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• Star Jackson • Season 1 • Episode 7

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Hey Hey , TITANS QUEENS AND KINGS !!! We have a Very special episode with a true pillar among pillars. Not only a TALENTED Voice Actor, but casting director, project creator, writer, author, my friend  AND SO MUCH MORE ! WE HAVE THE ANGEL CASS IN THE CITYY!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!! I am so elated to share Angel's story with you all. She is so remarkable in every way of the word and inspires me so very much. It was such an HONOR to yapp with our girl! We hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did creating it!!! ENJOY !

SPEAKER_00

Hi there, everyone, and welcome and welcome back to another episode of Dweave City, where nerdism thrives and storytellings rise. With your host, me, Star Jackson. Today we have a very special episode with our friend, voice actor, content creator, consumer, um voice actor, I think I said on already, director, a project creator, and so much more, Angel Cass. In today's episode, we yap about her story, and let me tell you an iconic story of her trials and tribulations of having a disability, especially as a voice actor in the industry, growing up, where she's from, and hobbies and things that she likes to do for fun. This conversation was really, really touching, really close to my heart, and I'm so happy to have Angel as not only a peer, but also someone to look up to. And we hope you enjoyed this episode as much as we did recording it. Now, enough yapping for me. Let's go ahead and talk to Angel. Hi everybody! Welcome and welcome back to Dweeb City! I am here with a very special guest. This guest is known for her very beautiful, exaver exaggerate personality, um, being so supportive in the in the um industry of voice acting. I always see her everywhere giving so much support and love to voice actors all over. She's so inspiring. She loves doing what she does in um voice acting from Puerto Rico, disabled, but abled to do anything she puts her mind to, which I love. She's a writer, director. She's in Married Um Monster Disaster Date Roulette. And my friend also, um, she did theater in full cell university, did novels and all things of the sort. We have Angel Cass in the building. No no number. Hi, Angel.

SPEAKER_01

Hi. Well, let me correct you on one thing. I don't live in Puerto Rico. I don't live in Puerto Rico anymore. I used to. Okay. But I'm Puerto Rico anymore. Okay. I'm from Puerto Rico. I don't live anymore there. Where do you live? Do you live in Florida? I live now in Colorado. Colorado, okay, okay. Oh. Yeah. How do you think about it? I'm Puerto Rican and I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. So that's still true in a way. So you um you speak Spanish as well? And I'm gonna act in Spanish too.

SPEAKER_00

Be an itu. Me gusta um uh that me gusta eso period How do you say period in Spanish? Um oh let me still como como se dice como se dice period in espanol. I know that okay. Thank you so much for coming on. I am so excited to talk about everything. Um how uh actually let's get into how your day is going. Let's start with that. How's your day been going today? What's your I just woke up? I just woke up from a nap. Yeah? How was your how was your nap? Good. Yes, we love good naps around here, especially when um like when they're not planned. But sometimes those the not planned ones are scary because then you're like, what year is it?

SPEAKER_01

I have my doggie with me here. Oh my gosh, let's see.

SPEAKER_00

I'm excited. I love puppies. He's so cute. Oh my goodness! Oh hi. How are you? What the what's there? Is it a boy or girl? It's a girl. Michelle What is her name? Michelle. Michelle. Hi, Miss Michelle. Hi, cutie. She's like, okay. She's so cute. Is she a poodle?

SPEAKER_01

She's in poodle mix. She has she's cavalier king and poodle mix. Oh cavalier king is a beautiful mix. Well, how long have you had her? Um, I've had her since January 2024, and she was born October 2023.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, so she's still a baby.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she's still she's gonna be three years old now. She's still very much a puppy. The doctor said that she would be like a puppy for like five years, so she's got lots of growing to do. So yeah, she's so good. She's she's she's my baby. I love her. She's she's I trained her to be my service dog, but the only thing that she helps me with is with lowering my heart rate. Um when I have panic attacks. Bad panic attacks. She lowers my heart rate when I have those, but she doesn't really stop them or or or tell me before it happens, and I'm trying to see if we can teach her to, but it's it's it's a learning curve. It's you know and I need her to stop barking at other dogs. That's the only thing.

SPEAKER_00

Like, no, no. Remember what we learned.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So with um that, um, did you go to somebody to did you train are you training her yourself or you are are you getting help with someone?

SPEAKER_01

I I I did train her with someone like for most for almost two years, but there's still some things that are loose, like the the barking at other dogs and uh and the her getting to tell me before an attack happens. So those are she can do that? She should do that, but she doesn't. So I'm still trying to see how to train her, but I have no idea how.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that is so interesting. Wow. Okay, so um with your um anxiety attacks, um uh do they do they happen often?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they used to happen more often than now. Uh now it I had one like last month and that was it. Okay. But taking my um my pro sac has helped a lot, especially since they up the milligrams for the pro sac.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, good, good.

SPEAKER_01

So that has helped a lot, and I try to take uh hydrosexine a little bit too when I feel a little bit coming. So I'm trying, I'm trying to push the curve, but it's it's hard.

SPEAKER_00

It's you're doing amazing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Um so like um, how did uh you get into voice acting? I am very curious.

SPEAKER_01

Well, 2020 happened. Uh-huh. Oh that's when I found out that you could do this from home. Because before I thought it was like only for like Hollywood elites, like Robin Williams and uh Angela Lansbury. That's just that's how I found out about voice acting through the Disney movies. The VHS. So I didn't think that I could do it. Um I did take theater class, a theater class in college, and uh I I love theater, I love acting. Um when I was four years old, I saw a play and I was like, Mom, I want to go there. I want to go on stage, and she was like, No, you can't. So I didn't pursue it. Um so I did I waited until I was in college to take an acting class. And then voice acting, it kind of fell on my lap in 2020 when I found out that you could do it from home, and then I looked for Casting Call Club, Discord, the VAC, the voice acting club, uh, all that stuff, and I started there, but I didn't start taking it uh seriously and full throttle until 2023 that I took a class with Morgan Berry, and that's when I started to really pursue it. Oh my gosh! That's when I really started to to pursue it in twenty twenty-three. Uh but twenty twenty was when I found out that you could do it, but I wasn't really into getting into it, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't really that into it until twenty twenty-three, and that's what I've been doing for three years. And I still write, and I still I'm currently doing a project that I need to record for soon. Um and I have an animator for it, and I'm trying to find musicians, so that's uh it it is hard.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, doing a project like from the ground up, whoo! Like, there's so much that goes into it. And from you like, you know, make getting all the ingredients together and then cooking it and then putting it on the table. Like a lot of people don't really realize what all goes into making a project and having it at and finally having it out. So kudos to you for getting it together and and pushing to get it up. I'm so excited for you. Oh my gosh. Do you have any details on what it's about, or are you still getting everything together?

SPEAKER_01

Um, it's it's about uh it's two characters or three characters from another story that I built called the World of Agrelia. Um it's uh it's uh world uh that is um it's not from Earth, basically. It's not earthly world. It's it has uh three moons, three suns. Oh, that's really cool. Uh it has uh a goddess that is the one who provides for everybody. Um but and then they fight dragons or witches or werewolves, so stuff like that. It I don't want to get into much detail. Yeah, yeah, don't spoil it for us. But uh I think it's based on But that's the world it's based off. Like and and and and I and I'm not good with conflicts, so the story that I'm gonna do is really it's really sweet. It's really sweet. It's it's it's just about them going on a date night, these two characters, and you know Oh, and in my world, everybody's a lesbian or gay or bisexual.

SPEAKER_00

I already love it.

SPEAKER_01

Sign me up in the world of the Carlia, everybody's gay or a lesbian or bisexual. That that's in a wor and it's not even looked down on upon or anything. It's just it's just it's just a norm.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It's just a norm in that world.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I love it already. Um like so they're gonna be looking like more like an aliens kinda, 'cause they're from another world.

SPEAKER_01

No, they're not aliens, they're very much human like. Oh, okay. And the only difference is the werewolves that they will have a tail and uh and and in in ears. They will have a tail, and that's that's it. But because I don't you know, or or cat ears, something like that, you know. So that's the only thing. But I don't I do them really normal human beings like because I don't know. Um I don't want to make it to a point that you have no connection to the characters.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_01

So so I want the characters to be human and have a feeling towards me.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I'm so excited. Oh, I can't wait to hear this when it comes out. It's it's it's gonna be a really short thing. It's just a day with two of the characters. Because the animator was like, I cannot do six the six pages that the story was. Yeah, like okay, and I'm like, okay, you're right, let me shorten it. And it was getting hard to find actors for all the characters too. And I'm like, this is huge. This is yeah. So we we shorten it to just a little date scene.

SPEAKER_00

So yes, uh, it's it's an animation. It'll be an animation. It'll be an animation, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Ah, that's so cool. And prior to that, I have Hearts in Bloom and the Rosa Studio uh YouTube. Uh let me let me look for it here.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, for sure. Just to show you. I'm so excited. Also, I love your lashes. Oh my gosh. Are those yours? Yeah, they're mine. Oh I they're so long and luscious, Angel.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. I used to have more, but see, hearts in blue. And this is like yours, right? Yeah, this is mine. I made this. I wrote this. Um, an operator did it.

SPEAKER_00

How have how have I not seen this? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, that is so cool. I'll send it to you. Yes, please, please. And I'm gonna put it down below so everybody else can like look at it. That is so cool! Oh my gosh. So, like, when when you went to school, is that what you went to school for? Is like um writing and directing and making your own project for full because I tell you what the full sale is.

SPEAKER_01

I went for I actually no full sale was just to do auditions.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

I didn't go to full sale, I went to the art institute of Port Lauderdale, and I went to you you uh Sagrado Corazón University Universidad de Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. Okay. I went to those two colleges, and then I went to Polk State College. In Polk State College I studied English literature, and the art institute and Universidad de Sagrado Corazón, I studied uh graphic design. Oh but I never finished it anything. I never finished anything because I would always get sick and would end up in the hospital and it was too much pressure, it was too much.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's why voice acting, I just do what I can and not push myself. I do like 20 to 25 auditions throughout the whole entire month.

SPEAKER_02

That's all really good.

SPEAKER_00

Because you know right now for me that's that's less. I'm doing way less because I've been working like crazy. Um exactly like you said, you have to do with what you have. Do what you can do with what you have. And and sometimes we can like like feel make ourselves feel bad because we feel like we could we can do more and we should do more, but we don't really look at what we do already and like be like, you know, I'm I'm really doing I'm doing something. I'm trying, I'm doing the thing, thing. And Angel, you have been doing it. I look up to you so much. You're so inspiring.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, thank you, sweetheart. You're you're inspiring too. You're you're so kind, you're always pumping everybody up. You know, you always you always bring light to the table.

SPEAKER_00

So thank you so much. Oh my gosh. Stop it! We didn't even we're not even 30 minutes in yet.

SPEAKER_01

You bring light to the table. You really do. You're a star.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my gosh. I'm so so happy we met. Oh, that reminds me. You took um a class with Morgan Berry. Let's so that started it like all for you. That's so crazy because I took a class with them um too, and that's what kind of I uh like kind I did like a class with um I found classes through somebody um before them, but then I um I wanted I really wanted to get like more into like the anime cartoon realm. And then so I was like searching through Google, and then I found um their classes, took a class with them, they gave me like a hash down of literally like like a crash course of everything, and then like I did a couple more classes with them, and it really helped jumpstart my journey. So when you said that, I was like, oh my gosh, literally same. So how did how did you feel about Morgan Berry's classes?

SPEAKER_01

Uh Morgan is phenomenal. Um, because I do this as a hobby. I didn't get into everything that that they offered because I was like, no, I do things as a hobby. I don't but I want to learn because I want to be better and have better opportunities when I do this. Right. They're they're very supportive, they're very kind. Um and uh they taught me, you know, the beeps and all that stuff that goes with with the with the anime and all that. So and the retakes. I forgot. I forgot. I have I have it all in my document what she said.

SPEAKER_00

The same I I wrote a lot down too when I take the classes and they're then my paperwork somewhere. So much, so much you could soak in from classes too, from learning from um other people.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, hold on. Let me see if it's a little bit more.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, Doctor.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, there we go. With the difference. Cleanup smooth, line red, red, cloth, close, C M, closed mouth, OM, open mouth, C L T.

SPEAKER_00

I remember those.

SPEAKER_01

All that's learning those for the first time. Yeah, so so she taught me all of that.

SPEAKER_00

I've been never all of that. Yeah, you never were like when you first go in, you didn't you wouldn't think like there's so much that goes into a script, like very like um abbreviated words and stuff like that, and then until you get it, you're like, whoa! Like, you know, this all this was comes into a one script.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, and I remember practicing a script with like the Donald Duck kids. Oh the Scrooge's kids. Uh I did a practice with that, and you know, just how to read uh script and how to all that stuff. So yeah, it's it's very it was very fun, very informative. And I still take classes with them when I can. Yeah. I like them as a coach. I I feel comfortable with them. They're very kind.

SPEAKER_00

Shout out to you, Morgan. We love you. We love you, Morgan. And so, um, I would like to get into a little bit more about like how how you started. So, um, did you did you do any theater like in high school, middle school growing up? Um, or you did you just stumble upon it or stumble upon like act? I know you said a little bit earlier, but I was just wondering, like, growing up, how was growing up?

SPEAKER_01

Um, growing up, I did like little shows for singing. And like at the end of the school year, like the learning center would put on little shows. So I did little singing shows with a class. Um, or Christmas, we would do like the Christmas shows and we would sing. Um, we would do that. Um, in in sixth grade, I did choir. Oh sang in choir, and then I was one of the third in a three three people uh section for Christmas or whatever. Um then all of high school and elementary and and middle school, we didn't do anything. Um I didn't know. 'Cause you're a mom, right? I remember you saying that. My mom didn't put me into anything. Yeah my mom my mom didn't I did ballet one class one time and they took me out because I wasn't very good at ballet. And my mom was like, Oh, it's because you're sick so much that she took me out. And I wish she had told me the truth because I knew instinctively that I wasn't good. So I could have gone and done acting or something. Something else. And she and she said it was because I was sick. I didn't pursue anything else, thinking, oh, it's because I'm sick, I can't I never pursued anything until college. That's when I started taking theater class. And I didn't do a play until for the sound of music until in my early twenties at at the Lemon Pash Theater. And I did full sale the student films and full sale. So that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_00

So do you remember like that moment where you were like I actually I like that turning moment where you was like, you know, it's not my disability like that stopping me. It's just like I like w do you remember that moment where you were like, I can do something else, I can do something different.

SPEAKER_01

Um, it was really again in that twenty twenty twenty twenty uh stuff that when everything got closed off and everything was being done at home. That's when I realized, oh, I can do this from home. I can finally act, I can finally live my dream of being an actor from home. Yeah. Cause I can't I don't drive, I don't work, I don't I don't do anything like that. Right. So doing this from home is what really enables me to live this part of my life that I've always dreamed of living.

SPEAKER_00

Got coospumps. Wow. So, um uh so much um questions I have. Oh, amazing. Um, so with the with when COVID happened and you were able to like do more stuff, um well, even like before then, um, do you think that you were holding yourself back because you didn't think you could do it because of your disability? Do you think that was like a big reason too? Or was it just because, you know, like you felt like it wasn't like tangible, but then COVID happened and you felt like you could grab it?

SPEAKER_01

I I felt like it was hard for me to pursue it in Puerto Rico and in Florida because I didn't have the means, I didn't know how to navigate, I didn't know who to talk to, how to get into it. I tried to do local theater in Winterhaven when I was living in Florida and nothing panned out. I did I did help out at the theater just to get to know the theater and everything, but I didn't get into anything. Um like I didn't uh uh the auditions that I did, I didn't it didn't come out to anything. Um but I didn't know how to look for agents, I didn't know how to look for anything, and I'm like, you know, this is this is not on the table for me. And then when COVID happened, I'm like, wait a minute, I love voice acting. I prefer it even more than acting because acting, you need to memorize the script. I cannot memorize script. So I'm like, this ain't perfect, and I'm and I'm behind the camera, I'm I'm behind the mic, nobody's seeing me, nobody's you know, you know, I I'm and I fell in love with what's and you don't have to look a certain way or anything. Yeah, and and with me with my oxygen, you know, you you can't you can't act like that.

SPEAKER_00

And so voice acts almost like the perfect the perfect thing, and and um, um what was I gotta say? Oh, and so um so can you give us a like a little uh hash down if you're comfortable about um your disability that you have and how it impacted you into voice acting, like um anything that like um bumps in the road and also good things that have happened as well. I would love to like dig deep and see your experience um as a disabled voice actor to any other voice actors who are out there who are also disabled to show that anyone can do this.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, absolutely. Okay, so it's a pretty little a little bit of a long story. Okay. So I was born prematur I was born prematurely. I I was born three months earlier than I was supposed to. So I weighted one and a half pounds and went down to office and uh they had to put tubes into me in my chest because my lung collapsed and my lung closed up. Um I had six chest tubes. I died three times. The longest time was 20 minutes. Um I spent most of my life in hospitals. Uh I had a mild brainstorm, which affected my visual and motor skills, which is why I cannot drive. Because of those visual and motor skills just you know don't don't work well for for driving. And then 20 minutes you said sorry 20 minutes dead. 20 minutes Yeah, dead when I was a baby.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, so how I do you do you know the details of like um so for that 20 minutes they were just like um trying to revive you?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah yeah, and one time I did a project about premature babies, and the doctor who was there at the table said that he left the table, he took off his robe and everything, and he was leaving, and something pulled him back to work on me.

SPEAKER_00

So, and he was really glad to see me uh alive at at the age of sixteen, I think I was so Angel, you are true So wait, did your mom aim name you Angel because of this, or does she already have your name picked out?

SPEAKER_01

My name is Angelique.

SPEAKER_00

Angelique.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I go by Angel Cass. Angel Cass is my name shortened and my last name shortened and mixed with with my with my second last name uh first letter. So I kind of make a mix there. Um Angel Cass is my um my stage name. So my real name is Angelique. Angelique and my mom name and my mom named me Angelique because of uh of everything I've been through. And uh and then I spend a lot of time in the hospitals my whole life, like in and out of hospitals, doctors, uh, tests, this, that, um and then I when I when I got older, when I got older as a teenager, I started having problems with my mental health. Oh and that started too, the mental health hospitals and doctors for psychiatrists and medicines for that, and so because I also suffer psychosis and bipolar and and anxiety, depression, all of that. So I have both the physical and the mental health.

SPEAKER_00

You are amazing. Honestly, you are and and like you you do voice acting on top of that and and and writing and directing. You literally just showed me like your your your whole project on YouTube and you're still doing all that while you're doing you Angel, you are amazing. I just have to say that like um you are very inspiring and the 20 minutes and then he did not give up on you, you it's like uh insane. Um I just have I just I just had to say that. Like, so with all of that, do you feel like um with uh with everything that happened so you so right now you have a collapsed lung, is that part of the your disability?

SPEAKER_01

Yes, a close lung. That's why I'm on oxygen because I don't have enough to go around now that I'm older, it's just a lot harder than when I was younger. So uh I I do have a close lung, which is my right lung, and it's missing its lower part. Okay, so it didn't develop, so okay, gotcha. So it's missing a little bit of the lower part. It's nothing big, the doctor says not to worry. But you know, I still I still worry because it's my body. So Right, right. It's like wait, my lung! Yeah. So my goodness. So but otherwise, it's it's all good. I mean, I sit for voice acting. I I don't do it standing, I do it sitting down. I still move my arms so like my my b my upper body and to bring in the characters. But I do things little by little, like I said. Yeah. Sometimes I do 19 19 auditions, sometimes I do 27, sometimes I do 20, sometimes I do sixteen. It just depends.

SPEAKER_00

So whatever like you like you or you're up to, right? Like whatever you're feeling.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and it's throughout the whole entire month. It's not like all in one go. It's just throughout the whole entire month. I do one or two or three or three there or five there, you know, and I and I space it out and do what I can. And if I get something, great. If not, I know there will be another opportunity out there because it's a lot of a lot of a lot of not having gr grabbing anything. So you know, this last month I was on a dry spell, and I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna make my own product instead and act in it. Yeah, that's what I did. That's what I did. It was a it was a dry month, and I'm like, you know, let me just do my own time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Oh, like this is amazing. Like, that is so so cool. Yeah, like that's literally what I do the same thing during a dry spell. I'll just be like, what do I want to do today? Let me make a podcast. Like, so that's what I did. And like, it's been so amazing so far. Being able to talk to friends and peers and and sharing stories and like just yapping, and honestly, gives me an excuse to talk to you guys, and I love it because I I want to talk, I live it's so it's just so amazing, like already, like oh my gosh. And um, I'm so happy to have you on, and thank you so much for taking the time out to do this as well. And um, uh uh, I would also like to to see like what are some of the challenges that you had to go through or are going through um with voice acting, um, as well as being a disabled voice actor, but that you have overcome and some things that you would like to see like different about the industry.

SPEAKER_01

Well, um for me the hardest part is depression because sometimes I just want to sleep in and not get up. Um, that's me personally. Uh as far as the industry goes, I really would like remote availability. Like, yeah, we cannot move. Like, we have our doctors, we have our our medical teams where we live, and we cannot just up and move and go to a hub. So I would love for remote opportunities to be available for everyone, not just me, but for everyone. Yes. Um, I I again do this as a hobby, even though I did talk to my roommate about possibly moving to Texas to be where Crunchyroll is. But we don't we don't know yet. We don't know yet. It's just it was just a talk. Yeah, yeah. Because I cannot work like I cannot get paid because I live out of SSI and SSDI.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. And and for those who don't know who that is, um, um what uh what would uh what is uh SSI SSI and SSDI is social social security um is social security for disabled people.

SPEAKER_01

And you you and like if you earn like $85, you have to report it. And you know, if you earn a certain amount, they take out one dollar for every two dollars you make. And I don't earn a lot, yeah. I don't earn a lot already. So and I pay rent with this money. I pay rent, I pay electricity, I pay internet, and it's my livelihood, and I cannot lose it if I were to work. Oh my god. This is me person, this is me personally, and that's how I get my health insurance as well, my Medicare and Medicaid. So we live in poverty, and and there's no they don't they don't allow you to have more than two thousand dollars saved. They don't it's we live in poverty. Like I get a thousand dollars total a month.

SPEAKER_00

Wow, and with that I pay rent and everything else, and that's and rent itself is like a lot. So on top of that, and light bill, water bill, groceries, like groceries.

SPEAKER_01

At least I have food stamps. Okay, you know, and and then leisure, money to do stuff for fun, you know? Yeah, I don't have I don't have a lot. I have you know I have enough to take one or two classes where I can and things like that, but you know Yeah. That's why that's why but I cannot I cannot lose that because I I have I have my health insurance due to that. If I lose my health insurance, I'm fucked. Then how do I get my oxygen? How do I get my medicine? How do I get my doctors? So that's why I don't want to do this as a job job, even though I want to be in anime and I really want to be in Country World and I really want to Oh you will do all the things You will be mamas and I'm be all on the sloway like I'm that's how I do but I can't I can't do it because of my my disability, you know?

SPEAKER_00

My my I feel like when it comes up, they'll work around it. They'll I feel like they'll find a way. Because you if you that's what you really want, it is gonna it's gonna happen. You know? Like that I feel like uh with Crunch Roll and Bang Zoom or anyone like that, they I feel like they'll find a way. Especially you're talented. You're so talented and that they'll they'll figure something out, especially from um any standpoint. So uh don't I feel like I I understand like where where you're coming from because you that's like your your income coming in, you don't want to mess that up. But I I feel like don't let it stop you from from getting your dreams because I feel like there there could be a way with that, honestly.

SPEAKER_01

I might I might talk to my roommate and see if we can we can make the truck up there. Um but we'll see, we'll see.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, you never know. And honestly, you don't even like because I've been seeing a lot of voice actors like doing remotely. I've been seeing like a lot of uh voice actors like partnering with them that are doing it from home, even though like I hate that it's a lot harder. It's a lot harder than being in a hub. Um, but it's definitely possible just to do it from home. Like it's and and um you know, with the studio, having a studio and stuff like that, it can be a bit difficult money-wise, too, but uh slowly um getting the things that they're they're looking for, like the studio quality, like they can always like check it and make sure everything's good, you know, because they're they're always looking for that talent aspect, like that's the biggest thing, like the acting and stuff like that. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I just got into Story Co, Story Company, Story Co for the webtoons and all that. Oh I just got okay. Oh, congrats! Yeah, I just got in on that, and I'm like, oh my god, I got in. So I'm waiting for the 24 hours for them to send the things so I can start doing auditions and stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, let's go! I'm so proud of you.

SPEAKER_01

I'm waiting on that, so I'm I'm excited. I I'm like, I didn't think I would get it, and I did, and it's like it's it's it's it's it's it's happening, it's slowly happening. It's happening. I just I I I got into another roaster. I just got an audition for something else, and I did it before I got together with you. Yeah. In your first interview, uh, right? It's the first interview. Like, this is amazing, and it's with you, Star, so it's even better. Stop Oh my god. You're such a light. You're such a light. I love you. Oh, you're gonna make me cry.

SPEAKER_00

Like, like, oh my gosh. Thank you, thank you, thank you so so much. And um like hearing your story like even more in depth now, like it it's amazing. Like, you and you're doing it. Look at you getting accepted and all this stuff, like oh my gosh. And then so I also I wanted to broil it, I popped in my head. So when you audition, is there anything um that you think is like a little bit different than what able people um uh are can do, you think? Is there any like things that like more precautions that like you do or you would like to have rather than like you know somebody else who is like you know for me, I cannot do the screaming.

SPEAKER_01

You remember when I said that oh she can scream and I cannot I cannot do the screaming? Because there's there's a part of my lungs which just constructs constructs and I cannot go low right there.

SPEAKER_00

Don't do it, don't do it, don't hold on now.

SPEAKER_01

So I cannot go uh I cannot go low, I cannot go low, and I cannot scream like for a long time, like period time because of of of of my lungs and all that construction. So there's there's some stuff that unfortunately I cannot and will not be able to do. So it it would be something that if I audition for something and it requires screaming, I won't be able to do it. I will have to or they will have to adjust it to something that I can do.

SPEAKER_00

More simple, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Or and I cannot go low, I cannot go low. You just saw how I how I stopped right there. Like I can't so I can do this, boys, which is really high pitch, but that's it. Yay! Oh my god. That's so cool. That's it. My voice and that high-pitched voice. That's my that's my repertoire.

SPEAKER_00

That's all you need, Angel. All you need is your voice, and you already got a and you got another one and another one. So you're good. You're set to go. That's all I have. So um when it comes to like um auditioning, do you let the the the casting director know like there's certain like things that um you you can or cannot do, or is it like anything like do you like accommod accommodation wise, do you how does that process work when you send out auditions?

SPEAKER_01

You know what? I've never I've never talked about accommodations. I've never talked about anything 'cause all I've been doing is casting call club mostly or anything I find on LinkedIn or or or uh Discord or stuff like that. So I've never been in a position in which I have to say, Oh, I need this, I need this, I need this Right. I just look for I you know, I've never I've it's never come up to be honest with you. Like like I would be a liar if I said oh I do this. I really don't because all I've done has been auditions on casting call club Discord uh one that I found on on LinkedIn um or two that I found on LinkedIn but nothing nothing has come up that I have to say oh I need this you know or I need that or I need you to nothing has come up and I would be a liar if I said if it did because oh oh thank you thank you for being um honest I love that you know I never I've never I've never done it and so far so good if it ever comes up I'll probably be like hey you need to know that I but nothing has come up that I needed to say anything okay and then um my last question about this top topic um is there anything that you would like to see more of in the industry when it comes to um big a disabled actor voice actor or actress I really want people to realize that we can bring it to you know that we can we can voice act as well we can you know even our limitations don't stop us from performing from acting from doing what we love and we love what we do so give us a chance give us the opportunity you know open the doors put down the ladder let us climb up with you because we want to stand beside you not above you not not not below you but beside you beside yes Ada yes tell him tell him I love that and you're doing it so that's what I would like people to know that we can and are capable and we'll bring it sometimes even harder to work a lot harder that part that is so true we need to work a lot harder like um Christina could you know Christina uh let me Christina V No not Christina V.

SPEAKER_00

Oh Christina hold on I love this conversation I'm so good at talking to you I'm trying to think too actually Christina V there's a story about Christina V.

SPEAKER_01

You know she's the first piece Christina V is soon I realized that anybody can voice act. Oh and why is that because I didn't know who Christina V was until I found out of Homo dachemi from Madoka Magica.

SPEAKER_00

And I'm like this is this is someone who's not like Hollywood star star star and she's voice acting anybody can do this anybody can be a voice actor so Christina V was the real reason why I realized that anybody could try being a voice actor she was the first person that I realized like oh this can be for anybody but there's another Christina um who's who's huge in the in the in the industry voice acting world and she's disabled too and I forgot her last name I'm so sorry oh no worries I'm the same way because uh I I know there's so many people I know it but the words it's it's so many people that we know like so many I cannot keep up but there's this specific Christina who works with a disabled voice actors um program and she's really trying hard for um for uh um sag after and all of them to help us voice actors who are disabled as well as Sarah Sakura who's also disabled I think I know who you're talking about now is she also disabled Sarah Sakura is also disabled oh I know exactly who you're talking about oh I I'm gonna put her um I'm gonna put her uh what what is it called um her her linked down below but I know exactly who you're talking about she's in like a lot of anime and stuff right she had a lot of uh games and stuff like that but there's also Christina I forgot it starts with her last name is with an AG I know now I know exactly who you're talking about because I believe we just um linked up recently Christina Af oh yes yes Christina I'm gonna I'm sorry Christina if you're listening to this I am gonna put her in uh Christina assaf Costello yes her yes yes she is a wonderful I hope to have her on the podcast one day as well like she's such a really awesome okay now I know now yes okay we're we're there cats we're there angel but um yeah like she I love how she is such a big advocate on um disability like of disabled people um and speaking on and speaking about like getting more accessible and voice acting and stuff like so so she helped influence you into saying knowing that this was possible um Christina V Christina oh Christina V okay but but Christina Costello she is an inspiration in a different level because she's advocating for disability she's advocating for everybody to have accessible rights and I I I admire her and Sarah Sakura because of the long uh long um what's the word I'm looking for the resume their resume their long resume their resume from from it button down I'm sorry no I'm here with you girl I I understand I'm the same way I'm like come on brain come on I was like I have also I have also ad and autism as well it's really bad I have ad well ad slash adh but more ad side but apparently I I guess both but yeah I have adh and autism as well so oh you have autism I didn't know that wow autism that that is so awesome actually neurodivergent gang wow angel so I really look up to these uh voice actresses who have done it who have done it who are pushing through even with their with their disabilities and that really gives me hope that I might be able to achieve this greatness too but again I'm afraid of losing my health my my health insurance my life yeah that comes first that's yeah that that's why I do this as a hobby and I don't go for it but I really want to be anime like angel but with that like you you don't have to make it a hobby because like of that you if you're you take this serious right so I always say it could be it's a hobby but also you are like you are a voice actor so like you you are doing it so like like I'm trying to put it into words in like proper words. Like um honestly like if you want to you go for it because there's always like maybe you can when that would be a wonderful problem to have when you get there like when you get to that length where you gotta be like okay I can only have this certain amount of pay because I can't get my disability you know uh checks taken away because of that. Um you know but I feel like there is always there there's always a way to like work around it from the other side because they can probably give you something that can work with the disability so that way you could have both but you know I feel like it will you'll be able to I guess cross that bridge when you get there type thing. Yeah but even so even if you still you don't want to um you know do that you still have there's so much indie work out there and so much um uh projects that are like so amazing and and like you do you don't even have to do that if you don't if you don't you know want to so yeah yeah no I I'm doing indie stuff I'm doing I I don't mind doing indie projects and indie stuff and my own projects as well so yeah you know I don't but I still want to do anime like that stuff I see it in your eyes you're like I I love anime I've been watching anime since I was a little girl oh what was the anime that got you in that was really like I love anime do you remember um well the first anime I watched when I was little was Nussles and the adventures of the little koala and I thought it was one gigantic show because it was both both about koalas so I thought it was one whole same same thing in Spanish but the anime that got me into anime was Sailor Moon come on Sailor Moon you cannot go wrong with Sailor Moon Dragon Ball Sea Dragon Ball Sailor Moon Yes Dragon Ball was like yes the entry anime I swear I loved I remember seeing Sailor Moon and not even knowing it it was Sailor Moon as a kid I just remember like you know like when they're when they do like the little transformation and like I was like oh my god this is so cool so the transformation get me so Sailor Moon Dragon Ball C Tenshi Munio Ronin Warriors Hamtaro all of that yes so all of that in tsunami and that's when I find out oh this is anime this is I like this and now with animation and all of that and high dive I'm in I'm I'm I'm I'm soaking in all up I'm loving in all up and I and I'm enjoying anime and I'm like I want to be in this medium you know what I would have loved as well be in a Disney movie like how the olden cartoon movies for Disney like snow not snow is it snow white I guess no what was the first uh Disney I think it was like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty what are those with the like type that type thing yeah those those type of uh cartoon animations for Disney like oh Mickey Mouse when he did the steamer thing like yes I can definitely hear your voice in that I would love to do that and but they don't do that anymore they don't do the animations anymore like they used to so yeah that's so true you never know maybe they'll come back with that they'll like you know bring the new new generation something throwbacky and you never know they might bring something like you know where it's like black and white and I can definitely see you as like um as in the animation as like I don't know like a character that's very like huh la I can definitely hear your voice in on one of those and like maybe like a character that's like really like jumpy like I've like so cute oh my gosh you're so bright so are you you you're such a joy like so like oh you you feel you feel me with so much like love and passion you inspire me so much like with everything and you still look at you smiling and and like talking about anime enjoying life and like it's just it's just amazing and um um yeah so cool. Um so a segue from that is there any hobbies um besides uh voice acting and writing that you like to do besides your projects do you do anything just for fun do you like the cook or yeah um sometimes I draw sometimes I draw but mostly writing mostly writing is my hobby I love writing I love writing fan fiction I've been writing fan fiction since 2003 so oh wow yeah you know what I forgot you just turned 40 right yeah yeah last year okay wow last year oh we gotta talk about that too yeah I turned 40 last year I'm turning 41 this year how does it how does it feel I remember us talking about it online I remember you was like I can't believe it like I just feel like it just came out I can't believe it because because they didn't like when I was younger they didn't think I would l would live until I like to my twenties they didn't think I was gonna survive until my twenties so every every 40 30 50 like all those monsters for me it feels huge because I wasn't meant to be alive in in my twenties because that's what my lungs was in your 40 and I'm 40 and I'm and thriving mind you don't even look like like half that age like like what is your secret what do you use I need to write it down oh actually do you have a skincare routine I do hold on I'm so excited guys this is so good let's see what kind of um skincare she uses um I love a good skincare routine I do like a little something to get that glass skin especially at night oh evitam skin she's taking a screenshot of that oh and where do you get you where you usually get it from I got it from Amazon I just put a little bit I still have another one still at home that I haven't used um I wash my face and then I put it on okay simple enough I'm I'm gonna use it this looks like vitamin E so that has like um stuff that's good for your skin like collagen collagen yup we love a good collagen it has it has collagen so you know it it it um it helps with the firming of but you know I'm I still have lines you know I still have like I feel like um I feel like that's like with even like I've seen teenagers have like you know like a little like I feel like everybody has a little lines but even even still like you look n I wouldn't I would never guess even though 40's technically not even like old I think it's like it's middle age and even still I feel like it's not old at all but I I would have never have guessed that honestly so here on the the skincare and glass routine in genetics genetics too because my mom my mom is in her 70s and she doesn't look old. Look close to it right yeah but she does her skin routine she's like you have to do this since you're 20 and like do this at a really young age and and I'm like I am not gonna but I started in my 30s I started in my 30s using it so I started late too honestly because at first I was like uh I because I didn't really like greasy I don't like feeling greasy and like some of the lotions and stuff that I use I felt like greasy but then um I found like some stuff that aren't as like um it's more smoother and less like more thin but still does the same effects so yeah I honestly feel you there. It took me a while to like do anything with the skin care like but then COVID hit then that's what really got me into wanting to do it because I had more time to do it.

SPEAKER_01

So like last second yeah well I started doing it because I'm like you know what I want to be like my mom that looks young. Yeah right like as long as we can her hands you can see that she's old with her hands but she puts it all through the neck it's always the neck the chest and the chest here and all the like that like that like that so I'm like you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_00

Follow for footsteps. I love it. Oh my gosh. And then um one more thing I wanted to talk about it was um your you said that you turned uh or you're turning 41 this year. So um I have talked with a uh a couple of uh guests um in the previous episode about how it is being um a mature person in the industry and um how the the trials and tribulations of that um what do you feel like um what would you like to see more of of of that in that nature this is there benefits that you felt like you have from it and and vice versa Okay I get what you mean um well I think that because I lived my life that has helped a lot with voice acting I think if I've done this when I was younger it wouldn't come out as good because I wouldn't have had those years of life experiences and things I've gone through.

SPEAKER_01

Um my voice sounds young so I can I can go a little bit one way or another. So I think for me specifically it has benefit that I lived my life and I that the experiences that I've gone that I went on cruises that I've gone to Greece to see my family that I that I've gone and um seen plays and you know just le live my life.

SPEAKER_00

Um I live a very secluded life I I live mostly at home I mostly stay at home but I do go out to go to the movies to go to plays go to museums go to the I love that ooh when I so when I go out and do stuff that that has that has allowed me to have those experiences to bring forth a character so well that is very true so you and you use those experiences and infuse it into your characters to give it more more of that life because you have like that life experience so it's always good if anyone's listening um to go out don't like and voice acting and being like into it is good and and auditioning is good and and making connections and networking and stuff but you want to go out and experience life you that is a big thing in voice acting and and shaping who you are as a person and and experiencing stuff. So that way when you do have a character you kinda know that archaeotype of the character because maybe you met somebody that kinda is like them or maybe like you know somebody and you know you never would have that experience unless you go out and and talk and do stuff. So I I figured that out too like just do stuff and go have fun.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah just you know and it doesn't have to be every day because I don't have these adventures every day. It's sometimes sometimes I don't sometimes sometimes but the thing is that you have to live you have to live because you cannot be in a in a in a closed room auditioning auditioning auditioning and not living life. Right you know those experiences shape you as a person and shape you as an actor.

SPEAKER_00

Exactly and that's where it what gets those raw nuances like the the like that really sets you apart from um Um from everything and then like it really like it's just like wow it just feels real because it comes from a the base comes from a real experience real things, you know?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. I think I think that's really important and anybody could benefit from just living life, living it to the fullest because life is short.

SPEAKER_00

Life is short. And you don't really realize that as a kid until you get an adult, and then you're just like, whoa, wait, what happened? I blinked. Yeah.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Wait, what do you mean my my adult family members and and friends and family friends were right? Like, well, we really do grow up fast. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much, Angel, for coming on. Um, and um for anybody who would like to follow you on your journey and and keep up with you and and and reach out for um um for opportunities, anything like that, can you give us your um your username and um anything else that you would like to plug in?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, sure. Um do you have anywhere I can write or do you want me to just say it?

SPEAKER_00

You can say it and then I'll put it um I'll put it underneath the the uh in the description as well.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so my Twitter AngelCast2023, and in there you'll have my website linked and and my demo. So just so just my my Twitter, you can find my website and my demos and everything. So yeah, just find it just my Twitter.

SPEAKER_00

Yes! Awesome, and thank you guys for watching and listening. Um, as always, feel free to give us uh uh a like, follow, share with a friend if you find the um these interviews fun and useful, and then um give us a five-star rating. So it really helps out a lot. It really helps uh push the the the podcast up and and support it. Um and if you guys would like to follow me on my journey, uh Starjackson369 on everything and podcast, you can also find the video format of us on YouTube as well, and that's Dweeb City with two eyes. Thank you guys so much for listening, and thank you, Angel, for coming on. It has been such an honor uh speaking with you, and I'm so I would love to catch up again and see where like do like a where are they now um video, do like a part two to it and just yap more because it's it's been an honor speaking to you, and you're such a beautiful, kind soul, and you are so so uh resilient and amazing, and I'm so so happy that we met.

SPEAKER_01

I'm so happy we met, too, star. You're wonderful, you're you're a light. You're a light. You really are a star shining bright.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you, and so are you, sweet angel. Thank you guys. We'll see you in the next one. Peace. Thank you guys so much for listening. We really hope you enjoyed the episode, and if you did, go ahead and share it with a friend who you think might be useful from it, or just want to listen to in general. Give us a five star rating or wherever you listen to the podcast, and follow us on social media at Dweep City with two wise, anywhere you listen to podcast, and on YouTube to see the full entire video of us talking. Thank you so much, and we can't wait to see you in the next one in the city. Bye! Peace.