- I'm Justin Roiland.
And this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
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That, that I guess, is that what happened?
I mean, there's a lot that happened.
I mean, you wanna get into the, is this therapy?
You want me to really go, go into it?
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Who does Justin Roiland eat?
'Cause I'm a cannibal.
No, no.
It's gonna say, oh, voice in "Adventure Time?"
Oh man.
I voice Lemongrab in "Adventure Time."
And that voice really screwed my voice up.
That's the voice that taught me my limits
of what my vocal chords are capable of,
and where the line is, and when I need to stop.
And I think every voice actor,
when they're starting, figures that out.
And yeah, it's like a quick little like, [Justin groaning].
You know like, he's just a psycho.
He's like a weird, he's like um, a troubled.
I'm not gonna say a psychopath.
He's just a troubled character.
He's got, he doesn't quite fit in.
He's got issues.
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No, I mean like.
And then I had to get really high pitched with him.
Yeah, crazy.
Who does Justin Roiland voice in "Rick and Morty?"
I voice Rick and Morty.
So it's like, oh my God, Rick, we're in real trouble today.
You know, we're, we have to do this stupid interview thing.
Morty relax, don't be offensive.
Don't be offensive to these people.
It's like, it's a bad thing, but whatever, I do them.
And then I do the Meeseeks, which is like, I'm Mr. Meeseeks.
And I do Mr. Poopy Butt Hole,
which is basically kind of almost the same thing.
Like, oo-wee, I'm, I'm, I'm scared, Rick.
And then there's like probably a bunch of other random stuff
and odds and ends in between there.
But those are the main ones.
Who does Justin Roiland hate the most?
No.
Voice in "Invincible?"
Doug Cheston, I voice Doug Cheston.
How do you, how do you not remember?
I voice Doug Cheston in that.
What's wrong with you people?
Good old Doug Cheston.
I don't even remember what I did.
I think I was just like, I'm Doug Cheston.
I don't know.
Hey, I'm Doug Cheston.
I don't know how, I can't remember.
I mean, is Kirkman gonna give Doug Cheston a spinoff?
Come on, Robert Kirkman.
Let's build that Doug Cheston spinoff.
No, we could do something better together than that.
Who does Justin Roiland voice in "Solar Opposites?"
Okay, I voice Korvo in "Solar Opposites."
He's just like, um, he's the serious one.
He's the grumpy, I don't wanna call him a straight man,
'cause he definitely can get caught up
in insane shenanigans, but he's just like, you know
Terry, Terry, Yumyulack, uh Jesse, everyone.
We have to meet in the living room right now
because I wanna, we all have to watch, you know uh
"Red October," "Deep Red October."
And then they're just like, I don't wanna do that.
Like [beeps] you.
Okay, let's move on to the next card.
Oh, what do we got here?
Another card.
How to contact Justin Roiland?
I try to, I try to be kind of contactless, I suppose.
I mean, I'm on, I'm on Instagram,
but I don't really look at my DMs.
I don't really understand how that whole thing works.
It's just broken.
I'm just gonna say it.
Instagram, for me and my account, is completely broken.
Therefore I don't think there is a way,
and I kind of like that, you know?
Maybe through my agency, UTA, or mail a letter to...
Yeah, mail a letter to UTA, I guess.
How many voices does Justin Roiland do?
I always say I'm the guy with three or four voices.
I mean, I probably, if I, I probably could come up
with more, but then they still would be in the,
it still would be recognizably me.
When I was a kid, I remember like Rob Paulson,
I could like pick him out.
Like I didn't know who he was when I was a kid,
but I could pick his voice out.
Same with Tress MacNeille.
And look, I get it.
It's like, all right enough,
I've heard this voice in every cartoon.
We need new voices.
No, I get it, I get it.
I was there as a kid.
But hey, man, those guys are
[beeps] badass, legendary, amazing.
I, I try to use them as much as I possibly can so,
nowadays, which is...
And they're just incredible,
and wow, some of the sweetest people you'll ever meet.
So, you know, think about me that way.
You know what I mean?
Like, yeah, I do like four voices, but come on.
How did Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon meet?
Oh, that's a good one.
So we met through a thing called Channel 101
that Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab created.
I wanna say our first like kind of encounter was late 2003.
And then we became friends with Dan, me, Savan,
my buddy Savan, Nigerian, and Abid Gathe
became friends with Dan and Rob in 2004.
And then the friendship just kind of just, you know, it,
that's where, you know, 2004, 2005
we were just like making shows together
hanging out at each other's apartment all the time.
Like we were just like
all of us were like just glued together.
To me, it was, that was, that was my college.
That was my training.
That was like my real training of like
that's how I got better as a writer, as a
as a director of animation
as a PA, just everything, comedy pacing, all of it.
Anyway, that was all because of Dan and
and Rob creating that thing.
And I would not be where I'm at without Channel 101.
Was Rick and Morty uh made for stoners?
Uh no, we just made no, I mean, it, it
I see it why it would appeal to them, but no
we weren't thinking about that.
Was Rick and Morty inspired by 'Back to the Future'?
Yeah. You know, I'm not gonna lie.
I mean, everyone knows like the original, original
short I made, which is super gross, on purpose gross.
I was trying to shock an audience.
So, and don't confuse the art with the artist
as Jack Black says how Rick and Morty is made, you know
how any cartoon is made, what do you want from me?
Go, go online and Google cartoons.
Why Rick and Morty takes so long?
Eh, that's a long answer
but I'll just say the pursuit of perfection um,
the sometimes uh misguided pursuit of perfection, you know
just a lot of changes happen.
You know, how to Rick and Morty dance?
Yeah. I'm not gonna go there.
So, sorry.
Hey, what do you know?
Lots of good questions today.
Justin Roiland, NFT.
I have mixed feelings on NFTs.
Like my whole thing with NFTs is like, how do you do them
in a way that's, there's some sort of utility
some sort of function, some sort of, I don't wanna say game
but like something that you can actually do.
And it's not just a JPEG that you own.
I think it's the early days.
And then of course there's the environmental stuff
which I think everybody in the scene is very, very
very aware of and focused on trying to fix.
And I have a few really cool ideas that are very early
that I can't talk about that are literally
using NFTs to fix environment like big environmental issues.
I like, I mean, I don't know.
I, I dip my toe in the waters.
What do you, that's it, that's all I did.
Justin Roiland signature.
That's that's the basic, you know
fast signature Justin Roiland, VR game.
Yeah. I made a VR game.
It's called Trover Safety Universe, but it's also not VR.
You can get it on all the consoles.
You can play it
in non VR mode on the switch, the PlayStation and the Xbox.
We learned a lot.
And now we're making a traditional non VR game
which is a first person shooter action, adventure comedy.
It's got talking guns, the guns are your companions
you know, sort of like a dragon age, style companions
you know, so they, they're not constantly blabbing
but they really are how you communicate
with NPCs in the world, dialogue tree stuff like, and what
depending on what gun you have is gonna depend
on like how the conversation kind of, you know, plays out.
And then there's just a lot, there's a lot
to this game and I'm really excited to reveal more
as we lead up to launch.
But uh yeah, it it's, it's called High
On Life and it's gonna be on Xbox uh in October,
in October [bleeps] fingers crossed.
Justin Roiland Smiling Friends.
Uh yeah. I mean, I, I love Smiling Friends
Zach and Michael are really close friends of mine.
I, I can't take any credit
for what they've done with that show.
It's all them a hundred percent.
They're brilliant geniuses.
I, I'm just so happy 'cause
like Michael has just killed it with like yolo
and Smiling Friends and then Koala Man, which is coming soon
to Hulu and it's just like, he is like, he's insane.
He, he's an insane, brilliant genius.
And Zach and Zach is like, you know, if you're
online at all, you know, you know, Zach is amazing.
Justin Roiland, the boys.
Yeah. So uh me and Ben Bayouth
my brother-in-law wrote a boy short
for the animated diabolical boys kind
of spinoff animated thing.
And um that was really fun.
It was a fun process.
You know, we pitched the idea
it was something I wanted to do somewhere else
at some point, but I was like, ah [bleeps] it
it's perfect for this universe.
So just the idea of really [bleep] up superheroes,
you know, there's one part I would change, but one
one line of dialogue I wish I could change.
But other than that, it's, it's, I'm really happy with it.
What is, so what is Solar Opposites about?
Solar Opposites is about a team of aliens, two adults
and the replicates and a pupa, which is very important.
And they escape from their home world
which was hit by an asteroid and they land
on earth and they're just trying to fit in and figure it
out. Yeah, there's a lot, there's a lot to the show.
It is, it is [bleep] amazing.
And season three is like pushing it to a whole new level
of incredible and I couldn't be more excited.
Is Solar Opposites good?
Well, I guess that depends on who you ask, you know
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
or whatever, you know, uh comedy subjective.
I think it's really good.
I, I, I love it.
I, I, and especially where we're going now
where we're kind of building things out
we're building the universe out
we're getting more serialized
on the alien side of the stuff, not just in the wall.
And that really excites the [beep] outta
of me that we're doing that.
Like that's like, yeah, that's really cool.
So I think it's good, but I'm biased.
You know, what is blank Solar Opposites?
What is pupa solar opp?
What is pupa?
So pupa is this little baby slash pet slash
little creature that stores all
of the home world's uh information in its DNA.
And when a team of uh schwarpians land on a new planet
the goal is to help the pupa terraform help the pupa reach
to a stage of complete terraforming.
And it turns into a new Schlorp a new, a new planet Schlorp.
And uh so the pupa is incredibly important to the mission
but of course our characters are idiots
and they didn't study any of this and they
they don't know what the [bleep] is going on.
And anyway, so that's the pupa.
Does Molly die?
Yeah. Have you, did you not see it?
She died. She died.
What do you, yeah, I mean, you know, like I think, I think
I think some
of the best shows it's like, yeah, man, they're dead.
This isn't uh Star Wars,
where everyone just keeps coming back to life.
I'm trying to think
of a better example, but anyway, yeah, no, this she's dead.
She's gone.
It's a little more game of Thronesy it's it's awful.
It's heartbreaking.
That episode was very manipulative
in terms of making you sad.
And that's what we were, that's what we were going for.
And we're sorry, but, but uh we're having fun role playing
as drama writers and we wanted to just do that and
and I think it was awesome.
And I'm sorry, Molly is gone.
It's it's painful.
Will Solar Opposites crossover with Rick and Morty?
I, that I am not the person to ask.
I don't know how we would manage to do a crossover.
You know, being that they're two completely separate studios
and so on and so forth.
So probably not, but I don't know...maybe.
Wired Audience, thank you so much
for taking the time to watch this nonsense.
Uh I don't know why you would
and I just wanna promote my new soda line.
No, I'm kidding.
This isn't anyway.
Bye. Bye.
Everybody. I don't have a soda line.
See you guys.