Round Nine!

I hear fewer voices…and that’s a good thing! 

Because that means the competition has reached the next level…the beginning of the Elite 8! Will and Christy are joined by guest judge Jim Meskimen as they unveil new games and a brand new tie-breaker!

Who will be the first to advance to the next round? Find out as round 9 of “The Super Awesome Contest to Become the Next Big Voice Actor” begins!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi Christy, Hi Will. How are you pretty good?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
How are you? I'm good, I'm as you can tell.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
I am back in our wonderful, amazing state of Connecticut.
I'm back home right now. And do you know how
I knew that?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Because you had a hockey stick on top of your
window and it is not aesthetically positioned. It's like narthonically
just thrown up.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
There with tax. That's exactly right. That's how it's done.
When you're fourteen and you have the only sports team
you have in town is the Heart for Railers.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
That is a Dave Tippett original hockey stick.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Nine people in the audience just went, oh, my god,
Dave Tippett.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So yes, I'm back home.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I used to tell him to like tipp it when
he would make a shot or something or no.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Oh, I have no idea, I don't. I barely remember
that at all. My mom.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I want to say that my mom worked for the whalers.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Really yeah, honestly, my godmother worked at the whaler's store,
so she had like all of the she had all
the all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
I wonder if if they knew each other, that would
be cool, because honestly, my mom was at the Oilers. Okay,
looked at the Oilers when she was in Ohio, and
then she moved over to the Whalers. Now, for anybody
who's from Connecticut, the Whalers Stadium, is it still standing?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Well, we didn't have a stadium. Remember, it was a
It was in a mall. They called it the mall.
It was at the Hertford Civic Center. Yeah, it was
in the Hertvard Civic Center.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Mail.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh no, no, no, that was I don't think that
was ever. Was that a thing when I was growing up,
we had to go to the Heartford Civic Center. It
was just in a mall.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay, well, I need to google this then, because I'm
growing up distinctively and remembering there being a hockey rink
with a whale on the top of it.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Oh god, no, but one of us could be. I
have no idea. You could totally be right.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
My connecticuttiams us Nutmegers.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Anyway, welcome to a wonderful episode of I Hear Voices.
I'm very excited because we are officially speaking of sports
and sports metaphors officially in the Elite eight.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Now we are in round two.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wow of our super awesome contest to become the next
big voice actor.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
We're here, we are forging ahead. I mean, the people
that have been with us for a while listening to
this show, they know just how committed we've been as
judges and as co hosts. Yeah, to get to this point.
Any of milestone that we have on this show, I
feel like is a really big win for you know, you, me,
the whole team, even you as listeners. You know, I

(02:24):
feel like you know you agree, really are invested in
whatever the outcome of this is going to be for somebody,
and we just wanted to thank you for that.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Thank you absolutely, and to keep the thank yous going.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Of course, every week we like to thank everybody who
helped to make this possible for us, you know, including
Prime Video who helped us out with a whole a
whole lot of a bunch of stuff over there with
the people at Critical Role. Don't forget season two of
Vox Mackin. It is for download now. I say this
every week. Check it out, not just because the guest
stars are amazing. I'm on that show, but also because
it truly is a gorgeous animated series. So go check

(02:58):
that out. And of course our wonderful parent company at
iHeart who made everything possible for us and the good
people over there at CEESD, which you know, one of
the prizes is signing to And every time we talk
to an actor about how that's one of the prizes,
they're like, are.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
You kidding me? You win an agency contract?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I mean you but does just an agency. It's like
CSD has been around for a long long time, and
that's that's I mean, in the video game, I've literally
been with William Morris, William Morris's vo department like didn't fail,
but they like they like changed hands and like everyone
got thrown. That's when I went to CESC the first

(03:33):
the first time, and generally speaking, CSD is like, really,
who you want to start your career with?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, if you can, They're they're great. So this is
amazing and we are you know, the first sixteen were great.
We had some weeks where it was so difficult to
pick who was going to move on. It was just
it was crushing to us to have to say goodbye
to certain people because they were just so good.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But somebody was better.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, definitely, But you know, I think that's why I
mean to our credit we're doing a really great job
because and our judicators are doing wonderful jobs as well.
I'll see, they really are, and we're also getting to
know them a little bit, so it still has like
a little bit of an interview aspect to it. Are
you friendly with our judge today?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I am, I'm everybody. I am.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
I've worked with this man for many, many years. He
and I did ThunderCats together back in the day. He
started as an animator and an artist, so I mean
he would come in and I mean, like on the
original ThunderCats, he was this guy was bringing in artwork
while we were recording. That was amazing. But one of
the reasons we brought him here today is because you
hear this man all the time doing all different ad reads,

(04:43):
which is what this round is going to be about.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
And we will explain it all when we get there.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Because we said we were looking for a completely well
rounded voice actor and as voice actors, did you get it?
Christy killed the book? Nice it's starting for you.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I'm sorry I had to kill a book.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Good for you. No, that was a good snack, good one,
but no. So we said we want a well rounded
voiceover actor, and what we do a lot of times
as voiceover actors. The vast majority of the auditions we
do are ad reads.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I'm got to be honest. Have you done ad reads before?

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I have?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah? I absolutely have.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh not. Christy's knocking everything over. The bug is coming
back to haunt you. That's what's happening. It's so fun.
Oh no, I have done plenty of ad reads. That's
you know, you read them in bulk and you get
there and you're it's it's really can be an amazing
aspect of the career of a voiceover actor. And some
of the biggest voiceover actors in the world, including this

(05:38):
man we have today, are I'm going to let him
tell you some of the campaigns that he's done, because
you have heard this man over and over again. Christy,
do you want to tell people who's here today?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Jim maskimin, guys, Jim Maskumin's coming in.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Let's bring him in. I can't wait.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh, there he is, Hey, Jim, good morning, Thank you
so much for joining us.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
And this is Christy Carlson Romano here.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Hi, Jim, Hi Christy, nice to see.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You, I see you. Thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
We are here for a little background Jim, because then
we want to get into you know you and what
you're doing. But so you are going to be our
first judge adjudicator of round two of the Super Awesome
Contest to become the next big voice actor. So we
had forty five hundred entries around and we narrowed it

(06:28):
down to the final sixteen, the Sweet sixteen, and we
did the first round. They played a game called by
the Numbers which they our guests through numbers that they
picked randomly created a character that they then had to
read lines of dialogue in the created character that was
instantly made in front of them. So it was all about,
you know, funny voices and the kind of animation side

(06:53):
of something. But since we're looking for a perfectly well
rounded voice actor to become one of our colleagues, Round
two is called Extra EXTRAE read all about it and
it is all going to be ad reads. And one
of the reasons that we really wanted you here is
because you have been the voice of many different campaigns.
You've done adreads all over the place. So if you

(07:15):
could first tell us a little bit about the video
game animation side of your career, because that has been
amazingly impressive.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Well, I'm also fangirling. I'm fangirling about Big Door Mid
Door Prize because I've watched you on that and I
love you on it. So thank you for entertaining me
on that.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Oh glad you like it. That's great. It's a new
series on Apple TV, the Big Door Prize. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
We just got finished filming season two about two weeks ago.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Your character is wonderful. I love your character.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
That's I get to play Crystal Dowd's father, So that's
a great pleasure.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
It was like, there's a noticeable different dialect in interviewing
right now.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Whenever. Oh yeah, Chrysto Doud, I like to evoke the.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
Great Crystal Dowd because he's charming, much more charming than
I am. So it'd be you know, you'd be well
well positioned to invite him to your show sometime.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
We'd love to.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
But the thing is, so you mean just the accent
right there, one of the things, the jimpression stuff that
you do and the stuff you are doing right now
on the social media machine with the just reading different.
Is it your daughter who comes in and says, hey,
you know it's your daughter?

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Who's my daughter?

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Taylor, who's also a voice actress and an audiobook narrator,
but she helps me with the social medias, so we
think up things to do to throw out there.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm glad you like it. It's incredible.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
So I don't know if you've seen it, Christy, but
somebody he'll be reading, like, you know, a manual for
a new tool or something like that, but then you
just hear his daughter throwing in like now do it
from New York. Now do it, Irish, now do it,
and he's just switching from one to the other after.
It is truly incredible thing to watch. It really is
is a masterclass. Yeah, jimpressions, it's great.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, yeah, all right, I'm following you now. And I
think I have seen them come up on my algorithm,
and I think that's so great that your daughter's also
in the biz and you guys are collaborating in that way.
I think that's so It's also you know, we started
this pod so that we could really, uh, you know,
pull up the curtain on what it's like to have
a community you know, supporting one another in the vo world,

(09:18):
and like we're trying to extend that into a new
opportunity for someone, and I mean, you know, that's just
great that you're you're bringing awareness to the joys of
all this to everybody.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
Yeah, I'm a very lucky guy. I have my family
supports me so much, and my it's it's.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Encouraging my daughter.

Speaker 5 (09:37):
I got her into doing audiobook little roles years ago
when she was just a kid, and so she's grown
up around a microphone and now she's in front of
it all the time.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
I could get behind that, you know. Will I always
talk about how I would I probably wouldn't put my
girls on camera.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
But voiceover would voiceover, okay, that would be That would
be phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
And for the inner child. Heal fill me later anytime.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
And I get to see Jim quite often and randomly
because his mom and I are actually neighbors.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
So I will neighbors with everybody.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Because it's the easiest.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Yeah, it is a long street, That's what I say
it because it's a long street. That's true. So Jim,
can you tell us a little bit about the some
of the major campaigns that you've done when it comes
to these huge national chains and kind of the the
ad reads that you do.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Well, this really was kind of at the very beginning
of my career, which I started in New York City,
which is a big ad town and a big radio town.
And when I started off, it was doing yeah, radio
ads for different campaigns, and many companies are still in
business from that time.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
But this is a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
It's in the eighties, and I kept very, very busy
doing TV and radio campaigns.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Of various sorts.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
I mean everything toothpaste and cars and you know, fast food.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
And I was going to say, not just fast food.
You were the voice of KFC. You're the Colonel forever,
weren't you.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Well, I am the Colonel, That's what I meant. Yeah,
unless you've heard something.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
They do a lot of.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Different on camera kernels as like I done lately, haven't
they They did like something like that, yeah for a
Super Bowl or Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
They recently changed agencies.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
They were with Widen and Kennedy, which is the people
that have originally hired me.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
And I'd worked with him before on a.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Voiceover campaign for Sony and they were looking for a
colonel and I, you know, I grew up listening to
and seeing the Colonel on TV, and so that boy one,
I just can't even race out of my head, plus
a viewpoint and character itself asia rather indelibately tide to
my own destiny. So I felt like, you know, I've

(11:53):
got I've got a good leg up on this, and
they were nice enough to hire me. Now, during that
campaign that White and Kennedy did, they had first hired
Darryl Hammond to portray the colonel, and he did I
think about a year's worth, and then for one reason
or another, they did not.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Rehire Daryl Hammond.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
I think there was a problem of some kind scheduling
or who knows what.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
So they decided, oh, well, we better go with another celebrity.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
And they got into this as I understand this sequence
of well, let's maybe it's just that the Colonel changes.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Every year or every six or eight months, and he.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
Becomes a different celebrity, and we keep people guessing, which
I thought was pretty clever. So they had Jim Gaffigan,
and they had Norm MacDonald and George Hamilton and Reba
McIntyre and probably six or seven others that I missed,
but all during that time they also did more different
I mean, so many different marketing arms to KFC, and
so I found my niche doing the ones that did

(12:51):
not feature the on camera colonel so much, but had
you know, some radio applications or other social media applications,
and so they've kept me pretty busy. I'm really grateful
because there aren't a ton for me anymore of opportunities
in that space like there used to be.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
So it's very nice and I.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Enjoy it, oh man watching. I just watched a video
not too longo about with you actually going through the
drive through at KFC and ordering as the Colonel, which
was asking about the spicy chicken sandwich, which is great.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Chicken schandwich, and which which kind as you get because
you have a variety of flavors.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
That was flavor.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
The thing that I do is is on my own,
just on my own time and my own probably own
for content I put I always once a week I
pair make an archival phone call, you know, as if
it's an unearthed phone recording of Colonel Sanders talking to
some other celebrities. So I've got a ton of those

(13:58):
on my YouTube channel.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Everybody please go check that out and we will make
sure that we get those out there to make sure
everybody knows where to find you.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Honestly, well, he's the best. We couldn't.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I told you this, I told you to start round two.
I was like, jim Meskamon has to be the first one.
We have to start round two. I told you this
is it's.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Well the way to do it. Absolutely, thanks for coming on,
let's get into it.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Thank you so much. Fun. I'm sorry I have to leave, but.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
No, So what we're going to do, if it's okay
with you, Jim, is we're going to bring in our
two contestants. We bring them in one at a time, okay,
and we've given them each they have two essentially fake.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Ad reads that they're going to have to do two
radio spots.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
So they'll do one. One of them will come in
do one radio spot, and then, if it's okay with you,
we give them some notes, you know, give them a
little bit of direction. Then they do it again, and
then we bring in the other contestant. They do it.
They'll do that for two rounds, and then the third
round is a cold read. It is an ad that
neither of them have seen yet, and we'll have to
kind of do on the spot if for some reason
we get to the point where we are saying, wow,

(15:16):
they are too close to call who's gonna win. We
go to the Christy Romano Tiebreaker Challenge, and we will
not even tell you what it is this time. It's
gonna be a lot of fun if we have to
get there, but we will see. So we always take
whichever contestant is here first, and our first contestant we
are welcoming back who killed it in the first round.
We are welcoming back Hannah from Alabama. So if we

(15:37):
could bring Hannah Inabama, great, Hannahbama's coming in in Obama.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
We got to have cute now that there's only eight,
we have to have like cute little like monikers for
them or something.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
You know, Hannahbama works for me Obama. That's good marketing
right there.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
We got to brand every contestant when they come on
there she is he Hello, you are You're Hannahbama? Nowanna,
how are you?

Speaker 6 (16:01):
I'm well, how are y'all?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
We're good?

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Welcome back, congratulations on making it once again to the
Elite eight trademark. And I hope that you are ready
for round two, which is titled Extra EXTRAE read all
about it. So we are going to do straight ad
reads this time sounds no games like last time. No
picking numbers, no doing everything anything like that. We're just

(16:25):
going to see your chops when it comes to your
regular ad read stuff. I'd like to introduce you to
one of the best and hardworking voiceover actors in the
entire industry, jim Meskamon, who is our adjudicator for this
episode and we'll be helping us out. He is the
voice of the Colonel at KFC and eight trigillion other things.

(16:46):
So this is big, big door prize. This is the
best yea many things.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh yeah, Ah's oh yeah, we didn't even get into that.
We can get into that later.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
We're talking.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
You know, Apollo thirteen, he's been in everything.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
So Hannah right now, it is about Hannahbama right now.
Uh so, Hannah, just very quickly, are you are you ready?
Do you have you the two lines we sent you.
I've got the two lines. I must I must comments
on one thing. I'll see that hockey stick behind you.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
You do?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
I do? I play hockey too.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
So this is from hardred Whalers.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
This is an old school I'm back in my hometown, Connecticut,
so this is the heart for whalers. That's so cool.
I appreciate that we will you were here first, so,
but we are going to say very a quick hello
to our contestant number two. We're being back to you
for round one. End line one, Hannahbama, thank you so much,
Thank you so much. We'll see in a bit. And
now we are going to be welcoming in and welcoming back.

(17:37):
I should say, uh, Contestant number two, Christy, what should
we call him? Dylan from Louisiana? What should we uh?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Dylan? Oh gosh, he's from Layette.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Right, Dylan laugh and Dylan yeah laughing, Dylan yet laughing,
Dylan laughing.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
We will work on marketing that name a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Because that's that's a bad versions.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Hey, Dylan, welcome back.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Hey, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
He's got it. Yeah, he's got a moniker, Dylan Duck.
Dylan's I love it. That's what we're using. You are,
Dylan Duck. How are you? Dylan?

Speaker 7 (18:15):
I'm doing just fine. I'm I'm excited to be here.
Got a little bit of the pre show jitters, but
I'm ready to rock and roll.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's okay. The day you're no longer nervous is the
day you've been in the industry too long. That's how
I always look at it. So welcome back, Congratulations once
again on making it to the Elite eight, and we're
all about ad reads today. So as I was telling
your other fellow contestant, there, you know, the games are done.
The fun kind of picking numbers, all that's finished and
we're just going to be seeing your chops when it

(18:44):
comes to it can still be funst but seeing your
chops when it comes to ad read. I'd like to
introduce you to Jim Meskaman, who is one of the
best voiceover people in the business. He has been the
voice of a ton of different things on camera, you
name it. This is the best judge we could possibly
have asked for for round one and he's going to
be helping us out today.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
So are you all set with your your lines dialogue?

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I do, all right? Sounds good, Dylan. We are going
to be back with you in just a second.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know, we take people as they come and contest
and number one was first, So we will come back
in just a minute to start round two, which we
are calling extra Extra read all about it, So we'll
see in.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
A bit in a minute, seeing a bit Dylan Duck
All right, everybody were ready, Here we go.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
We're going to start with round one and we are
going to be bringing Hannah back in. Hey, Hannah, Hello, Hello.
We are all super excited to see what you can do.
And just remember, like a straight ad read, if you
could read line one for us at your pleasure.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
All righty, we take twelve bounces of fresh lean beef,
lay it over an open flame, then cover it with
a blanket of cheddar cheese, bacon, and hallapangnos. Then we
put it down for the night on a bed of
hot and crispy French fries. Good Luck Falling Asleep, The

(20:06):
new Nightmare Burger only from Burger Place, Sweet Dreams, The
Nightmare Burger.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
I like it, Jim, do you have any notes you know?

Speaker 5 (20:19):
I think that was a lovely read. The thing about
boys silver and all performance, in my opinion is, you know,
it's an art form. There's no right or wrong, So
I think the choices that you.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Were made were good.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
I had not seen the script ahead of time, so
it took me by surprise. I was trying to figure
out a little bit more about the copy.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
I think the thing good Luck going to sleep, That's
an odd way to try to sell your food.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Then I realized, oh, yeah, this.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
This is all me.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Yeah, Jim, probably sleep walk tonight or have a lot.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Of acid reflex.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I liked it.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
You know, I would say from a professional viewpoint, which
you will discover to your own displeasure, I'm sure, is
that they would probably have you do that copy quite
a bit quicker, right, sure, which I'm sure you could do.
So the trick is always to put the nuanced and
the feeling that you have when you're describing those things

(21:29):
into a more compressed, condensed form. But for this the
point of this contest, of course, the clock is not
really running. So yeah, I think that was a lovely read.
And I'd actually like to hear you. You are going
to do it again, aren't you. Yeah, that's the way
I'm familiar with the contest. But yeah, so I look
forward to hearing it again.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Jim, I would disagree to it. I would say that the
clock is running. We do want to see her or
be able to go into booth the second shoe wins
right and work, So sixty seconds. If they're hiring you
and they need you to do it faster or we
need it, you know, what is it? Thirty second spot.
Fifteen second spot? How does that work? Jim? Is it
fifteen seconds sometimes?

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Thirty fifth, thirty sixty Yeah, and six six seconds as well.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Wow its superest Instagram.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
I mean, yeah, I don kernel stuff that is just
like I'm going to kind of put up there on.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
The sandwich.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
To be the if there was a tie breaker today,
that might have to be what we did exactly.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
I think I think I think we should try to
do it as as as quickly and as a speech
speech friendly as possible. I think you misspoke a word.
I heard place instead of palace, and.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
So yeahs Burger palace. Ah, it is.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Just to make sure. Yeah, I think accuracy is definitely
a part of this.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Plus, if you're yeah, if you're going into sell you
know a specific product, and you certainly in the audition
don't want to mispronounce the name of the place that's
selling the product. That is totally fair. So that was
going to be one of my notes. I agree with
with both of the other ones. I think a little
quicker and I think I'd like to hear one. Sometimes
people and sometimes this works and it was a great
first take, I thought, But sometimes people when they are

(23:10):
reading ad copy tend to put on an ad copy voice,
you know, like we take six pounds and that can work,
and a lot of times that's going to get you
the gig. Sometimes people are gonna say, let me just
hear it in your natural voice. So instead of kind
of putting on ad read voice, which we have, we
have that take.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
And I think that take was good.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, let's try the second take a little quicker and
maybe just a little more of your natural voice, and
see what that sounds like. Perfect, all right, and then
so act your pleasure.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Please.

Speaker 6 (23:42):
We take twelve ounces of fresh lean beef, lay it
over an open flame, then cover it with a blankket
of cheddar cheese, bacon, and hallapang is. Then we put
it down for the night on a bed of hot
and crispy French fries. Good luck falling asleep the new
Nightmare Burger only from Burger Palace. Sweet.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I thought that was great, Thank you so much, Hannabama,
will be right back with you.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Ah lover a lot of personnelity know, I afraid to laugh,
and it sounded her.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
That was great, right.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
I love loved the little the some of the ad
libs that were in there, and and kind of the yeah,
the laughing at the end.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I thought that was a great second take. Agreed.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yeah, okay, best of the best. Now I'm remembering why
these people.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Won, why they made it, because again it's yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Little direction they now they have a good microphone setup, like,
oh boy, this is for really what.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Do they win? I mean, do you actually get.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
The Jim Oh geez, Jim. So our winners get flown
out to Los Angeles to have lunch with Christy and I.
They win one thousand dollars, They win a session with
uh Emmy Award winning director Sam Regal and Mary McGlynn
from Critical Role, and they signed with CESD for a year.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Get out of here. They signed with CESD for a year. Yep,
so Ard agency to get it.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, this is very legit. So we had a lot
of people help us with this contest. So we're we're
trying to find the best of the best, because they're
signing with the best of the best. I think one
of the rules was you can never have been signed
by an agent before Jim, so I think seeing as
you had kind of a career to this point, you
might not be able to So it's.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Not very Yeah, you're right, gracious, Yeah, unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I love it. Butt man. Oh, we're going to find somebody.
So if we can bring Dylan back in and see
what Dylan can do with our Burger Palace spot. Hey Dylan, Hey,
let's just jump right into it. See what your instincts are.
Line number one, Please, at your pleasure.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
We take twelve ounces of fresh lean beef, lay it
over open flame, then cover with a blanket of cheddar cheese, bacon,
and halapenos. Then we put it down for the Nile
on a bed of hot and crispy French fries. Good
luck falling asleep The Nightmare Burger only from Burger Palace,
Sweet Dreams.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Jim Any notes, very nice.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well, again, this is a TV spot or radio spot.
I think it'll probably you know, if you were hired
for such a thing, you'd have to probably pick up
the pace a little bit more while making it sound
natural so to fit into the you know, the arbitrary
designation of fifteen.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Or thirty or whatever it happens to be.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Plus they've got other effects and bumpers and legal and
who knows what that has to also share the same space.
So probably for the purposes of sounding like a commercial,
which I don't know, may not, may not actually be
what we're going for here, but you want to, you'll.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
Want to, you want to tighten it up a little bit.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
I'm guarantee that they would ask you to do that,
because it seems to be a default kind of direction
to could you do it a little faster.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I've heard it for.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
The last thirty five years, and I don't think it's
going to ever stop. So that's that's all I would say.
I mean, you're finding what you're finding in it, and
you know it's it's a script about burgers. The one
thing I guess that you could take a look at it.
And again, this is an art form. There's no right
or wrong way, absolutely no right or wrong way right.

(27:22):
It is your creation and your decision, and you may
make you make.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
A great choice.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Some other actor makes a great choice and they decide, well,
let's go with this great choice. There's infinite variety, but
you can always think about something in terms of like
a story that has a beginning, the middle and an end,
has a bit of an arc. There's a progress of
the idea of what's happening.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
You know, first you do this, then you do this,
and then you do this. You know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
It's just a sequence. There's no again, no right or
wrong way to do it. But it's something to think of, well,
what's the first part, what's the second bird, and how
does it all wrap up? You know, as if it
was a story, you know, or something like that, something
to look at. If it helps, If it doesn't, I
would jettison it. But that's just like a something I
think of when I'm when I'm working with scripts and

(28:10):
or when I'm directing.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Gotcha, Christy.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
I definitely think pacing would have to be up at
least fifty percent energy, maybe even eighty percent. But when
I say energy, I think I'm like wanting to crave
the burger. I maybe sounding less like the actor's approach
that Jim knows how to take, and I may be
sounding more like a client, but I definitely want to

(28:35):
crave the burger more by using more of like language
that almost feels a little bit more alluring about the
you know, the product that you're selling.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
It's a nightmare burger, or you could.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Do something different in that it is a nightmare burger
and you could play with it being a scary burger
because you have base in your voice. So what do
you think, Jim about making bold choices like that, because
we've seen bold choices done when we create animated characters
in our last round.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
I'm in favorable choices because I think what cuts through.
I mean, at the end of the day, clients, whether
they know it or not, or can articulate it or not,
what they want is something that cuts through and attracts
our attention.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
So if it's the same sort of delivery, I just
don't think it works.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
They may feel confident and more safe choosing that person,
but you can wrap your head around a million different ways.
I think it's always safe to be decisive in your
choices and to just own it, you know, and not
feel like you have to sound like every other freaking
radio commercial you've ever heard in your life.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Right, So definitely faster for me that we both concur
But then in terms of making a bolder choice, I
don't know. I leave it to Will.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well, what do you think I have nothing to add
to that? I think that's exactly right. I think because
every we're kind of all saying the same thing definitely
needs to be quicker. But that's easy. Then it's just
a matter of how do you want to do it?
And sometimes as exactly what Jim is saying, it's a
strange business. Sometimes reading it exactly how you think it
should be read will get you the job, and sometimes
reading it a way that nobody else has thought about

(30:13):
reading it is what gets you the job. It's a
strange kind of world. So we have I would say
we have one that way, and I don't think it
was a bad read. Again, could have been a little faster,
but I like kind of the sultry you get the
kind of almost don't bother me. I'm eating kind of
kind of aspect from it, like the Carl's Junior kind
of thing, and that works. I mean, obviously it's works

(30:35):
for many companies. But let's see if you take a
different tact with it, what would happen. So for yeah,
your next read, switch it up, do whatever you want
and see what happens. I'm a fan off. You're going
to hit the wall anyway, run into it full speed.
That's how I look at it.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
So Dylan, yep, take two Dylan, at your pleasure.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
We take twelve ounces of fresh lean be We lay
it over open flame. Then cover with a blanket of
cheddar cheese, bacon, and halapennas, and then we put it
down for the night on a bed of hot and
crispy French fries. Good luck falling asleep, the new Nightmare
Burger only from Burger Palace, Sweet Dreams.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Thank you very much. We'll be right back with this
nice adjustment. That's fun.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
It was fun.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
I thought it was fun too.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
Took a hard ride there, that was he did, which
is kind of what we asked him to do. He
did it on the spot. Now, Jim, we always kind
of do this just just for our own edification, to
keep it kind of straight in our head. Is there
anybody for you that after the first round stands out
that they're they're a bit ahead.

Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yeah, I mean I do agree that that Hannahbama had
seemed to have a little more coloration, just a little
more she'd made more choices, okay that I thought supported
the the script. So just on that level, she's a
little more confident. You know that that that shows because

(32:01):
you know that second read she did had a lot
of just nice special nuance and.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And you know, again it's arbitrary. I I liked her
read I liked what she did with it.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
I also liked the adjustment that that the other guy
whose name escapes me, Dylan Dylan did. Of course, Dylan
Dylan Duck Dylan made a really nice adjustment. Also would
have gotten my attention if I was in my car
driving along. It would have made me think about it
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
So they're just like, you know, they have their merits.
They both well, let's move.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
To second let's move to the second round then, Like.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
I don't disagree with you, Frankly, nobody, nobody jumped out
at me for you know, for the first round, I
thought they both made good adjustments. I thought the reads
were natural. I thought they both picked up the pace
the second time. So yeah, I I think, uh, I
think that's good. So yeah, let's go to let's go
back to to Hanabama and and we'll see, uh what

(32:57):
the line too brings us? Right, Hey, Hannah, Hello, hello,
welcome back. We are moving to line number two. Sounds good?
And uh yeah again, know anything yet, just jump in
there and let's see what you do perfect at your pleasure.
When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word

(33:19):
comes to mind. Safety, Well, safety and reliability. Oh, and
roomy with all of my kids, I need the space.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
So one word safety reliability roomy, safety reliar roomy.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 6 (33:33):
Well, it is with the new Calenv misted, the Calenv
mist the most safety relyar roomy new SUV on the market.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, it's a thing now, cool, Jim.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
I have a little trouble with this one, just in
terms of that word roomy, which ran together with the
other words. The first time I heard it, I didn't
understand the and then I caught on, Okay, it's roomy.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
And then what's the name of the vehicle? That'sn't made
up vehicle name? Right? It is?

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Of course it's the kal missed. Yes, this is all
my where we can't use real products, Jim. So my
name's not even Will on this podcast, it's it's Rick,
just in case.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
And you're in a secure location right somewhere, I am. So,
what was the name of the car?

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Sorry? The CALLANV missed? Okay, Calendi missed. Okay. Yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
Got the mood very well, of you know, adding on
all that and that sort of sequence. I did have
trouble with just diction on those difficult words. First of all,
the roomy, because roomy kind of ran together with oh yeah.
I think he said something like on roomy, and then

(34:44):
I didn't know what that meant. Because I didn't it
didn't separate out enough. I think that since it's it
becomes a big part of the script, the word roomy.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
So I think in the beginning, if I.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
Was the advertising walk who was direc I would say
we need to billboard roomy a little bit more and say, oh,
and roomy would be one solution, doesn't have to be
the only solution. So because I the first big hunk
of that line, I was like, what did I just hear?

Speaker 2 (35:15):
So I just didn't quite get that word as easy
to fix.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
As far as the delivery and the mood and the style,
I thought that terrific, great choice, Thank you.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
I think that the articulation will help sell it better.
I think that we do it is interesting. I never
thought about it this way. We dance this fine line
of authenticity with our voices, but also with like this
like strange sense of professionalism in the articulation of the words,
which I think you've already kind of got the training
in and I've got Did you have a theater background?

(35:51):
Is that I forgot.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
Actually, no, I have more opera background than anything.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
So I think with opera from what I remember, I
was training a little bit for that, and so much
of you know, the way that you're positioning your mouth
will get the sound out in a particular way, you know. Yes,
so it's the same here, but I think with the
with the points at which you choose to articulate, like
those kinds of things, making it more sing songy, but

(36:18):
also hitting those those consonants and those things. Right, I
personally have had luck in anytime my booke dad reads
you know, I think that helps personally. Sure, So if
you want to try to feel that out a little
bit more, I'll pick up wherever Jim was kind of
mentioning that.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
So sounds good, all right, yeah, I would just I
would agree. I would say the speed was good, but
now enunciate the words and yeah, let's make sure you're
bracketing the product. And other than that, I'd love to
just see, you know, hear another take.

Speaker 6 (36:54):
Sure thing, So.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Any time you would like to go at your pleasure.

Speaker 6 (37:01):
When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word
comes to mind. Safety, well, safety and reliability, Oh and
roomy with all of my kids. I need the space.

Speaker 8 (37:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
So one word safety reliability, roomy, safety relyar roomy. Is
that a thing? Well, it is with the new calenv Mist,
the calend misted the most safety relya roomy new suv.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
On the market.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
Yeah, it's a thing now.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
Thank you very much. We'll be right back with you, Hannah.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Thank you that see.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I thought that that second take to me sounded like
young mom wanting the vehicle. I could hear that in
my I could hear that while driving in my car
like I wouldn't. There are times where you do hear
some ads in your car or on Instagram something like that,
where you go ooh that was who voiced that that
was really strange, where this one I thought sounded very natural.

(38:01):
So that was I thought that second she really took
the notes and really enunciated, And I thought that second
take was great.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, very very understandable.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Christy.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Oh, I think that we could have done a take
three and she would have totally nailed it, because I
think from what she was choosing to do with her pronunciation,
I thought she nailed that part, but she lost a
little bit of the relatability from the first one. But
she didn't have as much fun. But I think that
she's in the pocket, and I think she's a pro.
I think she's a pro.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah, she really is.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
She really seems like she knows what she's doing. Very natural.
Let's bring Dylan back in and see what he does
with the callan v mist the newest SUV on the market.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Ellen, Hey, Dylan, how are you.

Speaker 7 (38:43):
I'm doing just fine. How are you?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
We're doing great? Thank you. We are moving on to
line number two.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
All right, And you know we don't like to get
in your head before we see what she can do,
So go ahead and whatever you like at your pleasure.
You got it.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
When I'm looking for a new vehicle, only one word
comes to mind. Safety, well, safety and reliability.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
Oh and roomy.

Speaker 7 (39:05):
With all of my kids, I need the space. Yeah,
so one word safety, reliability, roomy, safety, relyer roomy.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 7 (39:13):
Well, it is with the new calendar missed the calend
be missed, the most safety, relier, roomy new SUV on
the market. Yeah it's a thing now.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Nice, Yeah, very nice. Jim any notes, good diction, good,
good performance. It occurred to me when you're reading this
that this sounds like a.

Speaker 5 (39:31):
Script that would be more likely to be read by
a female because of the kids reference.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
But that's not your fault, just an observation. I mean,
you can't help it. I thought, Yeah, I actually liked
all your choices.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
I think at the end there's a little missed opportunity
with that last.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Convey what is it safety and.

Speaker 5 (39:59):
The triumph for it of descriptors that last time you
mentioned it, you might put a little you know something
on it, just like here's that crazy word again, kind
of the thought. But that's just a missed opportunity that
you could easily repair in subsequent takes. But you had
many other opportunities that you did not miss.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
I thought were great.

Speaker 5 (40:20):
You gave us a viewpoint and feeling and humor when
it was appropriate, and yeah, I thought you did very well.

Speaker 7 (40:28):
Thank you, Christy.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
I think I think you did good personally. I think
for this next take, I think we want to I
think the pacing was really good. I think you definitely
learned from the first round. But see, I think that
if you're given something, especially on the contest, you have
to make the most of it for the sake of

(40:55):
you know, when you're in when you're in the audition space,
you really can't. You just have to make it your
own no matter what you're given. So I would think
that if they were to have to, if you would
have to make this work right and say that, you know,
I have a lot of kids, they'd probably have babies
crying and they'd have like, you know, stuff in the
background for this to kind of be sold by your voice.

(41:16):
So this would be like, you know, a modern dad
that has a wife that goes to work, so you're
stressed out, you're tired. I still think that even it's
even though it's an ad reed, that you're still a character,
right Like, I still think you have to approach it
and read it within the world and make it believable.
So if you're reading that he has kids, and he's

(41:36):
got all these kids and they all got to fit
into this car and oh my god, and you know,
and you know that the pacing needs to be fast,
and I think you do need to inject it with
some emotion so that it really, like what Jim was saying,
that it impinges upon the listener. And so yeah, that's
my that's my two cents on that. So maybe maybe
try to think about who this person is and the
stresses of needing this car, and this car is the

(41:58):
solution to all these kids.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
That's my two cents.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I thought it was good. I thought it was good.
I liked to read. I thought the pacing was good.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
I think, yeah, bracket, the funny words, jazz hands, the
funny words, if you can. But other than that, I
thought it was good. And let's you know, give it
another take and see what you can do with it.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
You got it at your pleasure.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
When I'm looking for a new vehicle, the only one
word comes to mind safety, well, safety, hand reliability. Oh
and roomy. With all my kids, I need the space. Yeah,
so one word safety reliability, roomy, safety relia, roomy.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Well, it is with the well it is a new
CALENBI missed the Calibi missed the most safety reliar, roomy
new suv on the market. Yeah, it's a thing.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Now, Thank you so much. We'll be right back with you, Dylan.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
His first take was better. I think we got into
his head too much. Yeah, I thought the first natural
take was the better way to go. Frankly, I think
he was a little too frantic on this second one.
So yeah, But I thought his first take was great. Frankly, yep,
I agree, all right.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
I don't know if I thought it was great though.
I mean, look, I think personally, I'm I think Hannah's
acting it for me. Yeah, I think she feels I
think they're both really good. Obviously they would have made
it this far, but I do think that she's more
comfortable in the room. It feels like, no.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Did they. Yeah, I don't disagree.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
But I thought his first take was was the male
version of her take. I thought, I thought was it
was a very natural read. I thought I did. I
thought his first take was a very natural read. And
sometimes your first take is the best one because you're
you're not in your head, you're not thinking about anything
anyone said to you. You're just reading it how you
hear it. And I thought it was it was natural.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I do.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
I think I think you know so far, I would
say she probably is the more natural of the two.
That being said, I thought this set his second round
was pretty close to her second round, I would say, Yeah,
I did. I did. I thought, because again, it's difficult
when you do, like Jim said, I mean, the copy

(44:12):
does sort of lend itself to a female voice, so
you might kind of hear that in your head a
little bit going in. It sounds a little more like
a mom read. So when there's a man doing it,
it might not sound quite as natural. But I thought
he made it sound natural, So I thought, I think
that end time. And that's one of the things that
happens is sometimes you go in and you read it
for stuff that you're not right for, so you do
it a completely different way because you're like, what the hell,

(44:33):
this is a free swing. You know, there there was
holding on the play, so I get a free play
down the field and you just you take a shot.
And I thought, frankly, it was pretty good. So we'll see.
I think we're I think we're we're getting there, but

(44:53):
we will bring Hannah back in for for line number three.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, Jim question.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
So it seems to me, just contest wise, there's a
little bit of an advantage of Hannah always starts.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
It seems like you'd want to stagger that a little bit.
We can totally do that. We can.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I don't have a problem with that at all. We
can easily bring bring Dylan back. Let's bring Dylan back.
I got no problem with that. Hey, Dylan.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Hey, so, as you know, we are going to jump
into line number three now and we're switching up who's
going first, who's going second, So we're bringing you right
back in. And much like last round, this is going
to be a cold reading. So the way that we
gave you the third character last time out of nowhere
the line of dialogue, we're going to do the same

(45:39):
this time. And if you look at your chat, okay,
you should be able to see it should pop up
here any second.

Speaker 7 (45:48):
Yep, I can see it.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
You got it, and take on, don't you know, Take
a little time, and then when you're ready, go ahead
and give it a shot.

Speaker 7 (45:58):
Seriously, what Sarah, what would I do with all the money?
I don't even know, vacation, quit my job, The sky's
the limit. I just know I'm gonna keep playing the
Freetonia State Lottery. You probably won't win, but what the hell,
it's only a buck?

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Nice Jim, he got any notes?

Speaker 5 (46:18):
He probably won't win because you've been up all night
because of that burger, because of the nightmare burger.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And all those kids, so many burgers, and.

Speaker 7 (46:26):
So many and so many more Collenby mists.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Exactly exactly, So I thought I lost the top and
it may have been a glitch with the zoom. Frankly, seriously,
what would I do with all the money? Sounded like
what what to do with all the money? Or there
was something missing in there a syllable And it may
be technical, but I think I think it was a

(46:52):
good read. Boy, you see copy like this all the time,
and I can't say that I've ever or not lately
booked anything like this.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
But again, I like to think.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
I think I mentioned to you this before that there's
there's a sort of a cycle of like it's a sequence.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
So does it go somewhere? Does it keep building?

Speaker 5 (47:10):
And I would think on this one maybe as a
choice artistically, you could build and get more excited as
it goes along, so it's not all just one level
that's all. Or find a dip in it somewhere if
you like. Again, and now this is a cold read,
so you didn't really plan ahead like that, but some
things it's a good thing to do. It's an art,

(47:31):
it's an art form. So but it made me laugh
at the end, for sure, Christy.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
I have no notes. I think that I think I
agree with what Chim said.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Okay, I do too, I would say again cold reading.
So I thought the first cold reading, for the first
time you saw it, I thought it was great. I
thought the energy was good, the pacing was good. I
would say, now that you know what you're doing and
you've read it, maybe just find a couple of peaks
and valleys and you know, give us another another take
with it.

Speaker 7 (47:57):
Seriously, what would I do with all the money? I
don't even know, vacation, quit my job. The sky's the limit.
I just know I'm gonna keep playing the Fredonia State Lottery.
You probably won't win, but what the hell, it's only
a buck.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
That was great. We will be right back with you. Thanks, Dylan,
Thank you, good adjustment. That was a great adjustment. I
thought he was natural.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
He's got that kind of frantic voice, which is exactly
what those state lottery kind of voiceovers always seem to
sound like. We've all read for that stuff.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
He has like a really good every band voice.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so too.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
And I think it's also on the It can be
on the younger register or it can be deeper, and
there's a nice kind of transition between the two, which
is great.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
Let's bring Hannabama back and see what she can do
with it. Hey Hannah, hello, Hello. So we are going
to be going into round three, and round three is
going to be just like like the last game we played,
where you are now going to do a cold read perfect.
So if you look up at your chat, we will
be sending you a new piece of copy and we

(49:09):
will go from there. We won't get in your head
at all before you read it. Will give you some time,
some time to read it, and then you can you
can do.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
With it as you will.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
Curiously, we would I do with all the money I
don't even know vacation, quit my job, and this guy's
the limit. I just know I'm going to keep playing
the free doona state lottery.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
You probably don't.

Speaker 6 (49:34):
Win, but what the hell, it's only a buck, Jim,
it's good.

Speaker 5 (49:43):
I like the acting Fredonia, Free doona. That's a little
thing to repair there. And you probably you said don't
instead of won't to change the meaning a little bit.
But you know, again, this is stuff that you It's
a cold read, so a one hundred percent you probably
you probably have not seen the famous movie Duck Soup

(50:05):
with the Marx Brothers where the country of Fredonia.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, okay, it's yeahale hail free down. Yeah. I think
that's what the gifted copywriter was.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Thank you, thank you very.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Much, Thank you very much. What I liked.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
What I liked very much was that you did not
cleave to uh, the the punctuation. You ran sentences together
in a very natural way. You made you put seriously,
what would I do with all the money in the
one sentence, instead of giving it a big seriously and
giving its own beat.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
I admire that. I think that's I like to do
away with those, you know, if if it's appropriate.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
And I thought that you improved on the script by
omitting those couple of places. So yeah, the only place
where I felt sort of like bumpy was on that
freaking name which is completely unimportant, but which is right
so we can see it.

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Yeah, Christy didn't have a bit of a lag spike there.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
I was like, oh, yeah, well, I've seen us come
up against is people. Not really the seriously like the
exclamation what.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Is that called.

Speaker 6 (51:20):
Exlamatory phrase?

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Yeah, just the yeah with the question mark towards the
end of it, sort of what I do with all
the money. I mean, I'm not I really don't want
to line read, but I do think that it does
seem like, because we talked about this being sort of
almost like a build of excitement, that it seems like
that would be like you're asking me, what would I
do with all the money? Oh my god, I don't
even know. So I do think that the you had

(51:44):
a great natural flow to it that you still want
to go with.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
Okay, Yeah, I don't think we talked with her about
building it.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
We did not, but I think that we did. We
did during the contest, so it's like, Hannah, no, you're fine,
but Hannah, you know, like inter of it building. I
think you could see that Juke had given a note.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Before Yeah, sure, a shot.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
I thought it was good.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
I think yeah, I think now that you've seen it,
maybe just hit some of the words that are there
a little bit more, which they'd tell you just hey,
can you clean it up a little bit. You'd get
that a lot. That's a typical note, Hey can you
just clean it up for us? But I thought the
pacing was good and I thought the acting was good,
and I think those are the two most important things.
So just take another swing and see what happens. Alrighty

(52:27):
go ahead anytime.

Speaker 6 (52:29):
Seriously, what would I do with all the money? I
don't even know vacation, quit my job. The sky's the limit.
I just know I'm going to keep playing the Freedona
State Lottery. You probably won't win. What the hell, it's
only a buck.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
I thought that was good.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Yeah, again, the Fredonia is a note, but it doesn't
it really doesn't matter. It's a fictional place. So I
thought the I thought the reading was good, and we'll
be right back with you.

Speaker 6 (52:59):
Thank you so so much.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Okay, now we come to the big question.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Has do we believe that somebody has clearly won or
do we think we need to go to a tiebreaker challenge?

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Jim, I know you hate to judge. I'm sorry to
put you on the spot. Oh I yeah, yeah, I
mean it's so arbitrary.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
But they're very close in experience and in aptitude, it seems,
and in you know, performance chops. So it's like female voice,
male voice. I think they both have there's a place
for both of them for sure in the industry.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
This is hard. And I was going to say her
and then and then you had mentioned Jim maybe to
put him first, and then I gave that an approach,
a reapproach, and now I'm suck.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
No, I don't disagree. I think they both. And this
is the thing that makes this so difficult.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
As we said from the beginning, the sixteen people that
made it to the finals, could all be signed easily,
all be signed by agents, could all work, could all
have jobs, and I think will if they pursue it.
I think they're especially with now after the pandemic, everything
being remote.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
You don't have to be in LA, you don't have
to do so. I easily see most.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Of our contestants going on to have some sort of
career in the voiceover industry.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Unfortunately, we set out to pick one. So the question
to do it too.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah, So the question is I would not be I
would not be upset, and I'm being totally honest. I
would not be upset going to a tiebreaker challenge with
these two because I think they're both deserving of it.
Some of them made They both at different times, made
really interesting choices. They both took direction, they're both have

(54:52):
a nice pipes, they both can act. They're checking the
boxes that we're looking for. It's it's such a cliche,
but it doesn't feel like there's going to be a
loser this week. There's just gonna be somebody who won.
So I have no problem in going to a tiebreaker.
Does anybody have a problem in going to a tiebreaker
to see who goes first. We're just gonna flip a coin.

(55:15):
I think that's gonna be the best way to do it.
So we're gonna say heads is going to be Hannah
and tails is going to be Dylan. Okay, Heads is Hannah,
Tails is Dylan Heads. So Hannah is going first. So
let's bring Hannah back in and break the horrible news tour.

(55:37):
Hey Hannah, Hello, Okay, So here's the thing. We're going
to be totally honest. We're being honest with everybody going
going down the pipe here. So you did amazing. Your
your fellow contestant did amazing. So we are going to
a tiebreaker challenge this pressure. So you will be getting

(55:58):
another script in your chast all right, And I think
you will recognize this as the wonderful, awful, terrible things
you hear at the end of a you know, a medicine,
you know, some kind of random pill.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
These are all the horrible side effects.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
I'm not going to tell you none of us are
going to tell you how to take this in any way,
shape or form. Do not hear you have to match
anything on television or anything you've heard. Do whatever you
want with this. Just take it however you want to
take it, and we will go from there. Everybody's going
to read it once, okay, and we were just going
to see what you do with it.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
May cause hives, rash, migrainhead, explore to vision, deafness, loss
of taste or smell, memory loss, uncontrollable salvation, memory loss, flatulence,
and death. Do not take if you are pregnant. No
anyone who is pregnant or have even met a pregnant
person necessitol. Tell your doctor you need it now.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Thank you very much, Hannah. We'll be right back with you.

Speaker 6 (57:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (57:01):
Memory loss is in there twice, Thank you very much.
And now we will go and we will bring in Dylan. Hey,
Dylan Hey.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
So here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
We are letting everybody know if this has been a
very tough week, and believe it or not, Round two
is starting with a tie breaker challenge. So we've sent
you another little piece of copy there, got itt me
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
And give yourself some time.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
I think you'll recognize it as kind of one of
those medical reads at the end of the different pill ads.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Do not feel that you have to read it that way.
Read it any way. You choose to do whatever with
it you want.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
Okay, may cause hives, rat may cause hives, rash, my grain, headaches,
blurred vision, deafness, loss of taste and smell, memory and loss,
uncontrollable salivation, memory and loss, flatch, onents and death. Do
not take if you're pregnant, know anyone who is pregnant
or have met or have ever met a pregnant person.
That's that's it all. Tell your doctor you need it now.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
All right, thank you so much. We'll be right back
with you.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
So here's I'm gonna I'm going to clear a winner
on that one. I agree, And here's why. To me,
I'll be honest with you, it has nothing to do
with the read. It has to do with the time
she took before she decided to jump into it. And
I think that matters.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I know she noticed that a couple of times with him.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, And it's it's great that
sometimes you just want to jump in. But she said, no,
I need a moment. She took the time, she took
her time with the copy, and because of that, it
was a better read. And I think, frankly that matters.
That's that's my two cents.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Yeah, I can't can't disagree with that. That was a
better a better read.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
Okay, it's a shame because we only had two guys
in this contest.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I know, we only had two lessons and we are.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Truly trying to be as fair as possible.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
The women have been killing it. I've just been killing it.
It's interesting.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
So we started with an equal number, yeah, full number. Yeah,
we did, and were really close to it.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Yeah, forty five hundred people.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
We narrowed it down. We tried to be as you know,
completely unbiased as we could we and the women have
just been slamming it, I mean, really doing well.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
So it's uh, it's a shame of losing another guy.
But she she was great today.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
He was too, but that last round really decided it
for me. So why don't we bring Dylan back in
and break the horrible news to him? I hate this part,
not me, not it.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
I'll do it. Thanks Christy.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Hey Dylan, how are you?

Speaker 7 (59:41):
I'm doing just for that?

Speaker 2 (59:42):
How are you I'm good.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Thanks. Look, we want to thank you so much. You
have been doing so unbelievably well. It was really tough
this week, it really was. Unfortunately, this is going to
be as far as you're going in the contest, but
you have done so. We've been talking about this and
this is one of the things, as we were saying
to Jim, is we truly believe and we're not just

(01:00:04):
saying this. This is not lip service. We truly believe
that the last the sixteen, the full sixteen, not even
that you made it to the top eight, but the
full sixteen could all be signed, certainly be signed by
an agent, certainly work in the industry. So we definitely
think that you you got to keep going very good.
You made some great choices. Today again it went to

(01:00:25):
a tiebreaker. It was that close. So Dylan, you've just
been a wonderful contestant. Thank you so much, and please
please keep going because you're really really good at this.

Speaker 7 (01:00:36):
Oh no, I will, and thank you very much for
the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
This has been a lot of funky. Nice to meet you, Dylan,
meeting you as well.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
We will see you in the future in a booth. Dylan,
I can guarantee you that's going to happen. Thank you
very much, Thanks my friend, see you again, see you, Hie,
Dylan better. Oh it sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
I hate this so much, bummer.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
I'm just in my head every time I do this,
I just think to myself, at the end, we're going
to get to give somebody a chance to sign with
ced CSD and start their career, and that's going to
be so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
But the getting there sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
I hate it. But let's bring.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Hannah, and you're very good at it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
And everyone has been so gracious that, like they're so awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Yeah, we haven't had anyone cry yet.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
No, Oh god, I don't know what I would do.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
Hey, well, well I got your back. I'll do the
next round of disappointments.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Okay, Okay, that's fine, all right, I.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Will and then I won't be able to sleep, but
I'll call you exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
I haven't slept since we started. Hi, Hannah, Hello, how
are you?

Speaker 6 (01:01:38):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
So we told you this has been a very, very
tough week.

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
It came down to the tie breaker in the first
round and this was a really, really difficult one for us,
and we just wanted to thank you so much for
taking the time and for coming out, and you've been
so good, absolutely and so really just thank you, and
I hope you don't mind moving on to the next
because you are so uh yeah, yes, time I know

(01:02:10):
you fall forward. It's the best I know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
But no, this was I have a bone to pick
with you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
I'm going to be totally honest with you, Hannah. You
did great this week, but so did your fellow contestant.
And I'm just giving you a heads up, and I'm
going to give a heads up to everybody moving on.
The competition is getting a lot stiffer, Yes it is.
So this was not a walk in the park for you.
You did great, don't get me wrong. You did great,
but so did your fellow contestant. This was really really
difficult and we went to the tiebreaker, but you you

(01:02:40):
did a wonderful job. You really did, and we're super
proud of you. And you're the first one moving on
to the to the final four. So totally not trademarks, no, no,
not at all, exactly. No, this is you're doing a
great job. So thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Take a breadma.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
We will get through round two and you will be
onto the next round and going from there. So it's
just going to keep the competition's getting getting tougher.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Hannah Hannabama, Hannahbama the next round.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
To see you next time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
Thank you, bye bye bye.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Oh man, did you see that she just cutted your
chest before she signed off?

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
She was like, that makes that makes it feel better,
That makes it feel better.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
This is the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
It's getting difficult because we also know. Yeah, I do too.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
Jim. Thank you so much for joining us today. We're
sorry that we didn't know we were putting you on
the spot with all the judger.

Speaker 5 (01:03:35):
Oh no problem, I'll go back and I'm sure it's
all over the initial email you sent me, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Apologize it. But but this is why we don't scare Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:03:47):
Before we go, can you let everybody out there know
where they can find you, where they can follow your
stuff in any new projects you have coming out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
I followed you, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
Yes, I'm well social media at Jim Pressions. I'm working
on the new Live Impression show right now and on
TV on Apple TV in the Big Door Prize which
is streaming now and gosh, I guess that's and then
Jim Meskaman dot Com if you really want to, really
want to contact me and get on my.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
Mailing list and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
I love that. While I was telling Christy beforehand how
you were bringing in all that awesome Thundercat stuff before
we actually even work together on ThunderCats.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
So cool. Yeah, that's right. I've done a couple of
iterations of that show. I'm sure there'll be more.

Speaker 10 (01:04:30):
Oh god, I hope so, because it's such a such
a rich world, you'd love we could talk about that day.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Oh god, I appreciate that, Jim, it was so awesome. Well,
thank you so much for joining us. You again, I
know you you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
We might have thrown a curveball at you, but we
could not. When we were going into second round, they said,
you know who to the judges do you want? And
you were the first name I picked. Nice because you're
just you're so good at this and I just I
needed you to help us get into the second round.
So thank you so much for taking the time that,
and everybody who's listening please go out there and follow
because the man is a genie and you will be

(01:05:01):
entertained for hours and hours and hours. It's really something
to watch. So Jim, thank you so much for joining us,
and we will see you again in the future.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Very best. Take care of you both of you. Thanks
great to meet you all right, like you too, Bye,
jim By.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
We made it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
We made it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:16):
We made it round. So we're into uh into round
two here and Tanabama is our first one going through.
And Dylan Dylan was great.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
You know, I remember Dylan's audition tape and I think
we're doing a good job. I'm really here just to
support us right now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Well now it's good, now it is. It's going to
come down to nitpicky stuff. I mean that's why you know,
I watch all these shows like Top Chefs I.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Was going to say, like American Idol and souff.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Yeah, and you you get to the point where I'm
always watching going like, oh, come on, how you can
pick blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
But you do, you get down to the tiny, little
nitty gritty things where it's you know, well worried.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
I'm worried transparently about us having all these women, because
then it becomes so nitpicky at them having similar voices,
you know, when with what the way that we're doing
this is so fair that it's almost like too fair.
Whereas American Idol and those other shows, they're visual and
so you see everyone all at once and you're like, okay,

(01:06:15):
this is a baritone and this is a tenor, this
is okay. I think this person to pair up with,
you know whoever nicely as a mentor. So we are
doing our best to find the person that's right for
this moment. And I think he was a great judge.
I think this was a great episode. Thank you guys
so much for watching and listening and supporting us. We

(01:06:35):
hope that you understand we're in it for the right reasons,
you know, like we're really doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
To we want to find that we do. We're trying
to find the best person that we can. And but
you're right, and I think that's you know, I don't
mind being called out for certain things. I think the
thing Jim said to us, where he's one hundred percent right,
it's like, well, if one person's always starting, then that
might be considered kind of an advantage, so we'll start
switching it up.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I don't have a problem with that at all.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
I think he was I want to think if that's true,
I don't feel like that we've actually done that, But
let us know. Maybe people should DM or something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Yeah, maybe, but I don't have a problem switching it up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
Some persons the first person.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
I don't know, no, but I think I think you're right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
You know, I don't think we've certainly always picked the
first person, but maybe the person who does. Maybe there
is an advantage to always going first. Who knows, So
maybe we just switch it up in the future. I
don't have a problem that maybe we do flip a
coin every time if we're making everything super fair, because
that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to be
as fair and transparent as we possibly can, because all
we're hoping that one day we're going to pick somebody
that we work with.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
I mean, we're tub.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
We said, we're trying to pick a colleague. So we
want more than just whoever it wins. You know, at
any one of these people could be signed there.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
It's there is no reason that an agent or somebody
listening to this episode wouldn't hear Dylan and the stuff
that Dylan did and say, oh, I'll give that, I'll
sign that person for a year. I mean, what the hell,
I'll sign that person for a year. Definitely, it could
totally happen. He was very good at what he did.
Hannah was just she was a little better. And sometimes

(01:08:01):
it's just the day. You know, you have a bad day.
That can happen too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
I have many a day where I just woke up
and couldn't act.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:08:08):
Just you have those days where you're just off, so
you just you hope it doesn't happen on the day
that you're recording. Yeah, but you never know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Yeah. Anyway, thanks everybody for joining us on an awesome
yet very tough episode of I Hear Voices. Thank you
of course to jim Meskaman, who was our wonderful adjudicator.
I love that the adjudicator.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
I'm not going back on it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
I know, I think it's great. We're all in on
Adjudicator for our episode today. Again, thanking all of our
friends over there at Prime Video, everybody over at Critical
Role check out season two of Vox Macina. You can
download that now. Thank you for everybody, of course at
iHeart who's helping us. All our producers are engineer Brian, everybody, Lorraine, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Who's helped us out.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
It's just it's getting more sentimental and more amazing as
we're getting closer and closer to crowning a winner. So
thank you for everybody, of course who was joining us,
and of course I said thank you cest who we
mentioned ninety three times during this episode, because it is
a huge prize. And once again, if you don't realize
how big a prize it is, just look at the
reaction of every actor we tell jim Meskamon today just
went wait what Yeah, it's it is a huge thing

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and could possibly change somebody's life.

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So and thank you mostly to everybody who.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
Is stuck with us through the whole show, through all
of our across the gardens, through everything we did, through
all of our guests up to and including this contest
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
We love you all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Thank you so much for joining us, and we will
be back again next week and moving on. So it's
getting real. I miss you Christy, Oh, I miss you too.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
By the way, it's Ingles Rink in Connecticut. Ingles. It's
I think it's a Yale stadium. But it's really cool looking.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Okay, nice, Yeah, that was I think that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Because the Whaler's played in Hartford, I got to miss
the Whale, I do. They were a terrible hockey team,
and then they went off to Carolina and they won
like the Stanley Cup champion, like three years later or
something like that. Everyone in Hartford was like, ah, I've
got to be getting the giants. Yeah, I'm telling you,
Dave tippets Stick. Are you a Patriots fan? Are you

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I am a Patriots fan? Yah?

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Okay, well, I mean as much as I'm I'm not
a huge football fan, but I love them.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
And now that's everything's gone.

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I think most people do. It is what it is.
Thank you for joining us. Everybody will see you or
hear you or everybody next time.

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Thank you so much.

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Out Nutmeger's out. Thank you, follow us, do all that
good kind of stuff, and we will see you in
the future. Don't forget if you think you have what
it takes to step up to the microphone, put your
voices where your mouth is.

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Thanks everybody I hear.

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