 Hey, it's voiceover body shop on Monday and our guest tonight. It's Scott Parkin. Thank you Fading the music yet. Yeah, really? Where's your uh, yeah, I brought the Star Wars glasses He chose Tatooine the ice planet hot and I have the it's cold enough here in Southern California yummy juice You're welcome. That is correct. Anyway age 12 years Yes, but if you got a question for Scott throw it in the chair, please do and He'll get to answer it But we're gonna talk about that and we've got tech a little bit later on I'm stuck for the tech. It's about the new Apigee, right? We're gonna talk about that a lot more stuff All right lots. 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Did your homework I always do my homework. Anyway Also Some tech stuff we'll be talking about later on some nav video all this great stuff on our live show So stay tuned, but first we need to introduce our guest, but maybe it'd be better if he just introduced himself Oh, hi America I'm America's commercial actor Scott Park and and today I'm auditioning for a type of pizza that has bacon stuffed inside the Crust and inside the bacon That's what I do as a commercial actor I help Americans decide what type of food they might want for their mouths. This is America We have a lot of food sometimes sometimes. It's confusing. That's where you need a commercial actor like me To help you wade through it to find a path To find out what's good. I might say something like You'll love our mesquite grilled wild-caught copper River salmon covered and melted asiago cheese with farm-raised pork chops wrapped in thick cut Applewood bacon slow cooked with Alaskan deep water halibut Smothered and caramelized Maui onions topped with a three-pound bone-in steel cut ribeye steak stuffed with stone ground Hand-rolled blue corn tortillas each with a healthy 10 ounce chunk of mahi mahi That's been marinating for weeks. Nothing but pure Tennessee mountain moonshine key limes and fair trade cilantro Top it off with a pre-prohibition artisan cocktail made from vanishing glacier water vodka Infused with Central Valley hand farmed blood oranges You see without me the commercial actor you wouldn't know what any of that food sounded like in fact without commercial actors This country would likely starve in under three days Yeah And if that happens well Let's just make sure that doesn't happen. Okay, think about that the next time you're eating a plate of food That would feed a family of five in another country You're welcome America commercial actors. We're important and remember We're doing great already America. So get out there and buy something won't we? All right, let's welcome the voice of her body shop Scott Perkins. Thank you. Thank you I like that my lovely my lovely daughter Miranda just turned 19 last week is here in the couch in the audience here So it's great to have a studio audience Wow, yeah great having you back here dude. It's great to be here. It's a there are very few reasons I drive to the friggin Valley from Venice at Four in the afternoon. That's like hey, I'm supposed to get a root canal or be dragged behind a vehicle by my teeth No, no, you leave it noon. You have lunch here. Yeah. Yeah, it makes it a lot easier. I went to Glendale shopping. Oh last Galleria I'm sad of the death of the mall. I'm sad about the death of the mall. Yeah, but you go through the mall And it's like I don't need any of this stuff. I disagree. I need all of it and I want to walk around One of my childhood malls is one of those dead malls. Yeah And it's so scary you you you walk into the Westfield mall and in on a pico there and it's like oh, yeah engine Joe Becky it's it's like a horrible It's scary But you know, we also order stuff from Amazon every week so we killed the malls. All right, we'll be back did All right, absolutely. I had the pleasure my wife and I do a lot of binge-watching We've been watching grace and Frankie and there's this one scene where you're You're you're the guy at the at the crab store or at the buffet zipper busters Yeah, yeah snappers. Yeah Parking I love what that's the great thing about being here in LA and having friends in the business that do that It's like hey, I recognize that it was it was say you blink and you miss me But it was the couple of the best most fun days. I've had in in show business. Just tell us how did you get that? I have a good on-camera theatrical agent Linda McAllister in Dallas, Texas She's me wuxahatchie Texas and Los Angeles and I read for the guy and he I improvised the entire audition Which had literally almost nothing to do with the actual line that eventually got there But he liked how I did it and he was the original line I forget what I think the original line was something about look where the buffets were running out of stuff But and we're all out of snow crab, but that's all that was written and I improvised like okay, you know Whatever the hell I did right and he'd like that so I bucked it. I got I get to my trailer was next to oh God, she's name is millison. She was in Alfie. She got Academy Award nomination for Alfie and punch at Disney movies She's just a wonderful English actress, but she was so nice. Yeah, so nice. Yeah, and then to watch um, I had seen Lily Tomlin the year before in New York I went up right before she did and I one of my greatest moments of my life was I made Lily Tomlin laugh and And so and Bob Bergen is friends with her So you're not supposed to talk to the the big the big stars, you know, you know, you don't make eye contact I'll tell you about that another time the Jimmy Dean commercial where I wasn't supposed to look at mr. Dean I mean the sausage guy not James Dean So I said Lily I saw your speech last at the VO voice arts awards and I was up before you had a stupid hat And she goes oh my gosh, it's great to see you. How is Bob and I was like You know, I got Lily Tomlin said just a genius It's a funny show though. It's a very funny show great watching great actors Just go through their paces and since I have a smart ass daughter. She wrote a she's an artist She'd do a picture of me going. Sorry folks. We're all out of snow crabs. Sorry to peg the meters and someone bought one Somebody bought one. So now there's a picture of me with the zipper snappers hat on there So anyway, go ahead. Very cool. No, no, no, I wanted to talk about that Okay, I think it's I think it's important that he's not even on the show He's like a blogging. He's got a whole other job. It's at least the multitasking is freaking phenomenal. He's in charge of engineering I'm in charge of creative. Okay. It's the way the way we work things here. I guess I think that calls for another We we had a a mystery science good juice We had a mystery science theater night for Marana's birthday and we watched the Wild Women of Wango Oh, and it's a horrible horrible movie shot in Orlando in like 1955 and they could science theater 3000. Well, that's what we just all everyone just yells back at the screen. Yeah, and Vanessa Richardson was there and when we started going because we realized that they kept filling They're like look we got another hour to fill this out work and sell it so they kept showing this parrot So every time they'd show the parrot everyone had to drink and Vanessa got the table and she goes I did what they said and drank every time that they showed the parrot and now I'm wasted She wasn't but any oh, okay, so now you're you're doing a lot more coaching lately I see you out there and and teach you. What's the focus of your teaching? I mean, are you teaching on-screen stuff or you know, I teach I teach at gray studios. I teach on-screen commercial acting for kids Teaching america's children how to sell blood thickener and cheese because that's what we need to make america great again Not like we're not already great right now Um, so I do that and then I teach I teach I skype teach a bunch and then I'm traveling to spain with j. Michael I'm going to spain really excited about that going first class on the yeah, the guy's like a travel wizard He's like Gandalf of the sky. He knows every oh, that's that one doesn't leave for another 30 minutes It's a flight 12 months away out of portugal. Yeah, I know the whole schedule. So yeah, I'm really excited about that and I'm not going to and that wasn't invited to Atlanta So so you see a bunch of people walking around at the at vio Atlanta around midnight with nowhere to go because there's no room With a bar in it like mine You know, that's okay, but yourself. Neither were we. Oh, you're not going. No. No, so we'll just hang out here You got drunk here. It's probably a good idea. I think I was nearly asked to leave Last time so yeah, well, there are 130 people in one of those rooms. Yes, there was the incident at the ruby tuesdays Yes They're still talking about that, right? Yes. Yeah, they didn't sue though. So you're fine. That's true. That's true But what a crowd that was that was a fun one. That was that was a lot of I guess we would call them hollywood A-lister voice people. Yes. Yes. Yes. We're b-list in the in hollywood, but a list Yeah, it was a great group. So what i'm coaching now is um, I did want to talk about a couple things yeah, um, I've been doing a bunch of coaching and with larger groups and Something I noticed is that improvisation when when the script says improvisation Uh, what do you think of? um I usually think making stuff up. Yeah, it's like right. That's what it is But not it doesn't inherently have to be hilarious right a lot of people I think from what i'm listening to I did a thing with the vl collective and I heard a lot a lot a lot of takes of A couple scripts and what I noticed is that people think they have to do all the heavy lifting They have to make it a character voice or make it very funny or Or you know do the stuff that they've paid, you know half a million dollars to have an ad agency do And you don't want to do that you don't want to do that friends They've got people that do that And they've worked really hard on it for several months and have been Beaten up in order to get their stuff in there So they don't want wholesale changes of the script where you're writing You know a whole new character and he's kind of puppet with him and He can do that stuff. So um, so when it says conversational and it says uh Make it your own, you know, it doesn't say looking for comedy send your comedy guys just be improv right They're looking for conversational, but they say it's okay to improvise a bit I suggest Improvising three to five words tops and all words Layed in in a manner that support the conversational read Um rather than changing one puppet to an australian. He's a puppy. He's a go-to Puppet. Yeah, it's a brita commercial. There's probably no Aussies in it. But um, yeah So keep it simple and don't don't overthink it and Remember that when they say real they don't really mean real They don't mean like You know It's reality people that talk, you know like normal People talk talk, right, right? They don't want that, right? They want they want something that's not right now You can get five of those for just eight dollars and it's gotta happen today. We lost our lease. We're horrible at this They don't want the big, you know, that sort of thing Um, what take is it appropriate to whip out those little? Colorations those little embellishments. I would say if they say Improvise and it's comfort conversational. I would say the first take. Oh, but don't but don't go nuts Assuming they're telling you to improvise, right? If they don't tell you to improvise. It's a good time to keep the improv in your pants Look if they say listen, we stick to the script. I'm like, yes, sir. That's a great idea. I'll do that Yeah, it's the big dish of catfish, right? There's not a lot of room to improv there anyway But yeah, I mean if you're gonna if it's if it says Look, we're looking for funny We want uh, we want you to make all those little things that they can't they can't say In the union, they can't say improvise because that's like hey write this because you know, so but I don't mind if they do I really don't it's always been an edge for me And the only time that bites in the in the ass is when they take your improv and put it in the Commercial without you delivering it and that's happened in a couple super bowl spots over the last Six or eight years, but I still the the the advantage I gain from throwing my stuff out there Uh, is is is better than that than the oh well, huh shoot didn't get that spot right it's gonna run once Yeah, mark mark cashman was on last week and he was saying that you know and one of his favorite lines is It's not in stone. The the copy's not in stone. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I like that How what do you is it the idea to just look at it and say how would I say this or Just riff on top of it or I think so I think so it's it's you look for the area because I I work with some of the best joke writers There are at cbs when I was on a tv show working and you learn Really how to lay in a joke or or what fits with the character? It has to track the other thing is if it's not your thing don't do that You're the risk to reward Humor is really really difficult and you're likely going to offend somebody. So you know what I mean If you're not offending anybody with live humor, you're not doing it right So but in in the corporate world, you want to be very judicious with what you do You want you don't want to you wouldn't want to make fun of the product You wouldn't want to it's it's shocking how often I'll do a class where somebody says something overly sexually aggressive or too flirty or or you know, like I wouldn't use it It doesn't work for me. I've gained 10 pounds. You know, you you want to be Positive on the on the product right and you don't want to editorialize too much and take over the spot Unless they're saying look, we don't know how to do this. We uh, you know this part That's why when I train I have I have open-ended things Where that there's an opening line and a closing line in the middle is gone. So that's that's exciting Yeah, I guess the thing is is that people have fear Around doing that it's like that's right. The copy is there. Yeah, and it's like well I don't want to like you said, you don't want to offend anybody. You don't want to tell the writer how to do his job Right, but how do you let go? How do you make those choices and do it like that with years of training? I would imagine Yeah Being a smart ass from the age of six and trying to get a word in as why edgewise at the table But I would say for somebody who wasn't raised like that Find the vibe of the spot and make sure what you're laying in their tracks with the vibe They're all characters. I mean everything you're doing is a character If I start doing a character like that, I do it freaking out to ask what I might say It just comes out that way once you're in you're locked in you're locked in Um, and they're all like that Um, make sure it tracks make sure it goes fits the vibe of what of what they're trying to do You know and don't don't step way out. Don't don't take any like great We have to look risk to reward right if you try and make a really excellent joke and you and and you make it You get a little credit Now I go that's funny If you try and make an excellent joke and the percentage that you're going to piss somebody off is much higher So you're risking a lot more by trying to write something super funny But if it's character work and it fits it fits the end of it and it's and it's quick and it's non-offensive More power to you lay it in there Especially on the second take if they say why they say improvisers make it your own stretch out Ignore all that shit I said about the first one and do that in the second one because you can they are looking for you to stretch out they're looking for support and And and here's another little secret having been on the other side on the advertising side Very often a client will use or an advertising agency will use the actors to try and get comedy through the net of lawyers and uh Non-creative garb people right so what you it's very difficult, right? And so they may go okay, and then they'll say that and then when they hear it They're able to go. Oh, I and they won't go. Oh ad agency. I get what you were saying They'll go. Oh that guy's funny and they'll go. Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's good. Let's get him right So they'll do that in order to try and sell in more comedy and more entertainment There's a hell of a lot of comedy and radio and tv advertising right now. It's it's good news. Yeah Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming, baby. Absolutely. Yeah, if you're just joining us our guest is scott parkin And we're talking about improv and doing commercial copy and those sorts of things A lot of people again, again, if you have a question throw it in the chat room And I also have the zoom link posted in the chat. Ah, oh wow Actually if you want to actually ask this question We can throw it in. Oh, oh wow actually hear the people. Wow. Okay. Cool So they'll get so they'll get some exposure too Hey, that that number's right at the bottom of the phone dial the temp the time and we'll be ready to give away some T-shirts and some bumper stickers later on. That's right. 11 years of radio. How long did you do radio 15? It shows I say 15. Let's see. All right. What's it? Where's the cart? What does the card say? Yeah the cart No, the card the card the card was the old eight tracks. Yes. Oh, absolutely Well, they weren't they were two track, but they were I'm not good with math I wasn't either. I was the talking guy. Yeah, I talked. I thought in base 60. It's like, all right, it's gonna come up to the top Tank. Yeah, yeah, actually Uh, if you got a question throw it in the chat room And if you want to ask on zoom, that's great too. Now a lot of people You know Trying to get into commercials is one thing that's that's a tough nut to try and crack It is unless you're trying to do it locally or something like that I mean here in la it's you've really got to really push and then to make a living out it is Good good luck with that. Yeah, your kids have fun now. Most people are really, you know, who are really succeeding at voiceover are Doing a lot of the corporate work the e-learning work Which is somewhat tightly scripted. How can you relax around that type of stuff? I mean, I know what I do to do it because I because I'm a teacher, but yeah But it was a good way to relax around that copy and not You know what buddy? I'll I'll be real honest with you. I haven't really got much into the e-learning stuff Miranda did a bunch for uh, jen henry. I did some of it. There isn't there's not a lot of room to play Especially if it's in english as a second language Uh sort of thing or or they're translating, right? It's it's very you have to reel It's very idiosyncratic you're working with a director that will say hey stretch out there To you know press five to move to slide four Right, right. Okay. Let me try it again press five and then here's the thing you should do do what I do Press, you know, there's just not that much leeway Right, but I'll tell you I'll tell you something that what you hit on Which is you have to hit it from every direction you can Especially if you're going to try and make a living at it, right? You have to have you have to try narration You have to do promo you have to try and do you have to try and do all of it as hard as you can Um, and I train like I train I train with tom pinto for a narration I've always wanted to do that place to go. I used to just it used to just fall I did a thing called the making the making the band and then I did radical sabbatical and they were all basically Steve left his job. He wanted to be a poker player. So now he's being a poker player His wife isn't thrilled about it, you know, and then that's you know, it's that kind of thing And but I've loved narration since I was a kid My old man was a really deep voice stockbroker who wanted to be in radio But um, you do need to hit it from every angle you can there's a very cool new way to do that The vio road show is something it was maryland's concept, but she got together all the coaches Basically everyone that was at ruby tuesday So sissy dav finoy Jeff howl tom pinto myself and mary lind and so they'll go into a town um Animation promo commercial commercial Narration anime, you know that thing and then we'll be there for a day and we'll just go at it super hard And so it's it's a very good thing where I guess the next one is boston maybe about boston in new york It's going to be an east coast swing and then i'm in portland after that But it's a very cool way that you can try and You got to expand your skill set. You got to have more arrows in the quiver It's my little metaphor. Yeah, it's about it's about archery Who knew uh, right, so I think I think it's important to diversify and listen i'm i'm I'm not going to get the in a time when people smelled in a place that no one heard of I'm not going to get that I don't have 18 testicles and there's guys that already do that So that's not going to happen for me. So I did, you know, so I can do if I did a trailer it would be You know steve's been married a long time Not anymore now he's single and he's got a dog or you know, I'd be that kind of guy So I'm not going to bark up the wrong tree. I'm not saying try everything and see what sticks Look at what's out there find where your voice works and see if you can pull that out And see if you can find a coach or someone that's training train with reputable people Something else I want to talk about. Oh go for it. I will pepper spray I'm telling you I'm really really concerned about the amount of slime that's edging into our industry And the amount of facebook posts goes make a million dollars in voiceover. Just sign up for my 25 year course I I'm I just go I'm I'm you know, you know me. I'm yeah, I'm not terribly I'm a I'm a bit of a loose cannon out. I so I just I'm really concerned about that because it gives guys And and women who coach and have dedicated their whole life and and work and are in It gives us a bad name when they take people's money like that. I don't like it. It's not It's a really unfortunate. I think it's it's up to all of us who are already here Who are standing on the backs of the people like maryland wissner who started It's a giant in this industry and started the coaching thing One of the people who started it. I think it's unfair to not police this so beware buyer beware Ask your coach. Who have you coached? What have they booked? How long have they been in the industry? Get a couple of references because it's not I mean, it's not a huge thing at this point. I mean, have you guys you guys have seen it You know what I'm talking about, right? Well, we're we're coaches. Yeah, we're helping. Okay, so you know So you see how this begins to slide where I heard a coach that said, oh, no You need to take uh, you need to have two other jobs and you need to sign up with me for A four-week coach, of course, and your voice is not good I mean, I just and I know this girl and her voice is really good and she's already working So that kind of shit just drives me baddy. Um, so be on the lookout for that. I'm sorry about the cussing Am I not I don't think I'm allowed to cuss am I that we really don't give you okay Oh good now I got brought the bell in case. All right All right. Well, we got lots more to talk about with scott parking and we're gonna take a quick break here Again, if you've got a question, all right, throw it in the chat room And if you want to ask him on zoom so like actually be on the show, that's true You can do that and for the younger people my daughter's here We're gonna talk about that voiceover actor and an artist if you have a question for her keep it to yourself She's really shifty and tired. Okay All right. Well, I didn't want to talk about that's why I told you to bring all right All right, and I we'll be right back here on voiceover body shop with scott park and don't go away Yep, this is vobs proven anybody can have a show these days What question do we get most often? Well far and away? It's how do I even get started in voiceover and we have a great answer to that question Take vo to go goes free getting started in vo class You heard right. 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That's voice over x t r a dot com Oh Just because the computer freezes doesn't mean we have to attend we get her We're doing the you know the the police force thing there. We were just talking. I love police squad Police squad that was right. Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen the abram's brothers great stuff Anyway, we're with scott parkin and again. We've got a question throw it in the chat room One of the things I know you're really proud of and I got the chance to actually see her in action Is your lovely daughter Miranda? That's true. I'm terrible. I don't have a lot else going So yeah, it's pretty much you go you go with what works, you know, yeah as long as it's happening Well, you know, I was hoping for so much more but you get what you get you don't get upset, right? I'm right. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, she's in the room. You might want to Yeah, uh But I had the pleasure when we were I was over at uh, we were over at uh, uh sambax la and oh, yeah Yeah, and oh, yeah, we came in for that came and I was having lunch with with tim and and she came in And you guys did a session. I guess it was in england Yeah, the very talented young lady real page thing back to england get the camera on her soon. So oh, okay, there she is Smile darling, my everyone say hello. She can do some great faces to your ugliest face That works favorite. Yeah, it's a family resemblance. Yes. Yeah, he can do it too. Yeah, there it is Clearly the apple no no too frantic tree there. Yeah um How did she get into it? And I mean, I know she's a great hard choice. Yeah, she had no choice How did she get into voiceover? Yeah, she was reading at icm when she was she read very early. She's Smart, uh And was reading really early had a big vocabulary. So she jeff jeff dan has put on her script when she was four And she booked it. It was a c world commercial Then she booked a direct to dvd thing and then there was another party involved That said she couldn't do that. So then we stopped and then now we can So um, so now she's going in a lot. She's reading a lot of animation copy. She just finished. She did adr I think I can say that right. Can I say that in? Yeah, it's okay For uh escape room. Oh, and it was really damn good It was a really fun popcorn movie and she did some adr which is a voice match for the lead And I had her like tap me when you know And I didn't know it was her there was one time when they're in the upside down uh bar That I could recognize her voice, but otherwise I couldn't so she's got a really she has a really good ear Yeah, um, so like like She has perfect pit her She has perfect pitch and I was like she hates baseball But so that helps her with impressions And and and voice matching Really, uh, it's a frightening thing. I I'm I'm okay at it But her australian at this point her australian is much better than mine. Isn't it darling? So, yeah, so I mean that's that's how she I mean she's been raised around it She was raised on on set at cbs for a couple years because the show was about my life as a single dating dad and there was a girl Catherine newton who's now on supernatural and everywhere. What else is she in? Lady, yes, she's in ladybird. Yeah, so she was playing basically playing morana So she was raised in that in that environment and it was you know, this is not um Liza Manelli raised around a piano with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly But it's a billy west and marisa lemarche and tara and lori alan and you know folks like that So, you know, so so she's hit she's been around her whole life and comedy's you know valued in our home Well, let me let me ask you what was it like growing up with around this guy? Oh, it was horrible That's my girl. There it is. All the all the legal stuff's out of the way sweetheart. You can say what you want He's I'm kidding my dad's great He exposed me to a lot of culture and and stuff and music music movies all the stuff that he grew up with So I grew up listening to the things that he grew up listening to and I feel like that's Really affected my taste in music And and movies as well my dad and I both share a big passion for sci-fi movies and sci-fi tv shows and Crime dramas and yeah, we're watching Ozark right Ozark. Oh my god. Do you Marty I wouldn't trust marty bird with my life It is really really good. No, and I at first I was like, I you know, I don't we were late to it Because it's already got two seasons and we're almost done, but it is it is excellent writing. It's kind of breaking bad Sopranos Yeah, it's really solid really good. Yeah, it's amazing to see great writing on the screen, you know, the I I'm gonna say it tv is kicking movies ass right now. Oh, absolutely. I think tv television is where some of like, uh, we Were taking chances. That's why that's right. And they can do it in 10 episodes, too It's I mean, but still I think film should be doing better than it is Um, what what's really exciting about watching set with Miranda is you can see her Her brain tick and when she locks in on a frame or something I'm like, oh, she's gonna draw that like she drew this from my favorite, um, Seeing in fantastic mr. Fox. Oh, yes, that final that give me some hobbit killing movie music I have a phobia of wolves What do you want? Canis lupus canis lupus Fulpus fulpus So she drew this for me and we throw it up on t-public on her site And I have a shirt made so cool. That was my father's day. So all right. Yeah, it's very cool. You're welcome Thank you Nicely done. Wow. We got got a couple of questions from our audience. Mr. Woodham those people We do actually one of them is from Thomas mackin or mation as he likes to call himself sort of the way I say it Yeah, he thinks he knows how to say his last name. I think we should we're going with how you say it Let's see do we have thomas? Is he live? Hello is the caller there Indiana you're on the air Oh, okay You're there man. We got you live dude. You look so much like a murderer right now You look like you're like I just want to say are you scott gonna be in his house because I want to take him out You've got that finger pyramid of evil intention going on there. He did Yeah, yes, excellent. Go ahead thomas Yeah, I was just wondering uh Since you do a lot of coaching and stuff throughout the uh the country How often do you actually come through the midwest and have classes? Um You know, I I I've been down. I'm coming to Dallas. That's not midwest. That's southwest But nothing planned in the midwest, but I mean if you if you check on the um The vio roadshow Website you can say hey, can you please come here? And if you get a couple of people that say, yeah, we'd love to have you come then we'll come But uh mid I mean I would do chicago in a heartbeat. You you know what these people in boston did? um I can that escapes the the family the singing. Oh the amateurs the amateurs the amateurs the lovely amateurs Yes, they're the von tra there. They're the latino von tropes They're amazing and all musicians. We ended up at some brazilian party with Everybody that walked in had an instrument. It was amazing But she just got a bunch of people together in boston and said hey, we'd like you to come out So i'm i'm down for that as well Is that that's your question sure does all right, okay kill go kill something Did it look like that with the blue light? I just want to say this tv station better start talking about things I like But i've he's a lovely man i'm sure He is i'm sure there's fortunately he's all the way out in the midwest. Yeah, yeah It's gonna take him a couple days to get here in a chivalre I'm guessing I don't want to or a gran terino right Galaxy 68 galaxy a core of error. Let's be honest. It's a gremlin 1974 gremlin with lime green with wide tires You got another question. I'm looking to see we had somebody else who was there then gone and there that happens a lot That's all right Oh I was there for a lot of it. I was present for half of your I know it's frightened You teach them everything and then they just rip you All right It's an online course. I'm sure lisa or lisa. All right, graham And then she's gone and then we have a karen o'brien every time I look There's a new name they get frightened karen Karen's not afraid of anything you're on the air if you've got a mic working I think she's probably getting the mic working right now This is exciting. This gives you a chance to look at the carpeting they have here. Yes, it's fabulous I love what you're done with it. It's very grateful dead It is Bob wears back out. There she is. All right, cool. Hi karen. They're just tuning in It's working. Oh, welcome to the board How's it going tonight? Are you holding up a lighter for a concert? Oh, no No Hi, karen. What's your question straight george's cool little slider, right? I've always thought george was a cool slider All right, do you have a question though? Oh, she got she's she was using the little Oh, you got a white flip. Am I not supposed to be in this room? Do you have a star filter? Star Wars Did you have a question? No. Okay, cool. Great I saw the link and I'm like, oh good a link That's the kind of go get her audience that we love to have around here There's nothing you can tell right was really nice to see you So look the last guy kill you Ah You know, I think the filter that you guys run before a guest can get on here is it's excellent It's tight. It's tight tight run ship here. We don't We have a seven year delay. That's the problem. Yeah, that's why we have nobody on the show 1995 year But the folks have great questions. Um, I think what she was probably gonna ask Was what's with this what's with this george bush? No, um, I owe you a surfing lesson. Yes, you won the thing for the vio Shout out to the vio collective yo VLC, yeah, you know me. Um, you won a voiceover thing and yes, did you did you have a good time when we did? We did. Oh, it was great coaching thing It's a change to coach somebody who's already Working and knows a lot of stuff. Yeah, no, it was it was great. But the surfing lesson You thought I'm gonna wait I'm gonna wait for the water to warm up a bit. You've said that it's not shark season You said that for three years now every year it gets worse. I know I know I know But yeah, I'd love you to come down. I'd love to get you up on the board As I promised I'll get you up long enough to get a profile picture Okay, and that's really all that matters anymore. Isn't it? Let's be honest. So what are you working on right now? Uh, I just you can talk about I did a lovely Comcast commercial and I can't talk about that. It was really fun. I did another commercial with a director Who uh, did bad grandpa? I was one of my favorite movies and all the jackass movies. I can't Thanks for admitting that but I Bad grandpa is a great movie. Thank you for coming on. I I have my my stupid enlarged heart is on my sleeve I have I'm I'm an open book. It's a pop-up book and it's old and it's Folded but the point is um, he he's a great director and I can't say who was the the star that was in it Uh, but it Ryan when he was really good Yeah, it was really good. It was really funny. It's gonna come out It is for Klondike and I can't say that so that's coming out. I did uh, I have some I have some snapple spots. Thank god this year's last year was a weird one voice over wise But this year it's kicking right off the bat. So we're very happy So we have food and I was able to buy beer and I even got a bell from amazon um, so Snapple two spots for snapple that should start hitting the airwaves really soon They're very funny. Dave laden is an incredibly good commercial actor. Just wanted emmy last year For his super bowl spot. No wait. These are vo or one of them is Two of them were on camera one of them is vo snapple is vo Which is really wild because I booked the spot as an on-camera guy And they cut me out as the doctor from the on-camera spot. I was like, uh Oh boy, you really needed that food Then they're like, we really liked your voice. So we'd like to have you do that. I was like, oh god, it pays the same Yes, I mean, yeah, let me check my sky. Yes. Yes. So and then they called me back again Which was just fabulous. So that's when that work begets work begets work So yeah, anytime you get a gig try and leverage that shit for whatever else A lot of it, right? Well, there you go Leave us with one piece of wisdom For our voice. Yes for You still have a great program director in Dallas and he go Morning show and he's like, hey, you guys get on in there and have a blast or you're fired We say if I can make if I can make one person laugh this morning They're gonna replace us by Tuesday. There's no way it's gonna last. I guess um, one thing about the conversational read and improv Be a student of the world Listen to voices listens to accents listen to stuff. That's where Miranda got it Uh, when we went to England in Scotland by the time she left she had every different region dialed Characters little stuff like your neighbor. This is how my neighbor sounds brandon bringing the garbage cans Never gonna be able to use that in a spot, but I might use it as a starting point. Right. It's not like if you think of, um Um, not Dan Castelnetta Um I got him uh, yeah, he does mo okay. Yeah, fly me him out. Come on. What's the name? Oh, um, oh my god Hank is there Holy cross you control the big board now on the green hornet. Who played kato? Uh, it was bruce lee 20 points. All right, so, uh He said um, Edward, uh, like chief chief wiggum is Are always a good boy. He says it's a crappy Edward g robinson And if you think of frank, it's like, uh, well actually the death ray is used for evil purposes It's a bad jerry lewis. He says he starts all of those that way. So Collect stuff be astute don't when you talk to somebody at a drive-through listen to what they say Find starting points and and little conglomerations and mash them all together and come up with different characters They don't have to be outlandish animation characters. You can use those in a commercial read Remember they're all characters some of the characters are going to be closer to who you are Some of them are going to be way out there. So is it okay to record perfect strangers? Yeah, I don't mean to show from the 80s I mean Belki, I told you That eastern european land is descriptive. Yeah, uh, sure as long as they know it Do you mind if I record your accent sir? Yeah, I want to file it away. I'll tell you what I do I will never use it for anything. I listen as hard as I can. I had a cab driver. He was a nigerian guy I love soccer play soccer my whole life and I followed nigeria through the world cup and I asked him I said, did you play? He goes, oh we play ever since I was a small boy and it's just like this I was like, oh my god. Tell me more. He's like, we're playing the guy. He brought the witch doctor I was like, what? He goes, he brought the witch doctor. I said, what are you doing? He goes, he brought the turtle What do you mean he brought a turtle? He brought the turtle. What for? He goes, he put on the ground and make a walk And he danced I said, well, what happened to you guys? It made us low So collect everything you possibly can listen if you want to tape them if you want to tape them great I just didn't get into trouble that hey, do you mind if I tape you because of I don't know I guess your accent It's so amazing. Don't say it like that. I think you're right Scott, it is always a pleasure. Thanks for having me up. Thanks everybody. Thanks everybody. Vio Road Show Have a good time in Atlanta. You can find me on facebook. I have a page called America's Commercial Actor Scott Parkin. My daughter Miranda Parkin. You can find her on instagram on the couch And your instagram is parkin art. Oh, that's catchy. My last name and art at the end. That's clever You write that yourself? No, okay. And what about your review channel? It's same thing parkin art on youtube. I just did a review on 2d dreamworks movies. It's a wonderful review I love alterato. Excellent. Beautiful. Thanks for having me on. Oh, I love what you've done with the place Always a thrill. Do I dive out now or do you guys beat me here? Do you pepper spray me? What happens? You can sit there. All right, just to reflect. Yeah, that's right. All right All right, well, we'll be right back. Uh, we got more stuff to talk about so don't go away here on voiceover body Hey, nice transition. 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I did hear the voice of a body shop little body shop Back to say good-bye. That's weird. Uh next week on this show Well in two weeks on the 18th Kiff Vanden Heuvel will be here. Oh, cool. Another one of those guys who I see you're watching tv and it's like Oh, there's kiff tv's and movies. Yeah, he plays cops Yes, it just happens to get he has that guy. I look like a cop kind of guy Yeah But he does a lot more than that right to find out and he does voiceover and he was doing his voiceover podcast too So we'll be talking to him about that. Super cool. Nice guy. Yeah, um Who are our donors of the week? I've noticed many and we really appreciate it. Yeah, let's go Let's go take a dab in the donors box This is where we should have the donors music that I can play to kill time when I go look up the Down We have donors we have donors We have lots and lots of donors. Michael kennedy. Thanks, Michael. We answered his question and he gave us some money What a guy. Whoa. Thanks a lot, brother I was very generous of you Um, andrew kaufman. He is one of our subscribers sends money in on a regular basis because he's subscribing Using the subscribe function that paypal has built in um Phillips appear. Thank you Um keeping down the list. Uh, that's a sponsor. So that's even better. Uh, sarah borges You can anybody anybody can sponsor monster show if you if there's something you'd like to advertise to the voiceover community We're here for you. We're here. Uh, sarah borges. Uh, thank you. Uh, cj ring wall. Thank you cj Um, michael blanker Oh, that's not michael. I'm sorry michelle michelle apologies blanker I know so kill uh land productions and graham spicer thanks graham brian rosh and joseph harrison And man, there's a lot of names. I told you there was a lot this week. Holy smokes Thank you so many so many of you are coming to helping to boost the show up a little bit with uh, maria mackas As well. All right, so yeah, it's been wonderful. We really appreciate all these contributions They just help us boost up the show a little bit more fill in the gaps when we need gear and keep things up to date Software updates all this stuff and it really is helpful. So which is why we look so damn good Yes, no, I would probably be yes. We'd like you to show us your booths Uh, this is cj ring walls booth. I would see if we can yeah, there's his speaker Yeah, we were thinking well looks like you know, we just got moving blankets behind us Can I put my head on that? Yeah went to the harbor freight got moving blankets. They work There we go. There you can see everything and that's in there Um, yeah, I'm telling you those don't they do look like harbor freight blankets, don't they? Oh, definitely. Definitely they work. They do you have enough layers of those things and I think one thin layer of blanket isn't quite cutting it for most people Double them up though and you're getting there and for the price you can't be crazy cheap. Absolutely. Nice job Thanks for sending in your picture. We do appreciate it. Yeah, send them into the guys at v obs dot tv in landscape not portrait Uh, okay, um Again, if you want to talk to george and have him help you with your home studio, you'll go to The tech george George the tech com Yeah, that's where you go to find me and dan is also available online for tech support over at home voiceover studio dot com I'm there all the time. I just live in my studio My wife comes in just you're never leaving here. Are you that's why we put the beer keg in here. That's right. Uh, okay. Well, uh We're here on alternate monday's live, but we're also doing tech talk We're taking this segment and we will replay this Next week the this amazing interview with With scott uh parking will be all this week. So that that'll be really cool Want to be in our studio like gary is today. Let's get a shot of gary here That's gary. There's gary gary. They call him gary. There's gary in the corner there. 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Yeah, exactly Uh, we'd like to thank the dan and marcy lennard foundation for the betterment of webcasting Also, our producer kathryn curtain for getting Great guests for us like scott park and kit van den huvel in two weeks Uh, mike marlino wasn't in chat room duty. It was you and sue. We're doing the chat room tonight. Yeah Mike's doing more important things Like how dare he the big time stuff in hollywood And uh, also our amazing technical director who just was par excellence tonight sue marlino Mike's mom Yeah, so just change the credit. That's right. So that's going to do it for us this week. Uh, thanks for tuning in. We're here Well, it seems like every week, but you'll find us here on youtube or on facebook or all those other places podcasting We're here. We're everywhere type v obs. Yeah, you'll find us. You'll find us or some organization that's V obs acronym, but anyway, that's gonna do it for us this week. We know it's not an easy business But we're here to help i'm dan lennard. I'm george wittem and this is voiceover body shop or vio bs Take care everybody