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Conner Howard is a voice actor, writer, podcaster, and musician. Recent works include his role as Deputy Jack Harris in the audio drama Oakbridge and as Elder Castro in In The Keep's upcoming video game Stellar Valkyrie. Here we engage in a profound discussion on the intricacies of art, personal growth, and the challenges faced in both creative and familial life. | Cora Cacao - Use Promo Code ‘INTHEKEEP’ for 10% Off! | In The Keep | Support In The Keep | Follow us on X | Join our Official Discord | Theme Song by Jon of the Shred |
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Tyler:
[0:01] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have no charity, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.
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[0:09] And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing.
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[0:20] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to the burned and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind Charity envieth not Charity faunteth not itself Is not puffed up Doth not behave itself unseemly Seeketh not her own Is not easily provoked Thinketh no evil Rejoiceth not in antiquity But rejoiceth in the truth Beareth all things Believeth in all things Hopeth all things Endureth all things Charity never faileth, But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophecy in part.
Tyler:
[1:09] But when that which is perfect is come, when that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face, now I know in part. But then shall I know even, also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three. But the greatest of these is charity.
Tyler:
[1:44] St. Paul the Apostle.
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[1:46] Music
Tyler:
[2:15] So what have you been up to since, I don't know, when was the last time we did a podcast together?
Conner:
t, I want to say back in like:Tyler:
[2:37] That's totally likely. yeah.
Conner:
[2:39] Because the podcast i was doing at the time was kind of we were doing a few episodes on doom on the doom games specifically that was around the time doom eternal came out i want to say it was
Tyler:
[2:51] It was leading up to doom eternal because you guys yeah i'm like that first you did the series where you were talking about like the history of the lore of doom and then it was like yeah then you guys did a whole separate one about like and here's what doom now with all the yeah
Tyler:
[3:07] and then yeah now now you have the dark ages which is going to rewrite fucking everything else too so i.
Conner:
[3:12] Know i i'm pretty psyched for the dark ages it looks really fun um and yeah i think back then it was basically like oh yeah we're doing these episodes on doom we're just kind of exploring the lore of the doom games and all that and i would really like to collab with other podcasters who are interested in you know that topic and topics like so i think i literally just like trolled through twitter for a while like doom podcasts or i googled it or something i somehow came across in the keep and dm'd you and
Tyler:
en like i i think it was like:Conner:
[4:56] Yeah. We all stand on the shoulders of giants. It all started somewhere, and everyone inspires everyone else. So it's a beautiful thing when you look back at who was inspired by who and for what reasons.
Tyler:
[5:09] For sure.
Conner:
[5:09] It's amazing.
Tyler:
[5:12] But you guys did so many other cool things as well. You guys did a series on The Witcher, and you did one on Dune before. I think before the movies series came out even you guys were talking about like the background like it's so yeah so neat i just uh i've never actually read the books but i was just like thinking about your studying doom i was taking a well listening to a podcast series that i was required to take for the class that i'm doing and they broke down dune and they also broke down uh asimov's foundation series like and like how they relate to sort of like masonic symbolism and hermetic philosophy and all that stuff and it's wild. But, you got, in a way, you were doing that, you were ahead of your curve.
Conner:
[5:57] Oh, yeah, I got a shout out to my good friend Abu Zafar there. He was the, basically founder and executive producer of the Little Party podcast network that I've been involved in for years and, yeah, the Dune spinoff, the show's called Gam Jabbar, the, you know, the Dune series spinoff, that was his baby, that was his brain shot and I think he saw he saw the um the demand for a deep dive series like that into the frank herbert you know sort of mythos and he really really just dove in and was really dedicated to it and that that show as has gone like into the stratosphere like their their audience is crazy like they uh they've done really well so i'm really proud of a boo on that one and uh yeah no i'm just i'm really glad i got involved with the lore party guys because it was a lot of fun and it's been yeah i've i've met in some other you know really interesting creatives like yourselves and it's it's uh it's a good world to be in you know just podcasting because you know when people who like to talk about nerdy shit and they like to get together and nerd out at each other it's it's a good space to be in uh socially like i don't socialize much so this is a it's
Tyler:
[7:12] Like professional networking really like and not just like connecting with people on linkedin that you think might have a potential business interest but like talk like deliberately having conversations, or in your case deliberately studying topics that are genuinely interesting to you and right when you build those connections like they can last a lot you know you might be working on something down the road together with that person that you met through another person or whatever it's so great i've told so many people like if you're thinking about going to college, Please consider if you're going to go into debt for it, you know, and it's not, you're going to be a lawyer or a doctor, just start a podcast and just learn, just, then you have a reason to just like go up to someone and ask them about what they do.
Tyler:
[7:56] Um, and then when you go to apply for a job or whatever it is, it's like, okay, let's just say you came to me and you're like, I want to work it in the keep. I'm like, cool. And then you're like, I went to college for two years and got an associate's degree in game designers or i produced a podcast and i talked to 400 people who were probably more qualified on the subject than my college professor was.
Conner:
[8:18] And it's
Tyler:
[8:20] Pretty easy to pick at that point yeah.
Conner:
[8:22] You're really you're really doing the work when you yeah you do the research you do the networking you do the the producing the recording the editing like it is it is a job like you really are exercising like marketable skills when you do something like this for you know fun fact well it's not that fun but it's a fact i i was actually between full-time jobs for a little while like last year year before 23 yeah through uh part of 23 part of 24 um and i was really leaning on like hey i i'm still podcasting at least and that's something i could say in interviews like hey i still have a present position as producer on this media network basically that's what it was and that was a sort of almost like a project management position that i could point to like this is a valuable experience where i've managed deadlines and i've uh supervised other people and yeah networked and yeah or yeah organized projects basically it was good it was good to have that
Tyler:
[9:19] The other thing i think people get so mixed up in this but like you don't have to tell someone that you did something for no money or for like whatever like you're just like what do you do for a living i'm like i'm a podcaster like oh really like, you you do that and i'm like yes for many years now i have been a podcaster and it's like they don't need to know that most of that was like me working another job and or whatever the hell you know and i've been pretty public about like what i do and it's not now i only do in the in the keep which is a fucking blessing like the greatest gift i've ever had is just work for yourself but um but there were years of like there was no way i could do this without a full-time job to back it up right.
Conner:
[9:58] Right yeah when i when i got like it's that's that's very true when i got into voice acting a couple of around the same time uh yeah about five years ago now almost five years ago now um it was with the same understanding of like i might not ever make a living off of this but it is going to it is something that could be an outlet for passion it could be like this is what will keep me going when i make my when i make my living doing something else i don't really care about but it pays the bills you know it's like there can be you know i have that work that sustains me and kind of brings the money in and then the work that fulfills me and kind of gives me a creative outlet and i i've i've found it important to have that distinction of like you know not every job is going to fulfill you creatively but if that pays the bills and you can use your free time on yeah acting or or podcasting or whatever it is um and if you're lucky enough and you put the time in and i'm sure and you work hard like i i know for a fact that you personally you work hard you really put your all into what you do and so like eventually it pays off and you're able to do it full-time that's a beautiful thing so it's great great to see even
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