he started his Demos2GoGo, his own voiceover demo reel business.^[1] Starting on November 18, 2010, he did guest announcing forThe Price Is Right, as he’s a personal friend of host Drew Carey.

Acting

Radio broadcast history

Lawrence was heard on the radio for nearly 35 years on stations: WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and former executive producer of the radio comedy ensemble, The American Comedy Network.^[8] He wrote the best-sellingLearn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book created exclusively for Macintosh users. He was the anchor and executive producer of the music show, The Net Music Countdown where one of his net unknown artists was megaphone.

Podcasting

Lawrence has been involved in podcasting since the inception. He holds the title of ‘first podcaster’ since he has been sending audio to subscribers via the internet since 1994 when he started the ‘Personal Netcast’. David does voiceover work and speaks at events, including the NAB and the Portable Media Expo.^[2][11] David developed ShowTaxi, a subscription management for premium podcasters. He is also the host of a premium podcast called “Patrick Tucker’s Secrets of Screen Acting: The Podcast.”^[2][12]