Leveling Up with Benjamin Banks

Send a text This week the guys got to chat with the legendary horror icon that is Mr. Ken Foree. For all our 90s kids, you may know him as Kenan’s father in the hit show Kenan & Kel. For all our horror fans, you may know him as the infamous Peter from the movie Dawn of the Dead, Benny from Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and of course as the infamous Big Joe Grizzly Bitch in Rob Zombie’s Halloween...

Send a text Continuing the celebration of Black History Month, the guys have brought on an amazing up and coming African American Voice Actress by the name of Shara Kirby. Find out all about her start in theater and her move over to voice over, signing with her dream talent agency and her absolute disdain for Frozen! You can hear Shara as the voice of Robin Sterling in Rainbow High, Tomomi Takei i...

Send a text As the guys wrapped up Bank’s birthday month, we move on into February to celebrate Black History Month. We will be shining the spotlight on up and coming African Americans in the community and talking all about their life and career.  For our first guest, you better say his whole name like A Tribe Called Quest, we have the insanely talented Evan Michael Lee. You might know him from th...

Send a text This week the guys are bringing in Bank's birthday with their brand new pal, Connor Fogarty. Connor is an actor known for being in the IFC show Portlandia, as well as lending his voice to Hikawa in the SMT III Remaster and as Beserker Ox in the upcoming video game God of War: Ragnarok. The guys are all talking life in  the pacific north west, bass guitar, Seattle grunge and of cou...

Send a text Bank's birthday month celebration continues with the podcasts brand new best friend, Kieran Regan. They are talking theater, anime, marbles, Tetris, D&D and so much more. You can listen to Kieran as the voice of Rio on the brand new anime, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, every Monday on Crunchyroll! As always make sure you support the podcast by rating and subscribing to u...

Send a text The boys are back again and they are bringing on the incredible talents of the man behind one of the biggest animes of 2021, Sean Chiplock. Sean has voiced for some of the biggest animes out there like JoJos Golden Wind, Eden Zero, Yashahime, Re:Zero, Tokyo Revengers and so much more. The catalogue is endless, but get to know more about Sean’s early start and how he came to be one of t...

Send a text It's a brand new year and the guys are starting it off by having the incredibly talented Brittany Cox on to talk all about her life and career. You may have heard Brittany voicing the pirate princess herself, Fena, one of 2021's hottest animes to come out. Learn all about how she transitioned from theater, to acting, to getting into voice over and how she climbed her way thro...

Send a text We have come to the end of 2021 and we are onto 2022, but before we do that, the guys are reviewing and talking about some of the episodes from this past year and moments with some of their guests. Everyone at Leveling Up just wants to say thank you to everyone who listens every week and supports this podcast and everyone who maybe even only listened once this whole year. Thank you for...

Send a text Heading into the week of Christmas and The Great Gingerbread War is here and the guys brought help! This week they have on the phenomenal Stuart Allen as he talks about spending 10 years voicing Damian Wayne, being in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, while also being in iconic video game franchises like Legos and Shin Megami Tensei. Learn all about Stuart going from child actor to adu...

Send a text This week the guys have on incredible comic book artist and writer, Jeremy Haun on to talk all about what inspired him to start drawing and talk about some of his biggest works. You might know Jeremy from working on comics like Batwoman, Riddler, Iron Man: Civil War, Red Hood and so many of his own creations like The Realm and The Beauty. Preorder Jeremy Haun’s new over sized 160 page...

Send a text The boys are kicking off the Christmas season by bringing on the OG and DBZ icon herself, Stephanie Nadolny. Stephanie is known for voicing Kid Gohan and Son Goku from the Dragonball franchise. Listen to Stephanie talk about her journey as a voice actress, touring the world in cover bands, her love for cons and life growing up. Get to know Stephanie as she talks about her childhood and...

Send a text Ryan Colt Levy might be one of the hottest names in Voice Over right now! Fresh off of voicing Rody Soul in the blockbuster My Hero Academia movie, World Heroes' Mission, Ryan is talking all about his journey from musician to actor and the struggles he had to face as a Middle Eastern actor. You won't want to miss this weeks heartfelt episode filled with laughs and love! As al...

Send a text The Great Turkey War returns for another year and the battle is just beginning! The guys brought on writer and producer Steve Harper to help win the battle and they are talking all about Steve's career as a young actor and transitioning into a writer for some big television shows like "God Friended Me" and one of the boys favorites, "Stargirl". Learn all about...

Send a text The guys are back this week and they are bringing on their new friend, Nick Corda. They are talking all about stage acting, being a voice actor and why talking with your hands is what you should do. Just be aware of Nick's quirk.....You can catch Nick voicing in Pokemon: Sun and Moon, along with Pokemon Journeys and as Shitan in the brand new Crunchyroll and Toonami exclusive anim...

Send a text While Banks is on vacation this week, enjoying his time at Nekocon, Trav and D sat down with the incredible Rodney Barnes. Rodney is one of holly-woods prolific screen writers writing on some of televisions biggest shows, My Wife and Kids, Everybody Hates Chris and the infamous Boondocks just to name a few. Rodney sat down with Trav and D to chat all about his career, his on going comi...

Send a text Kicking off November with a bang, the guys have brought on the legend, the OG, the old goat, Mr. John Swasey. They are talking all about John's career, the beginning stages of dubbing anime here in the states, how much the genre has expanded, personal life and so much more. So make sure have your popcorn ready and enjoy the show! As always make sure you support the podcast by rati...

Send a text Rounding out the spooky, the guys brought on their new friend Cedric to talk about some of their favorite horror films. But before they get to that, Cedric is talking all about his acting career and the many voices he can do. Talking all about voicing on Hunter x Hunter, Promised Neverland and the brand new Demon Slayer movie, Mugen Train. So make sure you celebrate the last week of Ha...

Send a text Continuing the yearly Halloween celebration, the guys brought on one of Rob Zombie’s right hand man, Lew Temple. They are talking all about Lew’s career from professional baseball with the Houston Astro’s to finding his love for acting, what it’s like to be on set with Rob Zombie and they got an incredible Michael Rooker impression to boot.  As always make sure you support the podcast...

Send a text The spooky month is rolling and the guys are chatting with the big guy, Mr. Robert Allen Mukes! He is talking all about growing up in the inner city of Indiana, playing one of the firefly family members in House of 1000 Corpses, getting his start in commercials, meeting Robert Townsend and we get personal as we talk about bad decisions early on in his career. Robert has reinvented hims...

Send a text It's time for another yearly month long Halloween celebration and today the guys brought on horror journalist and editor from Daily Dead News, the incredible Heather Wixson. They are talking all about horror movies through out the years, Heather's start in journalism, movies that took it to far and also discussing her new book 'Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Conversatio...

Send a text Wrapping up the final week of The Great Pretender celebration, the guys brought on the last piece of the Confidence Men, the voice of Cynthia, Laura Post. Laura has voiced so many characters over the years and recently voiced Witch Regret in the new Netflix anime, Edens Zero, while also lending her voice in The Way of the Househusband, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer and The Promised Neve...

Send a text Case 3 is live for The Great Pretender and this time we brought on the voice of Abigail Jones, Kausar Mohammed. We are talking all about her career, how she was a guest on Game Shakers with Kel Mitchell, working on the popular kids Netflix show Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, her film Coffee Shop Names on HBO Max and her future work. We are also talking about her company Shift, a women...

Send a text The guys are back for week 2 celebrating The Great Pretender and they are bringing on the leader of the Confidence Men, Laurent, voiced by the amazing Aaron Phillips. Not only are we talking The Great Pretender, but we are talking performing on Broadway, traveling the world and performing Disney songs with a full orchestra, being the American voice for ESL in South Korea, performing in...

Send a text The guys are celebrating the wonderful anime that is The Great Pretender this month on the pod and they are starting off with bringing on the English voice of Makoto Edamura, Alan Lee. Alan is talking all about the ups and downs in his career, working on The Great Pretender during a pandemic while recording from home and also some inside knowledge on the development of dubbing The Grea...

Send a text Welcome back to another exciting episode of Leveling Up with Benjamin Banks! Unfortunately, we hit a milestone that is not so much celebrated. For the first time in this podcast's history, Trav will not be joining us this week. For 132 episodes Trav has been here every week! Now he is off in space fighting the aliens and protecting our planet from devastation! But don't fear,...