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VOheroes.com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice over training JMC demos when quality matters and voiceover extra your daily resource for VO success and now Live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California Here are the guys Well, hello there, I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whitton and this is voice over body shop or VO You know it's It's like time to roll that the the intro ends and suddenly it's like Showtime Always exciting. It's always fun to hard parts remembering where to look. Yeah, look at that little red thing right here Yeah, exactly. That's that's the important part But we have some cool stuff to talk about tonight and you know, we have a great guest and It's beautiful weather here in Southern California except that it's allergy season because all the citrus is in bloom So it's pretty brutal if you have allergies here. Yeah, I know I'm like, oh do I have COVID do I know and George and I find out I'm taking a COVID test and it's like totally negative I'll be doing mine later. Oh Okay, good on the air and I want the yeah, and I want the results because we were all in here yesterday Anyway, it's time to introduce our guest. He has a heart out at 545 So we want to make sure we have a full amount of time with them too. It's right David Kaye was the voice of Megatron and Beast Wars Beast machines Armada and Energon and Ergon and Cybertron as well as Optimus Prime and Transformers Animated David was also cast in some of the first of hundreds of animated shows and video games So he's been on doing this a while. He's like at the you know, the the foundation of all this So so many in fact, he's now become the main focus of his career and he's never looked back Animation is great. Let's welcome back to voiceover body shop our good friend David Kaye Hey The single clap that's pretty much my life I have to scoot off to a thing and that I said I really don't want to go to but I paid for it So I gotta go Otherwise it'd be in my pajamas Well, welcome back to the show. We haven't had you out in a long time, you know, but Graciously you've joined us again and now you've had a great career, but you know, you're from my old neck of the woods You're from Peterborough, Ontario home of the Peterborough Pete's Just north of the Buddha. You're just north of the well It's it's like northeast of Toronto, you know as they say but while you were in Buffalo So how was that in relation to my grew up on I grew up on Buffalo television? I grew up with commander Tom I grew up, you know promo the robot. I Get those cartoons. I mean all of it. Captain kangaroo. I watched, you know, WKBW TV I witnessed news there of Weinstein. I grew up on it. You know, I was I Didn't watch Canadian television. I want to be part of that, you know I love Buffalo Tate TV and the personalities. Yeah, that's cool Yeah, and that was the cool thing there was everybody had to rotate their antenna one way or the other if I wanted to watch a hockey game on Hockey night in Canada and listen to you know, Bill Hewitt or Foster Hewitt. Hello Canada, you know, I would have to do that Yeah, that's right. What was Canada? Broadcast like at that time that made American broadcaster Buffalo so intriguing. What was it like? Well, I was going to going to school for radio broadcasting and communications across the border from Agnesburg, New York, and we used to you know, and we used to listen to the WPXY. I think all those stations up, you know And it just sounded bigger and I found out later that they they use level devils and compression And yeah, and it just sounded like why does it sound so cool and big and important? And then I would go to work when I was 17 or 18 years old and it sounded like like coming out of a tin box And you know and I got in trouble one night because Eddie Eddie Eddie Eddie Compton the crompton Eddie Crompton the engineer Was this guy and guy love he he was he had a temper like it and I it was like the third or fourth day on the Night of the job Saturday overnight weekends and I was didn't know what I was doing and I was horrible and and I said screw this I was talking to my buddy in the phone And I actually there's there's a equalizer eq and a transmitter and I was in the studio I started bumping up the the bass don't touch that stuff And it's two in the morning I'm sitting there and this you know rocking out of the the AM signal and I know what and in the door like 2 a.m Wham and it's Eddie don't you ever touch that You know cut and I was like, holy shit, you know it like a kid Adults come and scream at me two in the morning and so I didn't touch the It I just drove me nuts. Why can't we sound big wouldn't put so I didn't know the technicality of it I just wanted to sound better. Yeah, I had like even the back then I had an ear like I did I knew that you know something sucked and I didn't like it How come how come they sound good and so that drove me nuts And so from a very young age and the fact that I couldn't order with anything from the back of a comic book and Get it to my house in Canada I remember the when I first moved to Burbank and I said, hey, you know what I can order wine I can order gimmicks and jokes in the back of comic books And I can get them in my house for like five dollars, you know, whatever was and and and all the radio station sounded really cool So anyway, that was just my goofy thing, you know, it's cool to hear from your perspective from Canada Like he's yeah, I mean look the radio was great and CFTR in Toronto had great You know Tom records Landecker was on there and and you know this there's some amazing personalities in Toronto and we all know The talent in Canada is amazing. There's a talent radio was here I mean Cuba radio was incredible with the Fox and you know LG in the morning zoo and I played a part of that and that was a riot And so it was the basis that Danny you and I talked is the basis the foundation my greatest memories of of my life were from things of Radio the ski team or the goofy stuff were trouble beginning all those radio stories all the things that was said the the greatest moments of My life came from that business, you know, yeah, it was fine it was when you were young didn't have a lot of responsibilities and You know, you sometimes you could get this the station van and driver on town and that was always great Yeah, I'm parked in front of your house. Yeah, the road pig. We called it Yeah, yeah Anyway, so you how did you transist from there into doing strictly voiceover? You've also done some screen acting too Yeah, it was well, it was it was Vancouver like I mean I was in Brockville. We call it Brock Vegas And I worked the morning show there and you know Peter Barrow the CKPT the worst call letters in the world doesn't exist anymore I don't think you know when I out west who I worked in London BX 93 in country Had no no idea what country music was but they hired me for the afternoon drive and Had a great experience there for a for a while in the early 80s and and Ended up in Vancouver or mid 80s ended up in Vancouver in 89 and as part of the morning I think I went out to do middays or you know, I can't remember what I did I did all all All the day parts but I ended up in the morning zoo as part of the team I started doing comedy and songs and credit card your cowboy dick Howdy boys and girls and play a little song, you know and and develop these things And it was so much fun and the energy was great But getting up in the morning really early at like four o'clock to get to work was just That's not me and I remember being sitting there. There's four or five of us and then they The the zoo master and you know dean dean hill and bob and everybody and and and it was uh The music the first song would play and I'm sitting there trying to wake up and he says, okay, Dave What do we got? What do we got? I'm like, oh my god. I just want to go back to I have nothing That's mornings. Yeah so but I I loved and the transition came when Down the road and radio started to kind of be sold off, you know, the corporate thing starting to happen and it started to be less fun and more corporatey and and and uh, the writing was on the wall and I started at that time I had a friend who was an agent and he started sending me out on stuff on camera and then I got my first Animation audition, you know, I was a big fan of comic books and in cartoons as a kid anyway, so they My agent says, hey, do you do do you do voices and I said, you know, yeah, sure. I didn't know what he's talking about He said, well, I got this audition for you. It's uh, it's for gi joe and I think gi joe Well, I had those dolls. I watched the show And and so I went in and I did this and I really didn't really didn't know what I was doing And it was uh, just you know quick follow me toward the danger. It was yo joe and uh, just I don't know And and somehow they called me back And I read for a few parts but I and I ended up getting cast as the as general hawk and and from that moment on Being in the studio like it's a radio play It was all all all at that time my heroes in in vio and maccouver. I knew that these the cartoon people You know, it was a very small Tight-knit group and the fact that I got in there was that it was a miracle But somebody liked what I did And from that moment on I would go back to the I remember doing doing the show at lg And I would literally the monkeys were on mtv and I was like When we had the that system where you just the computer would take over and I would literally, you know boom But don lg 73 boom and I you know, I just I just sit there and watch tv and I was like I had no interest in being there and it was like I didn't want it and uh, so they called me into the office one day I'm paraphrasing, but you know, this is this is 93 and yeah early 94 and uh Chris chris pandoff says, you know, you don't really want to be here. Do you and I said, you know, I'm not really So so he said, you know, well, let's uh, you know, listen, you know, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda And uh, it's been a great, uh, you know, so so why don't we just you know, say listen this two weeks and we'll uh And I know you're busy and doing stuff because I was starting to get commercials starting to get things I was really Really focusing on okay. I want to do this for the rest of my life And uh, I remember that night. I went, okay We're done two weeks. We're out and and and I went home Uh poor marie. I think she was pregnant at the time and I was down I had had a studio in my house as well because I was beginning to do affiliate work at that time on the uh the mid 90s and when websites were just beginning to take off and I had reel to reels and trying to make FedEx and that and I finished my day and and I said, you know I got a bottle of three quarters of bottle of glen libid and I you know what I gotta I gotta celebrate I gotta get it's it's just the beginning of a something special and I got and in two in the morning again 2 a.m. Seems to be a thing I had finished the entire bottle in my studio and I somehow made it upstairs And I remember oh, I think I was sick and maria was like what's going on like You know, um, and I woke up the next morning thinking I'm an alcoholic. What the hell have I done? I'm oh my god. So I called my best friend greg. I said, I don't know what's going on man I I think I finished the body said what you did. I think I'm an alcoholic. He says do you do this all the time? I said no the first time I've done it And he laughed You're not an alcoholic. Get dressed. I'll pick you up or go to the tomahawk for a greasy breakfast This amazing breakfast place in north vancouver And that was it that was the basically the umbilical cord was cut and it's like, all right Now I'm on my own. This is it. It's all up to me And I much preferred that because I love Sports and things and situations where the pressure is just on me. It's not about it's any it's it's like it's up to me to to to do this and then and then the baby happened I go, okay. Now I have a real purpose and then the the the flame I'll call the blue pilot light is on and it's ready to roll and it's always on it still is it's always on It's never it never never goes off and that's sort of when that happened And I did all I can I started doing theater and I started getting auditions and I got a couple of parts I I was horrible actor on camera But you know x files and a few things and had a fairly half decent thing But the voiceover stuff started to really happen And then you know, I'm going on here dan, but this is kind of I was gonna jump in here and interrupt any second. Yeah, please. I just stopped me But that's just that's sort of how it transitioned from radio out into the you know What I what I just my love doing more than anything in the world. Yeah, clearly, you know I just want to remind everybody if you've got a question for david k We're gonna get into a few more interesting things here Throw it in the chat room I know jeff holman is hiding in there somewhere and taking down your questions And we'll get to the him and those questions in our next segment So you you were able to do a little bit of screen acting too. Do you think that helped you? A little bit more with your voice acting or vice versa You know, I was working while on camera. I said sometimes I see myself unhappy gomer. I'm like, oh my god Why what possessed them ever to put me? But it was the theater and it was the improv and it was all that stuff that started getting me out of my head And I always, you know and fast forward to that, you know I mean I do the trailers and promos and then there's there's animation and then there's commercials And then there's a radio and tv a film. There's all these different sort of things like in a swiss army knife We're a certain skill, you know get pop it up and the thing comes up and it's time to do that um I learned that from from from improv and in theater and and uh Um, what was my point? I was going to make some some brilliant masterful point and I've forgotten it I'll remember it, but it was something I said, oh, yes everything you do everything Has to has to be a living breathing Soul has the character has to has to exist, you know, it has to it has to have a A heart and a soul and and a laugh and a breath and So the the more truth you can bring to anything you do the more human You can even a promo is it's it's thinking of who you're talking to and that's dan It's the old radio thing where you know envisioning who it is. It's listening and you I still see that I still See exactly who I'm trying to communicate to it's a very clear picture and and um, and that helps me, you know Bring the truth to the character and and it's um And I play it's like a game to me to try and to get to that point because I I was never satisfied with okay Good mediocre. Oh, that's fine. I fucking hated that word. Oh, that's fine I want to make how do you how do we make it excellent and great? How do I get to that point? So that's been my lifelong thing and you never get there. It's it's like it's a continual You know it's it's a so it's you work at it and and I love the challenge and every day is different. So yeah Well, you've had some great parts. I mean you now you Well, we won't talk about this very long But you got this role of megatron and an optimist prime with the transfer That was quite a quite a franchise for a while, wasn't it? Yeah, I had no idea what we're getting into but we just did I just did a convention this weekend at Burbank and this you know, there's thousands of people that's still to this day I'm still being paid for this damn cartoon and I was we stood in 94 um The coolest see here's another thing and that's it's awesome I really didn't know but for me as a kid a 12 year old boy I got cast this past year in Eternals is is air shim the thing now I remember as a 12 year old reading that comic and it was a little known jack Kirby comic and so for me personally Seeing that in the movie theater Like the hair on the back of my cup. I think oh my god because this is my This here. I'm in my 50s and I'm like this is I'm a child. It's my childhood. This is how the how the hell did this happen? You know, I I don't know. Um, I just uh, don't ever grow up just uh To me to be to to get up every morning and go ahead. It's a new day What that and to be a new soul every day is important in this business, too No question. All right. Yeah, my wife's the same way. It's like I didn't even grow up What are you gonna do when you grow up? Never we're doing it George, you know, uh, damn, what's the the uh, I uh, oh my gosh, I've drawn a blank here I took a class with her when she's brilliant. She teaches trailer, you know, uh, morris morris So she's the one person who called me out because I I took a class with my buddy with howie Remember howie howie took a weekend workshop before he moved to los angeles and I was down here I said, okay, I'll take you out of a workshop and you know, it's promo and okay I gotta brush up and do some stuff and she gave me some coffee and thinking, okay, you know You know tonight and it's an all-new elf, you know, whatever I don't know what I did and then I thought oh, you know, that's all it was all right And then she's standing there behind the glass looking at me and she's started looking staring at in the silence I thought oh, she's gonna say that. Hey, that's a pretty good read. I guess, you know what you're doing But she doesn't do that. No Yeah, yeah, it's a little that I know but she said she said You bore easily, don't you? I'm thinking oh my gosh, and I stopped I said holy shit. I said that But here's what that meant it meant that she said you have to make sure that every time you read that copy because you do this Day in and day out all the time you're all that it has to be fresh and new every time Can't call it in you you cannot do you know, uh You can't just you has to be like is that you're seeing it for the first time because you're not saying yourself Yeah, you you don't know what we're gonna say to each other from one second to the next It has to be the same with that it has to be brand new and I went. Oh my god That was the best money. I that moment was She nailed me. She hit she that's it and and and she's and I think she's I love her I haven't seen her forever, but that moment went. Oh Yes, of course Yeah, of course she told me my mustache has nothing to do with voiceover Well your mustache has nothing to do with voice. So it's exactly what she said But she she is a great coach. I mean, she's you know, she really understands the psychology of it Oh my gosh, she ever she's just like she dug in there with a spoon There's you I see terry terry briscoe says here. Uh, were there any effects on the megatron voice? No, that was just I was I'm kind of like my optimist prime character in tf anime and I like I'm naive and doing the best I can with with the situation. I really At that time when at the first audition for megatron I went in and I had all the stuff and I went oh, I don't know and dug parkers is all right. What do you got? And I went uh, um Yes, uh, I did this thing and they they called me back And then I was sitting into the callback room and finally it hit me. Hey, what if I have anthony hopkins Sean connery and a lizard the doll. What if they had a baby and like how would that How in that work and I yeah, and I thought yes excellent and sort of put a bit of a list on it and they and that's The the the scenes in further episodes. They did some stuff With the voice but that was just how that happened, you know Um Yeah, well, we can talk a little bit about your tech. So you said you're you what are you working on right now? I mean you said you talked about the internals. I mean, I know you're a busy guy. It sounds like 24 hours a day You're sitting in that room. Well, you can tell us about this. Yeah Signed an nda for you. Oh, yeah, there's there's a couple of Uh, uh, yeah, again, those are those are great. They're they're prime time shows and uh, and they're very funny I can't tell you but my god, they're they that's so cathartic to be able to laugh these days The uh, let's see, uh Kind of I don't know there's a couple of video games that are just coming out I don't there's a lot of trailers the current trailer campaign I'm working on is the there's new harry potter movie the fantastic beast and that's a It's a bit of a it's sort of a character read. Um They had me uh at the beginning it was very sort of fanciful, uh wizard like a read But they wanted that pull that back and make it more of a traditional trailer But still have a bit of you know, ride that wizard a little bit, you know and uh and uh When did trailers fall what trailers? I mean, I've worked with david. I work with you and so many other Actors and I hear them some of them like I'm still trying Crack this trailer thing, you know years and years and years. I'm still trying. I'm finally getting it's a bit It's been 10 years 10 10 years of just scratching a lot of stuff Maybe more try maybe 10 to 15 years and but now scratching is like It's kind of like an audition but not. Yeah, they want now now Now's the point now where they're asking they're asking more and more Can you get david on this can david and can we have david and so it just takes a long time And it's the my favorite thing in the world, uh, dan as well to george's to do trailer I love is a kid. I was enamored by the voice that used to come on to the movie theater Coming this april. That's a not, you know a brand new monsters and those guys that did that and don was a friend of mine and a mentor and And I I just thought it's a pinnacle and it's it's it you had You have there's just there's a way to do it and there's a way Um sell it but don't sell it, you know, I always says my my thing, but uh, just trying to find um The read it because I'm kind of one of those these cats is I'm all over the place and and uh Ashton who I just adore Is that the read it's just like oh my god And and howard parker and you hear them. I'm kind of like all over the map. And so I have to Really be trying Hone in on something Whatever style it is. I don't I'm trying to explain myself. Um I I I can't sound like I'm putting on a voice. You know what I mean? Um, and I think the first Uh, there was the the the Clint Eastwood movie, uh, Richard Uh, about the bomb, you know the in atlanta the olympics the bomb went off Richard Richard, uh, what was his name? What was the movie? Uh, I can't remember. Um, but I know you're talking about him. So if I did the Warner Brothers Uh, Richard Richard so-and-so And I started just talking like this. I just started getting close to the mic and you know a Warner Brothers picture You know Clint Eastwood person and I just I didn't do anything And they hired me and they wanted they put me on a Ben Affleck movie and I went. Oh, there's something I can hang my head. There's it's because it's just me. It's just me doing nothing and then It took me so many years to just to not do anything and that's what they hired me for it is me doing nothing Like Seinfeld. It's exactly I'm doing nothing You know what I have to do I just do nothing and they pay me perfect You know, um, it took me like 25 years to just do nothing And um, it's just developing a style the harry potter thing is uh, this april It's more. I don't know. It's more of a character, but it has to I don't really know again at the beginning. I told you I said I really don't know what I'm doing Sort of I talk and hope something happens. How's that? Richard jewel. Thank you daryl Richard jewel. Yeah, Richard jewel That's all in all it did say Richard jewel in theaters front, you know, it was all I needed to do and they went Yeah, we like that I go damn. Okay. So Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to sort of Just sort of think of like what I'm doing technically but um I enjoy the hunt the process and and and the I that to try and Like I said to try and create something that's that's believable and has a heart and a soul and and uh It's a it's a I don't think about anything else except that it's like when I ski or I'm in the gym I think about one thing only and and it's just that when I have a clear mind I can kind of You know, if I'm trying too hard, I can tell if I'm trying to you know trying to the read too hard I'm trying No, I need to just stop and come back and just do nothing Richard jewel. That's it. So I don't know. Is that makes sense? It does a little bit. Well, yeah, yeah, I mean we totally understand it. It's you've just got to let go and be you Yeah, that's yeah, basically. Yes be you For many years, I was just trying to be other people We're talking with David k and we're talking about his career and talking about What it takes to make it in this business and if you've got a question All you got to do is throw it in any of the chat rooms that we've got and we'll get to that in their next segment So we'll be right back with David k on voiceover body shop. Don't go away This is the latin lover narrator from jane the virgin anthony mendez and you're enjoying dan and george on the voiceover body shop Well, hello there I bet you weren't expecting to hear some big voiced announcer guy on your new orientation training for snapchat. Were you? This is virgin radio. 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 smart phone But it's so much more. 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I'd love to help you get there This bill radner and you're enjoying voiceover body shop with dan lennard and george widham v obs dot tv And we're back with david k gotta get david to do a couple of trailers for us or a couple of promo lines for us When we get the chance when I come and fix your radio again. Yeah, that's right Anyway, so let's talk a little bit about tech and again if you've got a question out there for yeah for for david k Throw it in the chat room talking about anything that you know, you might want to ask him About you know the stuff that he does so george, this is sort of your department David, what do you what do you have in there? You've got a really expensive microphone and you're you're in a new a new place and tell us about what technically you're using in there technically Gosh, thank god for george, by the way, we'll let him explain it then The uh, yeah, yeah, I was using years ago. Um, you use 67s. I just fell in love with them It's the residents and they were a microphone that you know the use for baritone sacks, you know, basically but Um, a lot of the animation shows were out earlier when I was in in vancouver was the u 87s were there sometimes the tlms This mic is a paluso p67 because we're having trouble with the u 67s and the fact that we would you know The mic would be a charlie bols is half the time being being fixed. They're wonderful sounding. They're just delightful mics I just love them, but they're Problematic in the fact that you know tubes and things and george, you know And you get a little fits and fuzzing and things happen. You're like, oh my god So we try to find a mic that would Is closely possible emulate and be that that sound there's a sound that I I like to hear that roll off or that And uh, and I'm a professional so I said I want the best tools and so let's find the best mic and uh And I just love these is made here. Is it connecticut george made in uh, uh, I think it's virginia actually virginia Yeah, and they just I just I'm I gotta love these things. I have one in the place in calona that you know, um This one here, but if i'm on the road, I use um the standard Sennheiser shotgun uh because we're 16. I use that in the car. I use that in the car. I use that in the try booth But I take this as much as possible with me if i'm gonna be you know somewhere a longer period of time I just because I can because I go from like, uh, you know world, you know Quietly to screaming, you know, and and it's and things have to It has to handle all that stuff and uh I don't want to have any any issues and with that so the apollo twin Uh here the george has set up and we're going through alan and heath right george and yeah It's not it's not running the way a lot of people would think it's not it's not going mic Twin apollo twin mixer Yeah, it's actually going straight from the mic into the mixer directly in the channel one And we're we're using the built-in compressor on the alan heath And it it's an amazing compressor It's slightly it's just a slight compression and a lot a lot of video games and a lot of animation that you know I just I'll just I'll just take it off take the game now or just turn it off entirely Yeah, just in and it's just but it gives it just a little bit of you know It's I don't use too much at all. That's what was my thing to you is I want it clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean Um And we're using the apollo for a while might still be but I can't remember but we're using this as the interface But we're also using it as the expander. We're using it to just drop down the noise floor A little bit because there's this fan in that rack that's in there that was all there's no fan in here anymore I plugged it. We unplugged it because we don't need like there's stuff in here We really don't need it stuff in here. We don't even need and don't even use. I like the la 3a Well in cologne in in Canada, we have the there's a bit of a fan There's a noise sort of that comes from the building or whatever and so we had to put that gate in Yeah, and not too many people. There's very very few people ever even hear, you know, they can sort of hear but As just it's it's it's a comfort level too It's I need and you know, I'm very very Particular about how I feel in here because I need this needs to be a this creative space I don't want any like things that I don't want anything that I don't feel like No, I don't what's that? You know all move things on my desk because I just don't I need it needs to be a certain way I'm kind of nuts like that But I'm doing it for you know 30 35 you're going out 40 whatever it is and that's just the way I am I'm an idiot. Yeah You've got this thing where george was showing me where you you have a volume control for your headphones that you you play with Constantly guess where that I don't usually animation. It's off. Everything's off. I don't right, but I usually I One ears off because I need to hear the natural sound and I need to sort of monitor some characters and some things I need to hear and it's an old radio thing Dan. It's like it was the pots. I needed to have a lot I ride the level because When you're in radio, you know, you turn the music up and 75 degrees down Oh, how about a hubba to have it and you're moving the dial off And you can hear the roll off and it just sounds kind of Trying to hit the post it's an old habit And sometimes they use it sometimes I don't but it needs to be there because it's my little What do you call it an idiosyncrasy george? idiosyncrasy sounds like it's like a it's like um a blanket. It's like a line is blank It's a line is blank. It's a security. It's security blank. It's part of your technique. It's just it's a it's a Proprietary technique. You don't know however, however it happens Uh, there's a I said a couple questions here. Uh, terry brister said you ever had done a trailer for the production You were actually in yes, eternals. I did the uh, the uk trailers for for the eternals and I was in the movie Which is weird. Uh, who else says Optic inner. Oh, yeah fiber optic. Do we have you'll be fiber optic here, right george? Yeah. Yeah, I think so Just bad cell coverage. I might note Uh, yeah cell coverage out fine I'm trying to get to your house and you get you give me the wrong address. I'm like, what what? Yeah, I didn't work. I don't know what's going on. Uh, we got a question here from play the voice goes, uh What's the best way to stand out in auditions in a good way? Which I think is a great question for you because you were talking about, you know You started auditioning and you started to book What is it? Do you think that you're doing? That the gets you there? Oh Gosh, it's it's uh It is that The realism I guess that that the I but that didn't come till later till I really sort of fig Caminist might might want to make a great agent would say dk. You got to connect it more connect it more and I go Why why don't you connect it? What does that mean connect? And it was and then years later I go. Oh, right connect like ground it like it's a it's a human soul heart You know real real, okay, um uh I don't know it's it's a it's a feel when you when you see some copy when you see a character or you see a commercial It's just the believability of it. I I don't know it's Gosh, I wish I had an answer because it if it's written well I love when it when a piece of copy is written well We all we've all had those piece of copy that you just like it's like the clogs and the wheel just don't that It's not working. It's horrible. Uh, and then when a copy is written well, you're like, wow, this is fun You can kind of dig into it. Um It's being able to I don't know I'm trying to An example of nfl fox sports. They have amazing writers and nfl The guys do they write some amazing copy and it's And even nascar and so that they're just great writers over there that team and it's storytelling It it's it it's base and to be able to tell a story And to picture you telling a story too in a personal way um It's sort of to try and find a placement like, um The princess bride remember the princess bride and the narrator was uh, peter, uh, what's his name peter falk peter falk You know and he had that thing and so I would say listen to peter falk Even if it doesn't even relevant to what you're doing listen to how he's telling a story It just there's there's a quality to his voice. There's there's a little heart You know, it's something about the way he tells a story That's so believable and if you can bring that to whatever you're doing Watch princess bride Yeah, isn't that him and that prince? Yeah, he's the grandfather. He's the grandfather Let me tell you the whole story and if you listen to it. I'm just curious about yeah It's just tell a story like, you know be intimate with the microphone like really You know learn to to be intimate with this thing. Um, it's your friend um, and and try and really I don't know be this as much truth as you can bring to anything you do Um, not just read the copy but dig into it. I don't know how to how to explain that um It just sort of took me so damn long to figure it's like, you know It took me so long to get good at skiing and to get good at tennis and squash and And I forgot the the blood sweat and tears it took just to get to the point where I'm You know that they still hire me. It's I I don't know I'm not much help. This I was gonna say this is not That's why they don't have me to these voiceover things is I don't know how to how do I explain this um It just oozes out of you. It's a show about nothing No, I I hear here's here's an exercise I do and I would have taught a couple of times and and it's an acting teacher Gave me this exercise. She's brilliant. Shea Hampton back in vancouver. She used to give us cold reads And there used to be a scene and the two axes is it across from each other and we'd stare at each other And that's uncomfortable to do. We'd stare at each other. You just look at them You look at the right in the eyes. It's tough to do to connect That's the connection if you can sit there and then when you kind of both feel like you're ready Maybe one starts to laugh a bit. They're like That's a true emotion. So at that point you turn the copy over and you start and if you're in the middle of a life You're like How did you What why did you do that to me? And so, oh my god, there's a real moment And then so the person turns over his and delivers their line and Because Again, we don't know what we're going to say to each other like marisa bias said, you know You bore easily you got to make it for every time you do it. It's got to be Different it's got to be the first time you've ever seen in the first conversation you've ever had If you can bring that into anything you do That's a freshness and and a um That's how what's the word again? See i'm i'm shy of words Uh, i'm not very good at words. I should find a career that doesn't use words You know that sort of defeats the purpose where somebody else writes them for you. Maybe perhaps is that yeah Yeah, yes, I uh Somebody says terry to do a script analysis No, you know what and this is gonna this is gonna shock you No, uh, and here's the reason I don't I used to drive me nuts I'd go in when I when we're doing we used to go in person and do auditions We used to somebody in the room going Walk and run the phone Oh shut up stop talking and I have to go out of the room. I'm hearing these people mattering Sometimes it's good just like the cold read to look start roll the roll the mic roll the uh The file and start talking and see if anything happens You see if anything sometimes magic happens because it's the first time you're seeing it You don't have chance to kind of mark it and do it up now some people mark it and do it That's their thing My thing is I want to get into it right away and see if anything happens if it doesn't okay Let's let's work on it. Let's let's dig in. Let's see what other, you know Voice quality or maybe you know if I if I rough my voice up a bit and you know do a little older Maybe add a little age to it and uh, you know be a storyteller and sort of uh, you know Here's my grandfather and I'm gonna tell you know, I got a surprise for you kids and Christmas more, you know, whatever Try and add layers to it, but I would suggest just just read it And see if anything happens That's how I do it. I don't a lot of times Georgie's seen me work. Oh christ. I got to get this done. Boom And that's only because I've been doing it for 40 years, uh, but that's how I do it You know, do you there's one last question? I know you gotta go Darrell asked this Darrell Darrell Darrell's Went kind of a long way around to ask you basically this just the last part What do you do to keep your voice great like getting to to deal with mouth clicks and do you use anything that you take or Do you have a regimen to keep your voice? Not have mouth noise and all the other This is going to be boring, but yeah, I always have a glass of water in here But first thing in the morning three glasses of water before even, you know, hit the floor Because I work out all the time and I was sweating all the time. So I'm Dehydrating myself all the time I'm studying wine. So that's even an extra hydration. I I do a gallon a day. I do a gallon of water a day Every day and that Is really important and that to get rid of the mouth clicks and that'll keep you If you ever notice you do the three glass of water in the morning You start to your nose starts to run because you're getting your you're hydrating It's really important to be high in this in our dry climate out here. Good lord, you know, and especially now But and I also I use alcohol which is a nasal rinse every night before bed Little think fit down the thing. There it is. I am so such a fan of that um, and so that Keeping you I mean literally Silly stuff like, you know, keeping your teeth clean and then doing a mouthwash Doing the alcohol and and drink a ton of water It's so important. That's why there's all those water bottles in there when you go into the studio That's a reason for that. Yeah, that's how I Those those are good tips and ones that I should probably do and also very good right before you go to the urologist as well uh David I know you got you got to get rolling. I'm so sorry. I hope I uh, no you've been great some little Thing of wisdom of so I don't know. I'm never sure if you get one good thing out of a show Then it's that's golden. So anyway, anyway, thanks for being with us and uh, we look forward to uh, whatever it is that you're doing next And uh, we'll talk to you again real soon. See you thursday, david If I don't have covid I'll see everything is broken. You have to come and fix it Alrighty david k everybody We'll be right back to wrap things up and rack it up for tech talk right after these messages. 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Anyway source connect Thanks again source elements And we'll be back to wrap it up in a second Yeah, hi, this is Carlos Ellis Rocky the voice of Rocco and you're watching voiceover body shop Wow now see that was He thinks he's not saying anything but he was curtain, you know, david k was demonstrating to us for 45 minutes What it is he does, you know, it's very flow of thought and You know, it's a very it's a it's a cool way to approach the business I guess it's also really cool that he has a space that he can be on the show in his actual Performance space we can hear in front of his actual microphone You can see this that's exactly where he is When he does this thing he's got to turn on his light panel. He has a he has an led panel It looked great. Yeah, but it was still fine. Yeah. No, it was uh, it was always a pleasure He's a good good example of mic technique, you know, if you're watching the video, you know Which we'll talk about in tech talk next week, but uh, you know, it's important to to understand You know, this guy It's very very it's like a paintbrush and you got to learn how to use it And you know, when do you talk close to it and when do you back off and that sort of things Andrew peter is uh, he does a podcast with me He's like I want to make a pop screen with an ear on it because I think of that thing like an ear Right microphone is an ear like it it changes the way I think about how I address the microphone Absolutely, you know, do you always talk into somebody's ear all the time every like no, you don't always talk into it here You know, yeah, anyway, uh next week on this very show you should be here And stick around if you're watching live and you can Participate live and we'd love to have your questions. 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Uh this week Uh, not an easy business There's a lot to learn and you got to find out who you are But when it comes to your audio if it sounds good Oh, oh, it is good. That's right. I'm dan luddard. I'm george woodham. And this is voiceover body shop or vo BBS. All right. We'll be right back with tech talk, but thanks for watching