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Michael Collins demos award-winning demo production voice actor websites dot com where your voice over website won't be a pain in the butt and voiceover extra your daily resource for Vio success And now live from their super secret multimedia studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are George Whittem Dan Leonard Good evening. I'm Dan Leonard. I'm a little lower than I'm George with them and I'm a little taller and I'll stop that And this is voiceover body shop or Vio All right, well tonight We've got a big time guest. Yes, we do kick off the year right We we promise the top guests in the business and we bring him here our voiceover body shop Tara Strong is gonna be with us tonight and We're gonna talk about all sorts of stuff with her. She's really cool keeping busy. She has so let's introduce her by showing you the type of work she does Sorry Sebastian Swimming is a reckless disregard of the rules don't you know Not now he needs us You weren't exactly honest with me either it wasn't like that. I volunteered. It's okay. Nark. There's only two of them We'll take them easy Robin I think they're expecting us. I think he was talking about finding the doom patrol Oh I'm six years old and top-down thing is my favorite thing even if it's not good for my pacemaker A real genius that one. I am the most powerful and One of the most powerful Let's welcome Tara Strong to voiceover body shop Welcome, thank you to see you again in a few weeks You're originally from Toronto. I'm from Buffalo. Wow. Yeah So you had a got the chance to watch Irvine Stein say where are your kids at 11 o'clock, but that's an inside How long you been out here in LA since 94 94, okay, so What brought you out you were you were with second city? I mean you had quite a career before you even came out here I knew that I wanted to be a singer dancer actress when I was about four or five years old and My parents didn't really know much about the business when I was a kid I kept bugging them to get me an agent I would do school plays and stuff and then I finally got an agent when I was 13 I booked my first on-camera show which was a show with mr. T called TNT and My first play which was the music man and my first animated role, which was Hello Kitty and I did over 30 animated series in Toronto as well as quite a bit of on-camera I did second city and I did some Musical theater and TV. I was on a sitcom for a while and I always knew I wanted to come to California But luckily a lot of the American productions were filming there So I wasn't just someone getting off the plane going you want to be an actress. So you're a grizzled veteran Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I just always knew I wanted to come and try so I moved here in 94 I didn't know that voiceover would be my primary thing and I Still do some on-camera and I have a lot of fun with that But I've been very lucky because some people that don't have the voiceover stuff that only have on-camera Don't necessarily know where the next paycheck is coming from and when you're in that very tight knit group of voiceover stuff It's like a nice consistent career. So I feel very blessed and also the roles I've played have been such iconic Roles I don't know like how many people get to say I played Batgirl and Harley and Raven and Tim returner and bubbles Like I it's like a horseshoe that I was born Really lucky luck favors to prepare though. That's true. You worked really hard to get to that point So yeah, so you've been here since 94 and you've gotten all these iconic roles You must in right now You're like the busiest lady here in Hollywood when it comes to these things I mean, are you is it like day after day after day hour after hour session after session or yeah I average between six and ten shows at a time And then they're always scheduled on certain days. So for instance today Monday I have nine to one Ben 10 where I play Ben and it's like a lot of me except when he becomes different aliens And we have other amazing actors coming in and then two to six is Unikitty, which is also me as the title role So it's a long long day for me and then on the other days. I'm doing DC superhero girls. I'm doing some Harley stuff I Teen Titans go is on Fridays like everything is like, you know Scheduled in throughout the week so that I can make it all work And I'm also doing an on-camera movie with Carlos. I was Rocky this week. So Yeah, by the way, we're taping this on a Monday. Yeah, so everything you just heard her say she did today She did that today and then came on here and still able to talk That's pretty I think I think we have to work that out No, it's pretty amazing. I mean you're your instrument It's like it's like a bodybuilder or something is like a marathon runner You've obviously built up an unbelievable instrument being able to have that kind of you know stamina Well, and you have to I always tell people when they say like how do you break in take as many acting classes? You can singing classes scene study improv And it's all really important because it is it's an instrument It's a muscle and you have to constantly keep using it And you know improv helps you be able to create characters very quickly because often you're in the studio And they'll say oh, can you just do this part or this part of that part? And you don't want to be nervous you want to be ready to just jump in and singing lessons helps You learn your range and how to build power in different places and all those little things go into your basket of tricks Before you get into the studio because like you said you're prepared and if you go in Unprepared you might not get a second chance and if you're nervous you cannot show that you're nervous You have to come off confident even if you're faking it So you have to really really be ready and I caution people like to give up their careers and say I really want to drive voice over without being super super ready is a mistake. Yeah, absolutely you were you were talking about improv and I we've talked to a lot of a lot of people on this show and they all talk about doing improv and some of them are better at than others What do you think? Why do you think that improv is so important important, especially for boys so well improv is a unique side of acting training and you really Learn about creating characters and writing little sketches for yourself and you learn to think really quickly on your feet and in fact when I was Studying improv both in Toronto and in LA you'd find people from all walks of life They're not just actors people that wanted to be better at being you know Bedside matter as a doctor or a bank teller or whatever it was to get their personalities up and be ready to respond to people and So it's such a great learning place for building all kinds of characters. You get to experiment with your voice and see all these Different you know voices that you can create and where they're from and how they laugh and what they do and and Animation is so much a part of Improvisation there's so often that they'll say can you throw a little line in here or change this or do that And if you're ready and you're you know how to just sort of go without thinking and just do things on your feet It's such an amazing preparation for doing voice over So when you get cast to something and apparently they say get Tara strong an awful lot How does that process work? I mean your agent is pushing it for you or they're like no we want we want Tara strong We know she can do this type of thing how often you know, you've got all these roles This is just like coming you know from nowhere. Do you have to watch my stage? It's both You know often I'll get roles offered to me because of my career Sometimes I'll have to audition for a part. I've already had which is I've done hardly a thousand different ways y'all know that I can do it just but you know the flip side of saying no is that maybe look at someone else and Even for Ben 10 for this version I had to re-audition because it was new producers new creative and if you have an attitude about coming in again You won't you won't get it so it's smart to just keep going in because like I said There's often new people in there, but for the most part I still have to audition I auditioned in my home studio that George helped me build Pretty much every day and you know you get an audition you get a drawing of the character You get a character description you get sometimes a show Bible and sides which is a portion of the script and then you as a voice actor has to try to think of how the writers and the Producers would want that character to sound and then you play and I I like to do it myself Because I've been doing it so long and I like to make it really perfect And I'll sit in my studio sometimes for hours editing and sometimes you have to walk away from it and go okay That's that's good. Yeah, but I really like making sure that I'm really happy with it before I send it off Do you get through a take pretty easily like are you able to flow through something and say Yeah, it's kind of works or does it this point you can blast through a take and really sometimes I'm like I love that first take yeah And then sometimes I'll do like three in a row of each line and then listen back and I thought oh I really like that third one, but then when I listen back I'm like oh, I really like the first one where sometimes the second goes better with the fourth of take of that With the line or whatever you'll you'll comp together all the time. Yeah. Wow, okay Our guest Tara Strong, maybe you recognize her but you certainly recognize your voice if you've got a question for it throw it in our chat room and Maybe you can get a chance to ask a question over yourself. You're on voiceover body shop What's the what's the most favorite role you've done and you've done some great ones? I mean Timmy Turner always is one of my favorites not that I watch cartoons all the time, but my kid who's over here watch them all and And and it was always fun to listen To them without even watching them because it would be on in the backseat And it's like you can tell the writing was good. You can tell the acting was fabulous, but what was what was your favorite? What do you I did have a ton of fun doing fairly I'm sure you did such a great cast and when there's a great cast It becomes like a family like you're doing a player at sitcom or anything else you really build a camaraderie with your actors and you Learn how to play off each other and most voice actors are really gracious and giving and I love doing full cast records Because if you hear an actor do a certain way you may respond a different way like if someone says let's get out of here You might go okay, you know sort of mock them or play off them So for in terms of like group records and having fun. It's so much fun doing fairly odd parents teen Titans Powerpuff girls. We had so much fun, but I do always say the favorite role that I ever booked was the mermaid to which you played In fact, I was just in my home in Toronto where I grew up and I still have the poster on my wall from the original Little mermaid movie. I was such a big fan. So to move here and then get to play her daughter I met Jodie Benson and I burst into tears. She's like, are you okay? And then to sing in the studio with her was Extraordinary I really could have died the next day. It's a beautiful What what are you working on right now? I mean today you're doing Ben 10 and these other ones But you say you have like ten different series going out at the same time. Yeah all the time What what else are you working on that you can bravest warriors There's a new DC superhero girls show that Lauren Faust created and I'm playing Harley and Batgirl and Raven and a bunch of other people and sometimes we fight with ourselves all the time. Oh How does that go? Yeah, are you do that? Do you like to try to play two roles like literally back-to-back or do you Sometimes we do and then sometimes we we record one through and then record one through the next time To make that decision how it's gonna be done. Yeah as the actor can say I'd like to do these yeah back to back Right, or sometimes they say it's easier for us to do different tracks. Okay. Yeah. Yeah It kind of depends on the show like today I was doing Ben 10 with two other characters that were all in the same scene And I just did them back to back to back to back just talking to myself So you're a busy leap And you got kids and you got dogs and you and bunnies and and bunnies and a husband How do you how do you mix it all together? I mean if you're you're working like from when to win I mean Well most voice-overs between nine and six or nine and four and it's been really a great career to have children because first of All you work up to lead deliver I remember EG daily went into labor during a rug rat session. I was like can you go to the hospital right now, please? But you know, it doesn't matter what you look like in animation So you really can just you know work and then I used to bring my babies to the studio with a nanny And I'd go in and work and then come out and play with them And now I'm usually done before they're home from school So I get to be a mom after school unless like right now I'm filming something for Carlos It's been night shoots But typically I'm home by bedtime and I get to really it's been such a blessing that I get to do Because I love being mom and being hands-on. I don't like missing anything. Yeah Yeah Again, we got a question for Tara strong or at the chat room. We want you guys to be able to talk to her That's why we bring her here. It's the most important thing We also have an audience who may actually like to ask questions as well We do have a microphone in the room for that. Yeah, so we will get to that in just a couple of minutes You've worked with all the top people. I mean, you know, Todd Kenny and you know And whenever we wherever we mentioned these people we mentioned Tom Kenny Oh, we'd love to get on this show again. He's been on with us before we'd love to get him on here in LA Who's your favorite people to work with? Well, don't don't disinclude anybody People are the kindest Sweetest most giving it's like when you do on camera There's a lot of caddy nonsense that you don't really get typically in voiceover It's the nicest people and they're so talented every single day. I'm blown away by something someone does just today in a session Gray was whistling like for whatever reason and she could like do these crazy Singing whistling things. I'm like, I did not know you could do that. So it's like every day I'm sort of surprised by something my favorite to work with is Cree She was actually on Hello Kitty with me when I was 13 Oh, and she was the bad cat and I was and I was kitty So we had so much fun together and I love working with EG and Pam seagull was probably the only person I've ever been separated from in a session because we would laugh too hard together They literally had to separate us, but I love Kevin Michael Richardson, and I love I Couldn't if you asked me to pick a favorite It's like asking to pick your favorite kid. Yeah, you know, it's like everyone's so great. I Not I Had to see him today Monday's really tough for me because he's in Benton and Unikitty So I'm like, oh my god, and I was walking going like in my contract to not have him in the booth with me Terrible person terrible actor, you know, it's funny is we have this we have this running joke Right at all sessions and sometimes people online is like is this this feud real but it's so much fun to tease him And because I'm so used to it I do it all the time now like it's in my nature to just bash him when I see him And I did it at like a new job where I'm on all the time, but he's not Oh, and they must have been like Oh my god, I'm totally kidding. I love Roger. He's brilliant. Yeah We figured Want to be able to work tomorrow morning Sort of things happen. Well, we're gonna take a little break and if you've got questions for again throw them in the chat room We've got an audience here. We got lots of people. This is now. We have a couch in here There's lots of room for everybody to sit so stay tuned. We'll be right back with Tara Strong here on voiceover body shot Well, hello there, I bet you weren't expecting to hear some big voice denouncer guy on your new orientation training for snapchat Well, okay, we're not that innocent there's genes for wearing and there's genes for working Dickies because I ain't here to look pretty. She's a champion of progressive values a leader for California And a voice for America. It's smart. It's a phone. It's a smartphone, but it's so much more It's a the files are ready. Don't forget to pick up the eggs. What time is hockey practice check out this song It's the end of the road for Rick When hope is lost the I8 from BMW Who said saving the planet couldn't be stylish Hey, it's J. Michael Collins bet you think I'm gonna try and sell you a demo now I think they speak for themselves, but I will give you my email. It's J. Michael at JMC voiceover dot com And we're back here on voiceover body shot Tara Strong is our guest and we have an audience And we're wondering if any of you guys have a question. It looks like Howie Hoffman has one there Grab the microphone you guys have come all this way Okay, all right Jacob has a question here first Dylan Dylan of course has a question. Okay. Hey, so you probably don't recognize what I'm holding here It's a very obscure cartoon. It's not very well-known. No, but nobody likes that show. No, nobody but but I Just want to say First off, I love your work, you know, I you know, you did, you know You have such an amazing amount of versatility and you know and the characters you've played are so endearing and you always Bring so much life to them. Um, I do want to ask in the case of my little pony obviously your your one of the only American you you ask voice actors on that show because like Cuz they cuz you know, you've got dual citizenship So, you know, so I just want to ask but you know, the rest is like a Canadian Union actors and I just want to ask How How do you how do they make that work? How do you like do you record at a different time than? They do or like or is like is it over Skype or something or how does it go about? well, um, you know The nice thing about voiceover is you really can be anywhere and and you could what they call You know kind of phone in and be on a session with them and phone patch in to hear everybody For my little pony, I go back and forth to Vancouver sometimes to be with the cast Which I really love we all love each other very much But mostly I do record from LA and I'm not with them on phone patch So I don't get to hear what they do organically, which is it's a little sad But I know them so well and I I know kind of how they're gonna read it And also Twilight has like a hundred thousand lines an episode So it would be really long sessions if we all were together all the time So I'll typically go into a studio by myself and then I phone patch to the directors in Vancouver and I'll Often bang out anywhere between three to like seven episodes at a time just me by myself So it's it can be draining, but it's such a sweet show. Well lesson zero was your masterpiece. Yes That's a big favorite for sure. Yes I Got a question George has when did the comic-con thing become Dare I say mandatory like when did that become like something you knew you had to Make time and space in your life for that kind of Appearance thing when did that start? I've been going to comic-con in San Diego As long as I've been here like it's something that you always started doing and you you stepped right Well, I would go, you know comic-con in particular you go on behalf of the studios So you don't usually go to sign autographs and make money you go to Promote whatever shows you're working on so, you know And typically the studios take such great care of you when you go down They get you a ride or a hotel or whatever and you make an appearance at a panel and do some signings for them And it's very collaborative effort to promote the show So I've been doing that for a long time. So all the other cons And just so the audience knows there is a con in a city somewhere every weekend of the year So if you want to go to a con you could probably find one to go to and it started a little slower for me Like I didn't realize how big it was so when I first started I was going here and there and then You you realize how important it is to the fans to connect with them And I love going so much and meeting them with them I've had so many special memories meeting people who are so grateful for what we do and like I hear all the time Thank you for my childhood or this show got me through my parents divorce or this show got me through a Depression and like last year was one of the most emotional I met this girl and she was dressed as Raven. They often cause plays my characters And she was talking and talking and talking and I looked over and I see her mom like crying and actually people cry when they meet me a lot and But this was like a different cry so I went over to her and I'm like are you okay? And she's like my daughter is already got to stick and she hasn't spoken in five years And when she heard you were coming she didn't stop talking and I was like oh wow like that's heavy You know to hear these people say that you mean so much to them So I've started going more to connect with these fans because you're nothing without your fans And they're so wonderful and it's like a really nice way to give back and I make it a pretty fun weekend My very best friend Roxy and I go and she assists me at con because I it's a weird thing about me I've never cared for money. This is gonna sound crazy But when I was doing raqqas people like oh he must have made so much money on raqqas I'm like I don't really know like at the age it does this and they this person does that I don't know what do you mean you don't know I've and I grew up not having money And I mean I wasn't like at poverty line But we were not a well-off family and I always knew that I'd be successful and I'd be fine So I don't it's not something that I stress about and when I go to cons I don't like dealing with money I give away so much free crap all the time especially if there's a sick kid or someone doesn't have money and you know This past year is doing a lot of stuff for Candidates and saying if you promise to vote I'll give you a free autograph So she handles all the money she handles all the people and I really just go for myself to connect with fans I have a great great time. I know the one event. I remember seeing you at that you invited me to come to was a fundraiser Event for it was at a animal a wild animal rescue to you. I mean, I'm remembering you may remember it I mean, yeah, you said you got to come to this Tom Kenny's gonna be Tom Yeah, and that's how we got by the way, that's how we ended up getting Tom through Well, I love doing charitable work on Twitter for me. It's like the number one place to do that I've raised half a million dollars for kids with cancer a couple hundred thousand for animal rescue I did raise a lot of money last year for Democratic candidates and causes and I also like to give back that way I'll say, you know donate five dollars for a follow-back or twenty five dollars for an autograph or fifty for a voicemail Screenshot below and I'll give like a link to whichever charity I'm working with and just today actually I heard from a dad With a little girl who I met at a con who was with she was three years old with cancer and my fans all raised money for her And today she's a year of cancer-free. So it's like so nice to do that Yeah, and the wildlife learning center is one of my causes that I've been donating to for a while And it's a rescue zoo in California that only takes animals that have been Purchased by ding-dongs that shouldn't be buying exotic animals or yeah, and so it's a beautiful beautiful rescue zoo And I love doing stuff for them and they they give back to me They'll often like bring baby animals to my house to look a little treat. I'm really crazy about animals Oh Jacob you got the mic. Let me let me turn it on Probably a more obscure role But was that you in the Super Mario cartoon as the coop as like two of the Koopalings? Yeah, that was one of my first job my first early jobs being the Super Mario brothers. That was fun You have a good ear. Yeah, he's still able to do those voices. Yeah, I remember like Yeah, something like that Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah, I remember they were two very cute little boy characters You could easily play Princess Peach probably There's a one from someone in the chat room it says can do 777 Do you have a special keep the voice supple and healthy kit? Do you use any product or anything? Um, well, I've never smoked and I try to avoid smokers so so so toxic And if I'm not feeling well, I'll rest my voice. I do try to warm up In my car all the time I still take singing lessons. So I'll warm up with my vocal coaches recordings on my phone now and I like to bring a bunch of different drinks into the studio I'll always have a water but sometimes I'll have like a I like sparkling drinks, too I'll have like a zvx. I don't like aspartame or a hot drink And I if you're not feeling well tea with honey and lemon And if you're really not feeling well Don't go to work because the booth is a small space and it's really crazy when someone comes in Copping and sneezing and then everybody's wiped out Yeah, I yeah, and you know whatever candy everyone's so different to like whatever you like or feels good to your voice Obviously, I'm a vegan. So I never have dairy But yeah, you just got it. It's your instrument. So you have to keep it In good health. Have you ever any have you ever had any damage? Have you ever? You've kept it healthy. Yeah, that's really fantastic Um, what else does I do have a question? Oh, okay. Oh, go for it. Go for it, sir. We're ready. Mike is hot. Yes I'd like to know since you have you have been accomplished and Amazing a matter of iconic roles What is there left? What are you really? Yeah, what is it something that you've not done that you really by the time? You're my age that you want to do You know, I performed in Toronto's theater, so I'd love to go to a Broadway show. That'd be really fun And just keep working, you know, I worked with Stan quite a bit before he passed away and we did spider-man together We were so cute. He liked he liked he liked me a lot He was always appropriate, but like adorable like used to call me eye candy at cons and he's like come sit with me He was very sweet And when we were doing spider-man he'd be the mic beside me He kept looking at me like Stan you can't look a terror you have to stay on Mike So they ended up putting him like across the studio for me, so we'd stay on Michael look at me But I said like what's your secret? You know, he's in his 90s, and he's doing great He said never retire do what you love and just keep working and I love that so much So I just love to keep keep working and things that challenge me and things that excite me I get excited for all kinds of things still so more on camera more voiceover stuff and theater Yeah, one woman a lot of people ask me that you know, it's funny I always preferred improv to stand up because I I personally like to share the stage I don't really like to be by myself on stage So maybe I would do like a not a one woman, but maybe like a three or four people show but I don't know Maybe one day I will do you ever log you ever write down anecdotes that happen in your Profession I should I should yeah, I know I should really start keeping a journal and Putting down all the great stories Nickelodeon stories for you. Yeah, I bet I bet I know you do too Have you ever thought about Directing or producing you've ever had the chance to do that or is that like I directed a little bit at Disney I was Casting for them a little bit and it was fun I do prefer to act first of all when you're acting You know if you've got a couple lines you could be in and out if you're directing you're there the entire time So it is more time-consuming But producing and writing I do love to do and I've written a few scripts that have been in development a few things That have been on the air, and I definitely want to do more of that. That's fun All right get any other questions from our Vast audience out there. No, I think we can I think we can let Tara go home to her family 17 or 14 Two boys, they're pretty proud of me. They like finding stuff that I'm not you know typically on like they like Rick and Morty or Family guy or you know some of the games I do the like mommy I just killed everyone as you I was Harley Or any of your kids following in any way your sports tops are they're Talented my older son is an extraordinary musician He's not as showy as I am like he doesn't really have the desire to be famous and my younger one did do some acting when he He was little but he didn't like missing school So I'm not pushing it because I feel like the kids that get messed up out here the ones that get pushed They could they could but yeah, I'm definitely gonna let them find their own path Yeah, did you ever work with my friend Fred Newman? I don't know. I don't know sound effects person that was on Prairie Home Companion and now NPR Maybe I'm terrible with names Was that you as the giant armed? Frankenstein lady in Hotel Transylvania 3 possibly A bunch of extra voices on on the Transylvania movie The question there from get Fred's voice he's asking about coaches right in the bottom there Do you still get coaches? Are you still getting coaching? How many coaches have you worked with if you have or are I? So I'm currently working with a vocal coach a singing teacher. She's amazing But I don't do any acting classes or other kinds of classes right now. I'm just really busy Not that I'm a time but I think it's good to keep training and think just to assume that you're done learning is Yeah, is ignorant and I think we all have a lot to learn so and conversely have you done any coaching and are you going to do that? Do you think it's I like to coach friends and friends kids, but I don't like to do it for money I don't know. I don't have money I'd rather pass it off to people that are that are coaching for money and I have a lot of great friends that Ask all the time. So I just pass them off to them Very cool. All right. Thank you so much for being here All right, well George and I will be right back to say goodbye and Thanks for joining us today Are you confused about how to set up and maintain a professional quality voiceover studio? No wonder the information out there is mostly Mythology this is the best microphone to use. You'll have to have a preamp. 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So thanks for being here live guys. You appreciate it. All right. Have a good week We'll see you next the 21st with Larry Davis. Alrighty. Take care guys Screen and be on Mike at the same time That's what I'm here. Can we put it down? Oh Yeah, of course read dance screen. I just need to have the emails up. I need to put the names of the donors and so for tonight I'm just gonna Be off just gonna talk off camera big deal. Okay. I'll talk off Michael a little bit. You can still hear me We'll put him over here. So you're talking closer this way as opposed to that way. Yeah Okay, ready to rock. Okay All right, yep. Oh, we're rolling. Okay. Oh in that case Wow, now that was a great show Yeah, really glad we could get them in great great interviews and and we have a great time doing this This new format is gonna be interesting. Mm-hmm. We'll see how it goes. We're gonna have the kinks tonight. Yeah live on the air The way it goes Next week on the show we'll show you the tech thing and then on January 21st 2019 rolls by just like that. We will bring Larry Davis in here funny guy Just like John Bailey just a great mimic and amazing improviser and a great improviser and a fun guy We're looking forward to that. Yeah, who are our donors of the week donors of the week We've got a lot of those familiar names because they subscribe like cherry see H Reynolds We've got Why are these all in the donors area Sorry about that. Okay, Andrew Kaufman Karen Cunningham Karen Bryant We've got coming down the list here Don Griffith. Thank you Don. He's a subscriber Martha Khan Shana Pennington Baird, which we now know the surname how to say She's good Good old Uncle Roy from Ant-Land Productions Joseph Valtenenny. Thank you, Joseph data bird soul Stephanie Sutherland and Around it out Patty Gibbons Brian Page were pretty much reading everybody's everybody's that's donated in the last month because well we haven't been on it almost a month Amanda Fellows and George Woodham my dad Senior who every time I see him says I can't figure out how to cancel my donations darn Well Anyway, thanks everybody. We really appreciate your supporting us along the way. It's been great. Absolutely Hey, you know, we we've got the the VOBS living room here But if you'd like to show us your booth show us your booths. Yeah, we want your booth back here Absolutely and send it to us in landscape not portrait Show us what your studio is like. What if you what you put into it and we'll be in front of it Which would be really cool. Send them to the guys at the OBS dot TV and we'll be happy to get it on here If you need help with your home studio, you can talk to George at George the tech calm That's where you can find me and Dan is available over at home voice over studio Com get over there What we can help you we know what's going on We're now on at 5 p.m. Pacific time 8 Eastern and Whatever time it is in Newfoundland Doing it an hour early. So you guys on the East Coast can Have a little bit more time with your families, right that sort of thing and But if you'd like to be in the studio here at 5 o'clock on a an alternate Monday We're gonna be on every other Monday now Let us know if you're gonna be in town or if you're here in LA and write to us again At the guys at the OBS dot TV and put in the subject line audience and That will allow us to know that you're gonna be here as you saw We have a bit quite a bit more room now for folks to be in here It's absolutely comfortable. So come on it. Absolutely. Well, we'd like to thank our sponsors Of course like Harlan Hogan's voice over essentials voice over extra source elements VO to go Go a voice actor websites calm and J. Michael Collins demos all still sponsoring the show in 2019 absolutely everybody they they know we're the good stuff Absolutely as do you guys Of course, we'd like to thank the Danny Marcy Leonard Foundation for the betterment of live webcasting our producer Katherine Curtin for getting us Tara strong and all these great guests we've got lined up Jack Daniel on chat room duty and on YouTube and our amazing technical director who did an amazing job tonight We're not worthy so Merlino and of course Lee penny for being Lee penny. Well guys You know it's all about how good you sound and that's mostly because you sound the way You are and that's the most important thing, but if it sounds right it is good That's right, and it sounds right, and you're right. I'm right. That's right Anyway, that's gonna do it for us tonight on voiceover body shop we'll see you on the 21st with Larry Davis and I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George. What and this is voiceover body shop or VO BS Take care guys. Good night everybody. Thanks. I like having the logo in the back. That was cool. Nice touch. Yeah