August 27, 2023 • 18 mins
Stacey and Christy are back for another season of "My Own Mistake." Join them on this episode as they relive the ups and down - but mostly ups - all ups, really - of attending the One Voice Conference as sponsors.
We reminisce about season one, talk about our plans for season two, and share a few mishaps from the past few months.
Visit their websites at www.StaceyKimble.com and www.SpadaforeVoice.com
Intro and outro by Vince Eury - https://www.vinceeury.com/
The song "My Own Mistake," © 2023, written by Christy Spadafore, performed by Christy Spadafore and Stacey Kimble.
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Stacey (00:00):
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win it.
We all have days where we stepright in it.
Christy (00:08):
Here's my own mistake.
Vince (00:14):
Welcome to my Own Mistake , a podcast about mistakes
people make, shared by thepeople who made them.
Here you host Stacey Kimballand Christy Spadafore.
Stacey (00:22):
Hey Christy, how are you today?
It's been a week now sincewe've been back from the
fabulous One Voice Conference.
Christy (00:33):
Has it?
Wow?
So Stacey and I both went tothe One Voice Conference in
Dallas, where we were not onlypeople participating, but we
were sponsors, which wasexciting Very exciting Bronze
sponsors.
Stacey (00:47):
We had a little commercial we made which I think
we'll throw up on the pod siteso people can see it, because it
was very funny.
Yes, we had featured our seasonone guests not all, but most of
our season one guests, and theywere all fabulous and funny All
of our guests were wonderful.
They are hilarious, hilariouspeople.
But we had, did we makemistakes?
(01:08):
At One Voice, did we make anymistakes?
We must have, oh we did.
Christy (01:13):
We must have because it's part of being alive, but I
don't know if there's so muchmistakes.
It was just things we learnedthat you know to plan for
differently.
Should we do this again?
I think so.
Stacey (01:27):
But I mean little things .
There were little things likethe banner we didn't really have
.
Christy (01:32):
We had this great banner that Stacey
Stacey (01:34):
We had a wonderful banner but we didn't have any
way to.
.
.
I kind of assumed when Iordered it that it would, was it
two foot by four foot banner.
And I assumed when I ordered itthat we'd probably be against a
wall because usually they hadthe you know, the sponsors on
the walls and so we could just.
Because in the past it's alwaysbeen .
.
that's how it's been staged.
And so we got there and they hadthis beautiful new setup.
(01:56):
I adored the new setup, butthere was really no way to hang
our banner, so we ended upputting it on a post next to us,
which was awkward, but we justhad to point to it.
A lot.
Christy (02:10):
It kind of looked like, from one angle, that I was just
staring at you, I know, andfrom another angle, like you
were just staring at people,rather than two people, you know
, smiling at each other.
It was an optical illusion.
Stacey (02:24):
So, but other than that, we had so much fun meeting all
the people that came by.
Oh, we did, and you know,scanned our QR code to subscribe
to our podcast.
We had several people even tellus about their mistakes and a
couple people tell us theycouldn't be on the show because
they make no mistakes.
Christy (02:50):
But more people actually said, oh yeah, this one
time I did this thing.
It was really fun.
Stacey (02:55):
Yeah, and you know anybody can do that, because on
our website, myownmistake.
com, there is a little buttondown in the lower right corner
and if you push that, it's amicrophone and you can leave a
message with your mistake.
So we ask you to do that andsubscribe.
Oh, there's another button too.
(03:15):
What is that other button.
Christy (03:17):
It's my favorite button .
Stacey (03:20):
Oh, it has a cup of coffee on it.
Christy (03:25):
Yes if you feel like you know throwing a few dollars
our way to help us support thepodcast, we would gladly take
your help.
Stacey (03:34):
We had a great time, and we also have to thank Amory
Hokulani and her husband.
Steward who were.
I mean they manned the tablemore than they were there.
Mike was there all the time.
He was there like the wholetime and he was calls himself
spousal support.
Christy (03:57):
We called him the emotional support spouse for all
three of us, and he was.
Stacey (04:04):
He was so wonderful.
I just I can't think that itwouldn't have been as great as
it was without them.
Christy (04:14):
So thank you, Amory.
Stacey (04:14):
Thank Amory and Mike, we love you so much so, but we
had a wonderful time, and OVCwas fabulous, as always.
It's where I met Christy andseveral of our people from last
season.
Christy (04:28):
From season one.
Yeah, almost all of them.
Stacey (04:32):
Almost, I think George and Rochelle maybe were the only
ones, and well, no, we knewTorian from there too, and we
hope you'll go back and listento season one.
If you haven't, yeah, becauseit's because we had some really
great guests and we have somegreat people coming up this
season too.
This is our first episode ofseason two, our second episode
is going to feature a filmmakerwho is kind of a little bit of a
(04:57):
diversion for us, but I thinkhis his mistakes transferred to
anything very easily.
I don't know.
I think a lot of what we do isjust focusing on mistakes you
make trying to be creativeartists.
Christy (05:17):
Well, and I think a lot of I think a lot of them are
applicable to almost anything.
I mean letting fear stop youfrom doing what you want to do.
I think that's something justabout everybody can relate to at
some point in their life.
Well, you know, were there anymistakes that we made in season
one or things we learned,because this was a new project?
(05:38):
I'd never podcasted.
Stacey (05:41):
Christy says well, let's do a podcast.
I'm like, okay, let's! noteither one of us ever having
done this before.
And man, did we get a lesson inpodcasting! We started in March
.
I think we've come up to speedpretty pretty quickly.
It was a big learning curve.
I'm very, very happy that wedid this.
(06:04):
It's so much fun now.
We really do have a great timeand it's wonderful to meet all
the people.
But we learned a lot abouttechnical things, yeah.
Web pages Things that I neverever thought about, like how do
you get your podcast out to allthose different sources?
And Christy was kind of incharge of all the web activity.
Christy (06:24):
Yeah, we were lucky in that we found some very good
resources.
And Stacy has been at the helmof the editing and all of the
fun detailed stuff that drivesme nuts.
Stacey (06:36):
So that's me coughing.
Vince (06:40):
don't mind doing that.
Actually, I kind of like thatstuff.
Stacey (06:44):
I get into a if once I get into editing I'm gone and I
like it.
I don't mind it at all.
It's like therapy.
Christy (06:52):
Yeah.
I know you are.
I, of course, made my mistake of you know moving all
over.
I was so relaxed talking to youthat I just felt free to move
all over.
Yeah, the chair I realizedthat wasn't maybe optimal thing
thing.
Stacey (07:12):
I was like Christy, the first season, that first you
kept coming in and out Adhere.
Christy (07:21):
Like a car driving by.
And the reason why is I havethe stool that I sit on in my
booth and I was spinning, or notfully spinning around, like my
kids do, but you know, swivelingas I spoke.
Apparently doing a full bodyswivel so that my mouth kept,
you know passing by themicrophone.
(07:42):
Yeah, it was something.
I'm sure that it was, and I'msorry.
Stacey (07:50):
Better than a clicky pen , although I think next
conference week we're sponsorsor something we're going to have
clicky pins to give away.
Christy (08:01):
I'm so glad that that's my legacy.
All the ridiculous mistakesthat I've made.
Stacey (08:05):
It seems like now, maybe , maybe is it us, are we trend
setters, or what?
But now I see everybody'sowning up to their mistakes all
over social media.
Which is great, which isawesome.
I think it's great, and we well, we makes us feel like we're
trend setters.
Christy (08:22):
Right, yeah, I was thinking about that because I
was like I don't know if maybe alot of other people were doing
this and I just didn't see itbefore.
I don't know, but I think it's.
I think people being honestabout their mistakes and ways
they know they can improve isalways a good thing.
Stacey (08:39):
It is.
I think one of the things thatwas best taught in season one
was that we've all made the samemistakes at some level or
another, especially in thevoiceover business, because
really, this is the way it'sdone.
Now is so new.
Having your own studio booth inyour home and being able to
(09:01):
roll out of bed and go to workyeah, it's pretty darn nice.
But there is a learning curve,and it's still a big learning
curve, and people are afraid ofAI, and I know there's a lot of
large studios that aren't doingas well as they did because of
the move to home booths, andthose are things that we all
(09:21):
have to look at and adjust to.
So it's been an interestingride.
I've been doing it online sinceoh, I hate to tell you.
since like 2011.
Wow, I mean, I didn't get realserious about it until five
years ago.
It's taking a long time foreverybody to adjust.
It's an adjustment.
Christy (09:40):
Yeah, and I still think even if you hear about someone
else making a mistake, itdoesn't necessarily keep you
from doing the same thing or asimilar thing.
There are some things you onlyknow because you yourself did it
.
Stacey (09:55):
Exactly right, exactly right.
Demo's were a big thing for me.
I think that's been a big thingfor a lot of people.
I'm not sure I would have done it any differently
than I did, but I think itserves its purpose.
Doing it right or wrong servesits purpose.
Yes.
Christy (10:10):
That's a really good point, I mean you can make any
experience work in your favor,
Stacey (10:17):
Maybe not, you just have that exact moment, but I think,
looking at hindsight, of course, 2020, like they always say.
Christy (10:24):
I'm trying to think of just small voiceover mistakes
I've made.
I remember I had a job where II said six separate files to
the client, you know.
I labeled them all how they'resupposed to be labeled and sent
them all off and I made themistake of not listening back to
them all one more time before Isent them and I don't know what
happened.
Five of them were fine, but oneof them was just noise.
(10:46):
I mean, it was like I don'tknow what happened.
I was able to actually find thefile and restore it and it was
fine and I set it off.
But things like that, just likeyou know, maybe give it another
listen before you hit send,before you attach it and send it
off to the client, right?
Things like that that I wouldnot have learned other than
(11:07):
doing that myself.
Stacey (11:09):
Well, and I'm sure they were fine with that.
Christy (11:11):
They were.
I mean, they were just like,hey, something's wrong with that
last file.
Stacey (11:17):
Did you have to redo it?
No, I didn't have to redo it.
Christy (11:20):
No it was just.
It was something in theexporting process somewhere went
haywire, so I had saved theoriginal.
Stacey (11:29):
And always saved the original.
And it worked out fine.
But that's paid off a few timesfor me when I've done auditions
and they've come back and saidwe just want the audition, we'll
just buy your audition, but doyou have it in the waveform?
I love when that happens.
Christy (11:47):
Yes, I do.
It's only happened to me once,but I did a huge happy dance.
What else?
What other mistakes?
None, I guess we're.
We've told them all.
Stacey (11:56):
I guess we're good.
I guess us and those people whosaid they didn't.
I don't know, I don't thinkthere's, I think we didn't plan.
Here's my thing about what Ithink we didn't see coming, and
that was summer.
Yes, yes absolutely, and wealso had a really funny little
(12:16):
thing about that.
We were on a hiatus.
Christy (12:20):
It was just a longer hiatus
Stacey (12:24):
We'll put that little commercial on the website too,
maybe as a bonus for subscribersor something.
But yeah, I think we.
I had a wedding, my daughtergot married and Christy has
three children that were all outof school.
We just didn't anticipate howtruly busy we would be this
summer, and I think that, so ourhiatus has been a little longer
(12:46):
than we had originallyanticipated, but we're getting
up to speed now.
We have two guests alreadyrecorded Brian Cutter and Andrew
Morrison.
Christy (12:57):
Yay, we've got many more coming.
We've got many more coming.
So thank you, but yeah,absolutely I wish we hadn't
taken, maybe we could have madeseason one longer, or maybe we,
if we just planned for a longerhiatus.
I don't know.
Stacey (13:11):
Yeah, I think we'll know more next year when we can
maybe record ahead a little bitin May, and I know a lot of
people don't even bother withseasons.
Christy (13:18):
And I know a lot of people don't even bother with
seasons.
But I think we did a seasoninitially just to say, ok, well,
if it turns out we hate doingthis and it's just not working,
then we can say, well, look, wedid 10 episodes, we did a season
, we put a bow on it, we'redone, that was good.
Stacey (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, those are all the mistakes that are made.
We're done.
Christy (13:35):
We covered everything.
No more mistakes to be shared.
I don't click my pen, I don'tswivel on my stool, my demos are
all perfect.
Yeah, I send out my directmarketing at just the right time
.
I say exactly the right words.
I'm never awkward, ever, never,never, ever awkward.
Stacey (13:55):
Keep going, I'm waiting, I'm
I remember to drink enoughwater every day.
I don't.
That may be my mistake.
Christy (14:08):
Oh, you had the one with your can of.
Stacey (14:11):
Oh my gosh, I know I kept hearing this echo in my
auditions and it was driving mecrazy.
I couldn't figure out what itwas.
It was weird and I was likelooking around in here, going,
did something change?
What's changed?
It turns out it was an emptycan of seltzer water and it was
echoing into the can.
(14:32):
I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
Anyway, that was.
I guess that was my mistake.
Christy (14:39):
Yeah, so I've got my plastic water bottle in here now
.
Sometimes I bring my bigmetallic one because I actually
like it better, because it keepsthe water cooler, but I can't
have it in here when I'mrecording for it.
Just, you know, it's a smallenough space that the sound
bounces off of it.
Stacey (14:54):
My ceramic cup's okay, but, boy, no more metal cup
bottle cans in here for me?
Who knew?
You know, there goes my sixpack, there goes my sis back of
beer, right.
I'm sure creative people canfind a way around that if they
want to Sippy cups.
Well, I do hope people willshare their mistakes with us,
(15:19):
whether people come on in ourguests or send us the little
voicemail and maybe we'llfeature them on one of our shows
.
That's a tempting thought, isn't it?
So yeah, that would be great.
I would think that would be fun.
I hope people do that andsubscribe.
Christy (15:33):
Yes, tell your friends.
Sing our theme song.
Stacey (15:37):
Oh, we have a great theme song.
You know I did want to touch onthat.
Christy is an excellent jinglewriter.
She wrote a jingle for ourlittle hiatus commercial that
she sang in front of a lake.
So if anybody needs a jingle,we got the jingler right here.
Christy (15:56):
Write me up.
Write to me.
Write me up.
Sounds like when you get asuspension notice in school.
Stacey (16:02):
I had to write you up, write up the jingler Jingler.
Sounds like a Marvel cartoon.
Sounds like a superhero.
A jingler, la, la, la and Barry.
Christy (16:16):
Oh Barry Manilow is the head jingler.
He is the master jingler.
I bow down in admiration.
Stacey (16:24):
Nobody's better Scrub from bottom to top.
There is nothing so clean as myburger machine.
I'm stuck on Band-Aids.
Band-aids are stuck on me.
Christy (16:35):
Didn't he do that?
Yeah, I think so.
He did the.
Stacey (16:37):
Band-Aids too.
I don't know, Somebody willtell us.
I'm sure Leave a message on ourthing.
Yes, tell us if we're right,
Christy (16:45):
The lake one.
The first take I did of it, Iwas not right in front of the
lake, I was closer to the placewe were staying.
You can see all these passerbylooking very confused in the
background.
Stacey (16:56):
Oh I wish.
Christy (16:58):
Why is she singing?
What's going on here?
I wish she'd be quiet, so Iwent out to the dock and did it
there.
Stacey (17:07):
We'll have to have you record a version of it in your
booth with your ukulele, so wehave a really good version of it
.
It's adorable.
It's a real.
What do you call them Earworm?
I never liked that term.
You want earworm to be a jingleJingles, as earworms are good.
Christy (17:27):
Oh yes, you absolutely do.
It's just the term itself.
I've never been crazy about thethought of a worm, it's just
the term that crosses me out alittle bit.
Stacey (17:39):
Wow Too literal.
Christy (17:39):
Yeah, I'll say so.
Stacey (17:42):
All right, and I'm not at all.
Christy (17:43):
Anyway, I'm anti-literal and that's why
we're perfect together.
I can't wait for this season.
Stacey (17:50):
Yep, I can't either.
We've got more fun to be comingup in season two, so subscribe
myownmistakecom or wherever youfind your podcasts.
Take care everybody, kristi,see you next time.
We'll see you next time, allright, bye.
Vince (18:06):
Thanks for listening to my Own Mistake with Kristi
Spadafore and Stacy Kimball.
I'm Vince Urie and I hope thatyou'll join us next time to hear
more stories about moremistakes.
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win it.
We all have days where we stepright in it.
Christy (00:08):
Here's my own mistake.
Vince (00:14):
Welcome to my Own Mistake , a podcast about mistakes
people make, shared by thepeople who made them.
Here you host Stacey Kimballand Christy Spadafore.
Stacey (00:22):
Hey Christy, how are you today?
It's been a week now sincewe've been back from the
fabulous One Voice Conference.
Christy (00:33):
Has it?
Wow?
So Stacey and I both went tothe One Voice Conference in
Dallas, where we were not onlypeople participating, but we
were sponsors, which wasexciting Very exciting Bronze
sponsors.
Stacey (00:47):
We had a little commercial we made which I think
we'll throw up on the pod siteso people can see it, because it
was very funny.
Yes, we had featured our seasonone guests not all, but most of
our season one guests, and theywere all fabulous and funny All
of our guests were wonderful.
They are hilarious, hilariouspeople.
But we had, did we makemistakes?
(01:08):
At One Voice, did we make anymistakes?
We must have, oh we did.
Christy (01:13):
We must have because it's part of being alive, but I
don't know if there's so muchmistakes.
It was just things we learnedthat you know to plan for
differently.
Should we do this again?
I think so.
Stacey (01:27):
But I mean little things .
There were little things likethe banner we didn't really have
.
Christy (01:32):
We had this great banner that Stacey
Stacey (01:34):
We had a wonderful banner but we didn't have any
way to.
.
.
I kind of assumed when Iordered it that it would, was it
two foot by four foot banner.
And I assumed when I ordered itthat we'd probably be against a
wall because usually they hadthe you know, the sponsors on
the walls and so we could just.
Because in the past it's alwaysbeen .
.
that's how it's been staged.
And so we got there and they hadthis beautiful new setup.
(01:56):
I adored the new setup, butthere was really no way to hang
our banner, so we ended upputting it on a post next to us,
which was awkward, but we justhad to point to it.
A lot.
Christy (02:10):
It kind of looked like, from one angle, that I was just
staring at you, I know, andfrom another angle, like you
were just staring at people,rather than two people, you know
, smiling at each other.
It was an optical illusion.
Stacey (02:24):
So, but other than that, we had so much fun meeting all
the people that came by.
Oh, we did, and you know,scanned our QR code to subscribe
to our podcast.
We had several people even tellus about their mistakes and a
couple people tell us theycouldn't be on the show because
they make no mistakes.
Christy (02:50):
But more people actually said, oh yeah, this one
time I did this thing.
It was really fun.
Stacey (02:55):
Yeah, and you know anybody can do that, because on
our website, myownmistake.
com, there is a little buttondown in the lower right corner
and if you push that, it's amicrophone and you can leave a
message with your mistake.
So we ask you to do that andsubscribe.
Oh, there's another button too.
(03:15):
What is that other button.
Christy (03:17):
It's my favorite button .
Stacey (03:20):
Oh, it has a cup of coffee on it.
Christy (03:25):
Yes if you feel like you know throwing a few dollars
our way to help us support thepodcast, we would gladly take
your help.
Stacey (03:34):
We had a great time, and we also have to thank Amory
Hokulani and her husband.
Steward who were.
I mean they manned the tablemore than they were there.
Mike was there all the time.
He was there like the wholetime and he was calls himself
spousal support.
Christy (03:57):
We called him the emotional support spouse for all
three of us, and he was.
Stacey (04:04):
He was so wonderful.
I just I can't think that itwouldn't have been as great as
it was without them.
Christy (04:14):
So thank you, Amory.
Stacey (04:14):
Thank Amory and Mike, we love you so much so, but we
had a wonderful time, and OVCwas fabulous, as always.
It's where I met Christy andseveral of our people from last
season.
Christy (04:28):
From season one.
Yeah, almost all of them.
Stacey (04:32):
Almost, I think George and Rochelle maybe were the only
ones, and well, no, we knewTorian from there too, and we
hope you'll go back and listento season one.
If you haven't, yeah, becauseit's because we had some really
great guests and we have somegreat people coming up this
season too.
This is our first episode ofseason two, our second episode
is going to feature a filmmakerwho is kind of a little bit of a
(04:57):
diversion for us, but I thinkhis his mistakes transferred to
anything very easily.
I don't know.
I think a lot of what we do isjust focusing on mistakes you
make trying to be creativeartists.
Christy (05:17):
Well, and I think a lot of I think a lot of them are
applicable to almost anything.
I mean letting fear stop youfrom doing what you want to do.
I think that's something justabout everybody can relate to at
some point in their life.
Well, you know, were there anymistakes that we made in season
one or things we learned,because this was a new project?
(05:38):
I'd never podcasted.
Stacey (05:41):
Christy says well, let's do a podcast.
I'm like, okay, let's! noteither one of us ever having
done this before.
And man, did we get a lesson inpodcasting! We started in March
.
I think we've come up to speedpretty pretty quickly.
It was a big learning curve.
I'm very, very happy that wedid this.
(06:04):
It's so much fun now.
We really do have a great timeand it's wonderful to meet all
the people.
But we learned a lot abouttechnical things, yeah.
Web pages Things that I neverever thought about, like how do
you get your podcast out to allthose different sources?
And Christy was kind of incharge of all the web activity.
Christy (06:24):
Yeah, we were lucky in that we found some very good
resources.
And Stacy has been at the helmof the editing and all of the
fun detailed stuff that drivesme nuts.
Stacey (06:36):
So that's me coughing.
Vince (06:40):
don't mind doing that.
Actually, I kind of like thatstuff.
Stacey (06:44):
I get into a if once I get into editing I'm gone and I
like it.
I don't mind it at all.
It's like therapy.
Christy (06:52):
Yeah.
I know you are.
I, of course, made my mistake of you know moving all
over.
I was so relaxed talking to youthat I just felt free to move
all over.
Yeah, the chair I realizedthat wasn't maybe optimal thing
thing.
Stacey (07:12):
I was like Christy, the first season, that first you
kept coming in and out Adhere.
Christy (07:21):
Like a car driving by.
And the reason why is I havethe stool that I sit on in my
booth and I was spinning, or notfully spinning around, like my
kids do, but you know, swivelingas I spoke.
Apparently doing a full bodyswivel so that my mouth kept,
you know passing by themicrophone.
(07:42):
Yeah, it was something.
I'm sure that it was, and I'msorry.
Stacey (07:50):
Better than a clicky pen , although I think next
conference week we're sponsorsor something we're going to have
clicky pins to give away.
Christy (08:01):
I'm so glad that that's my legacy.
All the ridiculous mistakesthat I've made.
Stacey (08:05):
It seems like now, maybe , maybe is it us, are we trend
setters, or what?
But now I see everybody'sowning up to their mistakes all
over social media.
Which is great, which isawesome.
I think it's great, and we well, we makes us feel like we're
trend setters.
Christy (08:22):
Right, yeah, I was thinking about that because I
was like I don't know if maybe alot of other people were doing
this and I just didn't see itbefore.
I don't know, but I think it's.
I think people being honestabout their mistakes and ways
they know they can improve isalways a good thing.
Stacey (08:39):
It is.
I think one of the things thatwas best taught in season one
was that we've all made the samemistakes at some level or
another, especially in thevoiceover business, because
really, this is the way it'sdone.
Now is so new.
Having your own studio booth inyour home and being able to
(09:01):
roll out of bed and go to workyeah, it's pretty darn nice.
But there is a learning curve,and it's still a big learning
curve, and people are afraid ofAI, and I know there's a lot of
large studios that aren't doingas well as they did because of
the move to home booths, andthose are things that we all
(09:21):
have to look at and adjust to.
So it's been an interestingride.
I've been doing it online sinceoh, I hate to tell you.
since like 2011.
Wow, I mean, I didn't get realserious about it until five
years ago.
It's taking a long time foreverybody to adjust.
It's an adjustment.
Christy (09:40):
Yeah, and I still think even if you hear about someone
else making a mistake, itdoesn't necessarily keep you
from doing the same thing or asimilar thing.
There are some things you onlyknow because you yourself did it
.
Stacey (09:55):
Exactly right, exactly right.
Demo's were a big thing for me.
I think that's been a big thingfor a lot of people.
I'm not sure I would have done it any differently
than I did, but I think itserves its purpose.
Doing it right or wrong servesits purpose.
Yes.
Christy (10:10):
That's a really good point, I mean you can make any
experience work in your favor,
Stacey (10:17):
Maybe not, you just have that exact moment, but I think,
looking at hindsight, of course, 2020, like they always say.
Christy (10:24):
I'm trying to think of just small voiceover mistakes
I've made.
I remember I had a job where II said six separate files to
the client, you know.
I labeled them all how they'resupposed to be labeled and sent
them all off and I made themistake of not listening back to
them all one more time before Isent them and I don't know what
happened.
Five of them were fine, but oneof them was just noise.
(10:46):
I mean, it was like I don'tknow what happened.
I was able to actually find thefile and restore it and it was
fine and I set it off.
But things like that, just likeyou know, maybe give it another
listen before you hit send,before you attach it and send it
off to the client, right?
Things like that that I wouldnot have learned other than
(11:07):
doing that myself.
Stacey (11:09):
Well, and I'm sure they were fine with that.
Christy (11:11):
They were.
I mean, they were just like,hey, something's wrong with that
last file.
Stacey (11:17):
Did you have to redo it?
No, I didn't have to redo it.
Christy (11:20):
No it was just.
It was something in theexporting process somewhere went
haywire, so I had saved theoriginal.
Stacey (11:29):
And always saved the original.
And it worked out fine.
But that's paid off a few timesfor me when I've done auditions
and they've come back and saidwe just want the audition, we'll
just buy your audition, but doyou have it in the waveform?
I love when that happens.
Christy (11:47):
Yes, I do.
It's only happened to me once,but I did a huge happy dance.
What else?
What other mistakes?
None, I guess we're.
We've told them all.
Stacey (11:56):
I guess we're good.
I guess us and those people whosaid they didn't.
I don't know, I don't thinkthere's, I think we didn't plan.
Here's my thing about what Ithink we didn't see coming, and
that was summer.
Yes, yes absolutely, and wealso had a really funny little
(12:16):
thing about that.
We were on a hiatus.
Christy (12:20):
It was just a longer hiatus
Stacey (12:24):
We'll put that little commercial on the website too,
maybe as a bonus for subscribersor something.
But yeah, I think we.
I had a wedding, my daughtergot married and Christy has
three children that were all outof school.
We just didn't anticipate howtruly busy we would be this
summer, and I think that, so ourhiatus has been a little longer
(12:46):
than we had originallyanticipated, but we're getting
up to speed now.
We have two guests alreadyrecorded Brian Cutter and Andrew
Morrison.
Christy (12:57):
Yay, we've got many more coming.
We've got many more coming.
So thank you, but yeah,absolutely I wish we hadn't
taken, maybe we could have madeseason one longer, or maybe we,
if we just planned for a longerhiatus.
I don't know.
Stacey (13:11):
Yeah, I think we'll know more next year when we can
maybe record ahead a little bitin May, and I know a lot of
people don't even bother withseasons.
Christy (13:18):
And I know a lot of people don't even bother with
seasons.
But I think we did a seasoninitially just to say, ok, well,
if it turns out we hate doingthis and it's just not working,
then we can say, well, look, wedid 10 episodes, we did a season
, we put a bow on it, we'redone, that was good.
Stacey (13:32):
Yeah, yeah, those are all the mistakes that are made.
We're done.
Christy (13:35):
We covered everything.
No more mistakes to be shared.
I don't click my pen, I don'tswivel on my stool, my demos are
all perfect.
Yeah, I send out my directmarketing at just the right time
.
I say exactly the right words.
I'm never awkward, ever, never,never, ever awkward.
Stacey (13:55):
Keep going, I'm waiting, I'm
I remember to drink enoughwater every day.
I don't.
That may be my mistake.
Christy (14:08):
Oh, you had the one with your can of.
Stacey (14:11):
Oh my gosh, I know I kept hearing this echo in my
auditions and it was driving mecrazy.
I couldn't figure out what itwas.
It was weird and I was likelooking around in here, going,
did something change?
What's changed?
It turns out it was an emptycan of seltzer water and it was
echoing into the can.
(14:32):
I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
Anyway, that was.
I guess that was my mistake.
Christy (14:39):
Yeah, so I've got my plastic water bottle in here now
.
Sometimes I bring my bigmetallic one because I actually
like it better, because it keepsthe water cooler, but I can't
have it in here when I'mrecording for it.
Just, you know, it's a smallenough space that the sound
bounces off of it.
Stacey (14:54):
My ceramic cup's okay, but, boy, no more metal cup
bottle cans in here for me?
Who knew?
You know, there goes my sixpack, there goes my sis back of
beer, right.
I'm sure creative people canfind a way around that if they
want to Sippy cups.
Well, I do hope people willshare their mistakes with us,
(15:19):
whether people come on in ourguests or send us the little
voicemail and maybe we'llfeature them on one of our shows
.
That's a tempting thought, isn't it?
So yeah, that would be great.
I would think that would be fun.
I hope people do that andsubscribe.
Christy (15:33):
Yes, tell your friends.
Sing our theme song.
Stacey (15:37):
Oh, we have a great theme song.
You know I did want to touch onthat.
Christy is an excellent jinglewriter.
She wrote a jingle for ourlittle hiatus commercial that
she sang in front of a lake.
So if anybody needs a jingle,we got the jingler right here.
Christy (15:56):
Write me up.
Write to me.
Write me up.
Sounds like when you get asuspension notice in school.
Stacey (16:02):
I had to write you up, write up the jingler Jingler.
Sounds like a Marvel cartoon.
Sounds like a superhero.
A jingler, la, la, la and Barry.
Christy (16:16):
Oh Barry Manilow is the head jingler.
He is the master jingler.
I bow down in admiration.
Stacey (16:24):
Nobody's better Scrub from bottom to top.
There is nothing so clean as myburger machine.
I'm stuck on Band-Aids.
Band-aids are stuck on me.
Christy (16:35):
Didn't he do that?
Yeah, I think so.
He did the.
Stacey (16:37):
Band-Aids too.
I don't know, Somebody willtell us.
I'm sure Leave a message on ourthing.
Yes, tell us if we're right,
Christy (16:45):
The lake one.
The first take I did of it, Iwas not right in front of the
lake, I was closer to the placewe were staying.
You can see all these passerbylooking very confused in the
background.
Stacey (16:56):
Oh I wish.
Christy (16:58):
Why is she singing?
What's going on here?
I wish she'd be quiet, so Iwent out to the dock and did it
there.
Stacey (17:07):
We'll have to have you record a version of it in your
booth with your ukulele, so wehave a really good version of it
.
It's adorable.
It's a real.
What do you call them Earworm?
I never liked that term.
You want earworm to be a jingleJingles, as earworms are good.
Christy (17:27):
Oh yes, you absolutely do.
It's just the term itself.
I've never been crazy about thethought of a worm, it's just
the term that crosses me out alittle bit.
Stacey (17:39):
Wow Too literal.
Christy (17:39):
Yeah, I'll say so.
Stacey (17:42):
All right, and I'm not at all.
Christy (17:43):
Anyway, I'm anti-literal and that's why
we're perfect together.
I can't wait for this season.
Stacey (17:50):
Yep, I can't either.
We've got more fun to be comingup in season two, so subscribe
myownmistakecom or wherever youfind your podcasts.
Take care everybody, kristi,see you next time.
We'll see you next time, allright, bye.
Vince (18:06):
Thanks for listening to my Own Mistake with Kristi
Spadafore and Stacy Kimball.
I'm Vince Urie and I hope thatyou'll join us next time to hear
more stories about moremistakes.
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