Speaker 1: Hey, Christy, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm so good? How are you?
Speaker 1: I am good?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: It's getting good, isn't it. So Hannah Bama moved on
Speaker 1: last week?
Speaker 2: Yeah, she did, and she she did it right like
Speaker 2: she She came in with all of the passion and
Speaker 2: spirit and I think that's so much of what we're
Speaker 2: looking for, wouldn't you?
Speaker 1: Oh? I agree. She also took her time, she hid
Speaker 1: every note. I mean, she was great. It was that
Speaker 1: both contestants were awesome, but it was one of those things,
Speaker 1: especially when we got to the tiebreaker challenge, which was
Speaker 1: fun to do, she really stepped up. So, man, the
Speaker 1: first one in the final four is absolutely worth. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're all worthy of being there. But man, it's going
Speaker 1: to be the competition's getting stiff, you know.
Speaker 2: I also thought that we did a really good job
Speaker 2: of conducting the new format of this round, because it's
Speaker 2: never been done. I've never seen anyone do something like
Speaker 2: this before. And yet it was still like I thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: they're going to do an ad read. It's not going
Speaker 2: to be that dynamic, it's not going to be that different,
Speaker 2: But it actually was quite different. Round for round, take for.
Speaker 1: Take, Yeah, no, it's it's it's crazy. So we are
Speaker 1: very very excited to continue the competition because we are
Speaker 1: going to find the next person. So actually, I'm just
Speaker 1: super excited about who we have today. Who's who's helping
Speaker 1: us our guest judge today, because not only is she
Speaker 1: a friend for a very very long time, not only
Speaker 1: is she incredibly talented, especially when it comes to the
Speaker 1: to animation, but a lot of people don't know she's
Speaker 1: the voice of everything she does, like oh, like the
Speaker 1: voices of ESPN and we'll talk to you about it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, we is legendary in this side. Can
Speaker 1: you tell us who's joining us today?
Speaker 2: It's Vanessa Marshall.
Speaker 1: Hi, Vanessa, how's it going? Welcome back?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 1: Welcome back? Thank you you are here to help us
Speaker 1: as a guest judge today. Excellent, Moving on to the
Speaker 1: next round. So the last round of the show, we
Speaker 1: were doing the game the where we were picking our
Speaker 1: contestants and the contestants were you know, are are our
Speaker 1: guest judges were picking numbers. It was called by the Numbers,
Speaker 1: and they were building the uh character right there, yeah,
Speaker 1: right there on the spot as fast as they could.
Speaker 1: But as we've said from the beginning, we are looking
Speaker 1: for a all around voiceover actor, like somebody who is
Speaker 1: can do anything whenever we need to, just like that's
Speaker 1: one of the So we are doing our second game now,
Speaker 1: which is called Extra Extra Read all about it and
Speaker 1: it's all ad reads. And one of the things I
Speaker 1: was talking about in your intro is how everybody knows
Speaker 1: you from all of your voiceover stuff when it comes
Speaker 1: to animation. I mean, we've talked about Wonder Woman, We've
Speaker 1: talked about Gamora, we've talked about everything you've done, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know you are also huge
Speaker 1: in the world of like you're the voice of this,
Speaker 1: you're the voice of that product.
Speaker 2: I cannot know that.
Speaker 1: So can you tell us a little bit about some
Speaker 1: of the some of the stuff that you do.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course, So you're asking about commercials and commercials.
Speaker 1: And I know that you did. You did a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff for ESPN, and you've done stuff for all
Speaker 1: these kind of different companies, and I guess I'm just
Speaker 1: asking not only what which ones have you done, but
Speaker 1: how is that different than the animation side.
Speaker 3: Oh it's yes, commercial, promo, trailer, narration, all of that
Speaker 3: stuff and I also do radio liners. I have various
Speaker 3: radio stations all over that I and there are different
Speaker 3: genres within that for rock, you know, adult contemporary, this
Speaker 3: and that. But yeah, the difference, well, okay, what's the
Speaker 3: same is that each thing is telling a story, right
Speaker 3: and in animation we bring the story to life. In
Speaker 3: a commercial, it's a thirty second story. There's a problem,
Speaker 3: here's a solution, live happily ever after. Right So in
Speaker 3: analyzing what the promise is, it's the same general idea.
Speaker 3: It's just only thirty seconds long. Right. So in terms
Speaker 3: of text analysis and stuff like that over the arc
Speaker 3: of a season, you know, say Guardians of the Galaxy
Speaker 3: that we were in Gomorah seeks for redemption if you will.
Speaker 3: You know in the commercial, I did an eyeglass commercial
Speaker 3: the other day and it says something like mullets were
Speaker 3: never cool. Cattis eyewear. Like there's someone on camera like
Speaker 3: with a mullet and like big goggle, you know, and
Speaker 3: I actually love mullets. Let's just give a shout out
Speaker 3: to the mullet community. Yes, anyway, but the problem it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, ugly mullet. Fix it with a pair of glasses.
Speaker 3: It was it might have even been a fifteen second spot.
Speaker 3: And then I just say, you know, get a life
Speaker 3: at cadisywear dot com. And so problem mullets were never good,
Speaker 3: You're disgusting. Solution Catisyewear will solve all your problems. So
Speaker 3: that's sort of the mini version of it in a commercial.
Speaker 3: And then you know, I've voiced stuff for the X
Speaker 3: Games and I think they said they wanted b Orc
Speaker 3: to do it, and I was like, guys, I don't
Speaker 3: know that that's going to pan out for you. But
Speaker 3: they said they wanted some sort of transatlantic, like some
Speaker 3: indistinguishable bizarre act, and I kind of did sort of
Speaker 3: a British accent. But that person has traveled quite a bit.
Speaker 3: You're like, coming up next on the X Games, she's
Speaker 3: like twenty and she's like seeing some things. You know,
Speaker 3: she's a bit precautious, right, And so that was specific,
Speaker 3: but normally it's just sort of straight announcer read. But anyway,
Speaker 3: each scenario, like say for the Special Olympics for ESPN,
Speaker 3: that is more of you know, it was hard not
Speaker 3: to cry while I was reading that copy. I mean,
Speaker 3: these kids were so amazing and I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: such a schlub, you know, I felt like, you know,
Speaker 3: I was so inspired and and so the you know,
Speaker 3: the deal there is to just like hold it together
Speaker 3: and all these kids, you know, to help to help
Speaker 3: guide the viewers through witnessing these miraculous events. So so
Speaker 3: again it's it's sort of the same premise, but different
Speaker 3: different lengths of time and different goals. And then of
Speaker 3: course in the video game there's the video player or
Speaker 3: the video game player, and you're sort of equally guiding
Speaker 3: them through it. So I guess it just depends on
Speaker 3: the agenda, the length of time, the proximity of the listener,
Speaker 3: how well do you know them, or do you have
Speaker 3: to be more formal stuff like that. That it's just
Speaker 3: a different approach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's so in depth. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: you think it's just I'm going to go and read
Speaker 1: some mad copy. It's I that's what we're looking for.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm so excited for you to be our adjudicator today.
Speaker 1: As yes, we've now call it the Adjudicators, and we
Speaker 1: have some really talented people that have done through first round.
Speaker 1: So I think we told you we had like almost
Speaker 1: forty five hundred entries. We scaled that down to the
Speaker 1: final sixteen, and those sixteen we are now down to
Speaker 1: the Elite eight and we have our first our first
Speaker 1: last week Canabama went through. So we have our first
Speaker 1: member of the final four and we're going to be
Speaker 1: picking our I can remember of the final four today.
Speaker 1: And with that being said, we have some incredible people today.
Speaker 1: We have Danielle from Tennessee and Matthew from Delaware, who
Speaker 1: are both very very talented people. And I don't know
Speaker 1: who actually can we always go by who got into
Speaker 1: the room first? So do we know who? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: so Danielle was here first, so if we could bring
Speaker 1: in Danielle, that would be great. Here we go, Danielle.
Speaker 4: Hi, guys day, welcome back, How are you good?
Speaker 1: Once again? Congratulations on making it into the Elite eight. Trademarked.
Speaker 1: I made that up. I didn't.
Speaker 2: He's a genius.
Speaker 5: Thank you, such a genius.
Speaker 1: So you know, as you know you last game we
Speaker 1: played was called by the Numbers, and we created characters
Speaker 1: for you on the spot. Are our judge. Our judicator
Speaker 1: created characters for you on the spot randomly based on numbers.
Speaker 1: And as we've said from the beginning, we are looking
Speaker 1: for an all around voiceover actors. So today we are
Speaker 1: going to be playing extra extra read all about it,
Speaker 1: where you are going to be just reading ad copy,
Speaker 1: which is going to be a ton of fun. And
Speaker 1: our guest judge today is the amazing Vanessa Marshall.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, how are you?
Speaker 4: I'm great? Also, I'm loving the Funko figurines behind you.
Speaker 4: Those are fabulous.
Speaker 3: This is the big Star Wars collection. I love it.
Speaker 1: So we can't wait. So, Danielle, you were here first.
Speaker 1: Do you have your lines of dialogue?
Speaker 3: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay, great, So we are just introing people right now
Speaker 1: and we will be right back to you to start
Speaker 1: round one. So sorry, second, daniel thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and now let's bring in contest the number two ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. We lay Matthew from Delaware. Come on down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Matthew from Delaware. Hello. Hello, hey Matthew. How are you?
Speaker 5: Hey, matt doing pretty well?
Speaker 1: How are welcome? Welcome? We're doing great. Thank you, congratulations
Speaker 1: again on making the Elite eight and moving on. As
Speaker 1: we said, so you got here second. You know, we
Speaker 1: do the contestants in the order that they arrive, and
Speaker 1: you were second, so very briefly, I just want to
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about today's game. You know,
Speaker 1: last time you were here, we played by the Numbers,
Speaker 1: where we created your character on the spot. Today we
Speaker 1: are playing Extra Extra Read all about It, where it
Speaker 1: is all straight ad reads, no games, no numbers. We
Speaker 1: are just giving you ad copy and stuff and letting
Speaker 1: you sell us as we go. So are you ready
Speaker 1: with your first two lines of dialogue? Okay? Perfect? So
Speaker 1: we are just introducing you right now, and I would
Speaker 1: like you to meet our guest judge today, Vanessa Marshall. Hello,
Speaker 1: who is doing the voice of everything if you've watched cartoons,
Speaker 1: bought any products, listen to anything, and that is just
Speaker 1: the Star Wars stuff. She's also it on eighty seven
Speaker 1: trillion other things and is the voice of a whole
Speaker 1: lot of stuff. So we just wanted to say, Hi, Matt,
Speaker 1: welcome you to the contest again, and we will be
Speaker 1: right back for round number one.
Speaker 2: I should have been singing this whole time, Will here
Speaker 2: we go? You should what I should have been singing,
Speaker 2: like the background music this whole.
Speaker 1: Nice that wouldn't have been wouldn't have confused our contestants
Speaker 1: at all. But you can sing really well, so it
Speaker 1: would sound nice, but it's worth a shot. Here we
Speaker 1: go with round number one. Let's bring in Danielle from
Speaker 1: Tennessee to start Extra extra read all about it. Hello, Danielle,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 4: I am running nuts?
Speaker 2: How are you that?
Speaker 4: I've actually got a dr for a project I'm working
Speaker 4: on on Tuesday? So I am like real excited about it.
Speaker 1: For you, you still don't have an agent though, right,
Speaker 1: No good making sure you're still eligible for the contest.
Speaker 5: Cap That be awkward.
Speaker 1: It would be awkward. Here we go. So you got
Speaker 1: line number one. We're just gonna not get in your head,
Speaker 1: not give you any notes, not do anything about it,
Speaker 1: just let you read it at your pleasure and see
Speaker 1: where we can go from there. So line number one,
Speaker 1: whenever you are ready.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I never drank and never smoked, but my addiction soda.
Speaker 4: I would go through ten to twelve cans of that
Speaker 4: sugar water a day. Not only was I always really jittery,
Speaker 4: but I was gaining a ton of weight. That is
Speaker 4: until I found Zest Supreme. Zest Supreme is the new
Speaker 4: bubbly drink that has no sugar and no calories, made
Speaker 4: from only natural ingredients. Zest Supreme has replaced my old
Speaker 4: fashioned sugar soda with a carbonated water that I can
Speaker 4: drink all day, every day. Zest Supreme say goodbye to
Speaker 4: sugar water forever.
Speaker 1: Very nice, Vanessa, that was just a cold read. No,
Speaker 1: we've got the first the first two, we give the
Speaker 1: contestants the night with, and there might be a round three.
Speaker 1: That's cold. But oh what do you think, Vanessa any notes?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, that was fantastic. I of course,
Speaker 3: as a stand up comic and improviser, I'm curious about
Speaker 3: the comedy behind it in that when you started, I
Speaker 3: didn't know if you were doing a commercial for a rehab.
Speaker 3: I wondered just to give it more depth. I mean,
Speaker 3: if this were an audition, then you were looking to
Speaker 3: make your audition stand out. That almost like those progressive
Speaker 3: commercials where you're becoming your parents. It's a very sad music,
Speaker 3: like labeling a trash can, Like if it started out
Speaker 3: as my addiction, you know, not not a complete you know,
Speaker 3: any episode, but something that misleads the listener to then
Speaker 3: like the solution is this awesome drink that it's not
Speaker 3: quite as dour. I don't know. I was just thinking
Speaker 3: to uh play a little bit. I don't know. I
Speaker 3: was curious what that would sound like. But I mean,
Speaker 3: is that is that proper feedback or she.
Speaker 5: You're the expert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And you know again that's this is just
Speaker 1: kind of if you were listening to it and you're
Speaker 1: directing her, you know what kind of what would you say?
Speaker 1: And I think that's great. Well.
Speaker 3: The other thing that I would do, and that I
Speaker 3: do do is whatever the product is, I do a
Speaker 3: ton of research before going in the booth. I'll look
Speaker 3: at what the product is, who's in competition with it,
Speaker 3: what the other competition is doing in terms of branding
Speaker 3: their product. How how can I assist them in redefining
Speaker 3: their brand in a way that stands out. I would
Speaker 3: look at the stock prices. I would get a better
Speaker 3: sense of I would get a better sense of what
Speaker 3: the ad agency is up again says like, oh, they
Speaker 3: just did a Super Bowl commercial and those guys did
Speaker 3: we blast, so they're doing damage control or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: I can ally my align myself with what it is
Speaker 3: that the ad agency is seeking to do and make
Speaker 3: it look like I don't understand any of that.
Speaker 1: This is why, this is why certain actors work all
Speaker 1: the time and other actors don't necessarily is because you
Speaker 1: get people like Vanessa that just take it to the
Speaker 1: next level.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just love I love solving the mystery
Speaker 3: of it because it's almost like a mystery dinner theater
Speaker 3: is like, ooh, what is this product up to and
Speaker 3: why are they doing it this way? That's interesting and
Speaker 3: and to deliver the razzle dazzle that the ad agency
Speaker 3: needs while still maintaining the integrity and the spinal cord
Speaker 3: that the product needs, like oh, well, we don't want
Speaker 3: to offend anybody, like wait, why are you being so edgy? Okay, wait,
Speaker 3: don't alienate anybody, Like there's a fine. This is probably
Speaker 3: from growing in like a dysfunctional family. I can like,
Speaker 3: I can read, I can tell, I can tell what
Speaker 3: mom needs to hear and what Dad needs to hear
Speaker 3: and be sa Switzerland in the middle. And and this
Speaker 3: is how we make use of our troubles.
Speaker 2: Anyway, man, monetize your trauma.
Speaker 4: That's iologize the trauma.
Speaker 1: What about you, christ Christy, do you have any notes?
Speaker 2: My god, are you kidding me? I have to I
Speaker 2: have to go next to that. I mean, but I Honestly,
Speaker 2: I remember when we spoke to you the first time,
Speaker 2: and I feel like I learned so much from you,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it's happening all over again.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 2: God, are you so cool with your jacket? I don't
Speaker 2: want to be you.
Speaker 3: It's like catching solving a murder mystery. You know, you
Speaker 3: come upon a car crash and you're like, what happened here?
Speaker 3: Like how can I help you?
Speaker 2: Know?
Speaker 3: Not not that commercials are car crashes.
Speaker 2: All of them might be, but the industry is a
Speaker 2: car crash. And I think that she makes a really
Speaker 2: great point. I think that the one of the takeaways
Speaker 2: that I got to, you know, the auditioning process was
Speaker 2: instead of getting in your head about it right, because
Speaker 2: this whole process is daunting and nerve wracking and to
Speaker 2: some degree, and I think when you're trying to just
Speaker 2: give the client like an opportunity to you're trying to
Speaker 2: help them, right, It's like you're almost trying to you know,
Speaker 2: you're just there to help them, like they have a
Speaker 2: problem and you're there to help fix it, rather than
Speaker 2: be like I'm here to perform for myself. I do
Speaker 2: find that you will be happier with the work that
Speaker 2: you create in the room, right, because you leave it
Speaker 2: in the room that way. Even if today you're doing
Speaker 2: this and you're like, no, I did what they were
Speaker 2: telling me to do, and you took all the notes.
Speaker 2: So I think that I think what I got from
Speaker 2: Vanessa if I were you, was let's play with it more.
Speaker 2: But also keep in mind that there's a story being told,
Speaker 2: right that there's a problem and then there's a solution
Speaker 2: to that. So in doing so, I think that you
Speaker 2: know we don't want it as one note.
Speaker 1: Okay, mine are very simple and it's going to be
Speaker 1: exactly what you hear anytime you go into the booth.
Speaker 1: A lot bracket, the product more and a little bit faster.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say. And let's go from there.
Speaker 1: So line number one again, at your pleasure.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I never drank, never smoked my addiction soda. I would
Speaker 4: go through ten to twelve cans on that sugar water
Speaker 4: a day. Not only was I always really jittery, but
Speaker 4: I was caning a ton of weight. That is until
Speaker 4: I found Zest Supreme. Zes Supreme is the new bubbly
Speaker 4: drink that has no sugar and no calories, made from
Speaker 4: only natural ingredients. Est Supreme has replaced my old fashioned
Speaker 4: sugar soda with a carbonated water that I can drink
Speaker 4: all day, every day. Zes Supreme say goodbye to sugar
Speaker 4: water forever.
Speaker 1: That was great, Thank you so much, and we will
Speaker 1: be right back with you. Appreciate it. Awesome. Okay, she
Speaker 1: was great. I thought she took the notes well and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it definitely took took what we're saying. She bracketed the
Speaker 1: product mark, did a little bit faster, I thought she was.
Speaker 1: She played with it a little more of the second round.
Speaker 1: So let's see what Matthew can do. Let's bring Matthew in. Hello, hey, hie.
Speaker 1: So Matthew, we are not going to get in your head.
Speaker 1: We're not going to tell you anything. We just would
Speaker 1: like to hear what you can do with line number one.
Speaker 1: So at your pleasure anytime.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 5: I never drank, never smoked my addiction soda. I would
Speaker 5: go through ten to twelve cans of that sugar water
Speaker 5: a day. Not only was I always really jittery, but
Speaker 5: I was gaining a ton of weight. That is until
Speaker 5: I found Zest Supreme. Zes Supreme is the new bubbly
Speaker 5: drink that has no sugar and no calories, made from
Speaker 5: only natural ingredients. Zes Supremus, replace my old fashioned sugar
Speaker 5: soda with a carbonated water that I can drink all day,
Speaker 5: every day. Zest Supreme say goodbye to sugar water forever.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Vanessa, Any notes.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was amazing. That was so hilarious.
Speaker 3: That was so hilarious and there was something so intimate
Speaker 3: about it. I love how you started and just really
Speaker 3: let the copy breathe and uh, make me curious if
Speaker 3: you need some sort of seer intervention. And I'm I
Speaker 3: was relieved to hear that the solution was was so
Speaker 3: simple and and and yet it wasn't delivered with jazz hands.
Speaker 3: I thought, I thought that was fantastic, Thank you. Curious
Speaker 3: curious what it would sound like without the without the character.
Speaker 3: But I loved him so much. I don't really want
Speaker 3: to know, so I well that I have any notes.
Speaker 3: I thought that was so I don't know. There's that guy.
Speaker 3: Is that you pix it? The guy's like, yeah, my
Speaker 3: psoriasis used to get in my crush, you know. He oh,
Speaker 3: he's like that bald guy and he's like, yeah, now
Speaker 3: I can fix this light over here and look at
Speaker 3: my elbow, you know, and there's just something about like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that guy is cool, you know, like I want to
Speaker 3: I want to buy that that guy looks really comfortable
Speaker 3: in his life. You sound like that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, Matt. You sounded like a
Speaker 2: completely different person. Like it was crazy to me how
Speaker 2: how different he sounded. So I don't really have any notes.
Speaker 1: Will what do you think I do? I liked what
Speaker 1: you did. I am I would switch up what Vanessa
Speaker 1: said where I do love the character, but now I
Speaker 1: want to hear one. I do want to hear one
Speaker 1: without the accent, just just the justice, straight ad read
Speaker 1: and if you could make it a little I guess
Speaker 1: i'd say smooth it out just a little bit, just
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think what Vanessa said is absolutely true.
Speaker 1: I loved how you let it breathe in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I loved how you let the copy kind of flow,
Speaker 1: but maybe just a little smoother and just your regular voice.
Speaker 1: I want to hear what that sounds like.
Speaker 5: Okay, smooth out the rhythm, fewer pauses and then quick okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just yeah, because I thought you had some peaks
Speaker 1: and valleys there that were great, but I just want
Speaker 1: to hear try just your regular voice and again, just
Speaker 1: to hear it all right, because I thought the character
Speaker 1: was awesome. So let's hear one without that and see
Speaker 1: what happens.
Speaker 5: I never drank, never smoked my addiction soda. I would
Speaker 5: go through ten to twelve cans of that sugar.
Speaker 1: Water a day.
Speaker 5: Not only was I always really jittery, but I was
Speaker 5: gaining a ton of weight. That is until I found
Speaker 5: Zess Supreme. Zes Supreme is the new bubbly drink that
Speaker 5: has no sugar and no calories, made from only natural ingredients.
Speaker 5: Zess Supreme has replaced my old fashioned sugar soda with
Speaker 5: a carbonated water that I can drink all day, every day.
Speaker 5: Zes Supreme say goodbye to sugar water forever.
Speaker 1: Great, Thank you so much, and we will see you
Speaker 1: in a bit.
Speaker 3: Great job.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right. Well, you know I'm doing the turndowns today, right.
Speaker 2: I promised you I committed to doing this. He's been
Speaker 2: doing it the whole time. Sorry.
Speaker 1: The worst thing is telling whoever doesn't make it that
Speaker 1: they didn't make it to the next round. And Christy said
Speaker 1: she do it. I thought, I'm just for round number one.
Speaker 1: I think they're very close. I love how he came
Speaker 1: in with a different character. I thought she was a
Speaker 1: little smoother. That's my my for my round one, that's
Speaker 1: what I would think about. How about the two of you.
Speaker 5: You thought she was, what a little smoother, A little
Speaker 5: smooth smooth, just a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's there's something very natural about about her delivery that
Speaker 1: I thought was And again, it's real close. It's not
Speaker 1: like it was like, oh my god, she was way
Speaker 1: back to him. And I do love how he came
Speaker 1: in with a character because a lot of times you're
Speaker 1: going to get people that do straight ad reads and
Speaker 1: you're not going to have somebody that comes in with
Speaker 1: a character. And that's a great way to stand out
Speaker 1: as all of a sudden, I'm from New York and
Speaker 1: I never drank, never smoke my addiction soda. Like, you're
Speaker 1: not going to get fifty of those, You're going to
Speaker 1: get one of those, So that really is going to
Speaker 1: stand out. I just thought her acting was a little
Speaker 1: bit better, that's my opinion. Vanessa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he definitely demonstrated range. Yeah, but I but I
Speaker 6: see what you're saying perhaps the ease and the polish
Speaker 6: that she had would be.
Speaker 3: Would be able to work more. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's really tough because yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we hear.
Speaker 2: We've been hearing a lot of female voices lately, which
Speaker 2: is so great because they are so different from one another.
Speaker 1: Women are killing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. If we if we were to eliminate
Speaker 2: Matt today, we would, that would.
Speaker 1: He's the only man left in the competition.
Speaker 2: She's great, So it's like, oh gosh, we are. And
Speaker 2: I also do want to commend Will for being just
Speaker 2: such a fair human being on every step of this contest.
Speaker 2: That has led me to understand what fairness truly looks
Speaker 2: like because I I reserved. I just don't have any
Speaker 2: judgment on anything. And then I'm like, but yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I get it. So I think Matt's great. I think
Speaker 2: Matt showed range. But as I'm fifty to fifty right now,
Speaker 2: so I think Matt can still take this.
Speaker 1: Oh I do too. Oh this is by no means
Speaker 1: a runaway, by no means.
Speaker 2: Just direct him in a way, because I remember we
Speaker 2: were doing certain directions towards the tail end of round
Speaker 2: one where we were like, let's try to help this person, right,
Speaker 2: And he did come in with like a he did
Speaker 2: come in with like a sort of a character that
Speaker 2: he brought to it, which, like what Vanessa was saying,
Speaker 2: she does a lot of pre work, and so I
Speaker 2: like that he had that approach. And I also just
Speaker 2: like his voice.
Speaker 1: He also he also took when when I said take
Speaker 1: the you know, take the character out of it, let's
Speaker 1: see it, he did, you know, and he was able
Speaker 1: to drop the character and go write to more of
Speaker 1: his natural cadence and voice and very good direction. Okay,
Speaker 1: you agree, Vanessa, it's kind of it's close. It's still close, yeah, because.
Speaker 3: You know, my fear was when he went that route,
Speaker 3: was like, oh, maybe he's not comfortable just speaking in
Speaker 3: a neutral voice. And he completely killed that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree. Yeah, Well, to
Speaker 1: keep it fair, why don't we why don't we have
Speaker 1: why don't we bring him in for the first read
Speaker 1: of line too. We'll switch him up like that and
Speaker 1: we'll bring we'll bring Matthew back in right now for
Speaker 1: line too. Hey Matthew, how are you hello? All right,
Speaker 1: so we are starting round number two here, and so
Speaker 1: once again we're gonna stay out of your head and
Speaker 1: just see what you do with your first read of
Speaker 1: line number two anytime at your pleasure.
Speaker 5: All Right, I'm going to be totally honest with you.
Speaker 5: I love my dog more than I love ninety nine
Speaker 5: percent of the people I've ever met. That's why when
Speaker 5: I see her scratching from seasonal allergies, I want to
Speaker 5: do whatever I can to make her as comfortable as possible.
Speaker 5: It's times like these that I reach four alachus, made
Speaker 5: from a newly discovered plant in the rainforest. Alachus have
Speaker 5: been clinically proven to reduce your dog's allergies by over
Speaker 5: fifty four percent. They can't speak to you, so you
Speaker 5: have to speak for them. Give your dog alachus and
Speaker 5: save the scratching for her belly rubs.
Speaker 1: All right, Vanessa, any notes?
Speaker 3: I don't have any notes?
Speaker 2: Sounds durable, Christy, Okay, I feel like you're almost there personally.
Speaker 2: I just love your voice so much, Matt. I think
Speaker 2: you have incredible range, and I love to see that.
Speaker 2: Like what you did with the first line from take
Speaker 2: one to Take two to now this feels very different
Speaker 2: from both of those takes. I think Vanessa really hit
Speaker 2: it on the head with her initial you know, which
Speaker 2: she said, which is that there's a problem and then
Speaker 2: there's the solution. So I really want to see you
Speaker 2: take that ability for range and really breathe it into
Speaker 2: your storytelling about your dog. So talk okay, So me,
Speaker 2: I don't know, and you guys, you know, my fellow
Speaker 2: adjudicators can tell me differently, But wouldn't it be great
Speaker 2: to see him tell the story more and about the dog.
Speaker 2: So if you're focusing on more like telling the story,
Speaker 2: you know, to a group of people over a campfire,
Speaker 2: I think if you need it visually so it's more fun.
Speaker 2: And then something I've noticed that I've been told a
Speaker 2: lot to do in certain times i've gotten directions in
Speaker 2: the past was almost the product with a smile, the
Speaker 2: ale choose, you know, It's like that almost gives you
Speaker 2: the solution in your you know, with using your mouth
Speaker 2: in that regard. So that's my two cents. That's what
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would love much. I would love I thought
Speaker 1: it was great. I would love to hear you just
Speaker 1: talk to us, okay, just like pretend you're almost not
Speaker 1: reading ad copy at all and just talk to us
Speaker 1: with using the dialogue.
Speaker 5: Because again instead of saying everything like this.
Speaker 1: Right, because you get a lot of those kind of
Speaker 1: like when I was as opposed to you know, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to give you a line read, but
Speaker 1: just now, I'm gonna be totally honest with you. I
Speaker 1: love my dog more than I love ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: of people like me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I want to hear you just kind of talk to
Speaker 1: us like we were hanging out, just like Christy said,
Speaker 1: and see, yeh see what happens with that?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 5: All right, thank you very much at your pleasure. Here
Speaker 5: we go. I'm going to be totally honest with you.
Speaker 5: I love my dog more than I love ninety nine
Speaker 5: percent of the people I've ever met. That's why when
Speaker 5: I see her scratching from seasonal allergies, I want to
Speaker 5: do whatever I can to make her as comfortable as possible.
Speaker 5: It's times like these that I reach for alachus, made
Speaker 5: from a newly discovered plant in the rainforest. Alachus have
Speaker 5: been clinically proven to reduce your dog's allergies by over
Speaker 5: fifty four percent. They can't speak to you, so you
Speaker 5: have to speak for them. Give your dog allachus and
Speaker 5: save the scratching for her. Belly rubs.
Speaker 1: Great, we will be right back with you. Thanks Matthew,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, it was good, you know, definitely, I think
Speaker 1: he has he has to smooth it out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I think it's overall it's good. I think he's
Speaker 1: got a nice natural cadence and a nice natural tenor
Speaker 1: to his voice. You know, it's he sounds good. But
Speaker 1: let's see what Danielle from Tennessee will bring to the table.
Speaker 1: Let's bring Danielle back. Hi, Danielle, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing fine, sir, thank you for asking.
Speaker 1: So we are going to be starting with with line
Speaker 1: number two for round two, and we are not going
Speaker 1: to say anything. Let's just hear what you do with
Speaker 1: line number two, line number two, at your pleasure.
Speaker 4: All right. I'm going to be totally honest with you.
Speaker 4: I love my dog more than I love ninety nine
Speaker 4: percent of the people I've ever met. That's why when
Speaker 4: I see her scratching from seasonal allergies, I want to
Speaker 4: do whatever I can to make her as comfortable as possible.
Speaker 4: It's times like these that I reach for alachus made
Speaker 4: from a newly discovered plant in the rainforest. Ala chuws
Speaker 4: have been clinically proven to reduce your dog's allergies by
Speaker 4: over fifty four percent. They can't speak to you, so
Speaker 4: you have to speak for them. Give your dog Alichus
Speaker 4: and save the scratching for her belly rubs.
Speaker 1: Vanessa, And you knowest.
Speaker 2: That was great. Thank you, It's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you do it anything? You wouldn't switch anything up?
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I mean it had an ease
Speaker 3: and a. I mean, it's it's kind of hard to
Speaker 3: say those. I mean, in what scenario would you be
Speaker 3: telling someone about alex shoes? Do you know what I mean? Right?
Speaker 3: You know I used to do Mervyn's, which doesn't even
Speaker 3: exist anymore. And I remember just like Sprockets were four
Speaker 3: ninety nine and they were like, just tell your friend,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I don't generally friends and say, hey,
Speaker 3: Sprockets are four ninety nine. You know you said that to.
Speaker 1: Me last week. You don't even remember you.
Speaker 3: Tell me last week about that once in a while.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm forgetful too. I can't blame you, Yeah.
Speaker 6: I really I can't think of a week if you
Speaker 6: were at the VETS office and somebody was like or like,
Speaker 6: I've got a dog.
Speaker 2: You've got a dog, so it's like you're speaking to
Speaker 2: somebody has the animal, right, Yeah, it's short.
Speaker 3: She made it. I felt like she made it effortless,
Speaker 3: and I definitely yeah. I mean, if I were doing
Speaker 3: this copy, I would have to come up with a
Speaker 3: scenario in my mind. How close it is a listener,
Speaker 3: How well do I know them? Do they own a dog?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 3: Uh? Are we at the airport like where? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I would ask all those questions so that it has
Speaker 3: the relaxation that she embodied naturally.
Speaker 5: Christy, Yeah, No, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2: Again, Vanessa is amazing, and I'm just constantly like crushing
Speaker 2: on her this full time artistic artistically and also her
Speaker 2: jacket and but honestly, that's so great. I think you
Speaker 2: do have really great instincts. They're sort of undeniable at
Speaker 2: this point. And uh, it's it's really I think it's
Speaker 2: taken you this far into our contest. And uh, I
Speaker 2: think mic placement from what I see you reading on
Speaker 2: your phone is not helpful. I think you got to
Speaker 2: be more on the mic so to speak. Okay, yeah, see,
Speaker 2: because then we set right there here. Yes, it's clearer
Speaker 2: I mean, we hear you so much better.
Speaker 1: It's a little close, but then then she popped.
Speaker 2: A little bit right, so it's like but definitely not
Speaker 2: looking off. I'd, you know, ad phone fit forward facing. Personally,
Speaker 2: I would prefer that just to hear because what we
Speaker 2: don't realize too And like Will and I talk about microphones,
Speaker 2: and certain microphones pick up different things about your voice,
Speaker 2: and so it's and some microphones are, you know, tinier
Speaker 2: than others, but in general does a great microphone for you.
Speaker 2: So use it. Use it like as much as you.
Speaker 4: Can because he has pockets. I actually did just get
Speaker 4: it the other day and I've been playing with it
Speaker 4: for the last two days, figuring out settings that work
Speaker 4: that don't work.
Speaker 1: It's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't even need to look at us as
Speaker 2: my opinion as stotch.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I would say. I would say if
Speaker 1: I was directing you, I would say, I thought that
Speaker 1: was a great first take. I really did. I think
Speaker 1: if I'd like to hear you play with it a
Speaker 1: little more on the second take. Okay, it was a
Speaker 1: little one note all the way through. It was a
Speaker 1: great note, but it was a little kind of one
Speaker 1: note all the way through, So maybe find some peaks
Speaker 1: and valleys here a little bit, sure, and just lighten
Speaker 1: it up a little bit and and just kind of
Speaker 1: play that. That would be my only note. And I
Speaker 1: would have looked at everybody else in the room and say, wow,
Speaker 1: great first take. Let's see what she does with the
Speaker 1: second one. So yeah, let's just see what you can
Speaker 1: play with it a little bit and find a couple
Speaker 1: beats to make it your own and go from there.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to be totally honest with you. I
Speaker 4: love my dog more than I love ninety nine percent
Speaker 4: of the people I've ever met. That's why when I
Speaker 4: see your scratching from seasonal allergies, I want to do
Speaker 4: whatever I can to make her as comfortable as possible.
Speaker 4: And it sounds like these that I reach for Alachus
Speaker 4: made from a newly discovered plant in the rainforest. Alichews
Speaker 4: have been clinically proven to reduce your dog's allergies by
Speaker 4: over fifty four percent. They can't speak to you, so
Speaker 4: you have to speak for them. Give your dog alichus
Speaker 4: and save the scratching for her belly rubs.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We will be right back with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I hope we're directing him right, because I feel
Speaker 1: like we're spending more time with her, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if we're doing that only because she's very natural. She's
Speaker 1: got a very natural kind of way about her. I
Speaker 1: think he's really good, Like I thought his takes direction
Speaker 1: very very well. I think he really does. She seems
Speaker 1: more polished to me, just all the way around, like
Speaker 1: she's been doing this for fifteen years already. You know,
Speaker 1: she just comes off that way even in between. And again,
Speaker 1: you have to throw nerves in there as well. You're
Speaker 1: waiting for a week or two to come on the show.
Speaker 1: You get your lines the night before. Everybody's nervous. I
Speaker 1: always say, if you're not nervous doing this, pick another
Speaker 1: line of work, because you're always nervous. It's fun, it's
Speaker 1: a great kind of energy you can use, and you're
Speaker 1: nervous for every job you go in and do. So
Speaker 1: I'm not holding that against him in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or for him. But I'm sure she's nervous too. But
Speaker 1: in between takes, she's joking with us, she's doing other voices.
Speaker 1: It's like she comes off as more of a voiceover
Speaker 1: actor overall, And I'm not trying to hold that against
Speaker 1: him at all, because we're just going by by performance,
Speaker 1: and his performances have been very good. But there is
Speaker 1: a smoothness to her that I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: brought out of him yet. And I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: not there. I'm just saying that maybe we need to
Speaker 1: spend a little more time trying to bring that out
Speaker 1: of him, to see if we can get that same
Speaker 1: kind of smooth quality. That's I don't know. I can
Speaker 1: be wrong, but do you guys agree or disagree or.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I didn't think she could improve on the first take,
Speaker 3: and she one hundred percent did right, I mean, and equally,
Speaker 3: I felt like I heard more of what he said
Speaker 3: on his second take when he just sort of took
Speaker 3: it down and it was a little bit more intimate.
Speaker 3: But you know, from my experience, what she was able
Speaker 3: to accomplish in that second take is what makes a career, right.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
Speaker 3: I don't disc because she took the note and she
Speaker 3: was right in there, and I didn't feel the artifice.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like, aren't I clever? Look how I know?
Speaker 3: It was just she was she was having a conversation
Speaker 3: with someone. It felt ground that, it felt authentic. It
Speaker 3: had the speed that we use when we actually communicate
Speaker 3: to each other that if you're reading, it sounds like
Speaker 3: you're doing it really quickly, but when we're speaking to
Speaker 3: each other we think quickly too. There was nothing forced
Speaker 3: in it. It was relaxed, and I was really really
Speaker 3: impressed with her second rate, I.
Speaker 1: Agree one hundred percent, Christy, I was too.
Speaker 2: I disagree. I feel like I on the second round there,
Speaker 2: I really I really tried to reach him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think we did. But I'm just wondering
Speaker 1: if we're you know, and again, maybe it's her ease,
Speaker 1: like she kind of joins the conversation and and and
Speaker 1: so maybe it's it's I think it's just his nerves
Speaker 1: getting getting the better of him a little bit. And yeah,
Speaker 1: which which one?
Speaker 2: Which pad reads. I mean a lot of these guys
Speaker 2: that we saw their their tapes and their reels. The
Speaker 2: guys were very animated. They were superheroes. They had they
Speaker 2: were on and they did these really big voices, and
Speaker 2: they were really big and and and sometimes I think
Speaker 2: with ad reads, it does feel a little hard to
Speaker 2: you know, communicate give information. I mean women do generally
Speaker 2: probably communicate better.
Speaker 1: Sorry, well I think I think it would depend on
Speaker 1: the woman and depend on the man.
Speaker 2: But okay, right, you're absolutely right. Not getting canceled today.
Speaker 1: No, but I think that's no. But I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: And again we've said this from the beginning. The women
Speaker 1: have just been killing it. I mean they've just they've
Speaker 1: just been killing it. They've been great. So I think
Speaker 1: for this third line, whenever we you know, this is
Speaker 1: all gonna be cold. I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be a very big step for one of them to
Speaker 1: see who can do the cold read better. And I
Speaker 1: think we work with both of them again to see
Speaker 1: what they can do and to keep it fair. Here's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, Vanessa. Yeah, I have something in
Speaker 1: either my left or my right hand, if if it's
Speaker 1: if you say left or right, left is going to
Speaker 1: be Danielle and right is going to be Matthew. To
Speaker 1: see who goes first. Okay, So I'm holding something in
Speaker 1: my hand, say left or right?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, it is left, It is in my hand. So
Speaker 1: we said left was Danielle? Correct?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, So Danielle will be going first in round number three.
Speaker 1: So let's bring Danielle back in. Hey, Danielle, how are
Speaker 1: you doing good? So much like our last game where
Speaker 1: we had the cold read, we're going to be doing
Speaker 1: the same thing again and we're going to be throwing
Speaker 1: a cold read ad at you. And if you look,
Speaker 1: it should be on your chat.
Speaker 4: Yes, I get a picture because my eyes are terrible,
Speaker 4: and I can put it on my phone.
Speaker 1: All right, so we won't get in your head at
Speaker 1: all again. If you want to take some more time,
Speaker 1: you can, if and if you're ready, you can any
Speaker 1: time you're ready for line number three at your pleasure already.
Speaker 4: I hate to travel. First you have to book your trip,
Speaker 4: Then you have to pack, Then you have to sit
Speaker 4: in traffic just to get to the line that gets
Speaker 4: you to the line that gets you to the plane.
Speaker 4: I just couldn't take it anymore. Then I found my Home,
Speaker 4: the new app that allows you to rent a house
Speaker 4: in your own town. Imagine taking a vacation on minutes
Speaker 4: away from where you currently live. My Home gives you
Speaker 4: the feel of a vacation while letting you shop at
Speaker 4: your local store, eat at your favorite local restaurant, and
Speaker 4: save a ton of money on a rental car. And
Speaker 4: let's be honest, when's the last time you actually looked
Speaker 4: at your town from a tourist point of view? My
Speaker 4: home a vacation from home, well, never leaving home.
Speaker 1: Great Vanessa, Great cold read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great. I wonder it Obviously it's a
Speaker 3: cold read, but it's a little bit presentational or sounding,
Speaker 3: which it's you know, it's written that way. I wondered
Speaker 3: if you picked a specific listener, whether it's your cousin
Speaker 3: or your aunt or I don't know, a coworker or
Speaker 3: someone that creates a kind of ease and familiarity. You know,
Speaker 3: who would you confide in that you hate to travel
Speaker 3: or do you know what I mean? Like a It
Speaker 3: might make it more specific and then be easier to
Speaker 3: connect with as a listener as opposed to a presentation.
Speaker 3: Yeah type, which is the challenge of add copy all
Speaker 3: the time is to have it do the sell but
Speaker 3: effortlessly so and you've done that all day, so you're
Speaker 3: capable of.
Speaker 4: It sell without actually looking like you're selling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And sometimes I don't solve that by going how
Speaker 3: do I sound like I'm not selling? I saw that
Speaker 3: by making a specific choice, all right, I've called my
Speaker 3: aunt I'm talking to I know how I talk to her, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is going to be more grounded in what I
Speaker 3: know rather than what I want it to sound like.
Speaker 3: Or I don't know if that makes sense. I'll say
Speaker 3: for a legal copy, if you ever have that. A
Speaker 3: great way to solve if it's a say, a ten
Speaker 3: minute or sorry, a ten second bit of copy that
Speaker 3: they need in six seconds, rather than the thinking that
Speaker 3: you need to do it faster at least a two
Speaker 3: thousand steven nexte or whatever, is that your listener is
Speaker 3: leaving the room and so you have to speak faster
Speaker 3: because they're leaving and you want to get your point across.
Speaker 3: You see Jesus, that was so there's sometimes there are
Speaker 3: little tricks and shoe ins to make it sound different
Speaker 3: that help us as actors to more authentically create that
Speaker 3: as opposed to I don't want to sound like I'm
Speaker 3: selling like you know what I'm saying. Yeah, particular listener,
Speaker 3: it grounds it a little. That would be my recommendation.
Speaker 1: Christy.
Speaker 2: I personally, I feel like I just want more energy
Speaker 2: from everybody. I think like when we're on Mike, it's
Speaker 2: generally like there's a presence you already have that naturally,
Speaker 2: but I would love to see that even more right now.
Speaker 2: I think it could really help, you know. I think
Speaker 2: we have seen you do different things, but I also
Speaker 2: kind of want to just see big energy on this one,
Speaker 2: like maybe like a little more paced up and a
Speaker 2: little bit more interested so that it feels less selly
Speaker 2: like Vanessa was saying, but it's still like interesting, you know.
Speaker 2: I think that that just comes with the ad read territory.
Speaker 2: Is they want somebody to feel like they can catch you,
Speaker 2: they can like really strike you with their words.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with everything that was said, and again,
Speaker 1: I here's the fun with this one. I wrote this
Speaker 1: one to be absurd. Who the hell would go rent
Speaker 1: a house in their own town to take a vacation, Well,
Speaker 1: other than Vanessa, it just seems like it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: oh wow, I get to go to my local grocery
Speaker 1: store on vacation. It's just so you're gonna be getting
Speaker 1: products that make no sense a lot of times when
Speaker 1: you're getting some of these these ad reads. So you've
Speaker 1: got to make this absurd. I'm going to go rent
Speaker 1: my neighbor's house to be on vacation. Seem like a
Speaker 1: totally natural and normal thing to do while not sounding
Speaker 1: like you're trying to sell somebody on renting a house
Speaker 1: in your own town. It's such a such a weird
Speaker 1: and absurd line to walk, But I think you can
Speaker 1: get that with with as Christy said, more energy and
Speaker 1: as Vanessa said, more energy talking to somebody that you
Speaker 1: know very well. Okay, and let's see what happens with that.
Speaker 1: So with that said, act your pleasure anytime, all right.
Speaker 4: I hate to travel. First you have to book your trip,
Speaker 4: then you have to pack, Then you have to sit
Speaker 4: in traffic just to get to the line that gets
Speaker 4: you to the line that gets you to the plane.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 4: Then I found my Home, the new app that allows
Speaker 4: you to rent a house in your own town. Imagine
Speaker 4: taking a vacation only minutes away from where you currently live.
Speaker 4: My Home gives you the feel of a vacation while
Speaker 4: letting you shop at your local store, eat at your
Speaker 4: favorite local restaurant, and save a ton of money on
Speaker 4: a rental car. And let's be honest, when's the last
Speaker 4: time you actually looked at your town from a Taurus
Speaker 4: point of view? My Home a vacation from home.
Speaker 1: We'll never leave me home. Thank you very much. We
Speaker 1: will be right back with you.
Speaker 3: Thank you nicely done.
Speaker 1: That was great. I mean that was yeah great energy.
Speaker 2: That that energy is what really so weird.
Speaker 3: I almost in that read, I felt like she was
Speaker 3: sitting next to her schlovey husband never takes her anywhere,
Speaker 3: and she's, you know, like gilding the lily of like
Speaker 3: listen you you know, it had another dimension of a
Speaker 3: motive that was like mysterious to me.
Speaker 5: That was great her.
Speaker 1: One of the things that's really standing out for me
Speaker 1: with her is her second takes are really good. And
Speaker 1: that obviously means she's taking the notes, she's taking the direction,
Speaker 1: and she's using them, and that's she really is.
Speaker 2: She's not in her head about that, right.
Speaker 1: So let's all right, Well, let's let's bring Matthew in
Speaker 1: and see you see what Matthew.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give him almost the same direction to Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see what he does. Let's see what he does.
Speaker 1: He might he might nail it. So let's see what
Speaker 1: Matthew can can do here. Hey Matthew, how are you hello?
Speaker 1: All right? So, just like the last time, the last game,
Speaker 1: we played. We're are now going to jump into round
Speaker 1: three where you are going to get a cold ad
Speaker 1: that you have never seen before, so it will be
Speaker 1: in your chat.
Speaker 5: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Yeah, has it? Do you have it? There?
Speaker 5: Don't have anything yet?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: There?
Speaker 1: It is all right, so we won't say anything, Matthew,
Speaker 1: at your pleasure.
Speaker 5: Here I go. I hate to travel. First you have
Speaker 5: to book your trip, then you have to pack. Then
Speaker 5: you have to pack, then you have to sit in
Speaker 5: traffic just to get to the line that gets you
Speaker 5: to the line that gets you to the plane. I
Speaker 5: just couldn't take it anymore. Then I found my Home,
Speaker 5: the new app that allows you to rent a house
Speaker 5: in your own town. Imagine taking a vacation only minutes
Speaker 5: away from where you currently live. My Home gives you
Speaker 5: the feel of a vacation while letting you shop at
Speaker 5: your local store, eat at your favorite local restaurant, and
Speaker 5: save a ton of money on a rental car. And
Speaker 5: let's be honest, when is the last time you actually
Speaker 5: looked at your town from a tourist point of view?
Speaker 5: My Home a vacation from home while never leaving home.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Vanessa. Any notes, Yeah, I'm curious.
Speaker 3: I wondered who you were talking to and why, and
Speaker 3: I wonder if you maybe you made that choice. But
Speaker 3: I wonder if maybe making a different choice of the
Speaker 3: listener would make it more conversational and loosen it up
Speaker 3: a bit. And you know, as Will has said, like
Speaker 3: you know, just make it not faster, but just that
Speaker 3: it would just roll off a little bit more given
Speaker 3: what your intention is, that why you would even be
Speaker 3: sharing this with a friend or a colleague or a
Speaker 3: classmate or you know, whoever the listener is. That that
Speaker 3: would help govern the ease with which you describe these things,
Speaker 3: and that might make it just fly a little bit more.
Speaker 3: But I thought you did a great job.
Speaker 5: That's really helpful advice visualizing visualizing my listener, all right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Christy, Yeah, I mean if that's the advice that will
Speaker 2: get you to feel really into making a bold choice,
Speaker 2: I think that's great. You know, we're really wanting to
Speaker 2: give you direction that feels true to you because we
Speaker 2: really are rooting for everyone. And so I had mentioned that,
Speaker 2: like I think in adreachs, generally speaking, you need to
Speaker 2: pick up a pace, you need to kind of be
Speaker 2: There's this old saying of louder, faster, funnier in the industry.
Speaker 2: But like, I think that more or less this is
Speaker 2: like more interested, more active, you know, and then the
Speaker 2: cell kind of comes from that. I don't know. I mean, look, Matt,
Speaker 2: like it's up to you. If you know you're talking
Speaker 2: to somebody that you want to have an intimate conversation with,
Speaker 2: then it doesn't need to be super in your face.
Speaker 2: But I do think you can still be very interested
Speaker 2: and excited to share the news within, so really be
Speaker 2: excited to share that news.
Speaker 1: I agree, I think so. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: times when you get cold reads, your cold copy the
Speaker 1: first time, you're really just trying to get through it.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you don't want to
Speaker 1: make any mistakes. You want to read through from top
Speaker 1: to bottom, and you kind of finish and it's almost
Speaker 1: like a hew, I got through that. And that's great
Speaker 1: because now it kind of gets in your mouth, it
Speaker 1: gets in your head, and your second take, you can
Speaker 1: loosen it up a bit. I think, make it, you know,
Speaker 1: more conversational if you can. I would also take a
Speaker 1: sip of water before you do it again and just
Speaker 1: kind of relax into it a little bit. And just
Speaker 1: remember exactly what Vanessa said. You're you're speaking, pick somebody
Speaker 1: to talk to and it it could just be whoever.
Speaker 1: It's just a buddy, it's a wife, it's a friend,
Speaker 1: it's a partner, whoever it is where you're just having
Speaker 1: a conversation about this. And oh, by the way, I
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Speaker 1: we don't have to leave town. So let's just see
Speaker 1: if you loosen it up where it can go from there,
Speaker 1: So anytime, Matt at your pleasure.
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Speaker 1: That's thank you very much. We'll be right back with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So cool. That definitely had more intimacy.
Speaker 1: I definitely did, And I thought he took the direction
Speaker 1: very well. That being said, I'll be totally honest with you,
Speaker 1: I think she. I think she was the better actor today.
Speaker 2: Man, We're just gonna have any guys, I.
Speaker 1: Know, And it's one of those things where we, you know,
Speaker 1: we've said from the beginning, we are going to find
Speaker 1: the best wherever the best takes us. And it's gonna
Speaker 1: be if we if if we do decide that that
Speaker 1: she wins this week, it's gonna also get very difficult
Speaker 1: for us because we're going to be comparing one woman's
Speaker 1: voice to another woman's voice for the rest of the competition,
Speaker 1: which can get very tough. Yeah, but that being said
Speaker 1: strictly by acting, I thought she she she really impressed
Speaker 1: me today and and he was great, he really was,
Speaker 1: But I thought she was just a little, you know,
Speaker 1: a little higher level than he was. Vanessa.
Speaker 3: I think they are both fantastic in terms of referring
Speaker 3: either one or the other. If I had to refer
Speaker 3: them to my voiceover agency, I would probably I would
Speaker 3: probably more confidently refer her because of her agility and
Speaker 3: also the ease with which she communicates with the director.
Speaker 3: There's something about that and it's it's of course we're
Speaker 3: all nervous, and I don't think he was necessarily even
Speaker 3: that nervous or shy. I thought he was hilarious and
Speaker 3: he was funny. Yeah, but I think she has a
Speaker 3: way of relaxing people around her that it might it
Speaker 3: might behoove him to kind of work on like the
Speaker 3: hang because a lot of times in the business, people
Speaker 3: they want to work with you if you're a good
Speaker 3: hang And.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I hate that part because I'm so freaking awkward.
Speaker 1: You're easy to work within your phone in the room,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what.
Speaker 3: Look Listen, even that you would just say that, oh
Speaker 3: I'm so awkward like that that makes people relax because
Speaker 3: everyone's awkward. Everyone feels like I'm the only one who
Speaker 3: thinks I'm you know, what the hell am I doing
Speaker 3: right now? Or whatever it is. And for you to
Speaker 3: have the humility and the confidence to even say like,
Speaker 3: oh god, you know and and I don't know that
Speaker 3: I'm a good hang either. I'm a complete dork.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you are a dor but you're a dork
Speaker 1: that's fun to hang out with. And I can attest
Speaker 1: to that. But but I guess.
Speaker 3: The lesson that I would take away from this for
Speaker 3: me is like, Wow, I didn't realize how impactful it is.
Speaker 3: The more I've heard this said before. The more relaxed
Speaker 3: you are in your own skin, the more you know
Speaker 3: who you are, the more you know that you deserve
Speaker 3: to be there, the more you others others have more
Speaker 3: confidence in your ability when when you give yourself permission
Speaker 3: to own your power and your gift. And I think
Speaker 3: they both did that. I think she did it with
Speaker 3: somewhat more ease that if I were referring either one,
Speaker 3: I think he might have seemed a little bit more
Speaker 3: green in that.
Speaker 2: In that way, I agree, And that's fair.
Speaker 3: You know, the more jobs he would go to and
Speaker 3: the more the more comfortable he would get whatever. But
Speaker 3: the fact that she just has.
Speaker 1: That he has the talent, I mean, the talent, is
Speaker 1: that the talent is certainly there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that we've said, is all.
Speaker 1: And we say this every week because it gets harder
Speaker 1: every week. All sixteen of the final sixteen could be signed.
Speaker 1: I might, I mean really, you know he and you're right,
Speaker 1: he's because the hardest part is the talent. You can
Speaker 1: you can teach the rest, and you can. You can
Speaker 1: be learn how to be comfortable in a booth, but
Speaker 1: you can learn the right way to address the microphone
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I've always said. You know, I can't sing,
Speaker 1: so I could go to singing class after singing class
Speaker 1: after singing class. You can't teach the talent to sing.
Speaker 1: You can take a talent that somebody has and you
Speaker 1: can make it better. But if you don't have the talent,
Speaker 1: you don't have the talent, and he certainly does. It's
Speaker 1: just she's. She seems to be more advanced than him
Speaker 1: right now, and that alone, I think would would have
Speaker 1: her move on. And yeah, so Christy, I mean, what
Speaker 1: what do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we call it. I think I tell
Speaker 2: him the snooze and I.
Speaker 1: Do you agree about it? You agree though? Right? No?
Speaker 1: I mean I agree, okay, Yeah, And it's a shame
Speaker 1: that we're not going to have any men left in
Speaker 1: the competition. But that's the way it works. We just we.
Speaker 2: It's the we. I think if anyone has listened to
Speaker 2: this podcast as long as they have, and we appreciate
Speaker 2: you listening, yeah so much, you'll know that. You know,
Speaker 2: we've been as fair as possible. I don't think I've
Speaker 2: ever seen a fair contest, so so yeah, so let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and uh, let's give him the bad news
Speaker 2: and I will be the one to do it, and
Speaker 2: I'll be not be able to sleep tonight. Okay, thanks, thanks, Well.
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I'm used to it now. If you
Speaker 1: want me to do it.
Speaker 2: They committed to it. Big about my commit Vanessa.
Speaker 1: You want to do it, I will do it. If
Speaker 1: you want I'm I will do it.
Speaker 2: I will do it. I will also be awkward, so
Speaker 2: if I'm really awkward, you sep it.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, Okay, all right, great, let's bring them back.
Speaker 2: God, hey, Matt, what's up?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming back to us here. We have been
Speaker 2: just racking our brains because this is such an interesting
Speaker 2: time in this competition. It's like we've gone from sixteen
Speaker 2: to eight and all of you are so diverse and
Speaker 2: interesting at different places in your acting journey and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And obviously, Vanessa and Will we all love you and
Speaker 2: we love your voice. That being said, today will probably
Speaker 2: be you know, it's the last day for you with
Speaker 2: this contest and you will not be moving forward. But
Speaker 2: that's We're all sad because we love you and we
Speaker 2: hope that you will continue in your journey with your
Speaker 2: career as a voice actor, because you have the goods.
Speaker 2: We've said it before in this contest that we feel
Speaker 2: like everyone could be signed in our candidates.
Speaker 5: Yeah, honestly, I've the scenario I was hoping for is
Speaker 5: already a reality. So I'm just excited to be here.
Speaker 1: Matt, That's so cool. But no, we were it's getting
Speaker 1: tougher every week. The tam sixteen were we've said, as
Speaker 1: Christy just said, could easily all go off and have
Speaker 1: really great careers. The Elite eight that much more so.
Speaker 1: I mean, we had you went from forty five hundred
Speaker 1: to the top eight of this competition, and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: I would think moving forward. If I was going to
Speaker 1: give you any advice moving forward with your career, I
Speaker 1: think it's to trust in yourself a little more because
Speaker 1: I do think you have what it takes to move forward.
Speaker 1: I think you're maybe a little nervous with your own talent,
Speaker 1: and you've got the talent. So I think kind of
Speaker 1: stepping into hey, I'm good at this, I'm mad, and
Speaker 1: I'm damn good at this is a step I think
Speaker 1: you need to even embrace more because there's a confidence
Speaker 1: that you have. But I think you can really have
Speaker 1: saying I'm good at what I do and I'm going
Speaker 1: to now take it to the next level. And I
Speaker 1: think you are going to take it to the next
Speaker 1: level because you're very good. Thank you will so thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. Congratulations again on making
Speaker 1: this far. And uh, someday we'll be able to high
Speaker 1: five you in the booth because we're sure you're gonna
Speaker 1: be in there with us.
Speaker 5: Hey, great job, everyone, have a wonderful time.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. I'll listening. I appreciate that, Matt, thank
Speaker 1: you for us. Congratulations, you did great. Thank you, I Matt,
Speaker 1: Thanks Matt. Bye, Okay so much.
Speaker 3: I hate it.
Speaker 2: Fun.
Speaker 3: That was fun?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it so much.
Speaker 2: So now we we'll get Danielle on and give her
Speaker 2: the good news. Should I and all fake are out.
Speaker 7: You do.
Speaker 1: That's the fun part. We love Okay, we love it.
Speaker 1: We gotta have some fun, I get it.
Speaker 2: Hey, Danielle, Hey, So we have just been racking our
Speaker 2: brains because this has been just just such a stressful
Speaker 2: round for us, and everyone is so diverse and so talented,
Speaker 2: and you know, we just wanted to hop on because
Speaker 2: we wanted to thank you so much for being a
Speaker 2: part of the contest. And unfortunately you're going to be
Speaker 2: going to the next round. And having told you, I
Speaker 2: told you, it's too.
Speaker 4: Ready preparing my sat story here, I.
Speaker 2: Was waiting for it, like I just bought this microphone, Like, no,
Speaker 2: I use it.
Speaker 1: No, We're proud of you. Yeah, yeah, it's really great.
Speaker 1: You did a good job. We're going to be totally
Speaker 1: honest with you though. So you are now that you're
Speaker 1: now the number two person moving on to the final four,
Speaker 1: the competition is getting really, really stiff.
Speaker 2: And can we disclose the the fact of the of
Speaker 2: the candidates left?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, yeah, I guess you're going to
Speaker 1: hear it, you know when you listen to the podcast anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no more men, there's no there's no more men.
Speaker 1: It is only women left in the competition. The women
Speaker 1: have come in, they have killed it, but a lot
Speaker 1: of you are very similar and really good. So it's
Speaker 1: going to start getting The competition is going to get
Speaker 1: very very stiff. But congratulations on moving on to that.
Speaker 1: You're going to be in the final four. Not only
Speaker 1: is the competition getting harder, but I can promise you
Speaker 1: the next round ain't gonna be easy.
Speaker 2: So I am ready bring it on.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what we like to hear.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, congratulations on moving forward and prepare yourself because
Speaker 1: it's it's full gladiator school from from this moment on.
Speaker 1: So yes, gladiator I love that. So again, congratulations and
Speaker 1: we will see you in the final four.
Speaker 4: This has been so fun. Thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, see you soon, see you job.
Speaker 2: Thank you bye.
Speaker 1: So very briefly before we we thank our amazing and
Speaker 1: wonderful and incredible guest adjudicator for the day. We forgot
Speaker 1: at the top to thank everybody else who has made
Speaker 1: this contest possible. So first of all, we want to
Speaker 1: thank all of our friends over there at Prime Video
Speaker 1: who've helped make this possible, and all our friends in
Speaker 1: critical role. Don't forget to go and check out season
Speaker 1: two of Voxmachina, available for download now on Prime Video.
Speaker 1: It is incredible and I say this every week, not
Speaker 1: just because I'm on it. It's awesome. We also, of
Speaker 1: course want to thank all of our guest judges, everybody
Speaker 1: that came out. We want to thank our incredible friends
Speaker 1: with their amazing, amazing prize of signing with them for
Speaker 1: a year CESD, so thank you so much, CESD, and
Speaker 1: of course our wonderful parent company iHeart, who really helped
Speaker 1: make this entire contest happen. We could not have done
Speaker 1: it without any of them, and we certainly could not
Speaker 1: have done it without our guests. Oh, our guest judge today,
Speaker 1: one of my wonderful close friends and somebody I've now
Speaker 1: known for I don't even know what has it been
Speaker 1: twenty something years, Vanessa. It's absolutely crazy, But thank you
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time. We know how amazingly
Speaker 1: insanely busy you are, and for coming out and helping
Speaker 1: to mentor some of the people that are eventually going
Speaker 1: to take our jobs and replace us.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. This
Speaker 3: was so much fun. Anytime I'm happy to come back.
Speaker 5: It was great. Thank yous.
Speaker 1: We have We've only had a very few people that
Speaker 1: have come back twice, so it's a very very small category,
Speaker 1: and you are of course at the top of the list.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, thank you. I'm really really grateful and
Speaker 3: it's wonderful to see you both.
Speaker 5: By gugs you too.
Speaker 1: Now once again, very briefly before you go, what are
Speaker 1: you working on?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Where can people find you?
Speaker 3: Oh? I'm actually well the Harley Quinn Show. I play
Speaker 3: wonder Woman that's on HBO Max. That'll be coming back
Speaker 3: with another season. But I'm personally getting into playing video games.
Speaker 3: There's wonder Woman. Yeah, I'm I'm involved in an event
Speaker 3: that's a Metal Gear fan experience. It's www dot mgs
Speaker 3: con dot com. It's also if you follow my social
Speaker 3: media you can get more information. But we're raising money
Speaker 3: for the Wounded Warrior Project and all the voiceover actors
Speaker 3: from the game are going to make appearances. We'll be
Speaker 3: signing autographs. I'll be live streaming and playing as my character,
Speaker 3: and they've got all sorts of fan art. There's an
Speaker 3: artist's alley and it's like a mini comic con for
Speaker 3: the game. Metal Gear July fifteenth at the Hilton near
Speaker 3: Lax down there, but check it out online because we're
Speaker 3: hoping to take it to London and New York and
Speaker 3: all over the place because there's a huge fan community.
Speaker 3: And then I'm hoping that I'm hoping to do that
Speaker 3: with other franchises. And ironically, the last time I was
Speaker 3: on your show, I was talking about how there are
Speaker 3: voiceover actors that comic cons, why aren't there video game
Speaker 3: actors at e sports events? And so I've made some
Speaker 3: traction in that way, and I'm having so much fun
Speaker 3: and after being trapped in the pandemic, to be able
Speaker 3: to play and create fun for people and do it
Speaker 3: for a good cause is just like a dream come true.
Speaker 3: So there's other professional stuff going on, but that's what's
Speaker 3: bringing me joy right now.
Speaker 1: So I share that with you, and you said, so
Speaker 1: can we have the dress again? What is the.
Speaker 3: L MGSCN dot com? And it's at MGS con on
Speaker 3: social media and you.
Speaker 1: Said it's on your social media too if they want
Speaker 1: to find it. What's your social media again?
Speaker 3: Yes, my social media for Instagram is at Vanessa Marshall
Speaker 3: eleven thirty eight and on Twitter it's at van Marshall.
Speaker 3: Don't ask. It's a long story how those things are,
Speaker 3: of course saying there's a George Lucas joke in the
Speaker 3: eleven thirty eight Google it anyway. And then I have
Speaker 3: a fan page on Facebook. It's just Vanessa Marshall fan page,
Speaker 3: and it's all it's all on there. But I hope
Speaker 3: to see everyone, and I'm really happy. We got an
Speaker 3: ambassador from the Wounded Warrior Project who's coming out to
Speaker 3: speak to us, and it's just a really it's just
Speaker 3: wonderful to see with the world falling apart on so
Speaker 3: many levels, that there are certain things that are sacred
Speaker 3: and the fans and different fandoms, the nerd community is
Speaker 3: powerful and strong and the love just is far reaching.
Speaker 3: So I'm grateful to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Now, that's incredible, boy, everybody please go check
Speaker 1: that out again. Anything we can do to make sure
Speaker 1: that we are propping up our veterans and the people
Speaker 1: that put their lives on the line so we have
Speaker 1: freedom every day, we are all down for that, So
Speaker 1: please go check it out on all of Vanessa's pages.
Speaker 1: Thank you again so much for joining us. I love
Speaker 1: you both. Thank you Christy, so nice to see you
Speaker 1: as always, and Vanessa, thank you for joining us, and
Speaker 1: thank you all for joining us again. And don't forget
Speaker 1: if you think you have what it takes to step
Speaker 1: up to the microphone, put your voices where your mouth is.
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