 well guess what it's time for voice over body shop and george and i are going to be very happy to welcome our guest bow weaver who's right there wave hello bow and say hi well he doesn't have to say hi but we'll get to him but we're going to talk about recording on the road and some stuff from his career and lots of advice and if you've got a question form put it in the facebook chat room or in the chat room on youtube if you happen to be watching there and we don't talk unless i'm getting scale that's why i didn't say damn get the lawyers the check didn't clear that's all right all that and more on voice over body shop coming up right now from the outer reaches they came bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voice over audio and together from the center of the vio universe they bring it to you now george wittem the engineer to the vio stars a virginia tech grad with the skills to build set up and maintain the professional vio studios of the biggest names in vio today and you dan lennard the voice over home studio master a professional voice town with the knowledge and experience to help you create a professional sounding home vio studio and each week they allow you into their world bring you talks with the biggest names in the voice over world today letting you ask your questions and giving you the latest information to make the most of your voice over business welcome to voice over body shop voice over body shop is brought to you by voiceover essentials dot com home of harlin hogan signature products source elements remote studio connections for everyone voice actor websites dot com where your vio website isn't a pain in the butt vio heroes dot com become a hero to your clients with award-winning voice over training jmc demos when quality matters and voice over extra your daily resource for vio success and now live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in sherman oaks california here are the guys well hi there i'm dan lettard and i'm george woodham and this is voice over body shop or vio bs yes i'm growing a beard again uh seeing as this thing is never gonna end uh you know it's like but then again i grow it and then i shave it off and then the missus is like you look 10 years younger so i do the same thing today we cycle yeah i mean i'm just waiting for this thing that's on turn totally white though you know it's i want the mustache to turn totally white that's what you want that's what i want i've been wanting that for years and it's just you know it's like half of it is white you know as you can see it salt and pepper that's right but anyway we're here to help you with your home studio stuff and talk about voice over so we figured we'd bring somebody in who really knows voice over you know when they invented voice over this guy was holding one of the hammers he's forgotten more about this business i would tend to think so most of you guys so let's let's introduce our guest bo weaver is one of the west coast's perennial a list voice over artists heard on network television promos syndicated television shows trailers for feature films cable network documentaries national radio and television commercials and is the signature voice for many major market television affiliates he's also had lead roles in animated series like superman and the fantastic four and has frequently heard is the live announcer on hollywood award shows such as the prime time emi's let's welcome to voice over body shop you know he can't hear your applause but there he is anyway bo weaver bo welcome to the show i love the opening to your show but i you know my favorite part about it is is the shot where you guys go so i wanted uh i wanted to have one of those oh okay yeah we've been doing it when we first started the show we started doing that and it's just become sort of our thing anyway but now i can't see a damn thing if i do it it's very clear very quickly why i'm an off-camera well yeah anyway i you know i i have said many times that i i try to explain to my relatives back in oklahoma what it is i do for a living and they they don't get it you know it's like it's talking to one relative aunt regina and she says well now honey uh we watched that television show that you said you were on and we didn't see you didn't see it and i said well you see that's because what i'm the narrator and so so it's the voice over she goes well now when is that and i said well you know when you hear somebody talking but you don't see a mouth moving you know like that it's off-camera and she says well honey maybe if you cut your hair they would let you on that sounds familiar no it's not that i'm trying to be on camera and they won't let me it's you know what never mind it's kind of arguments yeah anyway so you know you're joining us from the the lovely little burg of ohai california which is a beautiful place and how long have you been living there well full time for about eight years but i've had a part-time home here for about 25 and um for for a number of years i thought our home base was uh to luca lake and i really felt like i had to kind of keep my presence you know there but after i noticed that i had not booked anything out of my home studio for like 18 months i said okay i can let it go you know and even then it kind of i was nervous about about doing that but not not out of your home studio but outside your outside of my home yeah everything was booked out of your home studio at that point right yeah yeah so um yeah so it's about eight years full time and and uh you know it's worked out great great well yeah so what what has you know i've been asking everybody this when they come on because i mean clearly these are weird circumstances that we're living under these days but how has you know the pandemic affected you know your career and business so far well not that much because right now almost everything i'm doing is is either in uh promo or um cable network documentary and i've been doing some national television campaigns but it it all works out of the home studio and um and even before the pandemic i rarely left and now i have kind of a long work day um you know it starts east coast i in fact i'm working for television affiliates there about 25 of them that i'm the signature voice of and basically pardon my french but i'm their bitch you know you got those golden handcuffs on on call across five time zones so starts early and uh you know i wrap up at about six and so i most of the time i don't leave you know and that was so before pandemic so the the thing that that has been difficult is not being able to go and golden handcuffs yeah and see family and that has led to my traveling in an rv which is one of the things i want to share with you about um because a lot of folks know i guess i've shared a few times on social media that i sometimes travel to see family in an rv and i work from the road and i've kind of got that dialed into where it works but there are some tips i can give you if that's something you're considering but i also want you to think really long and hard about whether you really want to do this because there are some there's some drawbacks and there's a little more to it than than you might think so we'll you know we'll get into that a little bit later i guess absolutely oh yeah we absolutely you've got you actually did a video for us that we're going to show on a little bit you're giving us a tour of your rv which will be rather interesting now you you came out of radio like i did you know and those of us that came out of radio at least had some skills that we could immediately apply to recording you know voice over audio but it seems like a lot of people who are in radio and come out don't quite have the success rate that they all like why and i've heard you talk about this before many times it's it's a completely different ball game when when i was in radio that was a different era and in those days we had engineers who ran all the equipment so while i i probably had you know skills most of the guys who worked at the level i was working in in radio in uh never touched a microphone never touched uh you know a piece of recording equipment we weren't allowed to it was a different union that you know those those guys were native we were after but and it never occurred to me uh voice over the people on commercials you know i paid no attention to it and i was working in radio in los angeles in the uh mid 70s at the number one station in the freaking world khj back when am stations were the big pop music stations and um i came into the studio one night again remember we the air talent can't touch the equipment or we would be fine we there'd be a grievance written up you know and i came into uh the station at night and one of the other disc jockeys dave sabastian williams who is the dave of the davin dave studios right you know um he was one of the other on the air talent and he was in one of the production studios running off copies of something on small reels of tape and i i saw him in there and i said tape what are you doing you can't touch this equipment and i said what are you doing and he said i'm making copies of my voiceover demo i said voiceover demo what what's what's that and he potted up the monitor and i listened and i said yeah but dave that's just a bunch of spots and he said bo do you not understand that that's the real business what we do on the air we're just filler for that that's where the money is i said really and he told me a few stories about a couple of television campaigns and what the guys were making in residuals uh from class a television campaigns and i went really i gotta get one of those and he said well now so fast um they don't like radio guys i said what do you mean we're on the top station on the planet he says yeah but we have a sound that they hate yeah really really and he said yeah but there's a kind of a therapy for that there is a workshop run by jone gerber who was the top female voice talent in the world at that time did tons of animation a lot of national uh commercial she was quite amazing and she was running a a workout group at her home up off mohawk and so dave said it's on wednesday night i'm going you can go with me so i did and um so the so here's a bunch of actors in her living room she had a copy stand up at the front and um you know there was a script and the first thing you did is you just did a quick you walked up said your name did a quick take as kind of a warm up in an intro and i'm thinking well see see by the way at at khj in those days about 60 of the commercials on the air were red live to a music bit because otherwise they have to pay talent to the you know if we recorded it so so i did live commercials all the time so i was wondering why a lot of stuff's done live like love boat and all that stuff in the 70s like i had all live i was like they got tape recorders why they're doing live it was a different uh fee structure so so i'm sitting back and going oh dude i'm nailing this so i walk up and it's like my name and i say weaver and red spot and jung gerber was sort of looking over here and she wheeled around on it just jockey right all right yeah i could smell you guys a mile away and i gotta tell you that's a bit of a weaning shrimp just a bit just a bit and um but but as the the thing progressed i i got the idea of oh there is an actor's approach to commercial copy that's entirely different from what a radio guy does which is all about sound and and manipulating the voice to produce a you know a sound you know and i'm like wow i don't know how to do that i think i want to learn this and so it kind of challenged me and hooked me so i kept coming to the workshop and so i one of the other talents on the eric k hj at the time i went told him about i said oh my god you love this this is his voice actors workshop to write up your alley you should come and he said well yeah i might come if they want me to teach oh ego ego prevented him from being willing to learn something new and some i don't know why but i was i was willing and from then on i was hooked and it took you know i stayed in radio for a few more years but putting all of my attention on developing those skills and learning to do it a different way and eventually you know weaseled my way you know into a kind of a career yeah yeah i find it fascinating i you know i a lot of actors have been you know very busy trying to get into voiceover because there's nothing else going on and you know and you have to explain to them it's like because they want to try and sound like they're on the radio and it's like no no no when you're playing a scene on camera are you playing to the camera or are you playing to the scene and they're like well i played the scene well so of course same thing treat the microphone like a camera and be an actor and forget the microphone so many radio guys have said what are you talking about i've been cutting spots since i worked at a radio station in Monroe Louisiana when i was 15 right i said okay i know it it's commercials it's a microphone it's talking but it's not the same thing and that takes a really long time for that to sink in what what is the process and and what do you mean it comes from a different place what does that even mean well the people who figure that out and find out how to reveal something of their heart you know um those are the people who are able to make the transition but most radio folks don't now in yes you will find you know a a way to make a living uh doing um car commercials you know for you know it's the labor nice sale adventure you know that kind of stuff radio guy can can you know can make some coin doing that but if he's going after the the national television commercials or or work in other venues he's got to find an entirely different place to come from really candy done but it requires being willing to be a beginner again and i i i smell the radio folks too when i'm working with folk but it's not typically the voice it's the gear yeah r e 20 and a symmetric 528 and i'm running cool edit pro on a windows x ppc i'm like production guy come from radio well the the people have asked me what uh what the most important piece of gear that i or equipment that i have and i tell them it's my ears you know really ears and heart you know that's uh and the other thing and i'm not i'm not gonna go into a whole long thing about this but one of the biggest things that a radio guy has to learn is is is to breathe differently has to learn to breathe and um radio guys who are listening in earphones are often listening through some very heavy on-ear processing and one of the things they're doing is they're trying to fight the compression only something on 95 you know and which sucks up the breath right which which causes you to truncate your breaths and um it's just and plus listening to yourself hi i'm johnny doing that you know you are reacting to the sound of your voice in the in the cans and adjusting to it in real time which creates a feedback loop and it takes you out of the moment you are now directing yourself and producing yourself now you know i don't want to diss this because this is an amazing skill to have to be able to produce direct think ahead while being the performer but it totally makes makes it a results driven performance you know and and like i say you're out of the moment so finding a way to be present in your body in your breath and in the moment is that's the biggest hurdle for a guy who comes from radio i think yeah so you do so many different genres of material i mean you do the promos and you do the live announce and you you've been doing animation and all what's your favorite what what what really is your your thrill when you're when you get to you get a you get a gig well you know i have done a little bit of all of these different genres um but mostly what i'm doing is is promos now i haven't done animation in years that was never really my strong suit i kind of you know i had some really lucky breaks and really enjoyed it but that's that's not my primary thing um for a good bit in the 90s i did a lot of trailers and and i really liked that they're not for whatever reason they're just not buying me now and but i really enjoy the long form cable network documentaries like for discovery and you know national geographic and animal planet and smithsonian right the longer form uh it's longer storytelling and what i like about that is that it gets to breathe a little bit there are pauses and it's not also compressed into a short little period of time and they edit to the voice not the other way around right and and i i just like that yeah it's it's always fun stuff if you're just joining us our guest is bow weaver who does everything when it comes to voiceover um can i make a comment about that that everything thing damn sure go for uh i know you're probably getting ready to you know introduce a different idea but here here's the thing um it is kind of accidental i think that i've done a lot of different genres and and one thing i've said to people is there's really not a unified field called voiceover there's a whole bunch of fields that we lump into a category calling it voiceover but animation and and games which are similar but not exactly the same are a thousand miles away from voicing a national television commercial for a big brand for an advertising agency promo work is a little bit similar to trailers but they're miles apart and and each one of these fields has different buyers different rules different techniques you know and very few people cross over between you know that's a handful of people that that that i could name and that you've had on the show that do work in multiple fields but mostly not so it's kind of like you could say that there's a unified field called athletics but but a baseball player and a football player have very you know very different skillset no i know there's a couple of guys who've done both but but you know the exception proves the rule it's just it's it's each one is its own sport right you know and and i think newcomers are best advised to find one lane pick a lane you know stay in the lane and once you've established yourself there you might be able to you know branch out from there branch out yeah so anyway so you were going to uh introduce another idea i think well yeah well we were at the outset we yeah we were talking about how you know because you know you've got this rv and you go visit family and stuff and you're on the road a lot it sounds like like like 50 of the time or no no not not at all and and not you know this is the first time since pandemic i i just got off the road for a month and it's the first time since pandemic that i have have done this and i started doing this just because my daughters are spread in all corners of the united states and because of family dynamics logistics they can very seldom come here so i gotta go to them and i can't fly on a weekday because of you know recording applications so the only really good way for me to do it is to drive in this rv well yeah so so i have done this and uh and and i've kind of got it dialed in and a lot of people have been calling me asking you know hey you know we were thinking about this and you know a lot of people have gotten the idea that rv travel during pandemic is is a safe way to go and it seems like it is but i'm going to tell you a story that says not necessarily now we are are fanatical about covid protocol and when we when we travel on the road uh the only time i get out of the van is to put gas in it you know and i put a doggy poop bag over my hand to press the buttons on the gas pump you know we use our own bathroom we eat our own food you know um and you know if we stop at an rv park to stay overnight it's i just hook up the the electrical and sewer and that's all i do i don't use any of their facilities but we have some friends here in ohai who thought that they've been reading these articles saying a rv travel has gotten to be really hot and people are loving it and you know uh thinking it's safe so they found one a used rv in maybe ohio or something to buy and they went they went to uh ohio to pick it up they flew from southern california to ohio picked up the rv and proceeded to drive back to so cal slowly over about three weeks and they were super careful i mean they did not do anything outside the van and a week before they got back to ohi after about two weeks on the road both of them got covid and they got it bad really bad and they recovered but and they don't know how they got it it wasn't on the plane it was good two weeks afterwards you know so you know um safer i think it's i feel safer than airplane travel but it's you know nothing's a hundred percent so let's just you know issue that disclaimer okay well you've you've done a little video for us here showing us how you record on the road and once again if you've got a question for bow throw it in the chat room whether it's on facebook or in uh on youtube live or wherever it is that you're watching and we'll get to that after the break but let's take a look at this so you explaining how it is you record on the road okay you guys here is a quick shot of the home studio setup this is the booth that i work in right now let's go out to the portable rig it's in the rv which is a sometimes called a class b plus or a class c so in a sprinter van 25 feet 8 feet wide it's a widened sprinter okay i record just sitting at the little dinette table inside the rv okay i'm gonna close the door this is my setup now as it happens the acoustics inside this particular van are very good the walls are absorbent and they are not ringy or bouncy a quick view of the rv because i know you're curious that's the kitchen area there's the bedroom area bathroom fridge and back here to this dinette and then this reg uh the whole dinette will push out when you're camped for a long period of time giving you a couple of extra feet of floor space but this is the way i i i record and notice i've set my little interface this is the scarlet eye track solo it's a focus right interface costs about 100 bucks but the preamp is the same as the one in the two i2 that i use in the in the big studio this is a macbook air several years old it's plenty powerful enough to run one track of audio uh now i want to show you this little contraption i have made to hold the interface it's the interface and the microphone stand on a little cutting board from a ikea it's held on with velcro and i do this for a couple reasons uh you see these plugs here here here headphone microphone and in the back the usb or light i in this case it's a apple lightning uh connection the connectors on the circuit board of the interface are flimsy and you can easily by jostling them back and forth it becomes kind of a lever and it can break off so i've i've put this here to protect it so as i move it around i'm not going to accidentally break one of my connectors as you can imagine i have done this and this is why i've set it up this way it also needs to be really efficient for me because my workflow is such that i have to pull my portable rig out set up here and record for clients sometimes 25 times a day so i can't be putting things together taking them apart you know it needs to sit stay ready so all i have to do is plug it into the computer and put on my headphones and i'm ready to go so i'll just i don't need the headphones here i'll just do quickly you can watch me record on the next entertainment tonight a whole bunch of freaking famous people see now you'll notice there is not much noise floor here that's something we're going to talk about in a little bit but noise floor and the reflectivity of your recording space inside the rv is that's something you've got to really learn to discern okay anyway uh internet connectivity i've got two devices here is an atnt hot spot which is good i will probably explain later in in big cities and on the big interstates this will do very well but atnt's coverage out in the hinterlands is no bueno so i also have the iphone that i'm recording this video on which can be a hot spot and this ipad which is a cellular data enabled ipad so i've got two other sources of internet on the verizon network and they are awesome they are almost always uh you know super uh well covered even even out in the middle of utah and colorado uh in western colorado where there's where there's no atnt even voice only service the verizon network is still strong so i have never been without internet virtually and we'll talk about that a little bit more but um the way this particular rv sounds acoustically the only thing i've done to treat it is this uh quilt on the dinette table and that kills the bounce from that surface and that does make a make a little bit of difference now i do have a portable booth that i will occasionally use most of the promo work i do is so tightly edited that the spaces between words which is to say the noise floor is not really an issue however when i'm recording let's say a cable network documentary a long form thing where where there's more breathability and space between the words and that noise floor is more important and uh it needs to you know it really needs to uh to have that space you know i have a little portable frame i'm going to move this out of the way so that i can put it here i made a frame for my portable booth if you will uh out of pvc pipe forgive my bar for rama camera work here since i'm doing this myself i'm just uh i'm going to put this up here for a second now i've got a little frame see this little frame i can put my microphone and and interface inside here and either have the read the script off the ipad or off the off the computer they will both uh fit inside here and i cover it with this quilt sorry about the camera work guys um so i just cover it with a quilt and i get up under here so i mean i i will seal it up a little bit more carefully when i'm actually using it like this uh so that gives me uh just a little bit more enclosed uh space and it will also kill a little bit of extraneous noise a little bit few db um and i i don't always use this most of the time i can record you know in you know just right here in this open space and it sounds fine but when needed i will pull out my little frame and put up my little portable booth but i uh just uh am back from a trip where i was recording in this manner uh for a month and nobody knew any difference anyway that's the way i roll wow wow it is it's like the old day where every time we have to refer until i lay another right hit the right button then okay well i think the modern mix is on for the feed oh no still got it anyway let's take a break and we'll be right back with more hello welcome to voiceover body shop 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the road but i want you to really think about whether or not this is something that you want to do um because when when you record you have to get away from traffic noise yep so i look at you know my my my email okay okay four things have come in this guy can wait this guy can wait oh this one has to be right now we have to pull off the road get about three miles away from the freeway before that that freeway roar is attenuated and find a place that's quiet well is it quiet your ears have got to learn distinctions of silence now there are crows in the tree in the parking lot no can do yep no and there's a air conditioner compressor a block and a half away no that's not gonna work you know uh there's a leaf blower no not gonna work so you gotta find a place that's quiet now here's another thing if you're traveling when it's hot um you're in a tin can yeah and you can't have the air conditioning on okay haven't you had haven't you had somebody turn the engine of the RV like literally between takes my wife with the older RV we had which was a gasoline engine she would turn on the air can turn the engine on and i go you know and then record a little bit and then you know like that but with a diesel you can't you can't idle right so so no can do so you traveling in the in the heat of the summer is not really um uh realistic and the other thing is rain ah yes if you're screwed yes there are some george and i have been fried with uh you know noise reduction but it is going to so affect the actual voice track no if it's raining it raining you're gonna go check into the lakinta and you're gonna work the rest of your day in the motel and so one of the things you have to do when you're when you're planning your route is you got to check weather and you have to check a little app that uh i will recommend to you that shows you what kind of internet connectivity cellular data you have um and it'll show all the different carriers if you're traveling along major interstates you're almost always going to have good connectivity if you're on verizon but um but on the blue highways you know which makes the trip way more fun no you're not going to have data uh or or you're unlikely to so you gotta plan your route around weather and data and timing and let's say you're in an unfamiliar time zone and you have to remember oh that i get that script at one o'clock oh crap no in this time zone that's 11 o'clock oh i forgot and now i'm in between you know places where i have internet you know right so what this does is it it takes your attention it sounds terrible it's like playing chess in three dimensions and not only that you have to think about okay what is the charge level of all of my different devices you know so those are timelines timelines time zones point a to point b and travel uh how much fuel do i have you know what's the weather what's my connectivity and oh crap uh you know now if you have a a spouse that you are traveling with that you get along really really beautifully which helps and be awesome at the beginning if you have children we're traveling and they have to be try to be okay they're not going to be quiet no they're not going to be for 30 seconds maybe and we travel with dogs and if it's hot there it's like no the dogs have to go out you know those both has to go take them on a walk you know and so so there's a lot to this and if you're on a vacation yeah this isn't that much fun now there if you're a technical guy particularly if you came out of radio and you know yeah i got 29 and a zr 286 that i'm running and you know and that's kind of fun for you there's a g whiz factor that's yeah it's kind of cool that you can do this for about 20 minutes and then it's oh it's exhausting yeah and it it takes you out of presence with your family and if you're traveling for fun it ain't much fun and i was just telling george earlier that i just got off the road for about a month and coming home working in my home studio here is like this is so easy and simple i feel like i'm on vacation being home so it's kind of like the guy who hits himself over the head with a hammer because it feels so good when he stops yeah so you might find that this whole rv thing and again i'm telling you if you're going to rent an rv listen there's a lot of technology on the rv that you have to learn and one of the things that you have to get used to is the uh the the sewer you you know i in fact i told a friend of mine i said yeah you know you have to kind of get used to the fact to wrap your mind around the fact that you are carrying your shit around with you wherever you go shit or full and and my my friend said yeah but aren't you kind of doing that anyway well you have a point so anyway that's just to say that there's rv technology that you got to learn and it's it's not that's that simple so so do this if it turns you on and if it gives you a possibility of some freedom and if it's only an audition uh every day or a little recording a couple of times a week this might work really well for you uh if your plate is fuller it it takes some doing so i i've now just totally turned everyone off to which is not a problem if you if it's not for you if it's not something that if it's not going to serve you don't do it you know it that's like convincing someone not to climb a mountain that is known to kill people good point good point i and i'm going to ask you to put in the chat the names of a couple of apps that if you are going to do this yeah there's an app called coverage question mark in the in the in the app stores which will show you what kind of cellular data coverage you have anywhere it's got a map you zoom in and find out what you got and places to to stay rv parks and state parks that allow rvs and you know that kind of thing there's two apps one is called rv parky par ky and the other one called all stays a l l s ta y s another one if you are uh yeah there you go that's the coverage literally coverage question mark yes that's that's the one um and they they update the maps all the time so i found it to be quite quite accurate um if you're driving a vehicle that uh takes diesel and you're not used to finding diesel there's a an app called gas buddy which will show you where to find diesel and there's a really cool little uh app called i exit so you're coming up on exit number uh 395 off interstate five you know uh up near redding and you want to know uh what's at this exit do i want to get off here and find that there's nothing there well this will show you everything that's on the other side of that exit you know wow so so that's that has been uh super helpful anyway that's my overview and if you want to uh for some questions i'll be happy though oh absolutely well it is it does sound like three-dimensional chess well we got a couple of questions here uh mostly from greg glazier but we'll throw one of his do you still have to audition for anything oh sure i audition all the time um i am more selective about uh what i audition for um just because almost everyone will tell you uh if you are on the roster of one of the major talent agents um you know in la new york uh and you book one out of about every six or 700 things that you read for you're doing great you're really kicking ass um there are so many people chasing this work that most of our auditions go into some black hole somewhere you know and it's never heard by anybody we don't you know um so i tend to audition for things where where i might have some reasonable expectation that i'll be heard and when it's right in my wheelhouse you know i i'm not going to do the dad with a scottish accent i'm sorry i just i don't do that don't get a real scottish job i know and there's plenty of them around yeah you want to take the question from mr daniel there george sure yeah absolutely he asks you about um because you can't you explain what you're doing for your data so we know that but he mentioned a product that i happen to know about called the sky room um have you heard of this thing i have not so what what it is is imagine a hockey puck that has embedded into it all the radios for all the networks and it seamlessly theoretically roams no matter where you are as long as there's something it pulls it in um so maybe on your next trip i'll look at if you want to play with something new but i i will tell you uh verizon is almost everywhere and what verizon is weak at and t tends to be strong so i'm i've been totally covered i'd say i went i went camping last a couple years ago up in the sequoias and i was getting ready for three three days of off grid bliss and i pull into the campground and you know the the camp counselor not the counselor the host he says yeah camp host well there's no signal up here unless you got verizon they got that all over the place up here for the far she serves i'm like damn it yeah i'm on the grid for three days i want to be off the grid damn it um um fred north says um i remember his name from trans star that would be bow yeah was that him and does he remember his catchphrase how do you like me so far yes i've been saying that uh as in my first stop set uh since probably 1968 wow and it's actually a lift from rodney dangerfield he would after you know he would do a couple of punchlines and when he would hit a punchline that didn't land very well he would go how you like me so far yeah and so i just lifted that and i have been using that at my first stop set for forever trans star was the first satellite radio network and we started trans star when we didn't even know if it would work and the first uh i think four months we were on the air we had no affiliates we were howling at the moon you know and until the company that on trans star said you know we kind of got to eat our own dog food and put it on a couple of our own stations or we're never going to sell this so they did and then it took off but we were uh we took turns going out in the parking lot and sweeping the snow off the dish off the uplink you know this this was in 1982 um in in uh in colorado so that with those were the early days of satellite broadcast he said the pd bet the owner ten bucks that you were going to say it next break and you did yes and then he's like if that was you apparently apparently it was he's a trivia it's it's a it's another lifetime um you know radio is my first love and i was saying to to dan and george earlier though that it is so long ago i barely remember being that guy i had a lot of funding that guy but it's just you know ancient history yeah and sometimes when you're having fun you don't remember that stuff anyway yeah um we got time for like one or two questions here rose kline asks and this is a question we you know we love asking you what what do you use what what software do you use to recall we only have five minutes bow twisted because i know you have so much to say about twisted wave it's the only thing i would ever use i don't i i if if twisted wave was no longer available i would retire really and i kind of really mean um that's the all there's just no other way for me to do the work i do except twisted wave it is super duper simple and you're really the one that introduced it to the rest of us you know how did you discover and i and and then george got in the mix and we all you know interacted with thomas and it's uh you know it's been a great tool for for everyone great for sure uh what's the last one the mike norgaard question about the 416 let's see that was a 416 in the rv right he says um do you think a mobile rv rig would require a shotgun or i mean even a dynamic mic have you ever tried using a dynamic mic like an r20 no no i don't i don't like the sound of the r each one it's a very radio sound yes and uh i i just don't like it and um you know the uh the 416 is the only thing i've used since probably nine you know 88 something like that some some so yeah no i'm i'm not interested in another mic and it will forgive uh you know a a funky space uh but the one thing i just want to emphasize to everybody if you're gonna try to record in an rv is you've got to learn you got to have ears to know what it sounds like because here's what most rvs sound like and they sound like that that's what it sounds like when you're in an rv you're in a tin can you know and and you got to know that and and and then treat it with like one of those funky little pvc booths like uh yeah i said but but that said the the 416 will get rid of a lot of that room uh that harsh room tone so i wouldn't try to record on the road with anything else yeah well both thanks so much for joining us and telling us a little bit about life on the road and uh you know hopefully it won't be as long between our next visit don't go on the road don't kill it it's terrible we always right yeah unless you really have to what don't do it thanks for being with us bow and uh hey great to see you guys already all right well let's uh 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