March 20, 2023 • 44 mins
V.O G.O.A.T Rob Paulsen joins Will and Christy in the judging of the second round of “The Super Awesome Contest to Become the Next Big Voice Actor”!
The next two contestants persevered through some extreme issues that threatened at times to bring them both down. Find out who broke and who survived to voice another day. The results…lie ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi Christy, Hey there Will, How are you today? I'm good.
You sound so much better this week. I'm so glad
that you you are not as miserable as you were
last week. Guys, Oh gosh, I was shivering the entire time.
I'm hearing that. It was horrible if poor eg was
even very uncomfortable with my zoom video footage. But talk
(00:20):
about the consummate professional. I'm sorry shivering. You had like
one hundred and three fever and I'm sorry, I'm gonna
say it. You still killed it the whole episode, so
thank you. Yeah, it was well, it was hard not
to because we had such great folks, you know, we
had Dylan and we had Julia, and Julia was you know,
obviously she was talented, but it was great. We just
(00:43):
we just had to eliminate somebody. So today again we
had our first winner. But yeah, Dylan, Dylan from Dylan
from Louisiana, our first moving on to the Round of
Elite eight. But I was so again We've been talking
about this contest for a long time now, yea, And
I was so happy with how Round one went. I'm
was so invested and engage, and the talent was so good.
(01:05):
And it was just Eg was there. And now we
have another celebrity guest coming and helping us this week
with two new contestants. This is like the coolest thing
that's going on right now. For me, it is so awesome.
I think that it's going so well that I'm like,
wait a minute, but why is it going so nice?
Spoken like a true glass is half empty kind of person, like,
(01:26):
wait a minute, I know, but like but really though,
I think, I think when when you care about something
and you put the work in um and and again,
it does come down to community. We have such a
great community. And speaking of community, I just wanted to
shout out to Troy for Vicky, who has been hitting
you know, the Last of Us publicity trail. I've been
(01:50):
seeing him pop up everywhere and it's been so wonderful
to see him, um take to the live action portion
of Last of Us because I'm a fan of the
actual show and he's like really just parts of him
and his interviews have mentioned about how when he was
in the studio growing up in Texas, he said something like,
oh well I just say baby girl, and then that
(02:11):
literally made it to the live action show. You know,
that's cool. He's not on the live action show, right,
I'm sorry. I don't watch it and I don't haven't played. Okay,
he is he is. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, he mentioned
that in our interview too, and I I was so
excited to see him finally pop up and he had
this little arc or whatever, and it was that's great,
(02:32):
really though. It was really cool to be like, I
know him and he law. I'm not going to give
any spoilers away, yeah, don't no spoilers, no spoilers, because
I will watch it, especially now that Okay, he's a
really good actor. Man. Oh, he's a great actor. He's
super talented, super talented. And that reminded me of the fact.
And also there's a lady who's Bokaton right um, and
she apparently was um. Bokaton, I guess is a character
(02:55):
in the Star Wars universe, right, okay, and the Mandalorian
and she she's a she's okay, well, she's a Mandalor
and she's kind of a rogue royal Mandalor. Well, Mandalor's
a place, Mandalorian is the people, Mandalora's the planet. Yeah, perfect,
thank you. I'm nerd enough to know that. And she
I guess I just realized this too, that she was
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also a voice actress who made it to live action.
And you know, John Favreau is super excited to have her,
and it's so cool to see our community sort of
because of the level of talent and acting that and
also just a professionalism, right like she wouldn't want to
they wouldn't want to work with Troy and and and
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her if like it was like they weren't a difficult thing. Yeah, no, no,
I agree. I think it's great. Um, and we're gonna
find the next one, and we're looking for the next
one to join our community, which I'm so excited about,
I really am. I first want to once again very
briefly tell you that we are going into round two
of the super awesome contest to become the next big
voice actor. We have two more contestants coming out, and
(04:00):
again a shout out to our friends at Critical Role,
our friends at Prime Video over there for helping us
out there. Also, two of our prizes are, of course,
the winner gets a coaching session with either or both
Sam regal and and or Mary McGlynn from over there
at the legend of voxmach in a Season two is
(04:22):
available for stream right now on Prime Video. Go check
it out. I'm not just saying that again because I
am on it. It is a phenomenal show, partially because
I'm on it. I'm joking, of course, but now only partially.
We now are going to jump right into round two.
But first of all, we have to meet our celebrity
judge for the day. He is one of the best
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in the business ever, not exaggerating that in any way,
shape or for him. He is also a friend of
the podcast. He is so graciously agreed to come back
and help us decide who's moving on to the next round.
Who's joined us today? Christy, oh my, like the Goat,
Robert Paulson. Rob Paulson's here, Let's get into it. Wow,
(05:05):
wait a minute, the Goat, the Goat, the greatest. Wait
a minute, the greatest of all time. Okay, good, Hi kids,
nice to see you. Well, Hi Christie, nice to see you.
Thank you firstly for having me back and secondly for
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giving me this opportunity to help and something that is
so exciting. This is so cool. We are so just
over the moon that you're here to help us for
round two. So just a little bit so you know
what's going on. We bring we bring in the two contestants.
We bring them in one of the time, okay, and
we play a little game. In our first game for
everybody out there who joined us last week, it is
(05:47):
the same game but with different lines. So the game
we play is called by the Numbers, and what we
are going to do with your help, Rob is you
are going to pick numbers from several categories. We have
a size category, what are you category, an age category,
and a wacky attribute category. By picking random numbers, we're
going to take those four numbers that you picked and
that will create the characters that then our contestants have
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to voice. Two of their three lines were given to
them ahead of time, so they have the lines, but
they don't yet have the characters they're going to be doing,
which will be creating on the spot. Then as a
fun third round, they are thrown a line they have
not seen and we'll have to do a cold reading
with a new character that we create. And then we
would love for you, just because of your amazing expertise
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in the industry, We would love for you after each
round if you want to give them some notes, maybe
tell them a few things they need to do to
focus or slow down or what you know, whatever you
think it's going to be, and then we'll give them
a chance to read the line again and we will
then deliberate and see who moves on. Last week we
had Dylan from We had two amazing contestants last week,
and Dylan from Louisiana absolutely just killed it with everything
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we threw at them. So we have two contestants coming
in today, So here we go. We are going to
bring in contestant number one. This is Hayden from Washington.
He Hayden. Hello, Hey, Hayden, how are you doing good?
How you guys doing good? Thank you? You already got
a set up pipes, so let's hear that. Boy. Oh
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thank you you do radio at all or anything local radio? Hayden,
I do not actually congratulations on being here. We had thousands,
literally thousands of entries, yes, Rob over forty two hundred
entries shut the front door. Are you kidding me? Forty
two hundred entries? And it took us forever. We whittled
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it down to the top sixteen, Hayden, So congratulations on
making the top sixteen. Wow, thank you guys so much.
It's a huge honor. First of all, this is Rob Paulson,
the legendary Rob Paulson will be our guest judge today
and we'll be giving you some notes. But Rob, I'm
also not sure you're aware. It's a perfect time to
remind our audience of what the winner of the super
awesome contest to become the next Voice Actor actually wins.
You win a thousand dollars. You are flown out to
(08:04):
Los Angeles where you have lunch with Christy and I,
you get a coaching session with the wonderful Emmy Award
winning director Sam Regal and or Mary McGlynn from Critical Role,
and of course you sign your one year contract with
CEESD as their brand new client. Good for you, guys.
And by the way, Hayden, if you want to drive out,
I will detail your car as one. I appreciate it.
(08:26):
Thank you. I'll stop buying. We're gonna have to check
with legal. I'm that Robin. I'm not just one trick pony.
I'm a good detailer. I look forward to Hayden. We
cannot wait to jump into it with you. Do you
have your lines? You're ready to go? I think so? Yeah? Okay, perfect.
So we're gonna put you in the waiting room real
quick while we meet your fellow contestant, and we'll be
back to you to start the contest. Awesome. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much. Hello, Danielle, how are you? Hello? Well,
(08:50):
I'm good, Welcome to the show. Congratulations. Hello, you are
here with the amazing Rob Paulson, who is our guest
judge for the day. Rob and I actually know each
other from TikTok. Funny enough. I was just gonna say this,
young lady, talented, young lady has lowered her standards to
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allow me to be wonderful friends, not unlike Christian Will Danielle,
it's a pleasure to meet you officially. You are a
remarkably gifted young woman. Thank you so much. That's amazing.
I'm not on TikTok, so I'm not on TikTok. So
I did not I just heard I would just hear
auditions and we would be picked from there. So I
did not know that you're on TikTok at all. I'm
(09:31):
on TikTok And this truly was a blind We did
a blind casting here. Yeah. Exciting. Oh well, this is
so exciting. I feel I feel a little more at
ease because, funny enough, I've known Rob a little bit longer,
so I'm like, oh my gosh, there's somebody here I know.
I agree. All right, So here we are. We are.
We are going to be jumping into the contest. You
are going to be up against somebody else. So we're
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going to very quickly put you in the waiting room
as we get you have your lines? Are you ready
to go? Yes? I have them read here? Okay, perfect,
So we will be back with you in a moment.
We were going to get back to contestant number one.
Let's jump right into it and get back with Hayden
from Washington. All right, Hayden, so you have your first
line there? I do. Yes, all right. So we're going
to be jumping in to round number one of by
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the Numbers. So here we go, everybody, Rob, if you
would do me a favor, could you pick a number
for me between one and six, three three? Could you
now pick a number between one and twelve eleven? Could
you now pick a number between one and seven two,
and last, but not least a number between one and
eleven six six. Okay, So with these four numbers, Hayden,
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mister Rob Paulson, the amazing mister Rob Paulson, the redoubtable
mister Rob Paulson. I've not heard that today yet has
created a character for you. So here is the character
you are going to be putting on the first line
of dialogue that we you. Okay, So you are a
medium sized Mirr person. So you live underwater. Okay, you
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are five years old and your wacky attribute is the
love of your life just left you. Oh okay, So again,
do with this character whatever you want, whatever you can.
We'll hear what you can do, and then Rob's going
to give you some notes and we're going to go
from there. So all right, do you do? You do?
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You want to hear what the character is? Again? Are
you good? One more time? One more time? You got it?
You are a medium sized Mirr person okay, five years
of age and the love of your life has just
left you. Okay, okay, And again let's see what you
can do with the character. Take it anyway you want
to take it, and we will go from there. So Hayden,
(11:52):
at your pleasure. Well, what's the deal with airlines these days?
Am I? Right? Sorry? Uh uh uh? Now we have
to pay for blankets. Come on, what's next? Looking for
the seat outside? Uh? Uh is this thing on? Well? Uh?
(12:12):
Thanks thanks for having me and to be witchest We
thank you very much. Rob Any notes on Hayden's route
first take. I just have Hayden if you wouldn't mind
doing it again, buddy, take a breath and do it
again them This is a little bit of you know, pressure,
because you're it's it's something that's not sort of usually
in your wheelhouse. I think we owe it to you
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to take a breath and get just get another crack
at it. Not that that wasn't good, Christian and will
will know this. I've not yet metacasting person or director
who's had a problem if I start working and I
was stumbling all over myself or my mind's going and
getting ahead of my voice, and I say, I'm sorry,
do you mind if I start over? Not ever have
I had anybody hold that against me. So uh, frankly,
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you owe it to us and yourself to be as
on point as possible, and if that means taking a breath,
do that. So I just would love to have you
get another shot at it. Okay, Christy, do you have
any notes with there your emotional state. I think you
definitely nailed your emotional state. And then I think I
think sometimes too when we when we choose to do
bold choices as these characters, like a five year old
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could creatively not sound like a five year old, you know,
like we could do a five year old mere person,
but it sounds like a you know, forty year old veteran,
like you know, smoking a cigarette. But you know, make
that choice. We love bold choices. Okay, okay, I agree.
I would say, you know, I'm gonna go with both
the notes that both Rob and Christy just gave you,
and I think you do. Just need to take a
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breath and give it one more shot and remember to
hit your beats and I think that's after that, I
think you're going to be good. So let's give it
one more shot, all right, Hayden? You ready, I think,
So take a breath and at your pleasure. So what's
the deal with airlines? These stays? Am? I right? People?
Now that when you pay for for blankets, come on,
(14:01):
what's nixt hang for the seat? Uh? Is this thing on? Well?
Thanks thanks for having me and Dip your waitress. Great
second take Cayden, Thank you so much, and we will
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be right back to you. Here we go. We are
now back for round one. Danielle. All right, Rob, if
you would please sir a number between one and six five,
and now a number between one and twelve one, and
now a number between one and seven oh two, and
now a number between one and eleven seven. Okay. So
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the character that Rob has created for you is you
are a tiny dog. You are five years old, well
in dog years. Okay, again, she can plan however she likes.
She's five years old. However, you however you want, and
your wacky attribute is you are currently hypothermic, hypothermic tiny dog.
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So you yep, you are a tiny five year old
hypothermic dog. Well you don't know that, you know. What's
however she wants to do it, Danielle, it is up
to you. Your first line, please and at your pleasure. Okay. Oh,
let's video air line now we need today for going on.
(15:34):
What's next saying Oh, unfortunately we're losing you. Unfortunately we're
losing your your audio. Oh yeah, I don't know if
it's a it's a function of it seem to be
when she was raising her voice or being more Yes,
we we had this same problem last time. Some of
the mics are not picking up the higher registers the
way that we did it. Hush and maybe maybe just
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play it a little bit off Mike and a little
farther back, and we'll see if we can get because
I don't think we have any notes at this point,
because we want to make sure that we hear the
performance that you want to give us. So once more,
for the audience, we are You are a dog, you
are five years old, you have you are tiny excuse me,
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a tiny dog that's five years old, and you are
currently hypothermic. So one more time for us, if you
would please Danielle and at your pleasure. What what's the
deal with airlines? These aithe am? I right? People? Now
we need to pay for a blanket? Come on, what's next?
Paying for the seat? Just sing thanks for having me?
Oh I really, I really have no notes. Honestly, I
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think she got everything everything. I don't disagree. I think
it was I think you've I felt the age, I
felt the hypothermia. You could easily animate a dog to
that voice. Rob Any notes no same thing, and you
when you're dealing with technical issues like that, especially under
this circumstances. Very Danielle, it's you did a really excellent job.
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It also helps that when you're a nurse, I've actually
treated Patience with hypothermia. So here you go. Perfect. All right, Well,
thank you so much. We will be right back to you.
We're gonna go once more to our good friend Hayden
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from Washington. Okay, hey, Hayden, are you doing Are you
guys doing good? I'm sorry. I know it's a lot
of sit and wait and sit and wait, but welcome
to the entertainment industry. That's exactly what it's like. Um. So, yeah,
we're going to be moving on to your second line.
You got it? There, yes, there, and once more, if
the venerable Paul once again, sir, a number between one
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and six four, a number between one and twelve two,
a number between one and seven three, and finally a
number between one and eleven nine. Okay, So Hayden, your
second character, you are small cat. You are ten years old,
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and you're shocked suck. Okay, just for my own edification,
is that is that literally like he's been the cat
has been shocked or shocked in terms of like oh
oh my god. That's sort of I guess it's however,
he wants to play it cool. Totally up to you
dealer's choice. So okay, Hayden the second line, please at
your pleasure. So well, sorry. So there was sitting on
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my own park bench, feeding the birds, mining my own business,
when what do I see some guy in a suit
going to the phone booth across the street. Well, take
off the suit, walk out in his pajamas and then
fly into the air. What is going on in this city?
I love? You're actually playing it like you're getting shocked,
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mister Paulson. Any notes. As Will has suggested earlier, there
are no parameters. This is all literally up to you,
and we've not even given you a context in which
this character performs. So I would like to hear you
do one that's as big as you can do it.
I say that because it's I had the good fortune
of directing a couple of series as well, and often
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people aren't personally aware of how big big it is
for them. So just for the exercise, and I'd love
to hear you do that and make everything still be
clear understood. Have your choices been clear and bold, as
Christian Will have suggested, But I would like to have
you do one just really big. Okay, I love that.
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Let's go with that and see what happens next. So
completely Hayden at your pleasure. Great, all right, all right,
So do I was sitting on my favorite park bench,
eating the birds, mining my own business. When when do
I see some kind of suit go into the flowe
booth across the street, take off the suit, walk out
in eating his pajamas, and then slide straight up into
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the air. What is going on in the city? Great?
Second take perfect, Thank you so much, and we will
be right back to you. All right back to uh
our our second wonderful contestant here. They're doing great, they're
doing so well. It's round two, your second line, and
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we are going to do this one more time for you,
mister Paulson. A number between one and six five and
actually no, I'm gonna have you redo that. You picked
one up? I picked five one r already? How about
have I done three yet? Yes? Okay? Four? Did that
one too? Two? Two works? All right, so too? How
about between one and twelve nine? Okay, yep, that works.
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And now between one and seven three we did that one?
But did it? Actually? I think it'll work so we'll
keep we'll keep your three and then between one and
eleven eight? Alright, alright, so can I say it? You please? Do? Okay,
Danielle is going to be a big alien who is
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ten years old that has been stuck in traffic for
six hours. Wow, interesting ten year old law like big
alien who's been stuck in traffic for six hours. Well
it's a totally different character if you're only there for five.
AT's right, So it's cooler, all right, Danielle, at your pleasure?
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All right? So there I am sitting on my favorite
parkment to the birds mine in my own business. Why
what do I say? Some guy in a soup across
the street take off is soup, walk out in this
pajamas and then fly into the air. What is going
on in their tenny? Pretty good? That was great? Uh?
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Rob any notes? Could you give us a few more
and lows where your everything isn't so projected? You're you're
a little bit you know what I mean that. Let's see.
So there I am sitting my favorite part bench feed
the birds mine in my own business. What do I see?
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Some guy in a soup goes into the phone booth
across the street, picks off the soup, walks up in
his pajamas and then flying them in the air. What
is going this siting? That's great? That was great. Yeah,
she's very good. Thank you so much. We will be
right back to you because we do have a special
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secret third round. Uh, here we go. We are going
back to Hayden. Hey, Hayden, how are you. I'm doing
just fine? All right, So we have we're gonna throw
a little wrinkle at you, my friend. We are going
to have a special super secret round three where you
have not yet read the line, so because cold reading
sometime is very important in the industry, and they might
throw something at you last minute. So I don't know
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if you can see your chat on the zoom. Yes,
all right, So as you're reading that, we're gonna have
mister Paulson one more time, sir. Number between one and six, one,
number between one and twelve, one, number between one and seven, three,
and number between one and eleven four. Okay, So, uh,
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your character this time with this new new line of dialogue.
You are a giant dog. You are ten years old,
and you're in the middle of an allergic reaction. Oh dear, interesting. Okay,
So there you go once again, giant dog ten years old,
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middle of an allergic reaction, Hayden at your pleasure. So
so this guy, this guy walks into into the bar
the bartenders. Barttenders says, no, wait, that's not it. So
this horse walks into the bar with the with the
duck under duck under its arm. That's that's that's stunted. Either,
Let's try this again. This horse walks into a bar
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to get to the other side. Nail. That was good.
I definitely felt like he was choking on something. Yeah,
and in mid anaphylactic shock was certainly is certainly interesting.
Rob Any notes, Actually, my new stage name is Anaphylaxis.
I like that. I like that name on the Give
(24:33):
It a Shot tour. Thank you. Yeah, that well as
always really nice. My friend, could you do one where
you you're let's do one where your nose uh is
kind of stuffed up because you are you really are
dealing with the allergy thing and your eyes are watering,
and however that would affect your speaking. Okay, you know, however,
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you can come up with something to be an authentic
nose lug up if you have hay fever. You know,
people who do it can be miserable and that can
be reflected in the sound of the character. Okay, I
would also add, just very quickly, I would also add,
and we didn't I didn't push you on this last time,
but I'd like to see a little more of the
range of the care of the age. Okay, so let's
see if we can see a little bit of the
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ten you here, a little bit more of the ten
year old this time in this take. How about you Christian?
And then Hayden, like your your you have a really
great microphone that you're using today. Could you please just
like talk into the microphone and don't worry about looking
at us for first round? Okay, sure, yeah, just really
use that microphone so we could really hear your tone
and don't worry about looking at us or seeing us.
(25:38):
Just kind of get lost in like what we've heard
in your audition. That's a great that's a very point.
And often especially with with on camera folks who come
into do cartoons, um for obvious reasons, they're used to
engaging characters to the left or to the right, and
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sometimes something as simple as the director or the engineers saying, um, hey, Rob,
you know what we'll take care of that. Um, if
you wouldn't mind, just please keep your head forward. You
can move around and gesticulate all you want, but we'll
handle it. So you really, everybody wants you to be
dealing with what is best for Hayden. Okay, great, great point,
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CHRISTI sure, thank you allre you ready, Hayden, And take
a bar before you go. Yeah, don't rush into it,
all right, perfect, at your pleasure. So this guy wasts
into a bar bartendersis No, wait, that's not it. So
this this this horse he walks into the bar with
the duck unders arm. No, that's not it either. Let's
(26:43):
try this again. Sorry, this this horse walks into a
bar to get to the other side. There we go.
That was great. You took all the direction very well,
I thought, there, Hayden, thank you, thank you. All right,
we'll be right back with you. That was great, Christy,
because he did he played, he played into the microphone
more and we were able to hear it more and
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hear his tone a little better. And that was a
great note. Yeah, I think so much of this has
to do with being able to understand booth at a kid,
and yeah, sure you know. And yeah, I think I
couldn't agree with you more, and we are back. Hello, Danielle.
So we're throwing a little wrinkle here. If you look
at you your chat, you have a new line there
(27:25):
that we're gonna that you have not had a chance
to rehearse yet. We were gonna throw one at your
cold Okay, We're gonna do one last round with you,
mister Paulson, one last time, sir. A number between one
and six? Did I do five yet? And now let's
do five? Five sounds good? Okay? How about between one
and twelve? Okay? Three? You got all right? A number
(27:46):
between one and seven four? Four works? And then a
number between one and eleven ten? Nice Christy. You want
to take it? You want me to read it? I
what was the first? One? Five? Five would make you
any mouse? That is? What was the age? Fifteen? Fifteen?
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And you are afraid of your own shadow? We'll see
that's definitely not Danielle, take it away. Okay. So this
guy walks into a bar and the bartender says, no, no, no, no, weight,
that's not it. Oh. So this horse walks into a
bar with a duck under its dark. No, Oh, that's
(28:30):
not it either. Let me try again. This horse walk
into a bar to get to the other bag. Dail.
That was That was great, Danielle, really really good. One
thing I would like to to hear um just I
would add some I remember, you're afraid of your own shadow.
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Let's add a little bit of fear um into the reading.
But other than that, I got nothing else. Rob yeah,
I uh, Sam as well, just pig because we can.
Would you throw your choice your choice some sort of
not necessarily a dialect, but something that might be specific
to a certain area of the country or another country
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or whatever. The only reason I say that is because
I've had more than a number of characters in which
I've been able to work and get jobs simply because
and I know this has happened to Christie and Will.
We're not limited by what we think the people on
the other side of the glass want. And I say
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that specifically with respect to Pinky, and Pinky was one
of those that I had all kinds of stuff to try.
I was a big fan of the pythons. They were
very instrumental in developing my sense of human my desire
to work on dialects and weird things and placements and
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all that. And it turned out to be a nice gig.
So those are that may be something you come up
without the bat. But this is a good opportunity when
when a producer says, man, Danielle, you're giving us everything
we like we want. We're diving it like Weill said,
you did everything we asked for. Have you got anything?
(30:13):
So whatever it is that this is an opportunity, you say, yeah,
I'm gonna try this, and you never know if that's
going to separate you from the pack a bit. I
got you, all right. So this guy walks into a
box and the box and just said, no, no, wait,
god's not Oh. So this horse walked into a bar
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with a duck under its honor. No, no, oh, let
me try agenda. This horse walked into a bar to
get to the other. That's great. Yeah, I mean yeah,
that's great. Great, And and it sounds all of a sudden,
we got a mouse from Boston. Yeah, exactly, it sounded
(30:56):
like is its Archie Bunker's wife just gonna say it
sounded exactly like. Yeah, it sounded just like you. That
is a voice. That's a voice I developed when I
played Audrey a little. That's exactly so because there's a
different there's a difference between Bath and ba you know
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what I mean. Archie would say, well where's the bar Edith,
but Billy or somebody from Boston will say, where's the
back back? Yeah? Thank you, daniel I appreciate it. We'll
be right back with you. All right, Okay, there we go.
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It is time to deliberate. We're open and honest with
with what we hear and what we've talked about, and
we with the contestants that are coming it is it's
so awesome that they've made it to the top sixteen.
They're all uber talented. We said at the beginning, all
sixteen of the people that we picked could be signed tomorrow.
Forty two hundred people. Yeah, it was crazy. It was
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absolutely crazy. Ok. You got that alone. Is a herculean
task that you guys took on. It was a lot
and we listened to every single entry, so both it
was a lot. It did, but it was worth it.
And I'm going to be totally honest because we've said
from the beginning that doing voices is wonderful, but first
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and foremost, you're a voice actor, and I have to
say that overall, Danielle just is a better actor. Yes,
That is not to say that Hayden is not could
not learn, because you know, I think he if he
takes some classes and kind of works a little bit
more on his acting, he might have something because especially
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his natural speaking voice is great. And I've I've often
said I don't do fifty voices. I am not that guy.
I can't do fifty voices, And a lot of the
voices I do are very similar to my own voice.
So you can have a very good career soundunding like yourself.
But those opportunities to know how to step outside yourself
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and fully invest yourself into a character are things that
traditionally have happened as a result of live performance. She
I think was clearly the better contestant today. Yea, And
the winner of this round is Danielle from Tennessee. Who Okay, So,
(33:29):
why don't we why don't we bring in Well, let's
bring in Hayden first. Why don't we Why don't we
do that? Hey, Hayden, how are you good? How you
guys doing not too bad? You asked that question. How
are you from the last seven minutes we've not seen? Yeah,
just a little bit better. Yeah, but that's the idea.
Just get better and better. Hey, did we want to
congratulate you so much on making it this far. You
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did a great, great job today. But unfortunately this is
going to be the end of the line in the
contest for you or the person and you were up against.
She was just really wonderful today. Um. But please please
do not stop. Yeah, because you're you're very good at
what you do. Your natural voice, your natural register, that
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the pipes that you were gifted with are phenomenal. Um.
Do you have any background performance wise, I mean apart
from a desire to do voice work, and you're clearly
a bright young man with it, as as Will said,
a gifted instrument. Um, I don't, actually, it's just honestly
just doing voices for friends. Over the years. Um, I've
had a few jobs where I've like announced things to people,
(34:34):
like racetracks. I was calling races out and stuff like that.
Your voice is so clear and your enunciation your articulate
to the extent you would like to pursue this, and honestly,
this is the right now. The best reason to do
it is because it makes you so happy. That is
(34:54):
the most the noblest of reasons to pursue it. However,
should you just I had to pursue this, I would
definitely avail yourself if you're interested of maybe doing either
finding or putting together an improv group where you learn
to think on your feet and create characters on the
spur of the moment. That experience will never not serve
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you well. When you're able to think and speak extemporaneously,
your ability as an actor, thinking on your feet will
make you at ease, and it will also make you
a better actor. But man, I'll tell you what for
somebody who just says, hey, this sounds like fun. Yeah,
really great, pal, Yeah, I really appreciate that. Guys, thank you.
Now we said, we said from the beginning Hayden that
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the sixteen people that we picked and again from over
thousands to sixteen all could be signed. You really, this
is not something. If this is something you want to pursue,
Rob is right, you should, and I would look into
an acting class. I would look into an improv class
because you've got the natural. You've got something that can't
be taught, which is the natural pipes. Um So, I
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think if you work a bit on on the acting
and the improv, I think you know, sky's the limit.
Really I agree. My final thought too, is it's just
making those bold choices and and and really having fun
with it going forward. And yeah, just this, this doesn't
have to be the end of the line for you.
It's just a matter of your next step. Thank you, Hayden. Yeah,
(36:24):
thank you guys. It's great opportunity. I will definitely take
all the notes in critiques and I will continue my
craft that way, I can work alongside you guys. One
day you should. I'm sure it'll happen. I'm sure it'll
happen here. Thank you, great guy, great great. His natural
pipes are amazing. Yeah. Oh Danielle, Oh, Danielle, we liked
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you kind of um, but what a kind of maybe,
I don't know. No, you are congratulations. You are going
onto the next round of the contest. Yes, you're going
to not yet, not yet, so congratulations going to the
top eight for the next round, which will get harder.
Our suggestion for you would be, can you can you
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find a mic or snowball or something to use. We
just want to make sure that we give all of
our contestants the best opportunity to make the most of
the opportunity that they have. So congratulations. It was gonna
start getting more difficult, but I'm our past round one
and Rob, do you have any overall notes you would
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like to give Danielle as she moves forward in the contest.
You're obviously very talented and you are you jump in
with both feet your background in theater. That really was
a really wonderful thing for people who are listening to
the podcast to see two people who are talented, but
the one who has the experience that allows you to
(37:51):
become yes and become unself conscious. That is to say,
Danielle has nothing to do with the character that I'm
There's no I hope this is. There's no. You're not reticent.
You go for it, and that's because you have you
have training, you have acting jobs, you have experience, and
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that will serve you really well. Great job, Thank you,
And if I'm wrong, I can be totally confident in
my wrongness. It's fine, forgive me. But I gotta say
this because when these guys are nice enough to I've
been I'm an old Hollywood dog and the number of
times I've gotten a job where at the end of
the audition the producers got anything else. As I said,
(38:33):
I sure do Boom boom boom, boom boom. Great, thanks Rob,
and then I'll get a call Rob, you didn't get
the job because what you did was really not right
for this. However, your choices were so clear, and we're
going to stash this away. And this has happened three
times I can think of over my career where literally
(38:55):
a year, sometimes too later, will the producer call my
agents say, hey, wanted Rob come and read this. I'm
not working. I was at Disney when I met him before.
Now I'm at Warner Brothers. I think I got something
for him. Hey Rob, remember but no, I don't here.
This is what you did that was wrong? Can you
do that again? Sure? And I get the job. Yeah.
(39:15):
So those opportunities are are You're not, as they say,
you're not auditioning just for that particular job. Yeah, oh exactly.
So you know, thank you, thank you, congratulations on making
it to the next round contest to become the next
big voice actor. So that's uh, it's great. We can't
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we can't wait to see where it goes from here.
Thank you so much for joining us, and we will
see you next round the job kiddo, than you welcome, Daniel.
I think that there are no mistakes there, there's no accidents,
right like, so the fact that you guys just happened
and totally independently chat there today, it is a really
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it's why we wanted folks like you to, you know,
try to see if we could, if you could fit
us in for this mentorship, because you truly are a mentor.
So thank you for what you're doing. And I'm sure
that people who are listening to our podcast, you know,
love to know that they can, you know, find you
on TikTok. You're so big. I thank you. I the
only thing big about me is my ego. My talent
(40:23):
is prodigious as well as but thank you very sure,
well deserved. I've been listening to I've always been a
big fan of yourself always. Thanks of course, for those
of you who are interested, please check out Rob Paulson
Voice dot com. There's a lot of cool stuff there,
a lot of cool information. Uh. And I'm you know,
just doing all kinds of fun stuff and travel around
(40:44):
the country and meeting people and doing Animaniac and concert
which is of love and so much and I think
it will there are probably more and more opportunities for
people to make a decent living um doing voice work,
hopefully in a saga through away. There may come a
point at which you don't have to necessarily be in
LA anymore to work Universal, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, etc. Etc. Etc. Yeah,
(41:11):
which is why we're we're working to find the next
person who's going to join us all in the booth.
Right and Rob, we cannot thank you enough for taking
the time to mentor and everything. It is just so cool,
Christy and will I I'm very flattered that you would
have me back, And congratulations to everybody and folks listening.
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You pick the right people to listen to. They know
exactly what they're talking about. They are they are the
real deal. They are kind, down to earth, utterly devoid
of pretense, and they just as evidenced by what they've
done visa be this this particular event, they really are
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people who care about you guys, because they get it.
They know, they know, they know how much you want it.
It is a total jones. It never goes away. It
doesn't to give you an opportunity to be given an
opportunity by two folks who really know what they're talking
about and more importantly, know what you're about is a
(42:23):
is a gift, so take advantage of it. Thank you
so much, Rob. We cannot thank you enough. And we'll
have you back. We're gonna need We're gonna have you
back down the line. You're gonna be there to help
us pick the winner. I promise, Hey, next time. That's awesome.
Thank you so much, Rob as Bye bye bye, Rob,
the amazing Rob Paulson. That is a living legend for
(42:46):
so many reasons. So officially, the winner of this round
is Danielle from Tennessee. Congratulations. She will of course be
joining our first round winner Dylan from Louisiana. We got
some some the South representing so far. I guess we do,
but I mean, you couldn't tell. I didn't even know.
They didn't even have accents or anything. So no, but man,
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they're both good and we are moving forward. It's going
to get more and more competitive, so we'll make sure
absolutely is. So please don't forget to join us next
week for round three. Two more contestants, another incredible guest
judge who are going to come and help us find
the next big voice actor. So much fun that we
can actually do this every week, and once again a
shout out to our friends at Prime Video, over there
(43:29):
at Amazon, our friends a critical role who helped out
with everything, our friends at CESD who helped out with everything,
and of course our favorite people in the world over
at iHeart that helped make all of this happen. We
could not have done it without iHeart and our incredible
producers and our engineers and everybody that has helped make
this dream happen. So so cool. Join us again next week.
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us and don't forget. If you think you have what
it takes to be one of us, step up to
the microphone and put your voices where your mouth is.
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Hi Christy, Hey there Will, How are you today? I'm good.
You sound so much better this week. I'm so glad
that you you are not as miserable as you were
last week. Guys, Oh gosh, I was shivering the entire time.
I'm hearing that. It was horrible if poor eg was
even very uncomfortable with my zoom video footage. But talk
(00:20):
about the consummate professional. I'm sorry shivering. You had like
one hundred and three fever and I'm sorry, I'm gonna
say it. You still killed it the whole episode, so
thank you. Yeah, it was well, it was hard not
to because we had such great folks, you know, we
had Dylan and we had Julia, and Julia was you know,
obviously she was talented, but it was great. We just
(00:43):
we just had to eliminate somebody. So today again we
had our first winner. But yeah, Dylan, Dylan from Dylan
from Louisiana, our first moving on to the Round of
Elite eight. But I was so again We've been talking
about this contest for a long time now, yea, And
I was so happy with how Round one went. I'm
was so invested and engage, and the talent was so good.
(01:05):
And it was just Eg was there. And now we
have another celebrity guest coming and helping us this week
with two new contestants. This is like the coolest thing
that's going on right now. For me, it is so awesome.
I think that it's going so well that I'm like,
wait a minute, but why is it going so nice?
Spoken like a true glass is half empty kind of person, like,
(01:26):
wait a minute, I know, but like but really though,
I think, I think when when you care about something
and you put the work in um and and again,
it does come down to community. We have such a
great community. And speaking of community, I just wanted to
shout out to Troy for Vicky, who has been hitting
you know, the Last of Us publicity trail. I've been
(01:50):
seeing him pop up everywhere and it's been so wonderful
to see him, um take to the live action portion
of Last of Us because I'm a fan of the
actual show and he's like really just parts of him
and his interviews have mentioned about how when he was
in the studio growing up in Texas, he said something like,
oh well I just say baby girl, and then that
(02:11):
literally made it to the live action show. You know,
that's cool. He's not on the live action show, right,
I'm sorry. I don't watch it and I don't haven't played. Okay,
he is he is. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, he mentioned
that in our interview too, and I I was so
excited to see him finally pop up and he had
this little arc or whatever, and it was that's great,
(02:32):
really though. It was really cool to be like, I
know him and he law. I'm not going to give
any spoilers away, yeah, don't no spoilers, no spoilers, because
I will watch it, especially now that Okay, he's a
really good actor. Man. Oh, he's a great actor. He's
super talented, super talented. And that reminded me of the fact.
And also there's a lady who's Bokaton right um, and
she apparently was um. Bokaton, I guess is a character
(02:55):
in the Star Wars universe, right, okay, and the Mandalorian
and she she's a she's okay, well, she's a Mandalor
and she's kind of a rogue royal Mandalor. Well, Mandalor's
a place, Mandalorian is the people, Mandalora's the planet. Yeah, perfect,
thank you. I'm nerd enough to know that. And she
I guess I just realized this too, that she was
(03:17):
also a voice actress who made it to live action.
And you know, John Favreau is super excited to have her,
and it's so cool to see our community sort of
because of the level of talent and acting that and
also just a professionalism, right like she wouldn't want to
they wouldn't want to work with Troy and and and
(03:38):
her if like it was like they weren't a difficult thing. Yeah, no, no,
I agree. I think it's great. Um, and we're gonna
find the next one, and we're looking for the next
one to join our community, which I'm so excited about,
I really am. I first want to once again very
briefly tell you that we are going into round two
of the super awesome contest to become the next big
voice actor. We have two more contestants coming out, and
(04:00):
again a shout out to our friends at Critical Role,
our friends at Prime Video over there for helping us
out there. Also, two of our prizes are, of course,
the winner gets a coaching session with either or both
Sam regal and and or Mary McGlynn from over there
at the legend of voxmach in a Season two is
(04:22):
available for stream right now on Prime Video. Go check
it out. I'm not just saying that again because I
am on it. It is a phenomenal show, partially because
I'm on it. I'm joking, of course, but now only partially.
We now are going to jump right into round two.
But first of all, we have to meet our celebrity
judge for the day. He is one of the best
(04:43):
in the business ever, not exaggerating that in any way,
shape or for him. He is also a friend of
the podcast. He is so graciously agreed to come back
and help us decide who's moving on to the next round.
Who's joined us today? Christy, oh my, like the Goat,
Robert Paulson. Rob Paulson's here, Let's get into it. Wow,
(05:05):
wait a minute, the Goat, the Goat, the greatest. Wait
a minute, the greatest of all time. Okay, good, Hi kids,
nice to see you. Well, Hi Christie, nice to see you.
Thank you firstly for having me back and secondly for
(05:25):
giving me this opportunity to help and something that is
so exciting. This is so cool. We are so just
over the moon that you're here to help us for
round two. So just a little bit so you know
what's going on. We bring we bring in the two contestants.
We bring them in one of the time, okay, and
we play a little game. In our first game for
everybody out there who joined us last week, it is
(05:47):
the same game but with different lines. So the game
we play is called by the Numbers, and what we
are going to do with your help, Rob is you
are going to pick numbers from several categories. We have
a size category, what are you category, an age category,
and a wacky attribute category. By picking random numbers, we're
going to take those four numbers that you picked and
that will create the characters that then our contestants have
(06:11):
to voice. Two of their three lines were given to
them ahead of time, so they have the lines, but
they don't yet have the characters they're going to be doing,
which will be creating on the spot. Then as a
fun third round, they are thrown a line they have
not seen and we'll have to do a cold reading
with a new character that we create. And then we
would love for you, just because of your amazing expertise
(06:34):
in the industry, We would love for you after each
round if you want to give them some notes, maybe
tell them a few things they need to do to
focus or slow down or what you know, whatever you
think it's going to be, and then we'll give them
a chance to read the line again and we will
then deliberate and see who moves on. Last week we
had Dylan from We had two amazing contestants last week,
and Dylan from Louisiana absolutely just killed it with everything
(06:57):
we threw at them. So we have two contestants coming
in today, So here we go. We are going to
bring in contestant number one. This is Hayden from Washington.
He Hayden. Hello, Hey, Hayden, how are you doing good?
How you guys doing good? Thank you? You already got
a set up pipes, so let's hear that. Boy. Oh
(07:19):
thank you you do radio at all or anything local radio? Hayden,
I do not actually congratulations on being here. We had thousands,
literally thousands of entries, yes, Rob over forty two hundred
entries shut the front door. Are you kidding me? Forty
two hundred entries? And it took us forever. We whittled
(07:41):
it down to the top sixteen, Hayden, So congratulations on
making the top sixteen. Wow, thank you guys so much.
It's a huge honor. First of all, this is Rob Paulson,
the legendary Rob Paulson will be our guest judge today
and we'll be giving you some notes. But Rob, I'm
also not sure you're aware. It's a perfect time to
remind our audience of what the winner of the super
awesome contest to become the next Voice Actor actually wins.
You win a thousand dollars. You are flown out to
(08:04):
Los Angeles where you have lunch with Christy and I,
you get a coaching session with the wonderful Emmy Award
winning director Sam Regal and or Mary McGlynn from Critical Role,
and of course you sign your one year contract with
CEESD as their brand new client. Good for you, guys.
And by the way, Hayden, if you want to drive out,
I will detail your car as one. I appreciate it.
(08:26):
Thank you. I'll stop buying. We're gonna have to check
with legal. I'm that Robin. I'm not just one trick pony.
I'm a good detailer. I look forward to Hayden. We
cannot wait to jump into it with you. Do you
have your lines? You're ready to go? I think so? Yeah? Okay, perfect.
So we're gonna put you in the waiting room real
quick while we meet your fellow contestant, and we'll be
back to you to start the contest. Awesome. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much. Hello, Danielle, how are you? Hello? Well,
(08:50):
I'm good, Welcome to the show. Congratulations. Hello, you are
here with the amazing Rob Paulson, who is our guest
judge for the day. Rob and I actually know each
other from TikTok. Funny enough. I was just gonna say this,
young lady, talented, young lady has lowered her standards to
(09:10):
allow me to be wonderful friends, not unlike Christian Will Danielle,
it's a pleasure to meet you officially. You are a
remarkably gifted young woman. Thank you so much. That's amazing.
I'm not on TikTok, so I'm not on TikTok. So
I did not I just heard I would just hear
auditions and we would be picked from there. So I
did not know that you're on TikTok at all. I'm
(09:31):
on TikTok And this truly was a blind We did
a blind casting here. Yeah. Exciting. Oh well, this is
so exciting. I feel I feel a little more at
ease because, funny enough, I've known Rob a little bit longer,
so I'm like, oh my gosh, there's somebody here I know.
I agree. All right, So here we are. We are.
We are going to be jumping into the contest. You
are going to be up against somebody else. So we're
(09:52):
going to very quickly put you in the waiting room
as we get you have your lines? Are you ready
to go? Yes? I have them read here? Okay, perfect,
So we will be back with you in a moment.
We were going to get back to contestant number one.
Let's jump right into it and get back with Hayden
from Washington. All right, Hayden, so you have your first
line there? I do. Yes, all right. So we're going
to be jumping in to round number one of by
(10:15):
the Numbers. So here we go, everybody, Rob, if you
would do me a favor, could you pick a number
for me between one and six, three three? Could you
now pick a number between one and twelve eleven? Could
you now pick a number between one and seven two,
and last, but not least a number between one and
eleven six six. Okay, So with these four numbers, Hayden,
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mister Rob Paulson, the amazing mister Rob Paulson, the redoubtable
mister Rob Paulson. I've not heard that today yet has
created a character for you. So here is the character
you are going to be putting on the first line
of dialogue that we you. Okay, So you are a
medium sized Mirr person. So you live underwater. Okay, you
(11:09):
are five years old and your wacky attribute is the
love of your life just left you. Oh okay, So again,
do with this character whatever you want, whatever you can.
We'll hear what you can do, and then Rob's going
to give you some notes and we're going to go
from there. So all right, do you do? You do?
(11:31):
You want to hear what the character is? Again? Are
you good? One more time? One more time? You got it?
You are a medium sized Mirr person okay, five years
of age and the love of your life has just
left you. Okay, okay, And again let's see what you
can do with the character. Take it anyway you want
to take it, and we will go from there. So Hayden,
(11:52):
at your pleasure. Well, what's the deal with airlines these days?
Am I? Right? Sorry? Uh uh uh? Now we have
to pay for blankets. Come on, what's next? Looking for
the seat outside? Uh? Uh is this thing on? Well? Uh?
(12:12):
Thanks thanks for having me and to be witchest We
thank you very much. Rob Any notes on Hayden's route
first take. I just have Hayden if you wouldn't mind
doing it again, buddy, take a breath and do it
again them This is a little bit of you know, pressure,
because you're it's it's something that's not sort of usually
in your wheelhouse. I think we owe it to you
(12:34):
to take a breath and get just get another crack
at it. Not that that wasn't good, Christian and will
will know this. I've not yet metacasting person or director
who's had a problem if I start working and I
was stumbling all over myself or my mind's going and
getting ahead of my voice, and I say, I'm sorry,
do you mind if I start over? Not ever have
I had anybody hold that against me. So uh, frankly,
(12:57):
you owe it to us and yourself to be as
on point as possible, and if that means taking a breath,
do that. So I just would love to have you
get another shot at it. Okay, Christy, do you have
any notes with there your emotional state. I think you
definitely nailed your emotional state. And then I think I
think sometimes too when we when we choose to do
bold choices as these characters, like a five year old
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could creatively not sound like a five year old, you know,
like we could do a five year old mere person,
but it sounds like a you know, forty year old veteran,
like you know, smoking a cigarette. But you know, make
that choice. We love bold choices. Okay, okay, I agree.
I would say, you know, I'm gonna go with both
the notes that both Rob and Christy just gave you,
and I think you do. Just need to take a
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breath and give it one more shot and remember to
hit your beats and I think that's after that, I
think you're going to be good. So let's give it
one more shot, all right, Hayden? You ready, I think,
So take a breath and at your pleasure. So what's
the deal with airlines? These stays? Am? I right? People?
Now that when you pay for for blankets, come on,
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what's nixt hang for the seat? Uh? Is this thing on? Well?
Thanks thanks for having me and Dip your waitress. Great
second take Cayden, Thank you so much, and we will
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be right back to you. Here we go. We are
now back for round one. Danielle. All right, Rob, if
you would please sir a number between one and six five,
and now a number between one and twelve one, and
now a number between one and seven oh two, and
now a number between one and eleven seven. Okay. So
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the character that Rob has created for you is you
are a tiny dog. You are five years old, well
in dog years. Okay, again, she can plan however she likes.
She's five years old. However, you however you want, and
your wacky attribute is you are currently hypothermic, hypothermic tiny dog.
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So you yep, you are a tiny five year old
hypothermic dog. Well you don't know that, you know. What's
however she wants to do it, Danielle, it is up
to you. Your first line, please and at your pleasure. Okay. Oh,
let's video air line now we need today for going on.
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What's next saying Oh, unfortunately we're losing you. Unfortunately we're
losing your your audio. Oh yeah, I don't know if
it's a it's a function of it seem to be
when she was raising her voice or being more Yes,
we we had this same problem last time. Some of
the mics are not picking up the higher registers the
way that we did it. Hush and maybe maybe just
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play it a little bit off Mike and a little
farther back, and we'll see if we can get because
I don't think we have any notes at this point,
because we want to make sure that we hear the
performance that you want to give us. So once more,
for the audience, we are You are a dog, you
are five years old, you have you are tiny excuse me,
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a tiny dog that's five years old, and you are
currently hypothermic. So one more time for us, if you
would please Danielle and at your pleasure. What what's the
deal with airlines? These aithe am? I right? People? Now
we need to pay for a blanket? Come on, what's next?
Paying for the seat? Just sing thanks for having me?
Oh I really, I really have no notes. Honestly, I
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think she got everything everything. I don't disagree. I think
it was I think you've I felt the age, I
felt the hypothermia. You could easily animate a dog to
that voice. Rob Any notes no same thing, and you
when you're dealing with technical issues like that, especially under
this circumstances. Very Danielle, it's you did a really excellent job.
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It also helps that when you're a nurse, I've actually
treated Patience with hypothermia. So here you go. Perfect. All right, Well,
thank you so much. We will be right back to you.
We're gonna go once more to our good friend Hayden
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from Washington. Okay, hey, Hayden, are you doing Are you
guys doing good? I'm sorry. I know it's a lot
of sit and wait and sit and wait, but welcome
to the entertainment industry. That's exactly what it's like. Um. So, yeah,
we're going to be moving on to your second line.
You got it? There, yes, there, and once more, if
the venerable Paul once again, sir, a number between one
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and six four, a number between one and twelve two,
a number between one and seven three, and finally a
number between one and eleven nine. Okay, So Hayden, your
second character, you are small cat. You are ten years old,
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and you're shocked suck. Okay, just for my own edification,
is that is that literally like he's been the cat
has been shocked or shocked in terms of like oh
oh my god. That's sort of I guess it's however,
he wants to play it cool. Totally up to you
dealer's choice. So okay, Hayden the second line, please at
your pleasure. So well, sorry. So there was sitting on
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my own park bench, feeding the birds, mining my own business,
when what do I see some guy in a suit
going to the phone booth across the street. Well, take
off the suit, walk out in his pajamas and then
fly into the air. What is going on in this city?
I love? You're actually playing it like you're getting shocked,
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mister Paulson. Any notes. As Will has suggested earlier, there
are no parameters. This is all literally up to you,
and we've not even given you a context in which
this character performs. So I would like to hear you
do one that's as big as you can do it.
I say that because it's I had the good fortune
of directing a couple of series as well, and often
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people aren't personally aware of how big big it is
for them. So just for the exercise, and I'd love
to hear you do that and make everything still be
clear understood. Have your choices been clear and bold, as
Christian Will have suggested, But I would like to have
you do one just really big. Okay, I love that.
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Let's go with that and see what happens next. So
completely Hayden at your pleasure. Great, all right, all right,
So do I was sitting on my favorite park bench,
eating the birds, mining my own business. When when do
I see some kind of suit go into the flowe
booth across the street, take off the suit, walk out
in eating his pajamas, and then slide straight up into
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the air. What is going on in the city? Great?
Second take perfect, Thank you so much, and we will
be right back to you. All right back to uh
our our second wonderful contestant here. They're doing great, they're
doing so well. It's round two, your second line, and
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we are going to do this one more time for you,
mister Paulson. A number between one and six five and
actually no, I'm gonna have you redo that. You picked
one up? I picked five one r already? How about
have I done three yet? Yes? Okay? Four? Did that
one too? Two? Two works? All right, so too? How
about between one and twelve nine? Okay, yep, that works.
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And now between one and seven three we did that one?
But did it? Actually? I think it'll work so we'll
keep we'll keep your three and then between one and
eleven eight? Alright, alright, so can I say it? You please? Do? Okay,
Danielle is going to be a big alien who is
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ten years old that has been stuck in traffic for
six hours. Wow, interesting ten year old law like big
alien who's been stuck in traffic for six hours. Well
it's a totally different character if you're only there for five.
AT's right, So it's cooler, all right, Danielle, at your pleasure?
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All right? So there I am sitting on my favorite
parkment to the birds mine in my own business. Why
what do I say? Some guy in a soup across
the street take off is soup, walk out in this
pajamas and then fly into the air. What is going
on in their tenny? Pretty good? That was great? Uh?
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Rob any notes? Could you give us a few more
and lows where your everything isn't so projected? You're you're
a little bit you know what I mean that. Let's see.
So there I am sitting my favorite part bench feed
the birds mine in my own business. What do I see?
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Some guy in a soup goes into the phone booth
across the street, picks off the soup, walks up in
his pajamas and then flying them in the air. What
is going this siting? That's great? That was great. Yeah,
she's very good. Thank you so much. We will be
right back to you because we do have a special
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secret third round. Uh, here we go. We are going
back to Hayden. Hey, Hayden, how are you. I'm doing
just fine? All right, So we have we're gonna throw
a little wrinkle at you, my friend. We are going
to have a special super secret round three where you
have not yet read the line, so because cold reading
sometime is very important in the industry, and they might
throw something at you last minute. So I don't know
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if you can see your chat on the zoom. Yes,
all right, So as you're reading that, we're gonna have
mister Paulson one more time, sir. Number between one and six, one,
number between one and twelve, one, number between one and seven, three,
and number between one and eleven four. Okay, So, uh,
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your character this time with this new new line of dialogue.
You are a giant dog. You are ten years old,
and you're in the middle of an allergic reaction. Oh dear, interesting. Okay,
So there you go once again, giant dog ten years old,
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middle of an allergic reaction, Hayden at your pleasure. So
so this guy, this guy walks into into the bar
the bartenders. Barttenders says, no, wait, that's not it. So
this horse walks into the bar with the with the
duck under duck under its arm. That's that's that's stunted. Either,
Let's try this again. This horse walks into a bar
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to get to the other side. Nail. That was good.
I definitely felt like he was choking on something. Yeah,
and in mid anaphylactic shock was certainly is certainly interesting.
Rob Any notes, Actually, my new stage name is Anaphylaxis.
I like that. I like that name on the Give
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It a Shot tour. Thank you. Yeah, that well as
always really nice. My friend, could you do one where
you you're let's do one where your nose uh is
kind of stuffed up because you are you really are
dealing with the allergy thing and your eyes are watering,
and however that would affect your speaking. Okay, you know, however,
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you can come up with something to be an authentic
nose lug up if you have hay fever. You know,
people who do it can be miserable and that can
be reflected in the sound of the character. Okay, I
would also add, just very quickly, I would also add,
and we didn't I didn't push you on this last time,
but I'd like to see a little more of the
range of the care of the age. Okay, so let's
see if we can see a little bit of the
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ten you here, a little bit more of the ten
year old this time in this take. How about you Christian?
And then Hayden, like your your you have a really
great microphone that you're using today. Could you please just
like talk into the microphone and don't worry about looking
at us for first round? Okay, sure, yeah, just really
use that microphone so we could really hear your tone
and don't worry about looking at us or seeing us.
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Just kind of get lost in like what we've heard
in your audition. That's a great that's a very point.
And often especially with with on camera folks who come
into do cartoons, um for obvious reasons, they're used to
engaging characters to the left or to the right, and
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sometimes something as simple as the director or the engineers saying, um, hey, Rob,
you know what we'll take care of that. Um, if
you wouldn't mind, just please keep your head forward. You
can move around and gesticulate all you want, but we'll
handle it. So you really, everybody wants you to be
dealing with what is best for Hayden. Okay, great, great point,
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CHRISTI sure, thank you allre you ready, Hayden, And take
a bar before you go. Yeah, don't rush into it,
all right, perfect, at your pleasure. So this guy wasts
into a bar bartendersis No, wait, that's not it. So
this this this horse he walks into the bar with
the duck unders arm. No, that's not it either. Let's
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try this again. Sorry, this this horse walks into a
bar to get to the other side. There we go.
That was great. You took all the direction very well,
I thought, there, Hayden, thank you, thank you. All right,
we'll be right back with you. That was great, Christy,
because he did he played, he played into the microphone
more and we were able to hear it more and
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hear his tone a little better. And that was a
great note. Yeah, I think so much of this has
to do with being able to understand booth at a kid,
and yeah, sure you know. And yeah, I think I
couldn't agree with you more, and we are back. Hello, Danielle.
So we're throwing a little wrinkle here. If you look
at you your chat, you have a new line there
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that we're gonna that you have not had a chance
to rehearse yet. We were gonna throw one at your
cold Okay, We're gonna do one last round with you,
mister Paulson, one last time, sir. A number between one
and six? Did I do five yet? And now let's
do five? Five sounds good? Okay? How about between one
and twelve? Okay? Three? You got all right? A number
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between one and seven four? Four works? And then a
number between one and eleven ten? Nice Christy. You want
to take it? You want me to read it? I
what was the first? One? Five? Five would make you
any mouse? That is? What was the age? Fifteen? Fifteen?
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And you are afraid of your own shadow? We'll see
that's definitely not Danielle, take it away. Okay. So this
guy walks into a bar and the bartender says, no, no, no, no, weight,
that's not it. Oh. So this horse walks into a
bar with a duck under its dark. No, Oh, that's
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not it either. Let me try again. This horse walk
into a bar to get to the other bag. Dail.
That was That was great, Danielle, really really good. One
thing I would like to to hear um just I
would add some I remember, you're afraid of your own shadow.
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Let's add a little bit of fear um into the reading.
But other than that, I got nothing else. Rob yeah,
I uh, Sam as well, just pig because we can.
Would you throw your choice your choice some sort of
not necessarily a dialect, but something that might be specific
to a certain area of the country or another country
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or whatever. The only reason I say that is because
I've had more than a number of characters in which
I've been able to work and get jobs simply because
and I know this has happened to Christie and Will.
We're not limited by what we think the people on
the other side of the glass want. And I say
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that specifically with respect to Pinky, and Pinky was one
of those that I had all kinds of stuff to try.
I was a big fan of the pythons. They were
very instrumental in developing my sense of human my desire
to work on dialects and weird things and placements and
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all that. And it turned out to be a nice gig.
So those are that may be something you come up
without the bat. But this is a good opportunity when
when a producer says, man, Danielle, you're giving us everything
we like we want. We're diving it like Weill said,
you did everything we asked for. Have you got anything?
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So whatever it is that this is an opportunity, you say, yeah,
I'm gonna try this, and you never know if that's
going to separate you from the pack a bit. I
got you, all right. So this guy walks into a
box and the box and just said, no, no, wait,
god's not Oh. So this horse walked into a bar
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with a duck under its honor. No, no, oh, let
me try agenda. This horse walked into a bar to
get to the other. That's great. Yeah, I mean yeah,
that's great. Great, And and it sounds all of a sudden,
we got a mouse from Boston. Yeah, exactly, it sounded
(30:56):
like is its Archie Bunker's wife just gonna say it
sounded exactly like. Yeah, it sounded just like you. That
is a voice. That's a voice I developed when I
played Audrey a little. That's exactly so because there's a
different there's a difference between Bath and ba you know
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what I mean. Archie would say, well where's the bar Edith,
but Billy or somebody from Boston will say, where's the
back back? Yeah? Thank you, daniel I appreciate it. We'll
be right back with you. All right, Okay, there we go.
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It is time to deliberate. We're open and honest with
with what we hear and what we've talked about, and
we with the contestants that are coming it is it's
so awesome that they've made it to the top sixteen.
They're all uber talented. We said at the beginning, all
sixteen of the people that we picked could be signed tomorrow.
Forty two hundred people. Yeah, it was crazy. It was
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absolutely crazy. Ok. You got that alone. Is a herculean
task that you guys took on. It was a lot
and we listened to every single entry, so both it
was a lot. It did, but it was worth it.
And I'm going to be totally honest because we've said
from the beginning that doing voices is wonderful, but first
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and foremost, you're a voice actor, and I have to
say that overall, Danielle just is a better actor. Yes,
That is not to say that Hayden is not could
not learn, because you know, I think he if he
takes some classes and kind of works a little bit
more on his acting, he might have something because especially
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his natural speaking voice is great. And I've I've often
said I don't do fifty voices. I am not that guy.
I can't do fifty voices, And a lot of the
voices I do are very similar to my own voice.
So you can have a very good career soundunding like yourself.
But those opportunities to know how to step outside yourself
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and fully invest yourself into a character are things that
traditionally have happened as a result of live performance. She
I think was clearly the better contestant today. Yea, And
the winner of this round is Danielle from Tennessee. Who Okay, So,
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why don't we why don't we bring in Well, let's
bring in Hayden first. Why don't we Why don't we
do that? Hey, Hayden, how are you good? How you
guys doing not too bad? You asked that question. How
are you from the last seven minutes we've not seen? Yeah,
just a little bit better. Yeah, but that's the idea.
Just get better and better. Hey, did we want to
congratulate you so much on making it this far. You
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did a great, great job today. But unfortunately this is
going to be the end of the line in the
contest for you or the person and you were up against.
She was just really wonderful today. Um. But please please
do not stop. Yeah, because you're you're very good at
what you do. Your natural voice, your natural register, that
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the pipes that you were gifted with are phenomenal. Um.
Do you have any background performance wise, I mean apart
from a desire to do voice work, and you're clearly
a bright young man with it, as as Will said,
a gifted instrument. Um, I don't, actually, it's just honestly
just doing voices for friends. Over the years. Um, I've
had a few jobs where I've like announced things to people,
(34:34):
like racetracks. I was calling races out and stuff like that.
Your voice is so clear and your enunciation your articulate
to the extent you would like to pursue this, and honestly,
this is the right now. The best reason to do
it is because it makes you so happy. That is
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the most the noblest of reasons to pursue it. However,
should you just I had to pursue this, I would
definitely avail yourself if you're interested of maybe doing either
finding or putting together an improv group where you learn
to think on your feet and create characters on the
spur of the moment. That experience will never not serve
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you well. When you're able to think and speak extemporaneously,
your ability as an actor, thinking on your feet will
make you at ease, and it will also make you
a better actor. But man, I'll tell you what for
somebody who just says, hey, this sounds like fun. Yeah,
really great, pal, Yeah, I really appreciate that. Guys, thank you.
Now we said, we said from the beginning Hayden that
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the sixteen people that we picked and again from over
thousands to sixteen all could be signed. You really, this
is not something. If this is something you want to pursue,
Rob is right, you should, and I would look into
an acting class. I would look into an improv class
because you've got the natural. You've got something that can't
be taught, which is the natural pipes. Um So, I
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think if you work a bit on on the acting
and the improv, I think you know, sky's the limit.
Really I agree. My final thought too, is it's just
making those bold choices and and and really having fun
with it going forward. And yeah, just this, this doesn't
have to be the end of the line for you.
It's just a matter of your next step. Thank you, Hayden. Yeah,
(36:24):
thank you guys. It's great opportunity. I will definitely take
all the notes in critiques and I will continue my
craft that way, I can work alongside you guys. One
day you should. I'm sure it'll happen. I'm sure it'll
happen here. Thank you, great guy, great great. His natural
pipes are amazing. Yeah. Oh Danielle, Oh, Danielle, we liked
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you kind of um, but what a kind of maybe,
I don't know. No, you are congratulations. You are going
onto the next round of the contest. Yes, you're going
to not yet, not yet, so congratulations going to the
top eight for the next round, which will get harder.
Our suggestion for you would be, can you can you
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find a mic or snowball or something to use. We
just want to make sure that we give all of
our contestants the best opportunity to make the most of
the opportunity that they have. So congratulations. It was gonna
start getting more difficult, but I'm our past round one
and Rob, do you have any overall notes you would
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like to give Danielle as she moves forward in the contest.
You're obviously very talented and you are you jump in
with both feet your background in theater. That really was
a really wonderful thing for people who are listening to
the podcast to see two people who are talented, but
the one who has the experience that allows you to
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become yes and become unself conscious. That is to say,
Danielle has nothing to do with the character that I'm
There's no I hope this is. There's no. You're not reticent.
You go for it, and that's because you have you
have training, you have acting jobs, you have experience, and
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that will serve you really well. Great job, Thank you,
And if I'm wrong, I can be totally confident in
my wrongness. It's fine, forgive me. But I gotta say
this because when these guys are nice enough to I've
been I'm an old Hollywood dog and the number of
times I've gotten a job where at the end of
the audition the producers got anything else. As I said,
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I sure do Boom boom boom, boom boom. Great, thanks Rob,
and then I'll get a call Rob, you didn't get
the job because what you did was really not right
for this. However, your choices were so clear, and we're
going to stash this away. And this has happened three
times I can think of over my career where literally
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a year, sometimes too later, will the producer call my
agents say, hey, wanted Rob come and read this. I'm
not working. I was at Disney when I met him before.
Now I'm at Warner Brothers. I think I got something
for him. Hey Rob, remember but no, I don't here.
This is what you did that was wrong? Can you
do that again? Sure? And I get the job. Yeah.
(39:15):
So those opportunities are are You're not, as they say,
you're not auditioning just for that particular job. Yeah, oh exactly.
So you know, thank you, thank you, congratulations on making
it to the next round contest to become the next
big voice actor. So that's uh, it's great. We can't
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we can't wait to see where it goes from here.
Thank you so much for joining us, and we will
see you next round the job kiddo, than you welcome, Daniel.
I think that there are no mistakes there, there's no accidents,
right like, so the fact that you guys just happened
and totally independently chat there today, it is a really
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it's why we wanted folks like you to, you know,
try to see if we could, if you could fit
us in for this mentorship, because you truly are a mentor.
So thank you for what you're doing. And I'm sure
that people who are listening to our podcast, you know,
love to know that they can, you know, find you
on TikTok. You're so big. I thank you. I the
only thing big about me is my ego. My talent
(40:23):
is prodigious as well as but thank you very sure,
well deserved. I've been listening to I've always been a
big fan of yourself always. Thanks of course, for those
of you who are interested, please check out Rob Paulson
Voice dot com. There's a lot of cool stuff there,
a lot of cool information. Uh. And I'm you know,
just doing all kinds of fun stuff and travel around
(40:44):
the country and meeting people and doing Animaniac and concert
which is of love and so much and I think
it will there are probably more and more opportunities for
people to make a decent living um doing voice work,
hopefully in a saga through away. There may come a
point at which you don't have to necessarily be in
LA anymore to work Universal, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, etc. Etc. Etc. Yeah,
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which is why we're we're working to find the next
person who's going to join us all in the booth.
Right and Rob, we cannot thank you enough for taking
the time to mentor and everything. It is just so cool,
Christy and will I I'm very flattered that you would
have me back, And congratulations to everybody and folks listening.
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You pick the right people to listen to. They know
exactly what they're talking about. They are they are the
real deal. They are kind, down to earth, utterly devoid
of pretense, and they just as evidenced by what they've
done visa be this this particular event, they really are
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people who care about you guys, because they get it.
They know, they know, they know how much you want it.
It is a total jones. It never goes away. It
doesn't to give you an opportunity to be given an
opportunity by two folks who really know what they're talking
about and more importantly, know what you're about is a
(42:23):
is a gift, so take advantage of it. Thank you
so much, Rob. We cannot thank you enough. And we'll
have you back. We're gonna need We're gonna have you
back down the line. You're gonna be there to help
us pick the winner. I promise, Hey, next time. That's awesome.
Thank you so much, Rob as Bye bye bye, Rob,
the amazing Rob Paulson. That is a living legend for
(42:46):
so many reasons. So officially, the winner of this round
is Danielle from Tennessee. Congratulations. She will of course be
joining our first round winner Dylan from Louisiana. We got
some some the South representing so far. I guess we do,
but I mean, you couldn't tell. I didn't even know.
They didn't even have accents or anything. So no, but man,
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they're both good and we are moving forward. It's going
to get more and more competitive, so we'll make sure
absolutely is. So please don't forget to join us next
week for round three. Two more contestants, another incredible guest
judge who are going to come and help us find
the next big voice actor. So much fun that we
can actually do this every week, and once again a
shout out to our friends at Prime Video, over there
(43:29):
at Amazon, our friends a critical role who helped out
with everything, our friends at CESD who helped out with everything,
and of course our favorite people in the world over
at iHeart that helped make all of this happen. We
could not have done it without iHeart and our incredible
producers and our engineers and everybody that has helped make
this dream happen. So so cool. Join us again next week.
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It's getting real, people, it is getting real. So join
us and don't forget. If you think you have what
it takes to be one of us, step up to
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Thanks everybody, Bye guys. I Hear Voices is hosted by
Wilfordell and Christy Carlson Romano. Executive produced by Wilfredell, Brendan Rooney,
Amy Sugarman. Our executive in charge of production is Danielle Romo,
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Our producer is Lorraine Verawez, and our editor slash engineer
is Brian Burton. And that was my announcer voice. Some
side effects of listening to I Hear Voices are sore
abs from hilarity falling down the Coco Melon, rabbit Hole,
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