April 3, 2023 • 53 mins
Will and Christie welcome David Sobolov as guest judge!
And while David has tons of experience voice acting in some monster projects…nothing could have truly prepared him for what he was about to witness.
It’s a battle to the final word as our two latest contestants go head to head in round four of “The Super Awesome Contest to Become the Next Big Voice Actor!”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi Christy, Oh, hi Will, how are you? I'm doing
pretty good. You know. Last week was crazy with Cree Summer.
Last week was crazy with Cree Summer, and the whole
contest itself has just been so fun and so nuts,
and every week I'm more and more positive that we
are going to find somebody that's going to be able
to step into the booth day one and take a
(00:21):
job from one of us. Yeah, exactly, and put one
of us out of work, because what a self listening
for us to do. I'm a voice actor that's going
to take our jobs. No, it's no, it's incredible, and
it's just it's the contest itself is going so well
and moving right along. And so I was at a
convention this last weekend and so many people came up
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to me and said that they're either entered the contest,
or are listening to the contest, or are following what's
going on with I hear voices. We just have fans everywhere,
and they're very loyal and it's really really cool. So yeah,
I'm super excited to hear all these people coming up
and kind of saying like, oh, I here's what I
did in my entry or here's man, here's what I
should have done. I was so expecting to do more.
(01:05):
I got a lot of that. I got a lot
of I didn't go full out. I should have gone
full out. Um. So there was a lot of feedback
though about the contest, and people are really liking it. Oh,
I'd love to hear that. You know, cons are a
big reason why the podcast even started. And I think
it was that excitement and that passion for the community
that really brought us together Will and I to be like,
(01:27):
what do we do to service these people? You know
on the days that there's tought of con happening. Um,
I don't know. That's really I can't wait for my
next con, you know, for us to be able to
chat with people about their you know, their auditions. And
I'm sure there were some people who were really bummed,
but um, you know, it's a competit it's competitive, but
this is a really competitive thing. So and last week
(01:48):
we were i mean until until like round three. Yeah,
we were on the fence. I mean they were, they
were going back and forth, duking it out. It was
so good. It was crazy, Like three week create a
run for her money, you know, with her first she's
not really on podcast much, Chel thinking like, you know,
she's just on TikTok now, and it's yeah, she did
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a great job. But we're we're super excited. We have
two new guests coming in today. We are of course
talking about these super awesome contests to become the next
big voice actor. And once again, as we like to
every week, give shout out to everybody who just helped
make this possible for us. Of course, our friends over
at Prime Video, our friends at Critical Role. Go check
(02:31):
out season two of the Legend of Vox Machina as
you can stream that now. I again, I say this
every week, it's an amazing show, and I also say
every week that it's not just amazing because I'm on it,
but let's be honest, it makes it that much better.
And of course all of our friends at iHeart who
really helped to make this entire thing happen for us.
They've really been had our backs the entire time and said, yes,
(02:52):
let's go do your contest, and of course my awesome
agents at CESD, because that is one of the prizes,
is getting to sign with the wonderful people over at
yes D and winning the possibility of a career. I
always said not, it's not your big break, and then
Christy was like, it is your big breaks and break.
She was right. Of course, she's right. She's always right.
I have to Christie more and more. That is just like,
(03:15):
listen to Christie. It's just I can I get that
on a voicemail? Well, we're both recording, so you've got it.
That's high you reach Christy Carlson Romano. She's unable to
take your call right now, but leave a number she
gets back to you. By the way, Christie's always right.
I thought it was just juicy thank you. I will
(03:36):
be your new outgoing voice message. I hope that's okay.
It is. I'm excited about our guest. I was going
to say, we've got an awesome guest who was a
very close friend of mine and one of the best
in the biz. He is a voice like no other.
Is the only way to talk about this? Oh man,
not enough bows in smooth and that deep barre tone
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with that amazing laugh talent to burn h he has
been well, tell Christy, can you walk us through just
a little bit of what he's done? Absolutely so our
guest today, Can I say the name first? Let's say,
let's say he's done first and then and then let's
do that. So he's best known as Gorilla Grod on
the CW Network drama The Flash. He's in Beast Wars,
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Transformers as Depth Charge, He's Drags the Destroyer, and various
Marvel things. He shock waves as well. I said that wrong,
shock Wave and Transformers. You can tell us not a
Transformers fan, as a Transformer to do it. He's blitzwing
and bumble beeing. Were you and there? Now? My gosh. Yeah,
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obviously he's known for his deep growling voice. But like
I mean, he's doing so many things, and he's in
Dungeons and Dragons, on her among Thieves, he's a voice
in that. He's obviously the voice of Grod in The
Final Flash a season and yeah, I mean he just
completed Transformers, Rise of the Beast. The man is booked
and busy. It's David sobelof, yes it is. Let's bring
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in David. Hello, Hey, thank you so much for doing this,
my friend. You're welcome, thanks for asking. This is very
very cool. So we're going to give you a little
a little crash course on what's happening today. Yeah, I
listened to Rob Bolson's episode, did you so for the contest? Yes, okay, good.
(05:23):
So you are our guest judge for today, and you
are going to be helping us pick the character and
then giving notes as we bring in our guests. And
you know, the winner wins a career, they get to
sign with CESD and they're flown out to la and
that you worked that out with Paul. That's right, we're
CESD people. So uh yeah, they were very excited. So
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it's it's totally cool, but we're really excited to have
you so excited. I haven't seen you in a long time. David.
The convention, I think, yeah, where was it in Atlanta
in twenty eighteen? I think? Yes? Wait, no, did we
go to Australia together? Did we? Oh? Maybe we did? Yeah,
(06:06):
maybe maybe I saw you over there. I was pregnant.
I think I was pregnant and I had a little
child running with round with me, which was which was
a lot but a fun cone. Is it true that
if you're pregnant in Australia you give birth going the
opposite direction anyway? No, if you give birth in Australia,
you just keep it in your in your pouch in
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your little Joey pouch. People over there, well, I want
to thank you so much for joining us. Today. We
have two incredible contestants coming in. We're gonna have Mike
from Florida and Tatiana from California that are again we
got over four thousand entries for this contest and we
whittled it down very painstakingly to the top sixteen. And
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this is round round number four. It's around four already
of the super awesome contest of picking the Elite eight.
So we're very very happy. We're going to be going
playing our game. Everybody out there who is just joining
us for the first time. The first game we play
for this round is a game called by the Numbers
and what are we going? What are we gonna be
doing is we have four different categories size, what are
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you age? And a wacky attribute. And our guest judge today,
David Sobelov, will of course be picking random numbers. When
he picks the random numbers, that will generate the character
that will then be given to our guests. Now, the
guests have been given two lines of dialogue that they
actually have had a couple of days or a day,
a day and a half to kind of practice with,
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and then they are given a surprise line at the
end that they have not had a chance to see
to see how they are on their feet with a
cold read. So, David, what we'd like to do is
we'll bring them in. We bring them in one at
a time, We talk about him a little bit, what
got him into the business, and then we jump into
our game. And when we do, we'll have them read
it once and then see if any of us have
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any notes for them, they're read it again, and then
we'll do that until the very end when we pick
a winner together who will have then go on to
fame and riches in the wonderful world. The voice over,
so if everybody is ready, and does anybody have any questions?
All right, here we go. Can we please start? I
believe we just take people as they come, first come,
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first serve. And the first person that jumped today was
Mike from Florida. Am I correct? Yeah? All right? Hi,
Hey Mike, how are you? I'm a real boy? Hi,
already right into it. I love to hear this go.
Let's go. I am Will and this is Christy and
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our special guest today is the amazing David Sobolov, who's
going to be helping us pick who moves on to
the next round. Mike, I mean, this is such an
honor to be here. My goodness. Well, congratulations on making
it to the top sixteen. No matter what happens today,
this was a huge accomplishment. You should be really, really
proud of yourself. I am so I'm just happy to
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be here that yeah. I mean, we're we're lucky to
have found you, you know, I mean, thank you for
giving us a great audition, and we're we're excited to
kind of throw some things your way today and see
how see how you react. I guess through the paces. Mike,
we're going to put you into paces now, just very briefly,
what led you to the world of vo What made
(09:22):
you want to be a voice over actor? Well, I
have been performing my entire life. I have been performing
since I was a little kid, and I've been acting
and singing and doing all that kind of stuff. But
I've always loved cartoons and things like that. I just
never quite knew how to get into it. In fact,
a lot of my friends are in the vo business
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as well, and I just I don't know, man, I
just get really weirded out about asking like how do
I do that? You know, like so so yeah, I
it's something so you think you think the easier route
is just winning a national contest. That's what it's like,
you know, of all the routes that I should take,
I should should listen to vo podcast and cross my
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fingers that there's a contest. I mean, you're not wrong
so wrong so far? And do you have your you
have your two lines? Sure do? All right, Mike, thank
you so much. We're gonna be getting back with you.
We're going to go meet your fellow contestant for the
day and we'll come back and start round one of
by the numbers. All right, thank you, thank you so much.
Well he jumped right into I gotta respect that definitely.
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And we're now going to bring in contestant number two,
who is Tatiana from California with that name. Hello, Hi, good,
how are you. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you
so much for having thank you for coming, and congratulations
on making the top sixteen. Thank you very much. So
we were just saying, you know, kind of talking to
your fellow contestant and of figuring out, you know, making
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sure that everybody has what they need to get started.
You have your lines and all that good kind of
stuff ready, Yes, and just very quickly, first of all,
I'm Will. That's Christy, and please meet David Sobelov, who
is going to be our guest judge for the day
and helping us decide who moves on. But what drew
you to the world of vo Why do you want
to be a voiceover actor? I've always really love storytelling,
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and I love how voicing a character can really add
like a different dimension to it, and it can really
translate it well from between two people and really allow
a more true sharing of the emotions and everything that
you want to convey. And I just love how it feels.
I love how it makes other people feel. It's a
great answer. I couldn't beautifully improve on that answer in
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any way, shape or form. That's wonderful. That's beautiful. So
thank you so much. We take the contestants in the
order that they arrived. So we're going to put you
in the waiting room right now and do round number
one of buy the numbers, and we will be back
to you very quickly. Sounds a bit thank you. Well,
that was exciting. They seem really they seem really great.
They're really good to go. They both just meet your reaction.
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Nice pipes right off the bat and really good microphone setups.
What do you think, David, m that's so crucial. I
don't think people realize they're for starting out. You're being
auditioned for your booth and your sound as well as
your performance. Interest. Now we haven't heard that before, and
that's I haven't heard either, But that's true if you
got the right setup, and you're going to have a
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leg up already. So that's uh yeah, all right, let
us start and bring in Mike from Florida. Here we go. Oh,
I'm excited. I am excited to get into this one.
(12:41):
All right, Mike. So, as you know, we're going to
be playing by the numbers. And by the numbers we
have four different categories, size, what are you age? And
a wacky attribute by our guest, David Sobolov. Picking the numbers,
he is going to create the character with which you
are going to be reading your first line of diet.
So David, if you would for me, sir, could you
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please give me a number between one and six A four?
Could you give me a number between one and twelve
about ten, could you please give me number one to
seven three and finally a number one to eleven seven.
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Christie got it. I'm getting better at this too because
of the way that we've listed it. You are going
to be like a small robot that's ten years old
who is hypothermic. A small ten year old hypothermic robot.
And if you can take line one please and at
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your pleasure, can I get oh whoo whoop seriously, like
I need a whoop whoop immediately, like it's an emergence rubble. Oh,
that's pretty good. I like a little robot. And there, David,
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you have any notes? Um? That ending was just a
huge for me. I really love that ending. UM aged
him up a little bit years old, right, he's a
little young for ten okay, you know, and maybe just
a little more energy and it's going to be great.
Don't lose that end of those? Yeah? Can I get
a little something like that? Something? Yeah? I mean, I
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I groll, Christy, do you have any would you No? No? Absolutely?
I think that he I think David's right. I think um,
I think that sounded about eight, whereas I think with
ten um, I think it's a little more, a little
more grit a little more you know, a little more
of the grittiness to the prepubessence of it. So there's
just a little bit of that rawness to the voice.
(14:47):
And then I think we always try to interpret these
directions with our or what is it contestants, right, and
we want to make sure that you guys are nailing
every direction. So one of the directions is hypothermic. And
so while a robot probably can't feel the cold, I
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think that it would, Like I love the way right
at the end you kind of you've failed, you know,
like you you shut down, but I didn't. I didn't.
I don't know if there's a way that maybe you
can play what do you think will with the hypothermic direction? Again,
it all depends on what you know, how you want.
It's the joy of an actor is your interpretation of
how you would play that cold. You know, does it
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speed you up? Does it slow you down? Does it
make you stutter? Are you shivering as a robot is?
Does the metal get so cold that it's painful? I mean,
there's so many different ways to kind of take the
character that it's really dealer's choice. David. Maybe the software glitches,
you know, when you're cold, do you want to humanize
them more or make it more roboty? You know that's
another choice as well. Yeah, I love that. All right,
(15:51):
So there are your notes, Mike, So here we go.
If you could do it one more time at your pleasure,
can I get a whoop whoop? Seriously, I really need
a whoop whoop berber immediately, like it's an emergence. You're
read very nice. Thank you so much, sir, and we
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will be coming back to you in a second. Thank you, guys. Thanks.
Why I like that? I thought he took the notes well, um,
you know, he aged it up, which is one of
the things that David suggested that he do. He added
more of kind of a glitch to it. I mean,
I think for taking notes he did he did pretty well.
What do you think One last thing I would have
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said if he had another chance, was to make it
sort of happier and more fun because it is probably
from a comedic show. When I'm teaching, I'm talking to
people a lot about what what network things they are on,
if it's comedic or if it's serious. Um, you know,
if it's comedic. But you start to feel sorry for
it feel sad. Then they might be placed in the
wrong wrong way emotionally. Maybe you know. That's that's that's
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something I remember they taught us in acting class way
back quin It was like reading a script. It has
a certain song to it that the writers kind of rite,
and so the cadence of it, it needs to feel appropriate.
And so yeah, if you sometimes you can read a
line like this and see that it's I don't know.
I also think I think we make bold choices as
actors because when you make the bold choices, when you
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stand out, and in in this kind of a contest,
you want to stand out. So we could and I've
always encouraged people during this contest to have as much
fun as possible. But I know how nervous they are.
Oh yeah, it sounds you definitely feel I can feel
the nerves and feel there. That's all. By the way, David,
if you ever want to jump in and say, wait
a second, gay second, I want to hear one more
and here's how I'll do it. Please please feel free,
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Please feel free, And then yeah, let's go. Let's bring
in our contestant number two. Here, it's bringing Tatiana. Hello, Tatiana,
how are you good? How are you? I am? Good? Things? Okay,
So here we go. You got line number one, yes
I do. Okay, So David, sobelove here is going to
pick some numbers for you were You're going to create
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your character and it's going to be all on you.
So if you would, sir, number between one and six six,
and now a number between one and twelve four, and
now a number between one and seven six, and now
a number between one and eleven three. Christy, if you
would please, okay, you are a German sixty year old
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microscopic racehorse. All right, honey, if you can do that,
you are a fan. I'm a fan of yours immediately. Wow,
I love that, and I'm sure that's exactly what you
were planning on being today when you've joined us. She's like, yes,
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I have that one in the bag. Oh of course, yeah,
all right, German German sixty year old microscopic. I love that,
all right, Tatiana, Line one at your pleasure, colocas a whoop, whoop,
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I fellow a little roop whoop. Ami. Look it's a remorg.
That was really good, Taia. That was David any notes
very horsey but when you're doing animation, even if it's
a crazy, wacky character, I have to understand every words
a little little clarity. Okay, I got the age from that.
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I got that there was like a little bit of
like a little warble in the voice that lent itself
to being a horse, which I really really liked. But
I do agree like the way that that sounded was
more in the back of your throat. Um, what do
you think will um? Yeah? I agree. I think the
first thing, you want to make sure that, even if
it's crazy, you want to make sure that you understand
all the words um and the other thing. If I
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were to give you a direction, I would say, if
you want to make it more German, it could be
more very matter of fact, you know that's it could
be a very kind of you know, staccato read if
you want it to go that way. But you pick
whatever you want. But again, at the end of the day,
make sure we can understand what you're saying. But got
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the age right away, and got but she is also
I forgot completely that she was supposed to be Germany
and scopic, which which you know sometimes with the size
we can always play I'm sure David knows this. You
can play against type. Right. Do you ever get, David,
do you ever get cast as something very small and
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not usually but you know, but what it usually happens
to be used. They'll get an incidental character in an
animated series and they just throw something weird at me
just to challenge me. So then I'll have to play
something small or different and I'll find some weird way
to do it for for a moment. But I can
attest to that having stood next to him doing Guardians
the Galaxy for as long as we did. Uh, there
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was many a guard that all of us are like,
let's see what happens here. So Tatiana, if you can
give us, give it one more shot, and just think
about those some of the things we said, and remember
if you can really enunciate the words, but take it
away at your pleasure, it can. I give a whoop whoop,
sorrious loop, I really whoop whoop, immediately like it, somemermorg,
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that's great, anybody else anything? I heard the German in
the front, and I so I know she can do it.
You know, Yeah, I would like to one where you're
not so worried about the age because I think the
age is causing you to change the voice so that
it isn't as clear as it could be. Let me
just here. I know this is kind of maybe against
the rules, but just don't worry about the age and
this just do one more for me, if you would,
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without worrying about the age. I want to see what
happens and double down on the horse because it's very funny.
Got it, No worries? Go ahead, Can I get a whoop? Whoop? Seriously?
I really need a whoop whoop immediately, like it's an emergency. Perfect,
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Thank you very much, and we'll be right back with you.
Thank you. See that's what I was waiting for. I
was waiting to hear like the can I get a
whoop whoop? I needhop immediately? Like her immediately? That was
very good. That was very Maybe I forget you know,
you are also a director of animation, so see I
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was like, these are the things I would never know
to pull out of her. I would and if I
were directing her, I would give her one more direction
of you know, really double down on the German now.
And it sounded it could sound more elderly without it
being caught in the throat and could up in the
higher part of the throat and like, yeah, I thought
she had an easier time. And again, but the stuff
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we're throwing at them is exceptionally diffic I mean crazy difficult. Um,
So it's um. You know, sometimes we're getting actors that
are concentrating more on their cadence. Sometimes we're getting the
actors that are concentrating more on the accent. Sometimes we're
getting more they concentrating on their age. But that's why
it's difficult, because we're trying to find somebody that can
pull it all together. So all right, cool, We'll let
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us move on to challenge number two, line number two,
and we will go back now to contestant number one,
Mike from Florida. Mike, welcome back. We are moving on
to line number two, and David Sobelov once again stir
a number between one and six one, and now a
number between one and twelve eight, and now a number
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between one and seven seven, and now a number between
one and eleven nine. Christy, if you would you are
a giant fish who's ninety five years old and shocked.
Giant ninety five year old fish who is shocked. That
is it? So Mike at your pleasure, line number two. Please,
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people up with the jury. I think I have proven,
beyond the shadow of a doubt that my client is
guel creak, cel creak, cruelty. Oops. That's the opposite of
what I was supposed to do. Your honor, I quit
all right, David, any notes speak slower because he's giant.
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That will give us a sense of being giant. Um,
And I'm going to get you to try something that
the other you may not be thinking of, because it's
not really even what shocked means maybe in this context,
but make shocked being that you're being shocked by an
electric Curtis. This is happening. Okay. Oh see, it's all
about choice as an actor. Christy anything, No, I don't.
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I love those I just do what David says. That
is our new dw ds. Do what David says. That
is our new motto. Here on I hear voices. So
Mike with those notes in mine line number two again,
please sir, okay, people of the jury, I think I
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have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that my
client is guilty, guilty, guilty. Oops, that's the opposite of
what I was supposed to do your honor. I quit,
thank you very much. Anything else I want to give
him to do it one more time? You got it? Giant, slower,
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deeper and shocked. Start for the very beginning of what
that note is like, make him completely full of electricity
and he's trying to talk through being shocked. Okay, and
have fun with it? Sure, okay, Yeah, you know we
all want you to do great. And whenever you're going
to a casting director, they want you to do great. Yeah,
they're looking for it, they're looking for you, they want
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ever they want us to succeed. So yeah, to have
some fun with it, slow it down a little bit,
and remember your size. Okay, than give it one more try?
Go ahead, all right? People, Oh the churt, I think
I have proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt that
my client is guilty. Guilty, guilty. Whoops. That's the opposite
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of what I was supposed to do. Your honor. I quit,
Thank you very much, appreciate it, Mike, thank you all right.
I yeah, I think he was having a little trouble
taking some of the direction that time. Um, and so well,
we're gonna have to see what what Tatiana does with
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line too. This is close. This is a close one
because it's it's with something like this, it can come
down to the to the X factors, the intangibles, the
conversations in between the lines that we're having with them. Uh,
that will allow us to see where to go with this.
I want to see these guys tell the story better.
I okay, I feel that. I feel that. That's great.
I totally I totally understand that. And maybe we can
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talk with both of them before we start with line
through three. Um, so let's see. Let's bring Tatiana in
and see what what Tatiana can do with line number two.
Welcome back, Tatiana, Thank you, thank you, and we are
going to be moving on to line number two. Sounds good,
mister Sobelov Please, sir, a number between one and six three,
and now a number between one and twelve six. What's
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your six six six? Please? Gotch got it? And now
a number between one and seven one, and now a
number between one and eleven five. Okay, Wow, you are
a medium ground bug who is ancient and just one
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the lottery. Tatiana is getting it today. All good through
the paces Tatiana attitude. That's a good attitude. So you
are ancient. That's your age. You're ancient, and you're a
ground bug. So what's that like a Rolie polyever kind
of bugs worm, whatever you want. You're a bug. You're
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a bug on the ground that medize medium size. But
you just won the lottery. Okay, you found an apple
tatiana at your pleasure line number two, please pop roll of.
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I have proven a shadow of a but orps. That's
an episode of when I was supposed to the latter
ACCRPT David any notes, I would say, there's a little
technical thing. Turn your game down a bit and turn
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your put your head a little bit further to the
right of the MICROPHONNC. You're popping a lot of peas
technical things. Um again, clarity issues, so whatever is sort
of forcing it up into your nose, I would try
a different approach, just so we can understand. I think
it's your tongue. I think you're doing something with your
tongue in your mouth to kind of make a voice,
and sometimes that can garble the annunciation that you're going
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to need. So yeah, if we can try it again,
Christy anything, I agree. I think that the tongue is
definitely inhibiting your natural voice, which we love. We love
your natural speaking voice, and so yeah, try to try
to not use the tongue this time to give us
different colors. Got it sounds good? And give it one
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more time any time, please act your pleasure people of
the Jewy. I think I have proven me, on any
shadow of a doubt, that my client is guilty. Guilty, guilty. Oops,
that's the opposite of what I was supposed to do
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your honor, I quit. Can you hear how much better
that was because we can understand it? And then why
for me? Now? Yeah, I felt like you were a
little bug. I loved it too. That was way better.
I think anytime you can just rely on your natural ability,
natural talent and your regular pipes. There are certain little
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gimmicking things you can do with you know, holding your
your throat or doing something with your tongue, but you
usually don't see that too much in the booth. What
you really see in the booth is people that are
using kind of just the natural ability that they have.
And it was so much better the second time to Tiana,
when it was just your natural flow and voice and
you're able to concentrate on the acting. That's your that's
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your butter zone right there. That sounded so much better,
so much better, Christy. I agree. I'm really proud of
you for making that adjustment. And um, you know, let's
let's see what we got for our next round. I
love that so much. And before you go where, David
mentioned something earlier that we'd like to say to you
that we are also then going to say to contesting
number one. What was the note you wanted to give
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to both of them? David as, I think it's important
tell the story, stay in the moment, roach like I'm
expanding what I was saying. You treat it like an
on camera performance, so everything around you was happening. You're
talking to someone, you're listening and answering, and your humanity
will really come out. Then if you stay in the
moment and tell the story so perfect, we will see
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you in a minute for round number three. Thank you,
thank you, thank you. All right, it's great that you're
giving you these notes. It's so helpful, David, it really is.
And let's bring Mike back and give him the same
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one before we start. Hey Mike, Hey, Mike, how are
you Hey? I'm doing well. So we were talking beforehand
and David came up with a great note for both
of our contestants today and we just gave it to
other contestant, and I'd like him to give it to
you as well before we go into round three. David,
you got it. Concentrate on telling the story. Stay in
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the moment. You don't know what happened. Well, you don't
know what's going to happen in the future. If I'm
talking to you like this now, you don't know how
long I'm going to talk to you. I don't know
how long I'm gonna talk to me to you. It's
just going to come out of me. And I have
an idea and I articulated and the words just come.
The character doesn't know he has lines so that they're
written out for him. He just exists in the moment.
So exist at the moment, tell the story and have fun.
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Got it and it will come out more than Yeah.
We also get that nerves get the better of you
and you're in and out of a waiting room and
you kind of did. We totally understand. We get that.
But like we were saying before, we want you to succeed.
We really do. We're look, we love this every week
so we're just looking for somebody that wants to have
some fun, enjoy themselves and has the talent. So we
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know the sixteen that we picked are very talented. We
just want to see what they can do. Now, so
we're going into round three where you know, you get
a line that you have not read yet to see
how you do with some cold readings, and so you'll
see it will be in your chat. Can you see it?
I can't see it all right, So while you take
a moment with that, we're going to have David pick
your character once again. David, a number between one and
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six five, and now a number between one and twelve one,
and now a number between one and seven five, and
now a number between one and eleven two. Christie, So
it was five one five two correct? Correct? Okay, so
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you are a tiny dog who's thirty years old and Scottish.
Oh that's a good one. Oh boy, Scottish, tiny dog. Okay. Um,
at this time, Robbo ke, I your seriously table more
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but time person look up your phone, Cheels, How does
he even affect this number? David talked to someone on
the throne. How did you even get this number? Like
imagine the person there, I was saying before. It's an
on camera performance. It's like you're just acting the scene.
And I would drop the voiceprint and try again with
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just your natural voice. Okay, remember and Scottish and Scottish,
So if you can do the Scottish accent, if not,
maybe just a lilt here or there. Some people can't
do accents. That's that's perfectly acceptable. There's an accent trick
if you think you can think of any phrase that
gets you into the accent. Frosted, lucky charms, their magic,
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the delicious, you know something that just gives you a
hint of it. Yeah, did you see Braveheart? That's Irish
but not freedom. You know, when you hear it, you
think of one line from from back there you use
that perfect use that perfect a long accent. Yeah, and
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I would keep it. I would keep it more in
your natural register than going up into kind of the
falsetto as well. Yeah. Yeah, and we love your voice.
We actually came against a similar thing with another contestant.
I won't say when or who, but it's like, we
love your voice the way that it sounds naturally. So
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sometimes when we affect our voice, it actually does us
a disservice, and what did you say, David, You said
something similar. The one word that you just said, donkey
had so much more life and fun in it that
I've heard in the performance. Go into whatever mode that
was that made you say that, and jump right in
and go the second. The second you hopped on the feed,
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the first thing you said was I'm a real boy,
and it was the most natural, excited moment that you've
had since you've been on here. And then you kind
of got into now, I need to act audition mode,
and we want you to go back to that original
jumping on, having fun, talking to your friends, doing funny
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voices for them, making them laugh, that natural kind of sound.
Do that just with the words we're giving you and
see what happens there. Does that make sense? Yeah? All right,
So if you have to start by going by the way,
I have perfect example Johnny DiMaggio. Johnny DiMaggio is one
of the best voiceover actors out there, and we were
doing Kim Possible for years. He was doing so many
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different roles that he always when he'd sit down in
the booth to start Kim Possible, he'd have to go
she go because by saying that one word, that one name,
he got right back into the character again and he
knew the voice he was going to do. So if
saying don't care before you do it is going to
get you into it. Feel free, all right, all right,
so at your pleasure, don't carry at the tone the
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time will be Wait, are you seriously calling me time person?
Look at your phone? Jeez, how did you even get
this number? Definitely better David at the end, when you
knew that it was going to end and you stopped
trying as hard, it was the best. And when you said, donkey,
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you know what I'd like you to do, just right now?
What are the first three words of this line that
you've been given at the at the tone the time
will be, So say donkey in the donkey voice, and
then with the same energy, just keep going, just particularly
the donkey. Just just the first few words there for me,
if you could, of course, don't okay at the tone
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the time will be. See you've got the energy still
say it stays there? All right, Thank you so much.
Michae will be right back with thank you. You're welcome
so so far, and just to kind of get this
out there, I think I think she's the more natural
actor of the two so far. I also like how
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sense she especially that last round, really took the note
she did and made a huge difference when when she
took the note. I think he was struggling a little
bit with kind of getting more into the acting side
of it. I think his nerves are getting the better
of him today. I don't disagree with you. I don't
disagree with you. And and that's one of the things
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we have to deal with, is that the fact that
sometimes you're going to be getting lots of notes, and
especially you know, I mean, David, you know this better
than anybody. We'll be sitting in a booth and you'll
go in there and you'll have auditioned one way, and
you'll get in there and they'll go, no, the person
you're standing next to you, guys, now sound too similar.
So you need to change your entire character and you
gotta do it. So yes, so yeah, yeah, exactly, say
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yes and figure it out. Uh So. So that's that's important,
to be able to think on your feet. So let's
go back to Tatiana and see what Tatiana can do
with line number three. Hey, Tatiana, how are you good.
How are you good? Thank you? So we are going
to line number three, which you know is the super
secret line that you have not yet. So can you
see have not yet have not gotten a secret line
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in the super awes? Have you? Can you see it
there in your chat? Yes? I can? Okay, perfect, So
while you familiarize a little bit yourself at it's like
all of a sudden, the words of stuff, while you
familiarize yourself with the line a little bit. That's the
order they're supposed to go in for the language I'm speaking.
Why don't we have David pick a character for you?
David again for one last time. A number between one
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and six two, and now a number between one and
twelve two, and now a number between one and eleven
four and now a number between one and what was
the last one? One? And no, that's it, that's eleven eleven. Sorry,
one to eleven. That's the last one I met. Thanks. Yikes,
So we are two two four two four. I confused myself.
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There there we go. It's okay, it's a little two
two four to six. I got this, okay, you are
you are a big chat who's fifteen years old? And
the and the love of your life just left. Oh
I like this one for you, tats yata, Okay, I
do too, And remember as much as you can, keep
it in that natural register and just centrate, as David said, concentrate.
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I'm telling the story at your pleasure. Yeah, you just
I mean, by the way, you have a story. You
the love of your life just left. So that's a
lot of meaning behind the line. But that's just that's
just my two cents one. Oh, I love it all.
Go ahead at the tone, the time will be Wait,
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are you seriously calling the time person? Look at your phone? Geez,
how did you even get this number? That's great, David.
You want to take the note from the very beginning
of the speech, So the love of your life has
left you, not just at the end of the speech,
but at the beginning too. You do a teeny little
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emotional preparation which you won't get too much into here,
but just take a moment to think of something in
your life. Never reveal this to anyone. It's private, something
in your life, someone in your life that you might
love so much if they went away you would feel sad.
So something that makes you ad and start that way
and play it all the way through. However, remember that
it's comedy and you want to kind of play the
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real thing, but then maybe over exaggerated to make it funny.
Does that make sense? Yes? All right, Christy, do you
have anything I don't really? I love I love David's
directions in general. But yeah, don't be Yeah, don't be
afraid to just go make some big choices. Yeah, make
some bold choices. Absolutely. I think one of the things
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you can do, if I was to give you a note,
I would say, if you wanted to find a place
in the speech at some point to do a quick
breakdown and then pull it back together to remember, wait,
this is my job. You could be you could find
you could find comedy where you didn't even think there
was any Okay, So if why don't you give it
a try? That's again, that is my opinion. That is
you do with is your performance. You do with it
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as you wish, but at your pleasure, give it another try.
At the tone the time will be Wait, are you
seriously still calling the time person? Look at your phone? Jeez,
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how do you even get this number? Good? Great? What
do you think, David? There is sadness all the way through?
I mean we're giving you so many notes and so
many levels. It's very many captured sad beautifully. I was
feeling for you. I was too. I could also see
an animated cat. I could also see fifteen years old. Yeah, absolutely,
(42:35):
I thought you took those notes. Great. So we'll be
back with you in a minute. Thank you so much,
so much. All right, let's talk about this great I'm
just gonna say, I think she's got the more, the
more potential between the two Um. I think she does.
We don't really totally know about Mike. It was nerves today,
but we saw what we saw and we have to
go on. It's touchy on all the way from me.
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I don't disagree Christy, Yeah, I I do. I think
she has a lot of range. And and the other
thing too about the contest, right, it's not really about
whether or not they're good or not, or whether they
could grow to become really great, you know, voice artists.
I think it's more or less you know where they're
at right now today, Like David was just saying, and
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this is what we saw, you know, I mean he
we already said he has the leg up um and
that you know, he has friends who are in this
and now he's had this experience and he has a
has a really decent mic setup for him to you know,
continue playing around um and if he wants it, you know,
he can, he can continue. But I'm not. I don't
want to say I hate this part, David to go
on and tell him again, avoiding it again. It's like
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any of us as actors. It's what you do on
the day, and some days you're going to have off days,
and some days you're going to be nervous, and some
days you just it's just not going to be there.
He could wake up tomorrow and be like, oh, I
can't believe that was the day that I had, And
that's unfortunate that that's just the way it works sometimes. UM.
I'm imagining him front him in front of Lisa Schaeffer,
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who was our director on Galaxy, and we love Lisa.
Lisa would not have time to teach him how to
act or to direct him in a way to bring
the performance out of him. She once results immediately, and
that's right. We have to see something right, and I
frankly saw from the beginning. This is the other thing
that we're trying to find from the beginning of the day,
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let's call it the day to day to the end
of the day. I thought she took the direction better.
I thought she made the most adjustments. I really liked
that last read where she was sad the whole way through.
I thought the natural timbre of her voice was nice,
and I thought it kind of matched what we were
talking about. So I think the I think she clearly
won today. Okay, I agree, all right, So let's why
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don't we bring in Mike first and do the horrible
part which we all hate. Yeah, it's not fun. Hey Mike,
how are you. I'm doing all right. How are you?
We're good. Thanks. We want to thank you so much
for joining us and congratulating you again on being making
the top sixteen. Thank you so much. We just think today,
unfortunately your your contestant, your fellow contestant did a little
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bit better than you today with taking the some of
the notes. But that is not to say that you
should not continue on this journey because you made it
this far, and you made it this far for a reason,
So I would keep absolutely keep going. Does anybody, David Christie's,
anybody have anything to add. It's just practice, practice, practice,
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and finding a coach that you can connect with who
can really make these performances sort of live in the moment.
As Meiser said, acting is living truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.
I would say, find your way toward imagining those imagure,
getting those imaginary circumstances more subtly in your head before
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you jump into the performance. Okay, Yeah, I think getting
to know your instruments truly important and what you know,
what you can do, what you might have to interpret
so that you can pull it off. Kind of thing
like when we gave you when we gave you the
Scottish thing. I find that really interesting because you know, sometimes,
like he said, there's trigger words that can get you
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to lock into something. And I think if you know
your instrument more and more with coaching, you really might
unlock so much potential in everything that we've heard from
before and moving forward. Yeah, okay, but thank you so
much for joining us, and really no joke, keep going.
We said to the top sixteen that we picked, we
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really believe could all be signed. You just got to
you know, keep working at it and working at it,
and we think he got some serious potential. Well, thank
you so much. I mean it's first of all, it's
an honor to even be in the same room with
all three of you. And yeah, just this was a
win in it of itself, you know, at least. Yeah good.
I'm glad to see it that way. I'm so happy
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to hear that. Thank you so much for joining us, Mike,
and good luck in the future, bricollect. Thank you so much,
thank you see yah. Well, now, ladies and gentlemen, the
winner of this round, drumroll please, is Tatiana from California.
But being us, we can't just tell her like that,
so we got a first make or squirm a little bit.
That's part of the fun. So let's bring in Tatiana. Hello, Hey, Tatiana,
(47:18):
how are you how? I'm good. We just want to
thank you so much for joining us and congratulating you
on getting to the top sixteen. We think you did really,
really well today. But unfortunately, um, you're gonna have to
join us again because you are moving on to the
next round of the contest. We had to make it fun.
(47:44):
Tatiana always makes the best of everything, huh. I'd like
to give you kind of an overall note moving forward. Absolutely, Um,
the more stuff you did in your natural register. The
better it was and the better it sounded. So I
think the more you can do in that range, because
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again huge potential coming in and saying, hey, I can
do young young people voices. I can do teenage voices. Um,
they're all very natural, they all sound very wonderful like
that kind of stuff that's huge, the super charactery stuff.
Some people can't do it myself, including I can't. I
can't do fifty voices. I just am not that that actor. UM.
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So I would concentrate more on doing those kind of
voices and working on the acting aspect of voice actor
um and uh and going from there so uh, you know,
improv things like that. Moving forward, I think you're going
to be very helpful for you, David. You have any
overall notes for touch down, just trust yourself. Um, You've
got a great personality and great instincts. Um, don't try
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to say I have to do this voice so it'll
sound the way I wanted to sound. Just live in
the moment and act seeing play rather than a voice
the voices basing on the cake. Okay, Pat Tanny, you
did great. I think, like I even said to the
person that didn't make it, you know, getting to know
your your instrument, and especially as female, like what your
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voice is able to do without affecting it Like that,
I think we're we're in love with your natural voice,
which I think is a competitive edge, um, just in
the just in the competition as a whole, because you're female.
We don't so far, we've only seen one or two
I think females and two. I think we're two and
two now think we're even. I think what we made
sure you know, it's like that. Actually it's just how
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it ended up. But no, it just ended up that way.
We didn't try that. Ye remember that. I was like
wait wait, but it did end up that way. So
I just think though that like speaking as as a female,
it's like understanding what you can do more and and
maybe just testing yourself between now and the next time
we see you with you know, voices you might hear
in commercials and in radios and like, oh I can
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do that, Oh I can do that, Like start to
really have conversations with yourself and just speak in these
different voices. So that and just with what we did today,
you know, we really threw a lot of different things,
different accents and ages, and sizes, so just experiment with that.
We'll see you soon. Sounds good. Congratulations and welcome to
the next round. Thank you so much, Thanks Tatiana. Stonderful day,
(50:16):
you too, You too? Ye Now that sweet is a
ton of fun. David, We cannot thank you more for
helping us out today and being with us and making
this just so much fun and having some just incredible
direction for the actor. Really like, oh my gosh, David,
I have no idea. I was like because I was
(50:38):
in love with him as a human being and you know,
a gorgeous person, and then like now all this, wow,
well I'm glad it could help. It was fun. This
is a blast. Now I know that as a voice
of our actor, you've got nine hundred things you're not
allowed to talk about. What can you talk about some
projects that you've got coming up and people can see you.
(50:59):
You will hear me the Dungeons and Dragons movie in
various creature voices. I had a lot of fun doing that. Cool.
So I have some great roles in the Transformers Rise
of the Beasts movie coming out in June. I'm playing,
well the one that isn't announced yet, but others that
are announced Rhinos and Battletrap, So that's gonna be super fun.
(51:19):
You'll hear me also as Kaido in One Piece the
anime and I'm going to buy first anime convention we've
con in Dallas in two weeks. It'll be fun that
you're by amazing. Yes, you're going to Texas to be
near Christy. And now what about what about social wise?
You are in social media? Can people follow you anywhere?
You're on Twitter? I saw you're on Twitter. Yes, just
on Twitter as at volobos my last name backwards or
(51:42):
my website sobelov dot com. That is wonderful. Thank you,
Thank you so much for joining us, David. You've made
this a wonderful round and helped Tatiana move on to
the Elite eight. We're getting there. We're halfway there. Now
we've got half of our Elite eight picked people. So
half of Sound one is already over. It goes by quick,
(52:03):
absolutely amazing. We want to thank everybody for joining us
again this week, for following the super awesome contest to
become the next big Voice actor. Of course again thanking
everybody over there at Prime Video, thanking everybody a critical
role the legend of Voxmachines Season two is available on
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(52:23):
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of this happen. Thank you everybody so so much, and remember,
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(52:44):
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Hi Christy, Oh, hi Will, how are you? I'm doing
pretty good. You know. Last week was crazy with Cree Summer.
Last week was crazy with Cree Summer, and the whole
contest itself has just been so fun and so nuts,
and every week I'm more and more positive that we
are going to find somebody that's going to be able
to step into the booth day one and take a
(00:21):
job from one of us. Yeah, exactly, and put one
of us out of work, because what a self listening
for us to do. I'm a voice actor that's going
to take our jobs. No, it's no, it's incredible, and
it's just it's the contest itself is going so well
and moving right along. And so I was at a
convention this last weekend and so many people came up
(00:43):
to me and said that they're either entered the contest,
or are listening to the contest, or are following what's
going on with I hear voices. We just have fans everywhere,
and they're very loyal and it's really really cool. So yeah,
I'm super excited to hear all these people coming up
and kind of saying like, oh, I here's what I
did in my entry or here's man, here's what I
should have done. I was so expecting to do more.
(01:05):
I got a lot of that. I got a lot
of I didn't go full out. I should have gone
full out. Um. So there was a lot of feedback
though about the contest, and people are really liking it. Oh,
I'd love to hear that. You know, cons are a
big reason why the podcast even started. And I think
it was that excitement and that passion for the community
that really brought us together Will and I to be like,
(01:27):
what do we do to service these people? You know
on the days that there's tought of con happening. Um,
I don't know. That's really I can't wait for my
next con, you know, for us to be able to
chat with people about their you know, their auditions. And
I'm sure there were some people who were really bummed,
but um, you know, it's a competit it's competitive, but
this is a really competitive thing. So and last week
(01:48):
we were i mean until until like round three. Yeah,
we were on the fence. I mean they were, they
were going back and forth, duking it out. It was
so good. It was crazy, Like three week create a
run for her money, you know, with her first she's
not really on podcast much, Chel thinking like, you know,
she's just on TikTok now, and it's yeah, she did
(02:11):
a great job. But we're we're super excited. We have
two new guests coming in today. We are of course
talking about these super awesome contests to become the next
big voice actor. And once again, as we like to
every week, give shout out to everybody who just helped
make this possible for us. Of course, our friends over
at Prime Video, our friends at Critical Role. Go check
(02:31):
out season two of the Legend of Vox Machina as
you can stream that now. I again, I say this
every week, it's an amazing show, and I also say
every week that it's not just amazing because I'm on it,
but let's be honest, it makes it that much better.
And of course all of our friends at iHeart who
really helped to make this entire thing happen for us.
They've really been had our backs the entire time and said, yes,
(02:52):
let's go do your contest, and of course my awesome
agents at CESD, because that is one of the prizes,
is getting to sign with the wonderful people over at
yes D and winning the possibility of a career. I
always said not, it's not your big break, and then
Christy was like, it is your big breaks and break.
She was right. Of course, she's right. She's always right.
I have to Christie more and more. That is just like,
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listen to Christie. It's just I can I get that
on a voicemail? Well, we're both recording, so you've got it.
That's high you reach Christy Carlson Romano. She's unable to
take your call right now, but leave a number she
gets back to you. By the way, Christie's always right.
I thought it was just juicy thank you. I will
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be your new outgoing voice message. I hope that's okay.
It is. I'm excited about our guest. I was going
to say, we've got an awesome guest who was a
very close friend of mine and one of the best
in the biz. He is a voice like no other.
Is the only way to talk about this? Oh man,
not enough bows in smooth and that deep barre tone
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with that amazing laugh talent to burn h he has
been well, tell Christy, can you walk us through just
a little bit of what he's done? Absolutely so our
guest today, Can I say the name first? Let's say,
let's say he's done first and then and then let's
do that. So he's best known as Gorilla Grod on
the CW Network drama The Flash. He's in Beast Wars,
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Transformers as Depth Charge, He's Drags the Destroyer, and various
Marvel things. He shock waves as well. I said that wrong,
shock Wave and Transformers. You can tell us not a
Transformers fan, as a Transformer to do it. He's blitzwing
and bumble beeing. Were you and there? Now? My gosh. Yeah,
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obviously he's known for his deep growling voice. But like
I mean, he's doing so many things, and he's in
Dungeons and Dragons, on her among Thieves, he's a voice
in that. He's obviously the voice of Grod in The
Final Flash a season and yeah, I mean he just
completed Transformers, Rise of the Beast. The man is booked
and busy. It's David sobelof, yes it is. Let's bring
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in David. Hello, Hey, thank you so much for doing this,
my friend. You're welcome, thanks for asking. This is very
very cool. So we're going to give you a little
a little crash course on what's happening today. Yeah, I
listened to Rob Bolson's episode, did you so for the contest? Yes, okay, good.
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So you are our guest judge for today, and you
are going to be helping us pick the character and
then giving notes as we bring in our guests. And
you know, the winner wins a career, they get to
sign with CESD and they're flown out to la and
that you worked that out with Paul. That's right, we're
CESD people. So uh yeah, they were very excited. So
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it's it's totally cool, but we're really excited to have
you so excited. I haven't seen you in a long time. David.
The convention, I think, yeah, where was it in Atlanta
in twenty eighteen? I think? Yes? Wait, no, did we
go to Australia together? Did we? Oh? Maybe we did? Yeah,
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maybe maybe I saw you over there. I was pregnant.
I think I was pregnant and I had a little
child running with round with me, which was which was
a lot but a fun cone. Is it true that
if you're pregnant in Australia you give birth going the
opposite direction anyway? No, if you give birth in Australia,
you just keep it in your in your pouch in
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your little Joey pouch. People over there, well, I want
to thank you so much for joining us. Today. We
have two incredible contestants coming in. We're gonna have Mike
from Florida and Tatiana from California that are again we
got over four thousand entries for this contest and we
whittled it down very painstakingly to the top sixteen. And
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this is round round number four. It's around four already
of the super awesome contest of picking the Elite eight.
So we're very very happy. We're going to be going
playing our game. Everybody out there who is just joining
us for the first time. The first game we play
for this round is a game called by the Numbers
and what are we going? What are we gonna be
doing is we have four different categories size, what are
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you age? And a wacky attribute. And our guest judge today,
David Sobelov, will of course be picking random numbers. When
he picks the random numbers, that will generate the character
that will then be given to our guests. Now, the
guests have been given two lines of dialogue that they
actually have had a couple of days or a day,
a day and a half to kind of practice with,
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and then they are given a surprise line at the
end that they have not had a chance to see
to see how they are on their feet with a
cold read. So, David, what we'd like to do is
we'll bring them in. We bring them in one at
a time, We talk about him a little bit, what
got him into the business, and then we jump into
our game. And when we do, we'll have them read
it once and then see if any of us have
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any notes for them, they're read it again, and then
we'll do that until the very end when we pick
a winner together who will have then go on to
fame and riches in the wonderful world. The voice over,
so if everybody is ready, and does anybody have any questions?
All right, here we go. Can we please start? I
believe we just take people as they come, first come,
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first serve. And the first person that jumped today was
Mike from Florida. Am I correct? Yeah? All right? Hi,
Hey Mike, how are you? I'm a real boy? Hi,
already right into it. I love to hear this go.
Let's go. I am Will and this is Christy and
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our special guest today is the amazing David Sobolov, who's
going to be helping us pick who moves on to
the next round. Mike, I mean, this is such an
honor to be here. My goodness. Well, congratulations on making
it to the top sixteen. No matter what happens today,
this was a huge accomplishment. You should be really, really
proud of yourself. I am so I'm just happy to
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be here that yeah. I mean, we're we're lucky to
have found you, you know, I mean, thank you for
giving us a great audition, and we're we're excited to
kind of throw some things your way today and see
how see how you react. I guess through the paces. Mike,
we're going to put you into paces now, just very briefly,
what led you to the world of vo What made
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you want to be a voice over actor? Well, I
have been performing my entire life. I have been performing
since I was a little kid, and I've been acting
and singing and doing all that kind of stuff. But
I've always loved cartoons and things like that. I just
never quite knew how to get into it. In fact,
a lot of my friends are in the vo business
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as well, and I just I don't know, man, I
just get really weirded out about asking like how do
I do that? You know, like so so yeah, I
it's something so you think you think the easier route
is just winning a national contest. That's what it's like,
you know, of all the routes that I should take,
I should should listen to vo podcast and cross my
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fingers that there's a contest. I mean, you're not wrong
so wrong so far? And do you have your you
have your two lines? Sure do? All right, Mike, thank
you so much. We're gonna be getting back with you.
We're going to go meet your fellow contestant for the
day and we'll come back and start round one of
by the numbers. All right, thank you, thank you so much.
Well he jumped right into I gotta respect that definitely.
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And we're now going to bring in contestant number two,
who is Tatiana from California with that name. Hello, Hi, good,
how are you. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you
so much for having thank you for coming, and congratulations
on making the top sixteen. Thank you very much. So
we were just saying, you know, kind of talking to
your fellow contestant and of figuring out, you know, making
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sure that everybody has what they need to get started.
You have your lines and all that good kind of
stuff ready, Yes, and just very quickly, first of all,
I'm Will. That's Christy, and please meet David Sobelov, who
is going to be our guest judge for the day
and helping us decide who moves on. But what drew
you to the world of vo Why do you want
to be a voiceover actor? I've always really love storytelling,
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and I love how voicing a character can really add
like a different dimension to it, and it can really
translate it well from between two people and really allow
a more true sharing of the emotions and everything that
you want to convey. And I just love how it feels.
I love how it makes other people feel. It's a
great answer. I couldn't beautifully improve on that answer in
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any way, shape or form. That's wonderful. That's beautiful. So
thank you so much. We take the contestants in the
order that they arrived. So we're going to put you
in the waiting room right now and do round number
one of buy the numbers, and we will be back
to you very quickly. Sounds a bit thank you. Well,
that was exciting. They seem really they seem really great.
They're really good to go. They both just meet your reaction.
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Nice pipes right off the bat and really good microphone setups.
What do you think, David, m that's so crucial. I
don't think people realize they're for starting out. You're being
auditioned for your booth and your sound as well as
your performance. Interest. Now we haven't heard that before, and
that's I haven't heard either, But that's true if you
got the right setup, and you're going to have a
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leg up already. So that's uh yeah, all right, let
us start and bring in Mike from Florida. Here we go. Oh,
I'm excited. I am excited to get into this one.
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All right, Mike. So, as you know, we're going to
be playing by the numbers. And by the numbers we
have four different categories, size, what are you age? And
a wacky attribute by our guest, David Sobolov. Picking the numbers,
he is going to create the character with which you
are going to be reading your first line of diet.
So David, if you would for me, sir, could you
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please give me a number between one and six A four?
Could you give me a number between one and twelve
about ten, could you please give me number one to
seven three and finally a number one to eleven seven.
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Christie got it. I'm getting better at this too because
of the way that we've listed it. You are going
to be like a small robot that's ten years old
who is hypothermic. A small ten year old hypothermic robot.
And if you can take line one please and at
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your pleasure, can I get oh whoo whoop seriously, like
I need a whoop whoop immediately, like it's an emergence rubble. Oh,
that's pretty good. I like a little robot. And there, David,
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you have any notes? Um? That ending was just a
huge for me. I really love that ending. UM aged
him up a little bit years old, right, he's a
little young for ten okay, you know, and maybe just
a little more energy and it's going to be great.
Don't lose that end of those? Yeah? Can I get
a little something like that? Something? Yeah? I mean, I
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I groll, Christy, do you have any would you No? No? Absolutely?
I think that he I think David's right. I think um,
I think that sounded about eight, whereas I think with
ten um, I think it's a little more, a little
more grit a little more you know, a little more
of the grittiness to the prepubessence of it. So there's
just a little bit of that rawness to the voice.
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And then I think we always try to interpret these
directions with our or what is it contestants, right, and
we want to make sure that you guys are nailing
every direction. So one of the directions is hypothermic. And
so while a robot probably can't feel the cold, I
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think that it would, Like I love the way right
at the end you kind of you've failed, you know,
like you you shut down, but I didn't. I didn't.
I don't know if there's a way that maybe you
can play what do you think will with the hypothermic direction? Again,
it all depends on what you know, how you want.
It's the joy of an actor is your interpretation of
how you would play that cold. You know, does it
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speed you up? Does it slow you down? Does it
make you stutter? Are you shivering as a robot is?
Does the metal get so cold that it's painful? I mean,
there's so many different ways to kind of take the
character that it's really dealer's choice. David. Maybe the software glitches,
you know, when you're cold, do you want to humanize
them more or make it more roboty? You know that's
another choice as well. Yeah, I love that. All right,
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So there are your notes, Mike, So here we go.
If you could do it one more time at your pleasure,
can I get a whoop whoop? Seriously, I really need
a whoop whoop berber immediately, like it's an emergence. You're
read very nice. Thank you so much, sir, and we
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will be coming back to you in a second. Thank you, guys. Thanks.
Why I like that? I thought he took the notes well, um,
you know, he aged it up, which is one of
the things that David suggested that he do. He added
more of kind of a glitch to it. I mean,
I think for taking notes he did he did pretty well.
What do you think One last thing I would have
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said if he had another chance, was to make it
sort of happier and more fun because it is probably
from a comedic show. When I'm teaching, I'm talking to
people a lot about what what network things they are on,
if it's comedic or if it's serious. Um, you know,
if it's comedic. But you start to feel sorry for
it feel sad. Then they might be placed in the
wrong wrong way emotionally. Maybe you know. That's that's that's
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something I remember they taught us in acting class way
back quin It was like reading a script. It has
a certain song to it that the writers kind of rite,
and so the cadence of it, it needs to feel appropriate.
And so yeah, if you sometimes you can read a
line like this and see that it's I don't know.
I also think I think we make bold choices as
actors because when you make the bold choices, when you
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stand out, and in in this kind of a contest,
you want to stand out. So we could and I've
always encouraged people during this contest to have as much
fun as possible. But I know how nervous they are.
Oh yeah, it sounds you definitely feel I can feel
the nerves and feel there. That's all. By the way, David,
if you ever want to jump in and say, wait
a second, gay second, I want to hear one more
and here's how I'll do it. Please please feel free,
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Please feel free, And then yeah, let's go. Let's bring
in our contestant number two. Here, it's bringing Tatiana. Hello, Tatiana,
how are you good? How are you? I am? Good? Things? Okay,
So here we go. You got line number one, yes
I do. Okay, So David, sobelove here is going to
pick some numbers for you were You're going to create
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your character and it's going to be all on you.
So if you would, sir, number between one and six six,
and now a number between one and twelve four, and
now a number between one and seven six, and now
a number between one and eleven three. Christy, if you
would please, okay, you are a German sixty year old
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microscopic racehorse. All right, honey, if you can do that,
you are a fan. I'm a fan of yours immediately. Wow,
I love that, and I'm sure that's exactly what you
were planning on being today when you've joined us. She's like, yes,
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I have that one in the bag. Oh of course, yeah,
all right, German German sixty year old microscopic. I love that,
all right, Tatiana, Line one at your pleasure, colocas a whoop, whoop,
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I fellow a little roop whoop. Ami. Look it's a remorg.
That was really good, Taia. That was David any notes
very horsey but when you're doing animation, even if it's
a crazy, wacky character, I have to understand every words
a little little clarity. Okay, I got the age from that.
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I got that there was like a little bit of
like a little warble in the voice that lent itself
to being a horse, which I really really liked. But
I do agree like the way that that sounded was
more in the back of your throat. Um, what do
you think will um? Yeah? I agree. I think the
first thing, you want to make sure that, even if
it's crazy, you want to make sure that you understand
all the words um and the other thing. If I
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were to give you a direction, I would say, if
you want to make it more German, it could be
more very matter of fact, you know that's it could
be a very kind of you know, staccato read if
you want it to go that way. But you pick
whatever you want. But again, at the end of the day,
make sure we can understand what you're saying. But got
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the age right away, and got but she is also
I forgot completely that she was supposed to be Germany
and scopic, which which you know sometimes with the size
we can always play I'm sure David knows this. You
can play against type. Right. Do you ever get, David,
do you ever get cast as something very small and
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not usually but you know, but what it usually happens
to be used. They'll get an incidental character in an
animated series and they just throw something weird at me
just to challenge me. So then I'll have to play
something small or different and I'll find some weird way
to do it for for a moment. But I can
attest to that having stood next to him doing Guardians
the Galaxy for as long as we did. Uh, there
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was many a guard that all of us are like,
let's see what happens here. So Tatiana, if you can
give us, give it one more shot, and just think
about those some of the things we said, and remember
if you can really enunciate the words, but take it
away at your pleasure, it can. I give a whoop whoop,
sorrious loop, I really whoop whoop, immediately like it, somemermorg,
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that's great, anybody else anything? I heard the German in
the front, and I so I know she can do it.
You know, Yeah, I would like to one where you're
not so worried about the age because I think the
age is causing you to change the voice so that
it isn't as clear as it could be. Let me
just here. I know this is kind of maybe against
the rules, but just don't worry about the age and
this just do one more for me, if you would,
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without worrying about the age. I want to see what
happens and double down on the horse because it's very funny.
Got it, No worries? Go ahead, Can I get a whoop? Whoop? Seriously?
I really need a whoop whoop immediately, like it's an emergency. Perfect,
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Thank you very much, and we'll be right back with you.
Thank you. See that's what I was waiting for. I
was waiting to hear like the can I get a
whoop whoop? I needhop immediately? Like her immediately? That was
very good. That was very Maybe I forget you know,
you are also a director of animation, so see I
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was like, these are the things I would never know
to pull out of her. I would and if I
were directing her, I would give her one more direction
of you know, really double down on the German now.
And it sounded it could sound more elderly without it
being caught in the throat and could up in the
higher part of the throat and like, yeah, I thought
she had an easier time. And again, but the stuff
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we're throwing at them is exceptionally diffic I mean crazy difficult. Um,
So it's um. You know, sometimes we're getting actors that
are concentrating more on their cadence. Sometimes we're getting the
actors that are concentrating more on the accent. Sometimes we're
getting more they concentrating on their age. But that's why
it's difficult, because we're trying to find somebody that can
pull it all together. So all right, cool, We'll let
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us move on to challenge number two, line number two,
and we will go back now to contestant number one,
Mike from Florida. Mike, welcome back. We are moving on
to line number two, and David Sobelov once again stir
a number between one and six one, and now a
number between one and twelve eight, and now a number
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between one and seven seven, and now a number between
one and eleven nine. Christy, if you would you are
a giant fish who's ninety five years old and shocked.
Giant ninety five year old fish who is shocked. That
is it? So Mike at your pleasure, line number two. Please,
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people up with the jury. I think I have proven,
beyond the shadow of a doubt that my client is
guel creak, cel creak, cruelty. Oops. That's the opposite of
what I was supposed to do. Your honor, I quit
all right, David, any notes speak slower because he's giant.
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That will give us a sense of being giant. Um,
And I'm going to get you to try something that
the other you may not be thinking of, because it's
not really even what shocked means maybe in this context,
but make shocked being that you're being shocked by an
electric Curtis. This is happening. Okay. Oh see, it's all
about choice as an actor. Christy anything, No, I don't.
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I love those I just do what David says. That
is our new dw ds. Do what David says. That
is our new motto. Here on I hear voices. So
Mike with those notes in mine line number two again,
please sir, okay, people of the jury, I think I
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have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that my
client is guilty, guilty, guilty. Oops, that's the opposite of
what I was supposed to do your honor. I quit,
thank you very much. Anything else I want to give
him to do it one more time? You got it? Giant, slower,
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deeper and shocked. Start for the very beginning of what
that note is like, make him completely full of electricity
and he's trying to talk through being shocked. Okay, and
have fun with it? Sure, okay, Yeah, you know we
all want you to do great. And whenever you're going
to a casting director, they want you to do great. Yeah,
they're looking for it, they're looking for you, they want
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ever they want us to succeed. So yeah, to have
some fun with it, slow it down a little bit,
and remember your size. Okay, than give it one more try?
Go ahead, all right? People, Oh the churt, I think
I have proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt that
my client is guilty. Guilty, guilty. Whoops. That's the opposite
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of what I was supposed to do. Your honor. I quit,
Thank you very much, appreciate it, Mike, thank you all right.
I yeah, I think he was having a little trouble
taking some of the direction that time. Um, and so well,
we're gonna have to see what what Tatiana does with
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line too. This is close. This is a close one
because it's it's with something like this, it can come
down to the to the X factors, the intangibles, the
conversations in between the lines that we're having with them. Uh,
that will allow us to see where to go with this.
I want to see these guys tell the story better.
I okay, I feel that. I feel that. That's great.
I totally I totally understand that. And maybe we can
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talk with both of them before we start with line
through three. Um, so let's see. Let's bring Tatiana in
and see what what Tatiana can do with line number two.
Welcome back, Tatiana, Thank you, thank you, and we are
going to be moving on to line number two. Sounds good,
mister Sobelov Please, sir, a number between one and six three,
and now a number between one and twelve six. What's
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your six six six? Please? Gotch got it? And now
a number between one and seven one, and now a
number between one and eleven five. Okay, Wow, you are
a medium ground bug who is ancient and just one
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the lottery. Tatiana is getting it today. All good through
the paces Tatiana attitude. That's a good attitude. So you
are ancient. That's your age. You're ancient, and you're a
ground bug. So what's that like a Rolie polyever kind
of bugs worm, whatever you want. You're a bug. You're
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a bug on the ground that medize medium size. But
you just won the lottery. Okay, you found an apple
tatiana at your pleasure line number two, please pop roll of.
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I have proven a shadow of a but orps. That's
an episode of when I was supposed to the latter
ACCRPT David any notes, I would say, there's a little
technical thing. Turn your game down a bit and turn
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your put your head a little bit further to the
right of the MICROPHONNC. You're popping a lot of peas
technical things. Um again, clarity issues, so whatever is sort
of forcing it up into your nose, I would try
a different approach, just so we can understand. I think
it's your tongue. I think you're doing something with your
tongue in your mouth to kind of make a voice,
and sometimes that can garble the annunciation that you're going
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to need. So yeah, if we can try it again,
Christy anything, I agree. I think that the tongue is
definitely inhibiting your natural voice, which we love. We love
your natural speaking voice, and so yeah, try to try
to not use the tongue this time to give us
different colors. Got it sounds good? And give it one
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more time any time, please act your pleasure people of
the Jewy. I think I have proven me, on any
shadow of a doubt, that my client is guilty. Guilty, guilty. Oops,
that's the opposite of what I was supposed to do
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your honor, I quit. Can you hear how much better
that was because we can understand it? And then why
for me? Now? Yeah, I felt like you were a
little bug. I loved it too. That was way better.
I think anytime you can just rely on your natural ability,
natural talent and your regular pipes. There are certain little
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gimmicking things you can do with you know, holding your
your throat or doing something with your tongue, but you
usually don't see that too much in the booth. What
you really see in the booth is people that are
using kind of just the natural ability that they have.
And it was so much better the second time to Tiana,
when it was just your natural flow and voice and
you're able to concentrate on the acting. That's your that's
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your butter zone right there. That sounded so much better,
so much better, Christy. I agree. I'm really proud of
you for making that adjustment. And um, you know, let's
let's see what we got for our next round. I
love that so much. And before you go where, David
mentioned something earlier that we'd like to say to you
that we are also then going to say to contesting
number one. What was the note you wanted to give
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to both of them? David as, I think it's important
tell the story, stay in the moment, roach like I'm
expanding what I was saying. You treat it like an
on camera performance, so everything around you was happening. You're
talking to someone, you're listening and answering, and your humanity
will really come out. Then if you stay in the
moment and tell the story so perfect, we will see
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you in a minute for round number three. Thank you,
thank you, thank you. All right, it's great that you're
giving you these notes. It's so helpful, David, it really is.
And let's bring Mike back and give him the same
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one before we start. Hey Mike, Hey, Mike, how are
you Hey? I'm doing well. So we were talking beforehand
and David came up with a great note for both
of our contestants today and we just gave it to
other contestant, and I'd like him to give it to
you as well before we go into round three. David,
you got it. Concentrate on telling the story. Stay in
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the moment. You don't know what happened. Well, you don't
know what's going to happen in the future. If I'm
talking to you like this now, you don't know how
long I'm going to talk to you. I don't know
how long I'm gonna talk to me to you. It's
just going to come out of me. And I have
an idea and I articulated and the words just come.
The character doesn't know he has lines so that they're
written out for him. He just exists in the moment.
So exist at the moment, tell the story and have fun.
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Got it and it will come out more than Yeah.
We also get that nerves get the better of you
and you're in and out of a waiting room and
you kind of did. We totally understand. We get that.
But like we were saying before, we want you to succeed.
We really do. We're look, we love this every week
so we're just looking for somebody that wants to have
some fun, enjoy themselves and has the talent. So we
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know the sixteen that we picked are very talented. We
just want to see what they can do. Now, so
we're going into round three where you know, you get
a line that you have not read yet to see
how you do with some cold readings, and so you'll
see it will be in your chat. Can you see it?
I can't see it all right, So while you take
a moment with that, we're going to have David pick
your character once again. David, a number between one and
(33:00):
six five, and now a number between one and twelve one,
and now a number between one and seven five, and
now a number between one and eleven two. Christie, So
it was five one five two correct? Correct? Okay, so
(33:21):
you are a tiny dog who's thirty years old and Scottish.
Oh that's a good one. Oh boy, Scottish, tiny dog. Okay. Um,
at this time, Robbo ke, I your seriously table more
(33:47):
but time person look up your phone, Cheels, How does
he even affect this number? David talked to someone on
the throne. How did you even get this number? Like
imagine the person there, I was saying before. It's an
on camera performance. It's like you're just acting the scene.
And I would drop the voiceprint and try again with
(34:10):
just your natural voice. Okay, remember and Scottish and Scottish,
So if you can do the Scottish accent, if not,
maybe just a lilt here or there. Some people can't
do accents. That's that's perfectly acceptable. There's an accent trick
if you think you can think of any phrase that
gets you into the accent. Frosted, lucky charms, their magic,
(34:30):
the delicious, you know something that just gives you a
hint of it. Yeah, did you see Braveheart? That's Irish
but not freedom. You know, when you hear it, you
think of one line from from back there you use
that perfect use that perfect a long accent. Yeah, and
(34:51):
I would keep it. I would keep it more in
your natural register than going up into kind of the
falsetto as well. Yeah. Yeah, and we love your voice.
We actually came against a similar thing with another contestant.
I won't say when or who, but it's like, we
love your voice the way that it sounds naturally. So
(35:12):
sometimes when we affect our voice, it actually does us
a disservice, and what did you say, David, You said
something similar. The one word that you just said, donkey
had so much more life and fun in it that
I've heard in the performance. Go into whatever mode that
was that made you say that, and jump right in
and go the second. The second you hopped on the feed,
(35:36):
the first thing you said was I'm a real boy,
and it was the most natural, excited moment that you've
had since you've been on here. And then you kind
of got into now, I need to act audition mode,
and we want you to go back to that original
jumping on, having fun, talking to your friends, doing funny
(35:57):
voices for them, making them laugh, that natural kind of sound.
Do that just with the words we're giving you and
see what happens there. Does that make sense? Yeah? All right,
So if you have to start by going by the way,
I have perfect example Johnny DiMaggio. Johnny DiMaggio is one
of the best voiceover actors out there, and we were
doing Kim Possible for years. He was doing so many
(36:19):
different roles that he always when he'd sit down in
the booth to start Kim Possible, he'd have to go
she go because by saying that one word, that one name,
he got right back into the character again and he
knew the voice he was going to do. So if
saying don't care before you do it is going to
get you into it. Feel free, all right, all right,
so at your pleasure, don't carry at the tone the
(36:45):
time will be Wait, are you seriously calling me time person?
Look at your phone? Jeez, how did you even get
this number? Definitely better David at the end, when you
knew that it was going to end and you stopped
trying as hard, it was the best. And when you said, donkey,
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you know what I'd like you to do, just right now?
What are the first three words of this line that
you've been given at the at the tone the time
will be, So say donkey in the donkey voice, and
then with the same energy, just keep going, just particularly
the donkey. Just just the first few words there for me,
if you could, of course, don't okay at the tone
(37:29):
the time will be. See you've got the energy still
say it stays there? All right, Thank you so much.
Michae will be right back with thank you. You're welcome
so so far, and just to kind of get this
out there, I think I think she's the more natural
actor of the two so far. I also like how
(37:50):
sense she especially that last round, really took the note
she did and made a huge difference when when she
took the note. I think he was struggling a little
bit with kind of getting more into the acting side
of it. I think his nerves are getting the better
of him today. I don't disagree with you. I don't
disagree with you. And and that's one of the things
(38:10):
we have to deal with, is that the fact that
sometimes you're going to be getting lots of notes, and
especially you know, I mean, David, you know this better
than anybody. We'll be sitting in a booth and you'll
go in there and you'll have auditioned one way, and
you'll get in there and they'll go, no, the person
you're standing next to you, guys, now sound too similar.
So you need to change your entire character and you
gotta do it. So yes, so yeah, yeah, exactly, say
(38:31):
yes and figure it out. Uh So. So that's that's important,
to be able to think on your feet. So let's
go back to Tatiana and see what Tatiana can do
with line number three. Hey, Tatiana, how are you good.
How are you good? Thank you? So we are going
to line number three, which you know is the super
secret line that you have not yet. So can you
see have not yet have not gotten a secret line
(38:52):
in the super awes? Have you? Can you see it
there in your chat? Yes? I can? Okay, perfect, So
while you familiarize a little bit yourself at it's like
all of a sudden, the words of stuff, while you
familiarize yourself with the line a little bit. That's the
order they're supposed to go in for the language I'm speaking.
Why don't we have David pick a character for you?
David again for one last time. A number between one
(39:14):
and six two, and now a number between one and
twelve two, and now a number between one and eleven
four and now a number between one and what was
the last one? One? And no, that's it, that's eleven eleven. Sorry,
one to eleven. That's the last one I met. Thanks. Yikes,
So we are two two four two four. I confused myself.
(39:37):
There there we go. It's okay, it's a little two
two four to six. I got this, okay, you are
you are a big chat who's fifteen years old? And
the and the love of your life just left. Oh
I like this one for you, tats yata, Okay, I
do too, And remember as much as you can, keep
it in that natural register and just centrate, as David said, concentrate.
(40:02):
I'm telling the story at your pleasure. Yeah, you just
I mean, by the way, you have a story. You
the love of your life just left. So that's a
lot of meaning behind the line. But that's just that's
just my two cents one. Oh, I love it all.
Go ahead at the tone, the time will be Wait,
(40:24):
are you seriously calling the time person? Look at your phone? Geez,
how did you even get this number? That's great, David.
You want to take the note from the very beginning
of the speech, So the love of your life has
left you, not just at the end of the speech,
but at the beginning too. You do a teeny little
(40:44):
emotional preparation which you won't get too much into here,
but just take a moment to think of something in
your life. Never reveal this to anyone. It's private, something
in your life, someone in your life that you might
love so much if they went away you would feel sad.
So something that makes you ad and start that way
and play it all the way through. However, remember that
it's comedy and you want to kind of play the
(41:07):
real thing, but then maybe over exaggerated to make it funny.
Does that make sense? Yes? All right, Christy, do you
have anything I don't really? I love I love David's
directions in general. But yeah, don't be Yeah, don't be
afraid to just go make some big choices. Yeah, make
some bold choices. Absolutely. I think one of the things
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you can do, if I was to give you a note,
I would say, if you wanted to find a place
in the speech at some point to do a quick
breakdown and then pull it back together to remember, wait,
this is my job. You could be you could find
you could find comedy where you didn't even think there
was any Okay, So if why don't you give it
a try? That's again, that is my opinion. That is
you do with is your performance. You do with it
(41:49):
as you wish, but at your pleasure, give it another try.
At the tone the time will be Wait, are you
seriously still calling the time person? Look at your phone? Jeez,
(42:10):
how do you even get this number? Good? Great? What
do you think, David? There is sadness all the way through?
I mean we're giving you so many notes and so
many levels. It's very many captured sad beautifully. I was
feeling for you. I was too. I could also see
an animated cat. I could also see fifteen years old. Yeah, absolutely,
(42:35):
I thought you took those notes. Great. So we'll be
back with you in a minute. Thank you so much,
so much. All right, let's talk about this great I'm
just gonna say, I think she's got the more, the
more potential between the two Um. I think she does.
We don't really totally know about Mike. It was nerves today,
but we saw what we saw and we have to
go on. It's touchy on all the way from me.
(42:56):
I don't disagree Christy, Yeah, I I do. I think
she has a lot of range. And and the other
thing too about the contest, right, it's not really about
whether or not they're good or not, or whether they
could grow to become really great, you know, voice artists.
I think it's more or less you know where they're
at right now today, Like David was just saying, and
(43:17):
this is what we saw, you know, I mean he
we already said he has the leg up um and
that you know, he has friends who are in this
and now he's had this experience and he has a
has a really decent mic setup for him to you know,
continue playing around um and if he wants it, you know,
he can, he can continue. But I'm not. I don't
want to say I hate this part, David to go
on and tell him again, avoiding it again. It's like
(43:40):
any of us as actors. It's what you do on
the day, and some days you're going to have off days,
and some days you're going to be nervous, and some
days you just it's just not going to be there.
He could wake up tomorrow and be like, oh, I
can't believe that was the day that I had, And
that's unfortunate that that's just the way it works sometimes. UM.
I'm imagining him front him in front of Lisa Schaeffer,
(44:01):
who was our director on Galaxy, and we love Lisa.
Lisa would not have time to teach him how to
act or to direct him in a way to bring
the performance out of him. She once results immediately, and
that's right. We have to see something right, and I
frankly saw from the beginning. This is the other thing
that we're trying to find from the beginning of the day,
(44:23):
let's call it the day to day to the end
of the day. I thought she took the direction better.
I thought she made the most adjustments. I really liked
that last read where she was sad the whole way through.
I thought the natural timbre of her voice was nice,
and I thought it kind of matched what we were
talking about. So I think the I think she clearly
won today. Okay, I agree, all right, So let's why
(44:45):
don't we bring in Mike first and do the horrible
part which we all hate. Yeah, it's not fun. Hey Mike,
how are you. I'm doing all right. How are you?
We're good. Thanks. We want to thank you so much
for joining us and congratulating you again on being making
the top sixteen. Thank you so much. We just think today,
unfortunately your your contestant, your fellow contestant did a little
(45:06):
bit better than you today with taking the some of
the notes. But that is not to say that you
should not continue on this journey because you made it
this far, and you made it this far for a reason,
So I would keep absolutely keep going. Does anybody, David Christie's,
anybody have anything to add. It's just practice, practice, practice,
(45:29):
and finding a coach that you can connect with who
can really make these performances sort of live in the moment.
As Meiser said, acting is living truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.
I would say, find your way toward imagining those imagure,
getting those imaginary circumstances more subtly in your head before
(45:49):
you jump into the performance. Okay, Yeah, I think getting
to know your instruments truly important and what you know,
what you can do, what you might have to interpret
so that you can pull it off. Kind of thing
like when we gave you when we gave you the
Scottish thing. I find that really interesting because you know, sometimes,
like he said, there's trigger words that can get you
(46:10):
to lock into something. And I think if you know
your instrument more and more with coaching, you really might
unlock so much potential in everything that we've heard from
before and moving forward. Yeah, okay, but thank you so
much for joining us, and really no joke, keep going.
We said to the top sixteen that we picked, we
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really believe could all be signed. You just got to
you know, keep working at it and working at it,
and we think he got some serious potential. Well, thank
you so much. I mean it's first of all, it's
an honor to even be in the same room with
all three of you. And yeah, just this was a
win in it of itself, you know, at least. Yeah good.
I'm glad to see it that way. I'm so happy
(46:53):
to hear that. Thank you so much for joining us, Mike,
and good luck in the future, bricollect. Thank you so much,
thank you see yah. Well, now, ladies and gentlemen, the
winner of this round, drumroll please, is Tatiana from California.
But being us, we can't just tell her like that,
so we got a first make or squirm a little bit.
That's part of the fun. So let's bring in Tatiana. Hello, Hey, Tatiana,
(47:18):
how are you how? I'm good. We just want to
thank you so much for joining us and congratulating you
on getting to the top sixteen. We think you did really,
really well today. But unfortunately, um, you're gonna have to
join us again because you are moving on to the
next round of the contest. We had to make it fun.
(47:44):
Tatiana always makes the best of everything, huh. I'd like
to give you kind of an overall note moving forward. Absolutely, Um,
the more stuff you did in your natural register. The
better it was and the better it sounded. So I
think the more you can do in that range, because
(48:05):
again huge potential coming in and saying, hey, I can
do young young people voices. I can do teenage voices. Um,
they're all very natural, they all sound very wonderful like
that kind of stuff that's huge, the super charactery stuff.
Some people can't do it myself, including I can't. I
can't do fifty voices. I just am not that that actor. UM.
(48:28):
So I would concentrate more on doing those kind of
voices and working on the acting aspect of voice actor
um and uh and going from there so uh, you know,
improv things like that. Moving forward, I think you're going
to be very helpful for you, David. You have any
overall notes for touch down, just trust yourself. Um, You've
got a great personality and great instincts. Um, don't try
(48:50):
to say I have to do this voice so it'll
sound the way I wanted to sound. Just live in
the moment and act seeing play rather than a voice
the voices basing on the cake. Okay, Pat Tanny, you
did great. I think, like I even said to the
person that didn't make it, you know, getting to know
your your instrument, and especially as female, like what your
(49:11):
voice is able to do without affecting it Like that,
I think we're we're in love with your natural voice,
which I think is a competitive edge, um, just in
the just in the competition as a whole, because you're female.
We don't so far, we've only seen one or two
I think females and two. I think we're two and
two now think we're even. I think what we made
sure you know, it's like that. Actually it's just how
(49:33):
it ended up. But no, it just ended up that way.
We didn't try that. Ye remember that. I was like
wait wait, but it did end up that way. So
I just think though that like speaking as as a female,
it's like understanding what you can do more and and
maybe just testing yourself between now and the next time
we see you with you know, voices you might hear
in commercials and in radios and like, oh I can
(49:54):
do that, Oh I can do that, Like start to
really have conversations with yourself and just speak in these
different voices. So that and just with what we did today,
you know, we really threw a lot of different things,
different accents and ages, and sizes, so just experiment with that.
We'll see you soon. Sounds good. Congratulations and welcome to
the next round. Thank you so much, Thanks Tatiana. Stonderful day,
(50:16):
you too, You too? Ye Now that sweet is a
ton of fun. David, We cannot thank you more for
helping us out today and being with us and making
this just so much fun and having some just incredible
direction for the actor. Really like, oh my gosh, David,
I have no idea. I was like because I was
(50:38):
in love with him as a human being and you know,
a gorgeous person, and then like now all this, wow,
well I'm glad it could help. It was fun. This
is a blast. Now I know that as a voice
of our actor, you've got nine hundred things you're not
allowed to talk about. What can you talk about some
projects that you've got coming up and people can see you.
(50:59):
You will hear me the Dungeons and Dragons movie in
various creature voices. I had a lot of fun doing that. Cool.
So I have some great roles in the Transformers Rise
of the Beasts movie coming out in June. I'm playing,
well the one that isn't announced yet, but others that
are announced Rhinos and Battletrap, So that's gonna be super fun.
(51:19):
You'll hear me also as Kaido in One Piece the
anime and I'm going to buy first anime convention we've
con in Dallas in two weeks. It'll be fun that
you're by amazing. Yes, you're going to Texas to be
near Christy. And now what about what about social wise?
You are in social media? Can people follow you anywhere?
You're on Twitter? I saw you're on Twitter. Yes, just
on Twitter as at volobos my last name backwards or
(51:42):
my website sobelov dot com. That is wonderful. Thank you,
Thank you so much for joining us, David. You've made
this a wonderful round and helped Tatiana move on to
the Elite eight. We're getting there. We're halfway there. Now
we've got half of our Elite eight picked people. So
half of Sound one is already over. It goes by quick,
(52:03):
absolutely amazing. We want to thank everybody for joining us
again this week, for following the super awesome contest to
become the next big Voice actor. Of course again thanking
everybody over there at Prime Video, thanking everybody a critical
role the legend of Voxmachines Season two is available on
Prime Video. Go watch it. I'm awesome in it, just
saying that out loud. Also thanking all of our friends
(52:23):
over at CESD and of course iHeart for making all
of this happen. Thank you everybody so so much, and remember,
if you think you got what it takes to be
one of us, step up and put your voices where
your mouth is. Thanks everybody, Bye guys. I Hear Voices
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