WEBVTT - Baked alaska 🔥 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:11.039 It's me, the gorgeous arts Simone. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:16.200 And if being gorgeous, talented, brilliant and showstopping wasn't enough, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:21.240 there's something else. I'm also incredible at being an investigator 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.280 kind of. I've been finding very average, every day looking 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.080 people who live remarkable lives. It might be their job, Bobby, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.559 or a dirty little secret that makes them interesting. But 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.760 whatever it is, I will find them and I will 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.320 uncover what they're concealing. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.360 This is concealed with me, art Simone. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:47.360 Let's meet a very average, everyday looking person, Rowl the type. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.479 I'm Jackie Presgratz. I live in Pacifica, California, which is 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.560 about five miles south of San Francisco on the coast, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.520 with my partner and my two daughters. I'm a vocalist 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.120 and cellist for a few rock and metal bands in 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:04.160 San Francisco. But I am concealing something interesting about my 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:04.880 day job. 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.959 Oh my god, how Jackie, how are you? 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:10.760 Hey? 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:11.520 I'm great? 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:11.960 How are you? 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:14.839 I'm doing very well. We are across the world, from 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.400 down Under to the United States. 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.320 What's it like over there? How's the weather? 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.160 It was beautiful yesterday but today is very foggy. Can 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.479 I live about a black and a half from the 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.760 coast from the ocean, so it's definitely I get a 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:30.600 lot of the ocean fog. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.319 Oh, okay. Do you like to go and dip your 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.119 toes in a bit of the water every now and then? 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.120 Definitely? The water is very cold here though. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.440 See I'm close to the water, but I just like 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.080 to look at it, you know. I'll walk past and 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:41.920 be like, that's nice. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.000 Good for you, that's nice over there. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:45.840 Yeah, that's really nice. I really like that. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:46.600 All right. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.920 Now you're in front of me. You've got a beautiful 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.400 gold chain on. I'm seeing some tats on those arms. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:51.000 Stunning. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:53.840 We're dressed in black, my favorite color, which is wee 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.960 because I'm dressed in pink. But anyway, some things behind you. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.880 I'll see a nice landscape painting thing of a bob. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.960 And is that you said you played electric cello? Is 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.560 that I do an electric cello on the roll? Or 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.480 is that just a cello. 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:11.519 There's an acoustic acoustic guitar, a banjo, and a bass ukulelely. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.440 Okay, or so does that mean you play a lot 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:14.880 of things? 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.320 Yeah. My husband and I both are musicians, so we 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.960 play all these instruments in the house. But my main instrument. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:26.280 Is cello, okay, and middle bands electric cello? 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:26.640 What? 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.480 Yeah? What? Electric cello? And boice? 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.840 Howd you get into, you know, a little middle band, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.200 be like, hey, I've got a cello. 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:34.160 Do you think this will work? 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.840 You know? Yeah, pretty much. My parents are classical and musicians, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.160 so I started playing in orchestras, and then when I 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.000 got into my twenties and I graduated college, I wanted 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.040 to just play music that was more the kind of 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:50.120 music I like to listen to. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:51.640 Okay, so why not? 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.240 So I'm going to ask you three questions, and from 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.680 the answers to those three questions, I have to try 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.880 and determine what it is you're. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.800 Concealing from me. Okay, are you ready? 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:05.400 Yes? 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.760 Okay, So first question I have for you is what 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.239 is one food you could eat for the rest of 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:11.760 your life? 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:13.959 Baked Alaska? 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.840 Baked Alaska Alaska? Well, is that like a that's a dessert, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:19.280 isn't it. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.960 Yes, it's a very hard to make dessert. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.240 Yeah, I don't know. I haven't had baked Alaska. Can 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.679 you describe it to me? What flavors are there? 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.320 You know? Is in nice sense? 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.920 So it's difficult to meet because it has ice cream 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.880 in it, but it also goes in the oven to 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.400 cook the marinue. Oh so it's a kind of complicated 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.920 dish that you can mess up very easily. 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.480 Okay, well that sounds beyond my limit. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.640 You know, I can only cook things with a microwave 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.960 and that just involves heating up a can. But you know, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.520 have you met successfully made a baked Alaska before? I 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.880 have not, But when other people are doing it, you're 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.080 into it all right, yep? 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:56.760 Okay. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.280 Question number two, what is a conspiracy theory that you 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.800 think is wild? 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.480 That we are all living in a simulation? 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.200 Okay? Now is that that you just hate? 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.360 That idea that people going, oh, we're all like having 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:12.760 a little nap at the moment, you. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:17.120 Know, I mean, it's not that far fetched, right, Okay, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.960 that's true. So it is a wild theory. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:21.720 Okay, yes, simulation. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.280 You know, sometimes I wish that could be true because 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:26.599 you're like, can we reset this again? 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:27.320 I want to go back. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.760 And the question number three and a half for you 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:34.760 is what is something you usually like to avoid. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.120 Swimming pools that don't have ladders? 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:48.640 Ah? Okay, I'm picking up some things. I'm picking up 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.480 some things. Lets me recap. Okay, baked Alaska hard to cook, Okay, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:05:00.640 then you know simulation sim sim hmm, sim serious and 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.880 then I'm getting swimming pools without ladders, which also brings 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.120 me back to one of my favorite pastimes in a 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.760 little game called The Sims, which is which you put 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.599 put bill and peel and take out the ladder and 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.120 see what happens, and then you're very musical. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:14.040 Okay. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.720 So I've previously guessed something on this podcast where I 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.599 thought I was meeting the creator of Simlish, and I 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.080 feel like I'm being pointed in the direction of something 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.080 in that realm. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.560 Okay, Now I don't know. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.080 I know, I don't want to guess that again, or 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.080 I want to say that actually I'm going to adjust 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.360 that and say do you. 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:39.599 I don't know. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.880 Do you compose and write like the music for the Sims? 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.880 Am I clothes your clothes? 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:52.760 But no, I am the voice director slash Craft lead 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.440 for a voice for the SIMS franchise, and I direct 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:58.960 the voice actor speaking Simlish and translate lyrics into Simlish 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.680 for licensed music plays in the game. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:06.560 Yeah, firstly, how did you track this bitch down? Oh? 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.200 My god, this is so cool. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:12.880 Surprise. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.479 Oh she is. She is the voice director of the SIMS. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.520 She knows all about Simlish. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:41.320 Well yeah, all right, so here with Jackie, who is 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.920 the voice director for the SIMS. Now, before we get 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.360 into it, if you don't know what the SIMS is, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.320 it is a game that has been going for many, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.440 many years where you know, you create, your sims are 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.440 your people. It's a simulation of the world. So you 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.919 can build a house, you can have a baby, you 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.320 can go to work, you can do everything in the SIMS. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.679 I'm very excited. I'm very excited. That's a full circle 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:01.240 moment for me. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.560 Okay, I feel like I manifested this, but by manifesting it, 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:05.320 I mean I said it. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.040 I need to ask them all things like this more often. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.880 I'm like, yeah, I really think this person is someone 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:11.960 who loves to give money to people. And then maybe 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.280 next season we to know. But the first question I 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.200 have for you is how did you get into it? 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.120 Yeah? So, actually being a musician is what got me 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.360 into it. I never really considered game audio as a career, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.760 and I did a lot of audio just in my 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.800 own music. So I started as a voice editor in 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.520 two thousand and six ish, so almost twenty years ago. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.480 And at that time it was SIMS two. So I 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.560 was I started as a voice editor on SIMS two. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.240 Wow, And could do you explain what a voice editor does? 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.040 Does that mean they just like collate the recordings and 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.720 you know, like clean them up and blah blah blah. 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.240 Yeah, So we basically take the files, lots of files 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.920 come out of a full day recording session, and we 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.000 clean up all the pops and the I don't know, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.040 mouth sounds, yes, and and it clicks pops mouthsounds and 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.200 sync them to the animations. Yeah, and then we put 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.800 them in the game. And you know, you play the 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.080 SIMS so you know, every time a sim does our thing, 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.080 they don't always say the same thing. Yes, if they 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.080 only had one voice file for every time they did 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.520 a thing, then it would start to sound very unnatural 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:20.320 and robotic. So we put lots of variations in. So 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.840 when they take a drink of water and they say, oh, refreshing, 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.239 they're not saying the exact same thing every single time. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.920 So let's talk about creating the sounds of the game. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.760 When does it start? Do you go, like, all right, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.120 So we need a whole bunch of new things. Let's 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.160 start listing up what they're going to be situations? Do 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.640 you map out and be like every single different option 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:44.000 that could happen and then be like, all right, we 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.040 need to make noises for all of these, Like how 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:46.679 does it work? 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.480 Pretty much? Or maybe the audio team is like ninety 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.320 percent driven by animations. When the sims move and when 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.440 the sims do things, and when the sims say things 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.840 that requires audio. So when animations come in, we scrub 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.120 animation and kind of break it down. Okay, we want 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.120 them to say something here, we want them to see 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.000 something here. We want a sound of a can being 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:10.240 crunched on this frame. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.319 Oh yeah, because it's not just voices, it's like all 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:13.360 the sounds, right. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.200 Yeah, it's all the sounds, so clapping hands or you know, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.199 rubbing their face or whatever it may be. And then 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.800 we have a list, a long list of you know, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.480 every sound that's needed for every animation for the game. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.720 And then I have a cast, a cast of like 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.360 ten people, so if something needs voice, you have to 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.800 record it with every single actor. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.680 So let's talk about Simblish, which is one of my 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:37.959 favorite silly things. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:38.280 Ever. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.640 It's as whole entire language. Obviously that started like right 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.360 at the beginning, is there like someone that we go, oh, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.080 the creator of Simlish? Is this person or do we 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.160 you know who sat down and went all right, this 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:53.160 yes means this and that means that? And how much 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.920 do you have to honor moving forward when you're like 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.440 creating new sounds for mute games, you know? 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.520 Right? So, so I didn't create Simlish, but I know 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.280 that it was originally kind of workshopped with the original 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.839 actors and audio people for SIMS one. And I think 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:16.440 the desire originally, which is still relevant today, is to 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:21.679 be able to have the Sims convey emotion and feelings 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.520 but without actually speaking words. And as every game has 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.559 come about, I think the language evolves a little bit. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.280 So at first it sounded very you know, gotga Google 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.440 almost in a way. But now if you don't speak English, say, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:42.320 and you're listening to a SIMS game, you might think, oh, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.079 this game is in English, Like it sounds like a language. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.600 It's more complex, The words have more syllables, there's more 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.960 repetition of words, phrases that are identifiable. Those kinds of 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.080 things can make the language evolve and just sound more 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.520 like a language and less like you know. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:00.480 Goco goo. 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.480 Does that mean that there kind of is a similarsh 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.240 word for everything now at this stage or do some 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.680 of the actors still just like improvise some noises. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.680 Yeah, I'd say about eighty percent of the time. The 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.080 actors are improving, but they are looking at we have 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.960 these extensive lists of like upwards of five hundred words 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.480 that are just similish words, and they're listed out on 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.320 a page and there's like, you know, ten pages of 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.800 these words, and the actors look at that, but they 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.360 use those words to improv and then I'd say maybe 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.839 the other twenty percent is scripted similish. So those are 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.440 words we call them lexicon. It's not always one to one. 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.800 Sometimes it is like love. The similish word for love 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.280 is love, and we try to use that word. Anytime 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:49.480 they're talking about love or heart or flirting or anything 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.720 like that, we'll try to use that word. So there's 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.400 like twenty percent i'd say, of what the sim say 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.080 in the game is actually scripted words where we have 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.400 the idea of what the meaning is. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.480 How do you cost a voice actor to be as seme? 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.280 You know, what's the process you go through to be like, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:06.880 all right, can you just get on the phone love? 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.640 And you know it spitball some sounds, you know. Do 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.280 you give them an emotion and they have to improvise 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.840 you say yeah, happy, you know? 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:13.920 Or how's it got? 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.760 Pretty much we do open calls and we get a 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.800 lot of different types of interpretations of what gibberish is. 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.480 But the actors that we cast, like we've always had 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.840 them in for a directed audition and it's exactly like 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.679 what you said, to see how they can improv to 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:37.079 see how much emotion they can put into their words 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.320 so that it sounds like they're actually saying a thing, 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.800 but it's not. There's no actual definition of what they're saying. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.720 And some actors are great at it, and some actors 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.599 are not great at it because you're you're doing a 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.720 lot of things. You're watching the animation, so you're having 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.440 to do timing, you're having to sound natural, you're having 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.680 to make up the words, you're having to have emotion. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.520 So they're they're they're juggling a lot of balls at 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.760 one time. And you know, the act that really pick 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:04.199 up on it, they're just they're naturally good at improving how. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.360 Long do you think a recording session with one actor 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:06.720 would be. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.840 Yeah, we usually have two actors in at a time 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.480 because they have more fun working together and they can 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:15.960 riff off each other. If someone says a funny word 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.880 that the other actor can like say that same funny word. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.040 It just kind of keeps the keeps the fun energy 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.320 up in session. So we have two actors in at 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.400 a time, and we can get through about sixty animations 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.720 in a six hour session. Okay, and then you know 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.800 we'll have like anywhere from one to three days with 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.600 each actor to record all the boys. 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.440 Do you have to start from absolute scratch for a 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.520 new game or can you bring back some sounds and 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:46.920 things from previous versions? 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:53.199 Sounds, yes, Voice no, because voice we recast, so SIMS 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.800 three had a totally different cast than SIMS wore, So 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.319 we can't use any of the actors from that previous game. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.679 And so for you, once you make your sim and 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.920 cass and create a sim and you choose a voice, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.280 and you maybe choose what pitch you want to hear 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.440 that voice, that is the voice that your sim has 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.719 for forever. More So, we can't just you know, use 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.080 other people's or older content from past games. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.440 So out of the formal language, what are some common 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.320 words or phrases that people would hear that sims say 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.800 but might not understand what they mean. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:30.320 Well, we have a really dedicated and fun audience that 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.720 plays the game, so they would probably know a lot 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.640 of the lexicon words that get repeated a lot, So 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.440 like sooolsool and dag dag are common words for like 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.880 hello and goodbye. Love I mentioned is something used for love? 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:47.280 Yaller vu? Is I love you? Yabougaroo? Is I'm hungry? 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:48.640 I just love it? 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.120 What would it seems say when they're angry? Like what 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:53.160 type of words come out of their mouth when they're 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.920 angry or that you know, there's. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.960 A couple of words that are like cuss words. But 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.720 recently in session, we have a couple actors that really 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.400 like to say f yoiber, which kind of sounds like you're, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.280 you know, telling someone to f off in a way, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.000 but it's like a few but you know, and they 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.640 say it with like passion and meaning and anger, and 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.560 it really does sound like they're cussing you up. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.920 I feel like in a recording session your brain would 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.960 turn to mush by the end because you wouldn't know 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.360 what you're saying or what you're speaking, or what language 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.760 is happening, you know, and be like I now, who 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:25.040 am I? 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:26.040 What's going on? 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.640 I think the actors probably can get especially if we 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.160 have a lot of sessions in a row, they probably 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.400 start dreaming and Simlish and maybe even the voice editors 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.320 because they're like listening to it so much. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.040 There's been songs translated into Simlish and been featured in 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:44.880 SIMS games. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:46.520 How does that process work? 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.920 Oh? Yeah, So the development team works with the Worldwide 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.840 Music Group from EA. They're the group that basically does 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.360 all the licensing, and we'll give them themes of like 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.600 what we're trying to go or for a specific pack, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.120 like oh, we want to add a country music station, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.720 and they'll go out and try to find, you know, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.720 up and coming artists that we think are like on 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:15.720 the verge of getting really big. And when those licenses 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.560 get put in place, the music group hands me a 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.880 bunch of English lyrics and sometimes not even in English, 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.920 which those translations are really hard, but I'll get English 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.880 lyrics and the music, and I listened to the song 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.400 over and over again in English, and then I just 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.680 set about getting to work and translating it and similish 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.320 so that the original artist can re record the vocals 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.120 in Simlish. And a lot of times they're singing in 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.440 a language they've never spoken before. So it's my job 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.400 to make sure that the lyrics are as close to 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.840 the English as possible in terms of any kind of 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.880 lyrical strategies they may have used, like if they use 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.720 a lot of alliteration, like sell seashells by the seashore, right, 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.440 I have to make sure that I am writing Simlish 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.960 words that all start with the letter S and s 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.920 h so that when the vocalist gets it then it's 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:13.359 not so foreign. And also it kind of captures the 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.760 same vibe that the English lyrics have. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:18.480 It's that thing with some of the current you're like, 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.320 if you're not paying attention, sounds exactly the same, it's like, 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:23.879 and then you're like, wait a second, what are the 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.119 it's just in English? 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:25.840 What's going on? 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.879 So you're saying, you sit there and you can like 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.879 translate it a lot and make it up. Does that 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.439 mean are there's some like words that you can credit 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.280 to you? Like you said, I made that up? You 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:36.800 know that's mine, that's my word. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.119 There's so many. I mean I have the sheet of 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.960 like five hundred words of Lexicon words, and of that sheet, 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.919 i'd say seventy five percent I probably wrote. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.439 I'm really is there a word you're really proud of? 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.760 You know, like, let's a word I'm really proud of. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.879 Well, let's see hoogaroo I did make up, which was 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:59.080 the I'm hungry. The word for cow is mule, which 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.280 we kind of based after, you know the fact that 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.200 cows moo. Chicken. The word for chicken is cluxing. Baby 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.359 chick is cheap, cheap. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.399 It's like it's kind of giving me like Pokemon vibes, 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.360 you know, where they're like naming Pokemon and they're like 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.720 the snake one they just saw it snake backwards. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.760 I mean, it's got to be catchy. I mean that's 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.320 that's that's my whole thing, Like, it's got to be catchy, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:24.199 especially when you're doing the lyrics. Yeah, it still has 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.200 to have a hook, even though it's not in English, it's. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.040 Gonna have flow, right. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:29.639 You know, if the words are too hard to like 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.159 get your mouth around, then you know they just you 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.879 can't have a conversation. Yeah, you'd be like do b 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.840 doo dah doo do but doo see that's that's great. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:39.879 Say did I say anything? Did I accidentainly say anything? 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:40.840 I know. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.720 Maybe it seems one who said something, But. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.480 I wonder do you ever like hang out with some 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.560 babies and go, oh, actually they're like speaking in full 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.600 Simlish at the moment, I should I should hire them. 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:58.320 I sometimes hear things out in the world, or my 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.640 daughter will see something, or a baby will see something. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:02.520 I'm like, that'd be really good. So much work. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.399 Write that down, get the nopad get thenpad. That's going 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.600 to be good. SIMS five were working on that. All right, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.399 let's add some words in Oh my God. Instead of 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.399 like the urban dictionary, there's like the Simless dictionary. Do 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.879 you deal much with like the fandom? What's the fandom 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:16.480 of the sims? 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:16.679 Like? 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.760 Do they make their own dictionaries with all the words 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:20.800 and translations and things? 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.440 Do you sometimes flick through and be like wrong? Wrong? 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.159 Actually doesn't mean that I don't really flick. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.960