Speaker 1: Hi Christy, Hi Will. How are you pretty good?
Speaker 2: How are you? I'm good, I'm as you can tell.
Speaker 1: I am back in our wonderful, amazing state of Connecticut.
Speaker 1: I'm back home right now. And do you know how
Speaker 1: I knew that?
Speaker 3: Because you had a hockey stick on top of your
Speaker 3: window and it is not aesthetically positioned. It's like narthonically
Speaker 3: just thrown up.
Speaker 1: There with tax. That's exactly right. That's how it's done.
Speaker 1: When you're fourteen and you have the only sports team
Speaker 1: you have in town is the Heart for Railers.
Speaker 2: That is a Dave Tippett original hockey stick.
Speaker 1: Nine people in the audience just went, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: Dave Tippett.
Speaker 2: So yes, I'm back home.
Speaker 3: I used to tell him to like tipp it when
Speaker 3: he would make a shot or something or no.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have no idea, I don't. I barely remember
Speaker 1: that at all. My mom.
Speaker 3: I want to say that my mom worked for the whalers.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, honestly, my godmother worked at the whaler's store,
Speaker 1: so she had like all of the she had all
Speaker 1: the all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I wonder if if they knew each other, that would
Speaker 3: be cool, because honestly, my mom was at the Oilers. Okay,
Speaker 3: looked at the Oilers when she was in Ohio, and
Speaker 3: then she moved over to the Whalers. Now, for anybody
Speaker 3: who's from Connecticut, the Whalers Stadium, is it still standing?
Speaker 1: Well, we didn't have a stadium. Remember, it was a
Speaker 1: It was in a mall. They called it the mall.
Speaker 1: It was at the Hertford Civic Center. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: in the Hertvard Civic Center.
Speaker 2: Mail.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, that was I don't think that
Speaker 1: was ever. Was that a thing when I was growing up,
Speaker 1: we had to go to the Heartford Civic Center. It
Speaker 1: was just in a mall.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I need to google this then, because I'm
Speaker 3: growing up distinctively and remembering there being a hockey rink
Speaker 3: with a whale on the top of it.
Speaker 2: Oh god, no, but one of us could be. I
Speaker 2: have no idea. You could totally be right.
Speaker 4: My connecticuttiams us Nutmegers.
Speaker 1: Anyway, welcome to a wonderful episode of I Hear Voices.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited because we are officially speaking of sports
Speaker 1: and sports metaphors officially in the Elite eight.
Speaker 2: Now we are in round two.
Speaker 1: Wow of our super awesome contest to become the next
Speaker 1: big voice actor.
Speaker 3: We're here, we are forging ahead. I mean, the people
Speaker 3: that have been with us for a while listening to
Speaker 3: this show, they know just how committed we've been as
Speaker 3: judges and as co hosts. Yeah, to get to this point.
Speaker 3: Any of milestone that we have on this show, I
Speaker 3: feel like is a really big win for you know, you, me,
Speaker 3: the whole team, even you as listeners. You know, I
Speaker 3: feel like you know you agree, really are invested in
Speaker 3: whatever the outcome of this is going to be for somebody,
Speaker 3: and we just wanted to thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Thank you absolutely, and to keep the thank yous going.
Speaker 1: Of course, every week we like to thank everybody who
Speaker 1: helped to make this possible for us, you know, including
Speaker 1: Prime Video who helped us out with a whole a
Speaker 1: whole lot of a bunch of stuff over there with
Speaker 1: the people at Critical Role. Don't forget season two of
Speaker 1: Vox Mackin. It is for download now. I say this
Speaker 1: every week. Check it out, not just because the guest
Speaker 1: stars are amazing. I'm on that show, but also because
Speaker 1: it truly is a gorgeous animated series. So go check
Speaker 1: that out. And of course our wonderful parent company at
Speaker 1: iHeart who made everything possible for us and the good
Speaker 1: people over there at CEESD, which you know, one of
Speaker 1: the prizes is signing to And every time we talk
Speaker 1: to an actor about how that's one of the prizes,
Speaker 1: they're like, are.
Speaker 2: You kidding me? You win an agency contract?
Speaker 3: I mean you but does just an agency. It's like
Speaker 3: CSD has been around for a long long time, and
Speaker 3: that's that's I mean, in the video game, I've literally
Speaker 3: been with William Morris, William Morris's vo department like didn't fail,
Speaker 3: but they like they like changed hands and like everyone
Speaker 3: got thrown. That's when I went to CESC the first
Speaker 3: the first time, and generally speaking, CSD is like, really,
Speaker 3: who you want to start your career with?
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can, They're they're great. So this is
Speaker 1: amazing and we are you know, the first sixteen were great.
Speaker 1: We had some weeks where it was so difficult to
Speaker 1: pick who was going to move on. It was just
Speaker 1: it was crushing to us to have to say goodbye
Speaker 1: to certain people because they were just so good.
Speaker 2: But somebody was better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, But you know, I think that's why I
Speaker 3: mean to our credit we're doing a really great job
Speaker 3: because and our judicators are doing wonderful jobs as well.
Speaker 3: I'll see, they really are, and we're also getting to
Speaker 3: know them a little bit, so it still has like
Speaker 3: a little bit of an interview aspect to it. Are
Speaker 3: you friendly with our judge today?
Speaker 2: I am, I'm everybody. I am.
Speaker 1: I've worked with this man for many, many years. He
Speaker 1: and I did ThunderCats together back in the day. He
Speaker 1: started as an animator and an artist, so I mean
Speaker 1: he would come in and I mean, like on the
Speaker 1: original ThunderCats, he was this guy was bringing in artwork
Speaker 1: while we were recording. That was amazing. But one of
Speaker 1: the reasons we brought him here today is because you
Speaker 1: hear this man all the time doing all different ad reads,
Speaker 1: which is what this round is going to be about.
Speaker 2: And we will explain it all when we get there.
Speaker 1: Because we said we were looking for a completely well
Speaker 1: rounded voice actor and as voice actors, did you get it?
Speaker 1: Christy killed the book? Nice it's starting for you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to kill a book.
Speaker 1: Good for you. No, that was a good snack, good one,
Speaker 1: but no. So we said we want a well rounded
Speaker 1: voiceover actor, and what we do a lot of times
Speaker 1: as voiceover actors. The vast majority of the auditions we
Speaker 1: do are ad reads.
Speaker 3: I'm got to be honest. Have you done ad reads before?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I absolutely have.
Speaker 1: Oh not. Christy's knocking everything over. The bug is coming
Speaker 1: back to haunt you. That's what's happening. It's so fun.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I have done plenty of ad reads. That's
Speaker 1: you know, you read them in bulk and you get
Speaker 1: there and you're it's it's really can be an amazing
Speaker 1: aspect of the career of a voiceover actor. And some
Speaker 1: of the biggest voiceover actors in the world, including this
Speaker 1: man we have today, are I'm going to let him
Speaker 1: tell you some of the campaigns that he's done, because
Speaker 1: you have heard this man over and over again. Christy,
Speaker 1: do you want to tell people who's here today?
Speaker 3: Jim maskimin, guys, Jim Maskumin's coming in.
Speaker 2: Let's bring him in. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Oh, there he is, Hey, Jim, good morning, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: And this is Christy Carlson Romano here.
Speaker 3: Hi, Jim, Hi Christy, nice to see.
Speaker 2: You, I see you. Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We are here for a little background Jim, because then
Speaker 1: we want to get into you know you and what
Speaker 1: you're doing. But so you are going to be our
Speaker 1: first judge adjudicator of round two of the Super Awesome
Speaker 1: Contest to become the next big voice actor. So we
Speaker 1: had forty five hundred entries around and we narrowed it
Speaker 1: down to the final sixteen, the Sweet sixteen, and we
Speaker 1: did the first round. They played a game called by
Speaker 1: the Numbers which they our guests through numbers that they
Speaker 1: picked randomly created a character that they then had to
Speaker 1: read lines of dialogue in the created character that was
Speaker 1: instantly made in front of them. So it was all about,
Speaker 1: you know, funny voices and the kind of animation side
Speaker 1: of something. But since we're looking for a perfectly well
Speaker 1: rounded voice actor to become one of our colleagues, Round
Speaker 1: two is called Extra EXTRAE read all about it and
Speaker 1: it is all going to be ad reads. And one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that we really wanted you here is
Speaker 1: because you have been the voice of many different campaigns.
Speaker 1: You've done adreads all over the place. So if you
Speaker 1: could first tell us a little bit about the video
Speaker 1: game animation side of your career, because that has been
Speaker 1: amazingly impressive.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm also fangirling. I'm fangirling about Big Door Mid
Speaker 3: Door Prize because I've watched you on that and I
Speaker 3: love you on it. So thank you for entertaining me
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: Oh glad you like it. That's great. It's a new
Speaker 2: series on Apple TV, the Big Door Prize. Yeah.
Speaker 5: We just got finished filming season two about two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Your character is wonderful. I love your character.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 5: That's I get to play Crystal Dowd's father, So that's
Speaker 5: a great pleasure.
Speaker 3: It was like, there's a noticeable different dialect in interviewing
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Whenever. Oh yeah, Chrysto Doud, I like to evoke the.
Speaker 5: Great Crystal Dowd because he's charming, much more charming than
Speaker 5: I am. So it'd be you know, you'd be well
Speaker 5: well positioned to invite him to your show sometime.
Speaker 2: We'd love to.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, so you mean just the accent
Speaker 1: right there, one of the things, the jimpression stuff that
Speaker 1: you do and the stuff you are doing right now
Speaker 1: on the social media machine with the just reading different.
Speaker 1: Is it your daughter who comes in and says, hey,
Speaker 1: you know it's your daughter?
Speaker 2: Who's my daughter?
Speaker 5: Taylor, who's also a voice actress and an audiobook narrator,
Speaker 5: but she helps me with the social medias, so we
Speaker 5: think up things to do to throw out there.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you like it. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've seen it, Christy, but
Speaker 1: somebody he'll be reading, like, you know, a manual for
Speaker 1: a new tool or something like that, but then you
Speaker 1: just hear his daughter throwing in like now do it
Speaker 1: from New York. Now do it, Irish, now do it,
Speaker 1: and he's just switching from one to the other after.
Speaker 1: It is truly incredible thing to watch. It really is
Speaker 1: is a masterclass. Yeah, jimpressions, it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all right, I'm following you now. And I
Speaker 3: think I have seen them come up on my algorithm,
Speaker 3: and I think that's so great that your daughter's also
Speaker 3: in the biz and you guys are collaborating in that way.
Speaker 3: I think that's so It's also you know, we started
Speaker 3: this pod so that we could really, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: pull up the curtain on what it's like to have
Speaker 3: a community you know, supporting one another in the vo world,
Speaker 3: and like we're trying to extend that into a new
Speaker 3: opportunity for someone, and I mean, you know, that's just
Speaker 3: great that you're you're bringing awareness to the joys of
Speaker 3: all this to everybody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a very lucky guy. I have my family
Speaker 5: supports me so much, and my it's it's.
Speaker 2: Encouraging my daughter.
Speaker 5: I got her into doing audiobook little roles years ago
Speaker 5: when she was just a kid, and so she's grown
Speaker 5: up around a microphone and now she's in front of
Speaker 5: it all the time.
Speaker 3: I could get behind that, you know. Will I always
Speaker 3: talk about how I would I probably wouldn't put my
Speaker 3: girls on camera.
Speaker 4: But voiceover would voiceover, okay, that would be That would
Speaker 4: be phenomenal.
Speaker 3: And for the inner child. Heal fill me later anytime.
Speaker 1: And I get to see Jim quite often and randomly
Speaker 1: because his mom and I are actually neighbors.
Speaker 3: So I will neighbors with everybody.
Speaker 2: Because it's the easiest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a long street, That's what I say
Speaker 1: it because it's a long street. That's true. So Jim,
Speaker 1: can you tell us a little bit about the some
Speaker 1: of the major campaigns that you've done when it comes
Speaker 1: to these huge national chains and kind of the the
Speaker 1: ad reads that you do.
Speaker 5: Well, this really was kind of at the very beginning
Speaker 5: of my career, which I started in New York City,
Speaker 5: which is a big ad town and a big radio town.
Speaker 5: And when I started off, it was doing yeah, radio
Speaker 5: ads for different campaigns, and many companies are still in
Speaker 5: business from that time.
Speaker 2: But this is a long time ago.
Speaker 5: It's in the eighties, and I kept very, very busy
Speaker 5: doing TV and radio campaigns.
Speaker 2: Of various sorts.
Speaker 5: I mean everything toothpaste and cars and you know, fast food.
Speaker 1: And I was going to say, not just fast food.
Speaker 1: You were the voice of KFC. You're the Colonel forever,
Speaker 1: weren't you.
Speaker 2: Well, I am the Colonel, That's what I meant. Yeah,
Speaker 2: unless you've heard something.
Speaker 1: They do a lot of.
Speaker 3: Different on camera kernels as like I done lately, haven't
Speaker 3: they They did like something like that, yeah for a
Speaker 3: Super Bowl or Yeah.
Speaker 2: They recently changed agencies.
Speaker 5: They were with Widen and Kennedy, which is the people
Speaker 5: that have originally hired me.
Speaker 2: And I'd worked with him before on a.
Speaker 5: Voiceover campaign for Sony and they were looking for a
Speaker 5: colonel and I, you know, I grew up listening to
Speaker 5: and seeing the Colonel on TV, and so that boy one,
Speaker 5: I just can't even race out of my head, plus
Speaker 5: a viewpoint and character itself asia rather indelibately tide to
Speaker 5: my own destiny. So I felt like, you know, I've
Speaker 5: got I've got a good leg up on this, and
Speaker 5: they were nice enough to hire me. Now, during that
Speaker 5: campaign that White and Kennedy did, they had first hired
Speaker 5: Darryl Hammond to portray the colonel, and he did I
Speaker 5: think about a year's worth, and then for one reason
Speaker 5: or another, they did not.
Speaker 2: Rehire Daryl Hammond.
Speaker 5: I think there was a problem of some kind scheduling
Speaker 5: or who knows what.
Speaker 2: So they decided, oh, well, we better go with another celebrity.
Speaker 5: And they got into this as I understand this sequence
Speaker 5: of well, let's maybe it's just that the Colonel changes.
Speaker 2: Every year or every six or eight months, and he.
Speaker 5: Becomes a different celebrity, and we keep people guessing, which
Speaker 5: I thought was pretty clever. So they had Jim Gaffigan,
Speaker 5: and they had Norm MacDonald and George Hamilton and Reba
Speaker 5: McIntyre and probably six or seven others that I missed,
Speaker 5: but all during that time they also did more different
Speaker 5: I mean, so many different marketing arms to KFC, and
Speaker 5: so I found my niche doing the ones that did
Speaker 5: not feature the on camera colonel so much, but had
Speaker 5: you know, some radio applications or other social media applications,
Speaker 5: and so they've kept me pretty busy. I'm really grateful
Speaker 5: because there aren't a ton for me anymore of opportunities
Speaker 5: in that space like there used to be.
Speaker 2: So it's very nice and I.
Speaker 1: Enjoy it, oh man watching. I just watched a video
Speaker 1: not too longo about with you actually going through the
Speaker 1: drive through at KFC and ordering as the Colonel, which
Speaker 1: was asking about the spicy chicken sandwich, which is great.
Speaker 2: Chicken schandwich, and which which kind as you get because
Speaker 2: you have a variety of flavors.
Speaker 1: That was flavor.
Speaker 5: The thing that I do is is on my own,
Speaker 5: just on my own time and my own probably own
Speaker 5: for content I put I always once a week I
Speaker 5: pair make an archival phone call, you know, as if
Speaker 5: it's an unearthed phone recording of Colonel Sanders talking to
Speaker 5: some other celebrities. So I've got a ton of those
Speaker 5: on my YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: Everybody please go check that out and we will make
Speaker 1: sure that we get those out there to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody knows where to find you.
Speaker 3: Honestly, well, he's the best. We couldn't.
Speaker 1: I told you this, I told you to start round two.
Speaker 1: I was like, jim Meskamon has to be the first one.
Speaker 1: We have to start round two. I told you this
Speaker 1: is it's.
Speaker 3: Well the way to do it. Absolutely, thanks for coming on,
Speaker 3: let's get into it.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Fun. I'm sorry I have to leave, but.
Speaker 1: No, So what we're going to do, if it's okay
Speaker 1: with you, Jim, is we're going to bring in our
Speaker 1: two contestants. We bring them in one at a time, okay,
Speaker 1: and we've given them each they have two essentially fake.
Speaker 2: Ad reads that they're going to have to do two
Speaker 2: radio spots.
Speaker 1: So they'll do one. One of them will come in
Speaker 1: do one radio spot, and then, if it's okay with you,
Speaker 1: we give them some notes, you know, give them a
Speaker 1: little bit of direction. Then they do it again, and
Speaker 1: then we bring in the other contestant. They do it.
Speaker 1: They'll do that for two rounds, and then the third
Speaker 1: round is a cold read. It is an ad that
Speaker 1: neither of them have seen yet, and we'll have to
Speaker 1: kind of do on the spot if for some reason
Speaker 1: we get to the point where we are saying, wow,
Speaker 1: they are too close to call who's gonna win. We
Speaker 1: go to the Christy Romano Tiebreaker Challenge, and we will
Speaker 1: not even tell you what it is this time. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun if we have to
Speaker 1: get there, but we will see. So we always take
Speaker 1: whichever contestant is here first, and our first contestant we
Speaker 1: are welcoming back who killed it in the first round.
Speaker 1: We are welcoming back Hannah from Alabama. So if we
Speaker 1: could bring Hannah Inabama, great, Hannahbama's coming in in Obama.
Speaker 3: We got to have cute now that there's only eight,
Speaker 3: we have to have like cute little like monikers for
Speaker 3: them or something.
Speaker 2: You know, Hannahbama works for me Obama. That's good marketing
Speaker 2: right there.
Speaker 1: We got to brand every contestant when they come on
Speaker 1: there she is he Hello, you are You're Hannahbama? Nowanna,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 6: I'm well, how are y'all?
Speaker 2: We're good?
Speaker 1: Welcome back, congratulations on making it once again to the
Speaker 1: Elite eight trademark. And I hope that you are ready
Speaker 1: for round two, which is titled Extra EXTRAE read all
Speaker 1: about it. So we are going to do straight ad
Speaker 1: reads this time sounds no games like last time. No
Speaker 1: picking numbers, no doing everything anything like that. We're just
Speaker 1: going to see your chops when it comes to your
Speaker 1: regular ad read stuff. I'd like to introduce you to
Speaker 1: one of the best and hardworking voiceover actors in the
Speaker 1: entire industry, jim Meskamon, who is our adjudicator for this
Speaker 1: episode and we'll be helping us out. He is the
Speaker 1: voice of the Colonel at KFC and eight trigillion other things.
Speaker 1: So this is big, big door prize. This is the
Speaker 1: best yea many things.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Ah's oh yeah, we didn't even get into that.
Speaker 2: We can get into that later.
Speaker 1: We're talking.
Speaker 2: You know, Apollo thirteen, he's been in everything.
Speaker 1: So Hannah right now, it is about Hannahbama right now.
Speaker 1: Uh so, Hannah, just very quickly, are you are you ready?
Speaker 1: Do you have you the two lines we sent you.
Speaker 1: I've got the two lines. I must I must comments
Speaker 1: on one thing. I'll see that hockey stick behind you.
Speaker 2: You do?
Speaker 1: I do? I play hockey too.
Speaker 2: So this is from hardred Whalers.
Speaker 1: This is an old school I'm back in my hometown, Connecticut,
Speaker 1: so this is the heart for whalers. That's so cool.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that we will you were here first, so,
Speaker 1: but we are going to say very a quick hello
Speaker 1: to our contestant number two. We're being back to you
Speaker 1: for round one. End line one, Hannahbama, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll see in a bit. And
Speaker 1: now we are going to be welcoming in and welcoming back.
Speaker 1: I should say, uh, Contestant number two, Christy, what should
Speaker 1: we call him? Dylan from Louisiana? What should we uh?
Speaker 3: Dylan? Oh gosh, he's from Layette.
Speaker 4: Right, Dylan laugh and Dylan yeah laughing, Dylan yet laughing,
Speaker 4: Dylan laughing.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: We will work on marketing that name a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Because that's that's a bad versions.
Speaker 2: Hey, Dylan, welcome back.
Speaker 7: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: He's got it. Yeah, he's got a moniker, Dylan Duck.
Speaker 2: Dylan's I love it. That's what we're using. You are,
Speaker 2: Dylan Duck. How are you? Dylan?
Speaker 7: I'm doing just fine. I'm I'm excited to be here.
Speaker 7: Got a little bit of the pre show jitters, but
Speaker 7: I'm ready to rock and roll.
Speaker 1: That's okay. The day you're no longer nervous is the
Speaker 1: day you've been in the industry too long. That's how
Speaker 1: I always look at it. So welcome back, Congratulations once
Speaker 1: again on making it to the Elite eight, and we're
Speaker 1: all about ad reads today. So as I was telling
Speaker 1: your other fellow contestant, there, you know, the games are done.
Speaker 1: The fun kind of picking numbers, all that's finished and
Speaker 1: we're just going to be seeing your chops when it
Speaker 1: comes to it can still be funst but seeing your
Speaker 1: chops when it comes to ad read. I'd like to
Speaker 1: introduce you to Jim Meskaman, who is one of the
Speaker 1: best voiceover people in the business. He has been the
Speaker 1: voice of a ton of different things on camera, you
Speaker 1: name it. This is the best judge we could possibly
Speaker 1: have asked for for round one and he's going to
Speaker 1: be helping us out today.
Speaker 2: So are you all set with your your lines dialogue?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I do, all right? Sounds good, Dylan. We are going
Speaker 2: to be back with you in just a second.
Speaker 1: You know, we take people as they come and contest
Speaker 1: and number one was first, So we will come back
Speaker 1: in just a minute to start round two, which we
Speaker 1: are calling extra Extra read all about it, So we'll
Speaker 1: see in.
Speaker 2: A bit in a minute, seeing a bit Dylan Duck
Speaker 2: All right, everybody were ready, Here we go.
Speaker 1: We're going to start with round one and we are
Speaker 1: going to be bringing Hannah back in. Hey, Hannah, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1: We are all super excited to see what you can do.
Speaker 1: And just remember, like a straight ad read, if you
Speaker 1: could read line one for us at your pleasure.
Speaker 6: All righty, we take twelve bounces of fresh lean beef,
Speaker 6: lay it over an open flame, then cover it with
Speaker 6: a blanket of cheddar cheese, bacon, and hallapangnos. Then we
Speaker 6: put it down for the night on a bed of
Speaker 6: hot and crispy French fries. Good Luck Falling Asleep, The
Speaker 6: new Nightmare Burger only from Burger Place, Sweet Dreams, The
Speaker 6: Nightmare Burger.
Speaker 2: I like it, Jim, do you have any notes you know?
Speaker 5: I think that was a lovely read. The thing about
Speaker 5: boys silver and all performance, in my opinion is, you know,
Speaker 5: it's an art form. There's no right or wrong, So
Speaker 5: I think the choices that you.
Speaker 2: Were made were good.
Speaker 5: I had not seen the script ahead of time, so
Speaker 5: it took me by surprise. I was trying to figure
Speaker 5: out a little bit more about the copy.
Speaker 2: I think the thing good Luck going to sleep, That's
Speaker 2: an odd way to try to sell your food.
Speaker 3: Then I realized, oh, yeah, this.
Speaker 1: This is all me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jim, probably sleep walk tonight or have a lot.
Speaker 1: Of acid reflex.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 5: You know, I would say from a professional viewpoint, which
Speaker 5: you will discover to your own displeasure, I'm sure, is
Speaker 5: that they would probably have you do that copy quite
Speaker 5: a bit quicker, right, sure, which I'm sure you could do.
Speaker 5: So the trick is always to put the nuanced and
Speaker 5: the feeling that you have when you're describing those things
Speaker 5: into a more compressed, condensed form. But for this the
Speaker 5: point of this contest, of course, the clock is not
Speaker 5: really running. So yeah, I think that was a lovely read.
Speaker 5: And I'd actually like to hear you. You are going
Speaker 5: to do it again, aren't you. Yeah, that's the way
Speaker 5: I'm familiar with the contest. But yeah, so I look
Speaker 5: forward to hearing it again.
Speaker 3: Jim, I would disagree to it. I would say that the
Speaker 3: clock is running. We do want to see her or
Speaker 3: be able to go into booth the second shoe wins
Speaker 3: right and work, So sixty seconds. If they're hiring you
Speaker 3: and they need you to do it faster or we
Speaker 3: need it, you know, what is it? Thirty second spot.
Speaker 3: Fifteen second spot? How does that work? Jim? Is it
Speaker 3: fifteen seconds sometimes?
Speaker 5: Thirty fifth, thirty sixty Yeah, and six six seconds as well.
Speaker 2: Wow its superest Instagram.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, I don kernel stuff that is just
Speaker 5: like I'm going to kind of put up there on.
Speaker 1: The sandwich.
Speaker 3: To be the if there was a tie breaker today,
Speaker 3: that might have to be what we did exactly.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 3: I think I think I think we should try to
Speaker 3: do it as as as quickly and as a speech
Speaker 3: speech friendly as possible. I think you misspoke a word.
Speaker 3: I heard place instead of palace, and.
Speaker 2: So yeahs Burger palace. Ah, it is.
Speaker 3: Just to make sure. Yeah, I think accuracy is definitely
Speaker 3: a part of this.
Speaker 1: Plus, if you're yeah, if you're going into sell you
Speaker 1: know a specific product, and you certainly in the audition
Speaker 1: don't want to mispronounce the name of the place that's
Speaker 1: selling the product. That is totally fair. So that was
Speaker 1: going to be one of my notes. I agree with
Speaker 1: with both of the other ones. I think a little
Speaker 1: quicker and I think I'd like to hear one. Sometimes
Speaker 1: people and sometimes this works and it was a great
Speaker 1: first take, I thought, But sometimes people when they are
Speaker 1: reading ad copy tend to put on an ad copy voice,
Speaker 1: you know, like we take six pounds and that can work,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times that's going to get you
Speaker 1: the gig. Sometimes people are gonna say, let me just
Speaker 1: hear it in your natural voice. So instead of kind
Speaker 1: of putting on ad read voice, which we have, we
Speaker 1: have that take.
Speaker 2: And I think that take was good.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's try the second take a little quicker and
Speaker 1: maybe just a little more of your natural voice, and
Speaker 1: see what that sounds like. Perfect, all right, and then
Speaker 1: so act your pleasure.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 6: We take twelve ounces of fresh lean beef, lay it
Speaker 6: over an open flame, then cover it with a blankket
Speaker 6: of cheddar cheese, bacon, and hallapang is. Then we put
Speaker 6: it down for the night on a bed of hot
Speaker 6: and crispy French fries. Good luck falling asleep the new
Speaker 6: Nightmare Burger only from Burger Palace. Sweet.
Speaker 2: I thought that was great, Thank you so much, Hannabama,
Speaker 2: will be right back with you.
Speaker 5: Ah lover a lot of personnelity know, I afraid to laugh,
Speaker 5: and it sounded her.
Speaker 2: That was great, right.
Speaker 1: I love loved the little the some of the ad
Speaker 1: libs that were in there, and and kind of the yeah,
Speaker 1: the laughing at the end.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a great second take. Agreed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, best of the best. Now I'm remembering why
Speaker 3: these people.
Speaker 2: Won, why they made it, because again it's yeah, the.
Speaker 3: Little direction they now they have a good microphone setup, like,
Speaker 3: oh boy, this is for really what.
Speaker 2: Do they win? I mean, do you actually get.
Speaker 1: The Jim Oh geez, Jim. So our winners get flown
Speaker 1: out to Los Angeles to have lunch with Christy and I.
Speaker 1: They win one thousand dollars, They win a session with
Speaker 1: uh Emmy Award winning director Sam Regal and Mary McGlynn
Speaker 1: from Critical Role, and they signed with CESD for a year.
Speaker 2: Get out of here. They signed with CESD for a year. Yep,
Speaker 2: so Ard agency to get it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is very legit. So we had a lot
Speaker 1: of people help us with this contest. So we're we're
Speaker 1: trying to find the best of the best, because they're
Speaker 1: signing with the best of the best. I think one
Speaker 1: of the rules was you can never have been signed
Speaker 1: by an agent before Jim, so I think seeing as
Speaker 1: you had kind of a career to this point, you
Speaker 1: might not be able to So it's.
Speaker 2: Not very Yeah, you're right, gracious, Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I love it. Butt man. Oh, we're going to find somebody.
Speaker 1: So if we can bring Dylan back in and see
Speaker 1: what Dylan can do with our Burger Palace spot. Hey Dylan, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's just jump right into it. See what your instincts are.
Speaker 1: Line number one, Please, at your pleasure.
Speaker 7: We take twelve ounces of fresh lean beef, lay it
Speaker 7: over open flame, then cover with a blanket of cheddar cheese, bacon,
Speaker 7: and halapenos. Then we put it down for the Nile
Speaker 7: on a bed of hot and crispy French fries. Good
Speaker 7: luck falling asleep The Nightmare Burger only from Burger Palace,
Speaker 7: Sweet Dreams.
Speaker 2: Jim Any notes, very nice.
Speaker 5: Well, again, this is a TV spot or radio spot.
Speaker 5: I think it'll probably you know, if you were hired
Speaker 5: for such a thing, you'd have to probably pick up
Speaker 5: the pace a little bit more while making it sound
Speaker 5: natural so to fit into the you know, the arbitrary
Speaker 5: designation of fifteen.
Speaker 2: Or thirty or whatever it happens to be.
Speaker 5: Plus they've got other effects and bumpers and legal and
Speaker 5: who knows what that has to also share the same space.
Speaker 5: So probably for the purposes of sounding like a commercial,
Speaker 5: which I don't know, may not, may not actually be
Speaker 5: what we're going for here, but you want to, you'll.
Speaker 2: Want to, you want to tighten it up a little bit.
Speaker 5: I'm guarantee that they would ask you to do that,
Speaker 5: because it seems to be a default kind of direction
Speaker 5: to could you do it a little faster.
Speaker 2: I've heard it for.
Speaker 5: The last thirty five years, and I don't think it's
Speaker 5: going to ever stop. So that's that's all I would say.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're finding what you're finding in it, and
Speaker 5: you know it's it's a script about burgers. The one
Speaker 5: thing I guess that you could take a look at it.
Speaker 5: And again, this is an art form. There's no right
Speaker 5: or wrong way, absolutely no right or wrong way right.
Speaker 5: It is your creation and your decision, and you may
Speaker 5: make you make.
Speaker 2: A great choice.
Speaker 5: Some other actor makes a great choice and they decide, well,
Speaker 5: let's go with this great choice. There's infinite variety, but
Speaker 5: you can always think about something in terms of like
Speaker 5: a story that has a beginning, the middle and an end,
Speaker 5: has a bit of an arc. There's a progress of
Speaker 5: the idea of what's happening.
Speaker 2: You know, first you do this, then you do this,
Speaker 2: and then you do this. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 5: It's just a sequence. There's no again, no right or
Speaker 5: wrong way to do it. But it's something to think of, well,
Speaker 5: what's the first part, what's the second bird, and how
Speaker 5: does it all wrap up? You know, as if it
Speaker 5: was a story, you know, or something like that, something
Speaker 5: to look at. If it helps, If it doesn't, I
Speaker 5: would jettison it. But that's just like a something I
Speaker 5: think of when I'm when I'm working with scripts and
Speaker 5: or when I'm directing.
Speaker 2: Gotcha, Christy.
Speaker 3: I definitely think pacing would have to be up at
Speaker 3: least fifty percent energy, maybe even eighty percent. But when
Speaker 3: I say energy, I think I'm like wanting to crave
Speaker 3: the burger. I maybe sounding less like the actor's approach
Speaker 3: that Jim knows how to take, and I may be
Speaker 3: sounding more like a client, but I definitely want to
Speaker 3: crave the burger more by using more of like language
Speaker 3: that almost feels a little bit more alluring about the
Speaker 3: you know, the product that you're selling.
Speaker 2: It's a nightmare burger, or you could.
Speaker 3: Do something different in that it is a nightmare burger
Speaker 3: and you could play with it being a scary burger
Speaker 3: because you have base in your voice. So what do
Speaker 3: you think, Jim about making bold choices like that, because
Speaker 3: we've seen bold choices done when we create animated characters
Speaker 3: in our last round.
Speaker 5: I'm in favorable choices because I think what cuts through.
Speaker 5: I mean, at the end of the day, clients, whether
Speaker 5: they know it or not, or can articulate it or not,
Speaker 5: what they want is something that cuts through and attracts
Speaker 5: our attention.
Speaker 2: So if it's the same sort of delivery, I just
Speaker 2: don't think it works.
Speaker 5: They may feel confident and more safe choosing that person,
Speaker 5: but you can wrap your head around a million different ways.
Speaker 5: I think it's always safe to be decisive in your
Speaker 5: choices and to just own it, you know, and not
Speaker 5: feel like you have to sound like every other freaking
Speaker 5: radio commercial you've ever heard in your life.
Speaker 3: Right, So definitely faster for me that we both concur
Speaker 3: But then in terms of making a bolder choice, I
Speaker 3: don't know. I leave it to Will.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think I have nothing to add
Speaker 1: to that? I think that's exactly right. I think because
Speaker 1: every we're kind of all saying the same thing definitely
Speaker 1: needs to be quicker. But that's easy. Then it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of how do you want to do it?
Speaker 1: And sometimes as exactly what Jim is saying, it's a
Speaker 1: strange business. Sometimes reading it exactly how you think it
Speaker 1: should be read will get you the job, and sometimes
Speaker 1: reading it a way that nobody else has thought about
Speaker 1: reading it is what gets you the job. It's a
Speaker 1: strange kind of world. So we have I would say
Speaker 1: we have one that way, and I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a bad read. Again, could have been a little faster,
Speaker 1: but I like kind of the sultry you get the
Speaker 1: kind of almost don't bother me. I'm eating kind of
Speaker 1: kind of aspect from it, like the Carl's Junior kind
Speaker 1: of thing, and that works. I mean, obviously it's works
Speaker 1: for many companies. But let's see if you take a
Speaker 1: different tact with it, what would happen. So for yeah,
Speaker 1: your next read, switch it up, do whatever you want
Speaker 1: and see what happens. I'm a fan off. You're going
Speaker 1: to hit the wall anyway, run into it full speed.
Speaker 1: That's how I look at it.
Speaker 2: So Dylan, yep, take two Dylan, at your pleasure.
Speaker 7: We take twelve ounces of fresh lean be We lay
Speaker 7: it over open flame. Then cover with a blanket of
Speaker 7: cheddar cheese, bacon, and halapennas, and then we put it
Speaker 7: down for the night on a bed of hot and
Speaker 7: crispy French fries. Good luck falling asleep, the new Nightmare
Speaker 7: Burger only from Burger Palace, Sweet Dreams.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. We'll be right back with this
Speaker 2: nice adjustment. That's fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 2: I thought it was fun too.
Speaker 1: Took a hard ride there, that was he did, which
Speaker 1: is kind of what we asked him to do. He
Speaker 1: did it on the spot. Now, Jim, we always kind
Speaker 1: of do this just just for our own edification, to
Speaker 1: keep it kind of straight in our head. Is there
Speaker 1: anybody for you that after the first round stands out
Speaker 1: that they're they're a bit ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I do agree that that Hannahbama had
Speaker 5: seemed to have a little more coloration, just a little
Speaker 5: more she'd made more choices, okay that I thought supported
Speaker 5: the the script. So just on that level, she's a
Speaker 5: little more confident. You know that that that shows because
Speaker 5: you know that second read she did had a lot
Speaker 5: of just nice special nuance and.
Speaker 2: And you know, again it's arbitrary. I I liked her
Speaker 2: read I liked what she did with it.
Speaker 5: I also liked the adjustment that that the other guy
Speaker 5: whose name escapes me, Dylan Dylan did. Of course, Dylan
Speaker 5: Dylan Duck Dylan made a really nice adjustment. Also would
Speaker 5: have gotten my attention if I was in my car
Speaker 5: driving along. It would have made me think about it
Speaker 5: a little bit.
Speaker 2: So they're just like, you know, they have their merits.
Speaker 2: They both well, let's move.
Speaker 3: To second let's move to the second round then, Like.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you, Frankly, nobody, nobody jumped out
Speaker 1: at me for you know, for the first round, I
Speaker 1: thought they both made good adjustments. I thought the reads
Speaker 1: were natural. I thought they both picked up the pace
Speaker 1: the second time. So yeah, I I think, uh, I
Speaker 1: think that's good. So yeah, let's go to let's go
Speaker 1: back to to Hanabama and and we'll see, uh what
Speaker 1: the line too brings us? Right, Hey, Hannah, Hello, hello,
Speaker 1: welcome back. We are moving to line number two. Sounds good?
Speaker 1: And uh yeah again, know anything yet, just jump in
Speaker 1: there and let's see what you do perfect at your pleasure.
Speaker 1: When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word
Speaker 1: comes to mind. Safety, Well, safety and reliability. Oh, and
Speaker 1: roomy with all of my kids, I need the space.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So one word safety reliability roomy, safety reliar roomy.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing?
Speaker 6: Well, it is with the new Calenv misted, the Calenv
Speaker 6: mist the most safety relyar roomy new SUV on the market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a thing now, cool, Jim.
Speaker 5: I have a little trouble with this one, just in
Speaker 5: terms of that word roomy, which ran together with the
Speaker 5: other words. The first time I heard it, I didn't
Speaker 5: understand the and then I caught on, Okay, it's roomy.
Speaker 2: And then what's the name of the vehicle? That'sn't made
Speaker 2: up vehicle name? Right? It is?
Speaker 1: Of course it's the kal missed. Yes, this is all
Speaker 1: my where we can't use real products, Jim. So my
Speaker 1: name's not even Will on this podcast, it's it's Rick,
Speaker 1: just in case.
Speaker 5: And you're in a secure location right somewhere, I am. So,
Speaker 5: what was the name of the car?
Speaker 2: Sorry? The CALLANV missed? Okay, Calendi missed. Okay. Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Got the mood very well, of you know, adding on
Speaker 5: all that and that sort of sequence. I did have
Speaker 5: trouble with just diction on those difficult words. First of all,
Speaker 5: the roomy, because roomy kind of ran together with oh yeah.
Speaker 5: I think he said something like on roomy, and then
Speaker 5: I didn't know what that meant. Because I didn't it
Speaker 5: didn't separate out enough. I think that since it's it
Speaker 5: becomes a big part of the script, the word roomy.
Speaker 2: So I think in the beginning, if I.
Speaker 5: Was the advertising walk who was direc I would say
Speaker 5: we need to billboard roomy a little bit more and say, oh,
Speaker 5: and roomy would be one solution, doesn't have to be
Speaker 5: the only solution. So because I the first big hunk
Speaker 5: of that line, I was like, what did I just hear?
Speaker 2: So I just didn't quite get that word as easy
Speaker 2: to fix.
Speaker 5: As far as the delivery and the mood and the style,
Speaker 5: I thought that terrific, great choice, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I think that the articulation will help sell it better.
Speaker 3: I think that we do it is interesting. I never
Speaker 3: thought about it this way. We dance this fine line
Speaker 3: of authenticity with our voices, but also with like this
Speaker 3: like strange sense of professionalism in the articulation of the words,
Speaker 3: which I think you've already kind of got the training
Speaker 3: in and I've got Did you have a theater background?
Speaker 3: Is that I forgot.
Speaker 6: Actually, no, I have more opera background than anything.
Speaker 3: So I think with opera from what I remember, I
Speaker 3: was training a little bit for that, and so much
Speaker 3: of you know, the way that you're positioning your mouth
Speaker 3: will get the sound out in a particular way, you know. Yes,
Speaker 3: so it's the same here, but I think with the
Speaker 3: with the points at which you choose to articulate, like
Speaker 3: those kinds of things, making it more sing songy, but
Speaker 3: also hitting those those consonants and those things. Right, I
Speaker 3: personally have had luck in anytime my booke dad reads
Speaker 3: you know, I think that helps personally. Sure, So if
Speaker 3: you want to try to feel that out a little
Speaker 3: bit more, I'll pick up wherever Jim was kind of
Speaker 3: mentioning that.
Speaker 1: So sounds good, all right, yeah, I would just I
Speaker 1: would agree. I would say the speed was good, but
Speaker 1: now enunciate the words and yeah, let's make sure you're
Speaker 1: bracketing the product. And other than that, I'd love to
Speaker 1: just see, you know, hear another take.
Speaker 6: Sure thing, So.
Speaker 2: Any time you would like to go at your pleasure.
Speaker 6: When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word
Speaker 6: comes to mind. Safety, well, safety and reliability, Oh and
Speaker 6: roomy with all of my kids. I need the space.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So one word safety reliability, roomy, safety relyar roomy. Is
Speaker 6: that a thing? Well, it is with the new calenv Mist,
Speaker 6: the calend misted the most safety relya roomy new suv.
Speaker 1: On the market.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a thing now.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. We'll be right back with you, Hannah.
Speaker 6: Thank you that see.
Speaker 1: I thought that that second take to me sounded like
Speaker 1: young mom wanting the vehicle. I could hear that in
Speaker 1: my I could hear that while driving in my car
Speaker 1: like I wouldn't. There are times where you do hear
Speaker 1: some ads in your car or on Instagram something like that,
Speaker 1: where you go ooh that was who voiced that that
Speaker 1: was really strange, where this one I thought sounded very natural.
Speaker 1: So that was I thought that second she really took
Speaker 1: the notes and really enunciated, And I thought that second
Speaker 1: take was great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very understandable.
Speaker 1: Christy.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think that we could have done a take
Speaker 3: three and she would have totally nailed it, because I
Speaker 3: think from what she was choosing to do with her pronunciation,
Speaker 3: I thought she nailed that part, but she lost a
Speaker 3: little bit of the relatability from the first one. But
Speaker 3: she didn't have as much fun. But I think that
Speaker 3: she's in the pocket, and I think she's a pro.
Speaker 3: I think she's a pro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she really is.
Speaker 1: She really seems like she knows what she's doing. Very natural.
Speaker 1: Let's bring Dylan back in and see what he does
Speaker 1: with the callan v mist the newest SUV on the market.
Speaker 2: Ellen, Hey, Dylan, how are you.
Speaker 7: I'm doing just fine. How are you?
Speaker 2: We're doing great? Thank you. We are moving on to
Speaker 2: line number two.
Speaker 1: All right, And you know we don't like to get
Speaker 1: in your head before we see what she can do,
Speaker 1: So go ahead and whatever you like at your pleasure.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 7: When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word
Speaker 7: comes to mind. Safety, well, safety and reliability.
Speaker 2: Oh and roomy.
Speaker 7: With all of my kids, I need the space. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so one word safety, reliability, roomy, safety, relyer roomy.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing?
Speaker 7: Well, it is with the new calendar missed the calend
Speaker 7: be missed, the most safety, relier, roomy new SUV on
Speaker 7: the market. Yeah it's a thing now.
Speaker 2: Nice, Yeah, very nice. Jim any notes, good diction, good,
Speaker 2: good performance. It occurred to me when you're reading this
Speaker 2: that this sounds like a.
Speaker 5: Script that would be more likely to be read by
Speaker 5: a female because of the kids reference.
Speaker 2: But that's not your fault, just an observation. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can't help it. I thought, Yeah, I actually liked
Speaker 2: all your choices.
Speaker 5: I think at the end there's a little missed opportunity
Speaker 5: with that last.
Speaker 2: Convey what is it safety and.
Speaker 5: The triumph for it of descriptors that last time you
Speaker 5: mentioned it, you might put a little you know something
Speaker 5: on it, just like here's that crazy word again, kind
Speaker 5: of the thought. But that's just a missed opportunity that
Speaker 5: you could easily repair in subsequent takes. But you had
Speaker 5: many other opportunities that you did not miss.
Speaker 2: I thought were great.
Speaker 5: You gave us a viewpoint and feeling and humor when
Speaker 5: it was appropriate, and yeah, I thought you did very well.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Christy.
Speaker 3: I think I think you did good personally. I think
Speaker 3: for this next take, I think we want to I
Speaker 3: think the pacing was really good. I think you definitely
Speaker 3: learned from the first round. But see, I think that
Speaker 3: if you're given something, especially on the contest, you have
Speaker 3: to make the most of it for the sake of
Speaker 3: you know, when you're in when you're in the audition space,
Speaker 3: you really can't. You just have to make it your
Speaker 3: own no matter what you're given. So I would think
Speaker 3: that if they were to have to, if you would
Speaker 3: have to make this work right and say that, you know,
Speaker 3: I have a lot of kids, they'd probably have babies
Speaker 3: crying and they'd have like, you know, stuff in the
Speaker 3: background for this to kind of be sold by your voice.
Speaker 3: So this would be like, you know, a modern dad
Speaker 3: that has a wife that goes to work, so you're
Speaker 3: stressed out, you're tired. I still think that even it's
Speaker 3: even though it's an ad reed, that you're still a character,
Speaker 3: right Like, I still think you have to approach it
Speaker 3: and read it within the world and make it believable.
Speaker 3: So if you're reading that he has kids, and he's
Speaker 3: got all these kids and they all got to fit
Speaker 3: into this car and oh my god, and you know,
Speaker 3: and you know that the pacing needs to be fast,
Speaker 3: and I think you do need to inject it with
Speaker 3: some emotion so that it really, like what Jim was saying,
Speaker 3: that it impinges upon the listener. And so yeah, that's
Speaker 3: my that's my two cents on that. So maybe maybe
Speaker 3: try to think about who this person is and the
Speaker 3: stresses of needing this car, and this car is the
Speaker 3: solution to all these kids.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 3: That's my two cents.
Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought it was good.
Speaker 2: I liked to read. I thought the pacing was good.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, bracket, the funny words, jazz hands, the
Speaker 1: funny words, if you can. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: thought it was good. And let's you know, give it
Speaker 1: another take and see what you can do with it.
Speaker 2: You got it at your pleasure.
Speaker 7: When I'm looking for a new vehicle, the only one
Speaker 7: word comes to mind safety, well, safety, hand reliability. Oh
Speaker 7: and roomy. With all my kids, I need the space. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so one word safety reliability, roomy, safety relia, roomy.
Speaker 1: Is that a thing?
Speaker 7: Well, it is with the well it is a new
Speaker 7: CALENBI missed the Calibi missed the most safety reliar, roomy
Speaker 7: new suv on the market. Yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 2: Now, Thank you so much. We'll be right back with you, Dylan.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: His first take was better. I think we got into
Speaker 1: his head too much. Yeah, I thought the first natural
Speaker 1: take was the better way to go. Frankly, I think
Speaker 1: he was a little too frantic on this second one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, But I thought his first take was great. Frankly, yep,
Speaker 1: I agree, all right.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I thought it was great though.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I think personally, I'm I think Hannah's
Speaker 3: acting it for me. Yeah, I think she feels I
Speaker 3: think they're both really good. Obviously they would have made
Speaker 3: it this far, but I do think that she's more
Speaker 3: comfortable in the room. It feels like, no.
Speaker 2: Did they. Yeah, I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: But I thought his first take was was the male
Speaker 1: version of her take. I thought, I thought was it
Speaker 1: was a very natural read. I thought I did. I
Speaker 1: thought his first take was a very natural read. And
Speaker 1: sometimes your first take is the best one because you're
Speaker 1: you're not in your head, you're not thinking about anything
Speaker 1: anyone said to you. You're just reading it how you
Speaker 1: hear it. And I thought it was it was natural.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I think I think you know so far, I would
Speaker 1: say she probably is the more natural of the two.
Speaker 1: That being said, I thought this set his second round
Speaker 1: was pretty close to her second round, I would say, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. I did. I thought, because again, it's difficult
Speaker 1: when you do, like Jim said, I mean, the copy
Speaker 1: does sort of lend itself to a female voice, so
Speaker 1: you might kind of hear that in your head a
Speaker 1: little bit going in. It sounds a little more like
Speaker 1: a mom read. So when there's a man doing it,
Speaker 1: it might not sound quite as natural. But I thought
Speaker 1: he made it sound natural, So I thought, I think
Speaker 1: that end time. And that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: happens is sometimes you go in and you read it
Speaker 1: for stuff that you're not right for, so you do
Speaker 1: it a completely different way because you're like, what the hell,
Speaker 1: this is a free swing. You know, there there was
Speaker 1: holding on the play, so I get a free play
Speaker 1: down the field and you just you take a shot.
Speaker 1: And I thought, frankly, it was pretty good. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: I think we're I think we're we're getting there, but
Speaker 1: we will bring Hannah back in for for line number three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jim question.
Speaker 5: So it seems to me, just contest wise, there's a
Speaker 5: little bit of an advantage of Hannah always starts.
Speaker 2: It seems like you'd want to stagger that a little bit.
Speaker 2: We can totally do that. We can.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that at all. We
Speaker 1: can easily bring bring Dylan back. Let's bring Dylan back.
Speaker 1: I got no problem with that. Hey, Dylan.
Speaker 2: Hey, so, as you know, we are going to jump
Speaker 2: into line number three now and we're switching up who's
Speaker 2: going first, who's going second, So we're bringing you right
Speaker 2: back in. And much like last round, this is going
Speaker 2: to be a cold reading. So the way that we
Speaker 2: gave you the third character last time out of nowhere
Speaker 2: the line of dialogue, we're going to do the same
Speaker 2: this time. And if you look at your chat, okay,
Speaker 2: you should be able to see it should pop up
Speaker 2: here any second.
Speaker 7: Yep, I can see it.
Speaker 1: You got it, and take on, don't you know, Take
Speaker 1: a little time, and then when you're ready, go ahead
Speaker 1: and give it a shot.
Speaker 7: Seriously, what Sarah, what would I do with all the money?
Speaker 7: I don't even know, vacation, quit my job, The sky's
Speaker 7: the limit. I just know I'm gonna keep playing the
Speaker 7: Freetonia State Lottery. You probably won't win, but what the hell,
Speaker 7: it's only a buck?
Speaker 2: Nice Jim, he got any notes?
Speaker 5: He probably won't win because you've been up all night
Speaker 5: because of that burger, because of the nightmare burger.
Speaker 3: And all those kids, so many burgers, and.
Speaker 7: So many and so many more Collenby mists.
Speaker 5: Exactly exactly, So I thought I lost the top and
Speaker 5: it may have been a glitch with the zoom. Frankly, seriously,
Speaker 5: what would I do with all the money? Sounded like
Speaker 5: what what to do with all the money? Or there
Speaker 5: was something missing in there a syllable And it may
Speaker 5: be technical, but I think I think it was a
Speaker 5: good read. Boy, you see copy like this all the time,
Speaker 5: and I can't say that I've ever or not lately
Speaker 5: booked anything like this.
Speaker 2: But again, I like to think.
Speaker 5: I think I mentioned to you this before that there's
Speaker 5: there's a sort of a cycle of like it's a sequence.
Speaker 2: So does it go somewhere? Does it keep building?
Speaker 5: And I would think on this one maybe as a
Speaker 5: choice artistically, you could build and get more excited as
Speaker 5: it goes along, so it's not all just one level
Speaker 5: that's all. Or find a dip in it somewhere if
Speaker 5: you like. Again, and now this is a cold read,
Speaker 5: so you didn't really plan ahead like that, but some
Speaker 5: things it's a good thing to do. It's an art,
Speaker 5: it's an art form. So but it made me laugh
Speaker 5: at the end, for sure, Christy.
Speaker 3: I have no notes. I think that I think I
Speaker 3: agree with what Chim said.
Speaker 1: Okay, I do too, I would say again cold reading.
Speaker 1: So I thought the first cold reading, for the first
Speaker 1: time you saw it, I thought it was great. I
Speaker 1: thought the energy was good, the pacing was good. I
Speaker 1: would say, now that you know what you're doing and
Speaker 1: you've read it, maybe just find a couple of peaks
Speaker 1: and valleys and you know, give us another another take
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 7: Seriously, what would I do with all the money? I
Speaker 7: don't even know, vacation, quit my job. The sky's the limit.
Speaker 7: I just know I'm gonna keep playing the Fredonia State Lottery.
Speaker 7: You probably won't win, but what the hell, it's only
Speaker 7: a buck.
Speaker 2: That was great. We will be right back with you. Thanks, Dylan,
Speaker 2: Thank you, good adjustment. That was a great adjustment. I
Speaker 2: thought he was natural.
Speaker 1: He's got that kind of frantic voice, which is exactly
Speaker 1: what those state lottery kind of voiceovers always seem to
Speaker 1: sound like. We've all read for that stuff.
Speaker 3: He has like a really good every band voice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1: And I think it's also on the It can be
Speaker 1: on the younger register or it can be deeper, and
Speaker 1: there's a nice kind of transition between the two, which
Speaker 1: is great.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: Let's bring Hannabama back and see what she can do
Speaker 1: with it. Hey Hannah, hello, Hello. So we are going
Speaker 1: to be going into round three, and round three is
Speaker 1: going to be just like like the last game we played,
Speaker 1: where you are now going to do a cold read perfect.
Speaker 1: So if you look up at your chat, we will
Speaker 1: be sending you a new piece of copy and we
Speaker 1: will go from there. We won't get in your head
Speaker 1: at all before you read it. Will give you some time,
Speaker 1: some time to read it, and then you can you
Speaker 1: can do.
Speaker 2: With it as you will.
Speaker 6: Curiously, we would I do with all the money I
Speaker 6: don't even know vacation, quit my job, and this guy's
Speaker 6: the limit. I just know I'm going to keep playing
Speaker 6: the free doona state lottery.
Speaker 1: You probably don't.
Speaker 6: Win, but what the hell, it's only a buck, Jim,
Speaker 6: it's good.
Speaker 5: I like the acting Fredonia, Free doona. That's a little
Speaker 5: thing to repair there. And you probably you said don't
Speaker 5: instead of won't to change the meaning a little bit.
Speaker 5: But you know, again, this is stuff that you It's
Speaker 5: a cold read, so a one hundred percent you probably
Speaker 5: you probably have not seen the famous movie Duck Soup
Speaker 5: with the Marx Brothers where the country of Fredonia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's yeahale hail free down. Yeah. I think
Speaker 2: that's what the gifted copywriter was.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very.
Speaker 2: Much, Thank you very much. What I liked.
Speaker 5: What I liked very much was that you did not
Speaker 5: cleave to uh, the the punctuation. You ran sentences together
Speaker 5: in a very natural way. You made you put seriously,
Speaker 5: what would I do with all the money in the
Speaker 5: one sentence, instead of giving it a big seriously and
Speaker 5: giving its own beat.
Speaker 2: I admire that. I think that's I like to do
Speaker 2: away with those, you know, if if it's appropriate.
Speaker 5: And I thought that you improved on the script by
Speaker 5: omitting those couple of places. So yeah, the only place
Speaker 5: where I felt sort of like bumpy was on that
Speaker 5: freaking name which is completely unimportant, but which is right
Speaker 5: so we can see it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Christy didn't have a bit of a lag spike there.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, yeah, well, I've seen us come
Speaker 3: up against is people. Not really the seriously like the
Speaker 3: exclamation what.
Speaker 1: Is that called.
Speaker 6: Exlamatory phrase?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just the yeah with the question mark towards the
Speaker 3: end of it, sort of what I do with all
Speaker 3: the money. I mean, I'm not I really don't want
Speaker 3: to line read, but I do think that it does
Speaker 3: seem like, because we talked about this being sort of
Speaker 3: almost like a build of excitement, that it seems like
Speaker 3: that would be like you're asking me, what would I
Speaker 3: do with all the money? Oh my god, I don't
Speaker 3: even know. So I do think that the you had
Speaker 3: a great natural flow to it that you still want
Speaker 3: to go with.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I don't think we talked with her about
Speaker 2: building it.
Speaker 3: We did not, but I think that we did. We
Speaker 3: did during the contest, so it's like, Hannah, no, you're fine,
Speaker 3: but Hannah, you know, like inter of it building. I
Speaker 3: think you could see that Juke had given a note.
Speaker 1: Before Yeah, sure, a shot.
Speaker 2: I thought it was good.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think now that you've seen it,
Speaker 1: maybe just hit some of the words that are there
Speaker 1: a little bit more, which they'd tell you just hey,
Speaker 1: can you clean it up a little bit. You'd get
Speaker 1: that a lot. That's a typical note, Hey can you
Speaker 1: just clean it up for us? But I thought the
Speaker 1: pacing was good and I thought the acting was good,
Speaker 1: and I think those are the two most important things.
Speaker 1: So just take another swing and see what happens. Alrighty
Speaker 1: go ahead anytime.
Speaker 6: Seriously, what would I do with all the money? I
Speaker 6: don't even know vacation, quit my job. The sky's the limit.
Speaker 6: I just know I'm going to keep playing the Freedona
Speaker 6: State Lottery. You probably won't win. What the hell, it's
Speaker 6: only a buck.
Speaker 2: I thought that was good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, again, the Fredonia is a note, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter. It's a fictional place. So I
Speaker 1: thought the I thought the reading was good, and we'll
Speaker 1: be right back with you.
Speaker 6: Thank you so so much.
Speaker 2: Okay, now we come to the big question.
Speaker 1: Has do we believe that somebody has clearly won or
Speaker 1: do we think we need to go to a tiebreaker challenge?
Speaker 2: Jim, I know you hate to judge. I'm sorry to
Speaker 2: put you on the spot. Oh I yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean it's so arbitrary.
Speaker 5: But they're very close in experience and in aptitude, it seems,
Speaker 5: and in you know, performance chops. So it's like female voice,
Speaker 5: male voice. I think they both have there's a place
Speaker 5: for both of them for sure in the industry.
Speaker 3: This is hard. And I was going to say her
Speaker 3: and then and then you had mentioned Jim maybe to
Speaker 3: put him first, and then I gave that an approach,
Speaker 3: a reapproach, and now I'm suck.
Speaker 2: No, I don't disagree. I think they both. And this
Speaker 2: is the thing that makes this so difficult.
Speaker 1: As we said from the beginning, the sixteen people that
Speaker 1: made it to the finals, could all be signed easily,
Speaker 1: all be signed by agents, could all work, could all
Speaker 1: have jobs, and I think will if they pursue it.
Speaker 1: I think they're especially with now after the pandemic, everything
Speaker 1: being remote.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be in LA, you don't have
Speaker 2: to do so. I easily see most.
Speaker 1: Of our contestants going on to have some sort of
Speaker 1: career in the voiceover industry.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, we set out to pick one. So the question
Speaker 2: to do it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So the question is I would not be I
Speaker 1: would not be upset, and I'm being totally honest. I
Speaker 1: would not be upset going to a tiebreaker challenge with
Speaker 1: these two because I think they're both deserving of it.
Speaker 1: Some of them made They both at different times, made
Speaker 1: really interesting choices. They both took direction, they're both have
Speaker 1: a nice pipes, they both can act. They're checking the
Speaker 1: boxes that we're looking for. It's it's such a cliche,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel like there's going to be a
Speaker 1: loser this week. There's just gonna be somebody who won.
Speaker 1: So I have no problem in going to a tiebreaker.
Speaker 1: Does anybody have a problem in going to a tiebreaker
Speaker 1: to see who goes first. We're just gonna flip a coin.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna say heads is going to be Hannah
Speaker 1: and tails is going to be Dylan. Okay, Heads is Hannah,
Speaker 1: Tails is Dylan Heads. So Hannah is going first. So
Speaker 1: let's bring Hannah back in and break the horrible news tour.
Speaker 1: Hey Hannah, Hello, Okay, So here's the thing. We're going
Speaker 1: to be totally honest. We're being honest with everybody going
Speaker 1: going down the pipe here. So you did amazing. Your
Speaker 1: your fellow contestant did amazing. So we are going to
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker challenge this pressure. So you will be getting
Speaker 1: another script in your chast all right, And I think
Speaker 1: you will recognize this as the wonderful, awful, terrible things
Speaker 1: you hear at the end of a you know, a medicine,
Speaker 1: you know, some kind of random pill.
Speaker 2: These are all the horrible side effects.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you none of us are
Speaker 1: going to tell you how to take this in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. Do not hear you have to match
Speaker 1: anything on television or anything you've heard. Do whatever you
Speaker 1: want with this. Just take it however you want to
Speaker 1: take it, and we will go from there. Everybody's going
Speaker 1: to read it once, okay, and we were just going
Speaker 1: to see what you do with it.
Speaker 6: May cause hives, rash, migrainhead, explore to vision, deafness, loss
Speaker 6: of taste or smell, memory loss, uncontrollable salvation, memory loss, flatulence,
Speaker 6: and death. Do not take if you are pregnant. No
Speaker 6: anyone who is pregnant or have even met a pregnant
Speaker 6: person necessitol. Tell your doctor you need it now.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Hannah. We'll be right back with you.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Memory loss is in there twice, Thank you very much.
Speaker 9: And now we will go and we will bring in Dylan. Hey,
Speaker 9: Dylan Hey.
Speaker 2: So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: We are letting everybody know if this has been a
Speaker 1: very tough week, and believe it or not, Round two
Speaker 1: is starting with a tie breaker challenge. So we've sent
Speaker 1: you another little piece of copy there, got itt me
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 2: And give yourself some time.
Speaker 1: I think you'll recognize it as kind of one of
Speaker 1: those medical reads at the end of the different pill ads.
Speaker 2: Do not feel that you have to read it that way.
Speaker 2: Read it any way. You choose to do whatever with
Speaker 2: it you want.
Speaker 7: Okay, may cause hives, rat may cause hives, rash, my grain, headaches,
Speaker 7: blurred vision, deafness, loss of taste and smell, memory and loss,
Speaker 7: uncontrollable salivation, memory and loss, flatch, onents and death. Do
Speaker 7: not take if you're pregnant, know anyone who is pregnant
Speaker 7: or have met or have ever met a pregnant person.
Speaker 7: That's that's it all. Tell your doctor you need it now.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. We'll be right back
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: So here's I'm gonna I'm going to clear a winner
Speaker 1: on that one. I agree, And here's why. To me,
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the read. It has to do with the time
Speaker 1: she took before she decided to jump into it. And
Speaker 1: I think that matters.
Speaker 3: I know she noticed that a couple of times with him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, And it's it's great that
Speaker 1: sometimes you just want to jump in. But she said, no,
Speaker 1: I need a moment. She took the time, she took
Speaker 1: her time with the copy, and because of that, it
Speaker 1: was a better read. And I think, frankly that matters.
Speaker 1: That's that's my two cents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't can't disagree with that. That was a
Speaker 2: better a better read.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's a shame because we only had two guys
Speaker 3: in this contest.
Speaker 2: I know, we only had two lessons and we are.
Speaker 3: Truly trying to be as fair as possible.
Speaker 2: The women have been killing it. I've just been killing it.
Speaker 2: It's interesting.
Speaker 4: So we started with an equal number, yeah, full number. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we did, and were really close to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty five hundred people.
Speaker 1: We narrowed it down. We tried to be as you know,
Speaker 1: completely unbiased as we could we and the women have
Speaker 1: just been slamming it, I mean, really doing well.
Speaker 2: So it's uh, it's a shame of losing another guy.
Speaker 2: But she she was great today.
Speaker 1: He was too, but that last round really decided it
Speaker 1: for me. So why don't we bring Dylan back in
Speaker 1: and break the horrible news to him? I hate this part,
Speaker 1: not me, not it.
Speaker 2: I'll do it. Thanks Christy.
Speaker 1: Hey Dylan, how are you?
Speaker 7: I'm doing just for that?
Speaker 2: How are you I'm good.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Look, we want to thank you so much. You
Speaker 1: have been doing so unbelievably well. It was really tough
Speaker 1: this week, it really was. Unfortunately, this is going to
Speaker 1: be as far as you're going in the contest, but
Speaker 1: you have done so. We've been talking about this and
Speaker 1: this is one of the things, as we were saying
Speaker 1: to Jim, is we truly believe and we're not just
Speaker 1: saying this. This is not lip service. We truly believe
Speaker 1: that the last the sixteen, the full sixteen, not even
Speaker 1: that you made it to the top eight, but the
Speaker 1: full sixteen could all be signed, certainly be signed by
Speaker 1: an agent, certainly work in the industry. So we definitely
Speaker 1: think that you you got to keep going very good.
Speaker 1: You made some great choices. Today again it went to
Speaker 1: a tiebreaker. It was that close. So Dylan, you've just
Speaker 1: been a wonderful contestant. Thank you so much, and please
Speaker 1: please keep going because you're really really good at this.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I will, and thank you very much for
Speaker 7: the opportunity.
Speaker 2: This has been a lot of funky. Nice to meet you, Dylan,
Speaker 2: meeting you as well.
Speaker 1: We will see you in the future in a booth. Dylan,
Speaker 1: I can guarantee you that's going to happen. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much, Thanks my friend, see you again, see you, Hie,
Speaker 1: Dylan better. Oh it sucks.
Speaker 2: I hate this so much, bummer.
Speaker 1: I'm just in my head every time I do this,
Speaker 1: I just think to myself, at the end, we're going
Speaker 1: to get to give somebody a chance to sign with
Speaker 1: ced CSD and start their career, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be so much fun.
Speaker 2: But the getting there sucks.
Speaker 1: I hate it. But let's bring.
Speaker 3: Hannah, and you're very good at it.
Speaker 1: And everyone has been so gracious that, like they're so awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we haven't had anyone cry yet.
Speaker 1: No, Oh god, I don't know what I would do.
Speaker 3: Hey, well, well I got your back. I'll do the
Speaker 3: next round of disappointments.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, that's fine, all right, I.
Speaker 3: Will and then I won't be able to sleep, but
Speaker 3: I'll call you exactly.
Speaker 2: I haven't slept since we started. Hi, Hannah, Hello, how
Speaker 2: are you?
Speaker 6: I'm good.
Speaker 2: So we told you this has been a very, very
Speaker 2: tough week.
Speaker 1: It came down to the tie breaker in the first
Speaker 1: round and this was a really, really difficult one for us,
Speaker 1: and we just wanted to thank you so much for
Speaker 1: taking the time and for coming out, and you've been
Speaker 1: so good, absolutely and so really just thank you, and
Speaker 1: I hope you don't mind moving on to the next
Speaker 1: because you are so uh yeah, yes, time I know
Speaker 1: you fall forward. It's the best I know.
Speaker 2: But no, this was I have a bone to pick
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be totally honest with you, Hannah. You
Speaker 1: did great this week, but so did your fellow contestant.
Speaker 1: And I'm just giving you a heads up, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to give a heads up to everybody moving on.
Speaker 1: The competition is getting a lot stiffer, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: So this was not a walk in the park for you.
Speaker 1: You did great, don't get me wrong. You did great,
Speaker 1: but so did your fellow contestant. This was really really
Speaker 1: difficult and we went to the tiebreaker, but you you
Speaker 1: did a wonderful job. You really did, and we're super
Speaker 1: proud of you. And you're the first one moving on
Speaker 1: to the to the final four. So totally not trademarks, no, no,
Speaker 1: not at all, exactly. No, this is you're doing a
Speaker 1: great job. So thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Take a breadma.
Speaker 1: We will get through round two and you will be
Speaker 1: onto the next round and going from there. So it's
Speaker 1: just going to keep the competition's getting getting tougher.
Speaker 3: Hannah Hannabama, Hannahbama the next round.
Speaker 1: To see you next time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: Oh man, did you see that she just cutted your
Speaker 3: chest before she signed off?
Speaker 2: She was like, that makes that makes it feel better,
Speaker 2: That makes it feel better.
Speaker 1: This is the worst.
Speaker 2: It's getting difficult because we also know. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 1: Jim. Thank you so much for joining us today. We're
Speaker 1: sorry that we didn't know we were putting you on
Speaker 1: the spot with all the judger.
Speaker 5: Oh no problem, I'll go back and I'm sure it's
Speaker 5: all over the initial email you sent me, but I.
Speaker 2: Apologize it. But but this is why we don't scare Jim.
Speaker 1: Before we go, can you let everybody out there know
Speaker 1: where they can find you, where they can follow your
Speaker 1: stuff in any new projects you have coming out.
Speaker 2: I followed you, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm well social media at Jim Pressions. I'm working
Speaker 5: on the new Live Impression show right now and on
Speaker 5: TV on Apple TV in the Big Door Prize which
Speaker 5: is streaming now and gosh, I guess that's and then
Speaker 5: Jim Meskaman dot Com if you really want to, really
Speaker 5: want to contact me and get on my.
Speaker 2: Mailing list and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I love that. While I was telling Christy beforehand how
Speaker 1: you were bringing in all that awesome Thundercat stuff before
Speaker 1: we actually even work together on ThunderCats.
Speaker 2: So cool. Yeah, that's right. I've done a couple of
Speaker 2: iterations of that show. I'm sure there'll be more.
Speaker 10: Oh god, I hope so, because it's such a such
Speaker 10: a rich world, you'd love we could talk about that day.
Speaker 2: Oh god, I appreciate that, Jim, it was so awesome. Well,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. You again, I
Speaker 2: know you you.
Speaker 1: We might have thrown a curveball at you, but we
Speaker 1: could not. When we were going into second round, they said,
Speaker 1: you know who to the judges do you want? And
Speaker 1: you were the first name I picked. Nice because you're
Speaker 1: just you're so good at this and I just I
Speaker 1: needed you to help us get into the second round.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for taking the time that,
Speaker 1: and everybody who's listening please go out there and follow
Speaker 1: because the man is a genie and you will be
Speaker 1: entertained for hours and hours and hours. It's really something
Speaker 1: to watch. So Jim, thank you so much for joining us,
Speaker 1: and we will see you again in the future.
Speaker 2: Very best. Take care of you both of you. Thanks
Speaker 2: great to meet you all right, like you too, Bye,
Speaker 2: jim By.
Speaker 1: We made it.
Speaker 3: We made it.
Speaker 1: We made it round. So we're into uh into round
Speaker 1: two here and Tanabama is our first one going through.
Speaker 1: And Dylan Dylan was great.
Speaker 3: You know, I remember Dylan's audition tape and I think
Speaker 3: we're doing a good job. I'm really here just to
Speaker 3: support us right now.
Speaker 1: Well now it's good, now it is. It's going to
Speaker 1: come down to nitpicky stuff. I mean that's why you know,
Speaker 1: I watch all these shows like Top Chefs I.
Speaker 3: Was going to say, like American Idol and souff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you get to the point where I'm
Speaker 1: always watching going like, oh, come on, how you can
Speaker 1: pick blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But you do, you get down to the tiny, little
Speaker 2: nitty gritty things where it's you know, well worried.
Speaker 3: I'm worried transparently about us having all these women, because
Speaker 3: then it becomes so nitpicky at them having similar voices,
Speaker 3: you know, when with what the way that we're doing
Speaker 3: this is so fair that it's almost like too fair.
Speaker 3: Whereas American Idol and those other shows, they're visual and
Speaker 3: so you see everyone all at once and you're like, okay,
Speaker 3: this is a baritone and this is a tenor, this
Speaker 3: is okay. I think this person to pair up with,
Speaker 3: you know whoever nicely as a mentor. So we are
Speaker 3: doing our best to find the person that's right for
Speaker 3: this moment. And I think he was a great judge.
Speaker 3: I think this was a great episode. Thank you guys
Speaker 3: so much for watching and listening and supporting us. We
Speaker 3: hope that you understand we're in it for the right reasons,
Speaker 3: you know, like we're really doing this.
Speaker 1: To we want to find that we do. We're trying
Speaker 1: to find the best person that we can. And but
Speaker 1: you're right, and I think that's you know, I don't
Speaker 1: mind being called out for certain things. I think the
Speaker 1: thing Jim said to us, where he's one hundred percent right,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, if one person's always starting, then that
Speaker 1: might be considered kind of an advantage, so we'll start
Speaker 1: switching it up.
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that at all.
Speaker 3: I think he was I want to think if that's true,
Speaker 3: I don't feel like that we've actually done that, But
Speaker 3: let us know. Maybe people should DM or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, but I don't have a problem switching it up.
Speaker 3: Some persons the first person.
Speaker 2: I don't know, no, but I think I think you're right.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think we've certainly always picked the
Speaker 1: first person, but maybe the person who does. Maybe there
Speaker 1: is an advantage to always going first. Who knows, So
Speaker 1: maybe we just switch it up in the future. I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem that maybe we do flip a
Speaker 1: coin every time if we're making everything super fair, because
Speaker 1: that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to be
Speaker 1: as fair and transparent as we possibly can, because all
Speaker 1: we're hoping that one day we're going to pick somebody
Speaker 1: that we work with.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're tub.
Speaker 4: We said, we're trying to pick a colleague. So we
Speaker 4: want more than just whoever it wins. You know, at
Speaker 4: any one of these people could be signed there.
Speaker 1: It's there is no reason that an agent or somebody
Speaker 1: listening to this episode wouldn't hear Dylan and the stuff
Speaker 1: that Dylan did and say, oh, I'll give that, I'll
Speaker 1: sign that person for a year. I mean, what the hell,
Speaker 1: I'll sign that person for a year. Definitely, it could
Speaker 1: totally happen. He was very good at what he did.
Speaker 1: Hannah was just she was a little better. And sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just the day. You know, you have a bad day.
Speaker 1: That can happen too.
Speaker 2: I have many a day where I just woke up
Speaker 2: and couldn't act.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 2: Just you have those days where you're just off, so
Speaker 2: you just you hope it doesn't happen on the day
Speaker 2: that you're recording. Yeah, but you never know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, thanks everybody for joining us on an awesome
Speaker 1: yet very tough episode of I Hear Voices. Thank you
Speaker 1: of course to jim Meskaman, who was our wonderful adjudicator.
Speaker 1: I love that the adjudicator.
Speaker 3: I'm not going back on it.
Speaker 1: I know, I think it's great. We're all in on
Speaker 1: Adjudicator for our episode today. Again, thanking all of our
Speaker 1: friends over there at Prime Video, everybody over at Critical
Speaker 1: Role check out season two of Vox Macina. You can
Speaker 1: download that now. Thank you for everybody, of course at
Speaker 1: iHeart who's helping us. All our producers are engineer Brian, everybody, Lorraine, everybody.
Speaker 2: Who's helped us out.
Speaker 1: It's just it's getting more sentimental and more amazing as
Speaker 1: we're getting closer and closer to crowning a winner. So
Speaker 1: thank you for everybody, of course who was joining us,
Speaker 1: and of course I said thank you cest who we
Speaker 1: mentioned ninety three times during this episode, because it is
Speaker 1: a huge prize. And once again, if you don't realize
Speaker 1: how big a prize it is, just look at the
Speaker 1: reaction of every actor we tell jim Meskamon today just
Speaker 1: went wait what Yeah, it's it is a huge thing
Speaker 1: and could possibly change somebody's life.
Speaker 2: So and thank you mostly to everybody who.
Speaker 1: Is stuck with us through the whole show, through all
Speaker 1: of our across the gardens, through everything we did, through
Speaker 1: all of our guests up to and including this contest
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: We love you all.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us, and we will
Speaker 1: be back again next week and moving on. So it's
Speaker 1: getting real. I miss you Christy, Oh, I miss you too.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's Ingles Rink in Connecticut. Ingles. It's
Speaker 3: I think it's a Yale stadium. But it's really cool looking.
Speaker 2: Okay, nice, Yeah, that was I think that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because the Whaler's played in Hartford, I got to miss
Speaker 1: the Whale, I do. They were a terrible hockey team,
Speaker 1: and then they went off to Carolina and they won
Speaker 1: like the Stanley Cup champion, like three years later or
Speaker 1: something like that. Everyone in Hartford was like, ah, I've
Speaker 1: got to be getting the giants. Yeah, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: Dave tippets Stick. Are you a Patriots fan? Are you
Speaker 1: I am a Patriots fan? Yah?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I mean as much as I'm I'm not
Speaker 2: a huge football fan, but I love them.
Speaker 3: And now that's everything's gone.
Speaker 1: I think most people do. It is what it is.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. Everybody will see you or
Speaker 1: hear you or everybody next time.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Out Nutmeger's out. Thank you, follow us, do all that
Speaker 1: good kind of stuff, and we will see you in
Speaker 1: the future. Don't forget if you think you have what
Speaker 1: it takes to step up to the microphone, put your
Speaker 1: voices where your mouth is.
Speaker 2: Thanks everybody I hear.
Speaker 10: Voices is hosted by Will Fredell and Christy Carlson Romano.
Speaker 10: Executive produced by Will Ferdill, Brendan Rooney, Amy Sugarman. Our
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