 What are we doing? Greetings, everyone, and welcome to Megalife21 Live. I'm your host for Megalife21 Live, James P. Madonna. And I am here with a very special guest, of course, our longtime friend and our personal voiceover artist and former NFL quarterback. On taxi reserves, yes. Taxi reserves. Not the show taxi, but William H. Morrill, the third. Thank you very much for being with us at Megalife21 Live. Thank you. Now, you hear this man's voice. He just said a few words. All he has to do is speak. And that is an automatic addition, to be honest with you. William, tell the folks, because we are live and being recorded worldwide, tell the folks a little bit about your background in terms of your athleticism. Well, I was not to top my own horn. I was an excellent quarterback, but I experienced an awful lot of politics in football. For example, when I moved up to Ridgewood from Texas, I went to sign up for football. They said, what position? I said, quarterback. The coach said, I've already got my quarterback. I said, you've never seen me throw. He said, it doesn't matter. Well, how do you beat that? So I experienced that throughout that. I have run into so, so many other players that went through the same thing on the pro level, college level a whole bit. The politics were horrendous. But I still had great experiences. I've made great friends, not on just teams I played on, but on teams I played against. But the politics were bad. It really was bad. It seems like there's office politics and unfairness in every industry. Well, when a guy doesn't even see what your talent is and he says it doesn't matter, how do you fight that? This man throws like he has a bionic arm. A lot of people, a lot of receivers did not look forward to catching this man's passes. No, they used to duck. They would duck and scream, no, wave. They had no, no, no. And I'm like, what, what? And he said, don't throw it. I call him the sternum breaker. William Morrill. I threw a full pause clock to the high 80s, low 90s. The NFL said I was beyond the NFL and illegal on my own. Yet I had to sit on the taxi squad reserve told them. The team I was with said they could bring me up. Well, let me tell you, it's very frustrating. So this is what happens. It's a shame. It's a bad experience. Life is not fair and not everyone that has the very best talent. Well, the best succeeds. The best don't always play. The best don't always succeed. It's like people equate wealth. You're a genius, you're brilliant. That's not true. You could have screwed your way to the top. Well, let's be true. And I'm not saying just put any people down. Say you're a mentally challenged or handicapped individual. Say you have Down syndrome. You inherit unknowingly 100 billion dollars. What are they gonna say? Right. He's a genius. And you hire somebody to start a business. You hire somebody to manage your company. You've got to be fair and honest. You don't equate certain things. Yeah, but a lot of people get ahead through ill gotten gains and underhand attacks too. That happens also. Yeah, and it seems like the nice people sometimes do finish last. I mean, growing up, we have not hurt people. I've always been good to people. So have you, and it seems like we're always getting shattered. So what's the secret formula here? I don't think there is one. I'm just saying that to be facetious. Now, sometimes you just have to look out and be at the right place at the right time. It takes time to look at me with my voice overs, getting a new agent. I just can't send my demo to anyone. I've got to be recommended. So in the now world, I'm hog-tired right now until I get recommended. My hands are held behind my back. I can't do anything. Especially when the established agencies telling you don't call, don't send your eight by 10 photos, don't come in person and visit, don't contact us. So how do you- What's left? What's left? How do you get evaluated? How do you break into the business? I would like to know why are you in, even in the business of being an agent, if you don't want to look at new talent. That's how they make their money through talent. You do. If you don't want anything, why are you in that business? Right, because you stand to make more money as an agency by accumulating more clients, more talent, and tier stable. What next, quote, diamond in the rough, jammer, jewel, what have you, are you passing on? The Beatles. Most companies wouldn't sign them. The Stones. Most companies wouldn't sign them. I mean, history is filled with this. People seem to be afraid to sign anyone for some reason. So really, what are these agents really worth? It's odd. They don't want to look at, see, hear anyone. It's a very strange business. Oh, without a doubt. It's often not fair. I see it in professional wrestling all the time. There's lots of dirty politics be- Yeah, back-serving. Yeah, and like Barbara Bono said during the election against Chris Christie, there's a lot of back door politics going on behind the scenes that do not have the people's best interests. But aside from that, you went to, how many colleges did you go to and which ones? Well, I started at Tennessee, then I transferred to Wagner College on Staten Island. All right, and then some hard experiences in college when I played, I was very good, not bragging. I'm sorry if it sounds like I'm being braggish, but when you're so good and the coach gets in your face and says, you're too good, boy. I'm going to run you till you drop. I was a 17-year-old little freshman. You know, I tried to do my best, and then I'm being yelled at for being too good, for making the defense look bad. All right. Being, being, being excelling in your craft. That's what I was supposed to do. It's my job. That's what I was supposed to do. It's your job to do, to strive, to do better and better and better and push yourself. In a game, I was coming out of the backfield. I was supposed to drag out of the backfield and up. Landbacker committed so early, it was so easy. This was great. So I kind of feel faster. And I quarterback said, oh my God, I just love it, touchdown. I got my, you know what, shoot out. The coach said, what the hell are you doing? I'd rather give up a six. You run it according to the playbook. I said, coach, football is a series of adjustments. I don't care about adjustments. Okay. Okay. So no matter what I did, it was wrong. You'd rather not get the touchdown. But when a guy commits, and even the quarterback, when we got besides a great read, you saw him, he said, hey, cut so easily. You had to cut a field. You just had to. I got yelled at for that. My roommate and teammate in college. Suffered a heart attack during practice. Well, the doctor said one more to Jimmy. His name was Jimmy. One more practice, you're a dead man. They found out later, he had rheumatic fever as a child. Okay. So during the training lunch, as you know, in a college cafeteria, there's rows of tables. We were at the football training tables eating. So it's a packed cafeteria. Jimmy tells the coaches, he has to quit football, doctors, the words, blah, blah, blah. They chewed him. I will never forget this. They yelled at him. You're a coward. You're effing this pack. You're effing bags. Get out of my effing site. And I remember again, I was a 17 year old freshman. That night, my father got a call at home up in New Jersey. I was in Tennessee. And I only heard it was me yelling, get me out of here. I said, I said, this is not football to me. I don't need this. I said, they don't care about us. They do not care about us one bit. You're a coward because you had a heart attack. This poor kid gave it his own, had a heart attack and you called him a coward. I, that's been, there was 1970. 70. I cannot get over that. Kind of, we'll get over that. This is not right. Yeah, they even treat pro-wrestles much worse than that. A lot of times they get stiff for their pay. They have no health insurance. They have to pay for their own transportation. It's unheard of. It's unheard of in this country for any industry to be like that. And then you go in the earlier past, not so recent past really. No, the way the blacks were treated in Major League Baseball. You mean before Jackie Robinson? Well, before and during. In a way, it was great. It's one of the greatest segments in all of sports history. In American history. There will never be anything again like the Negro Leagues. That was baseball. Let me tell you something about the Negro Leagues. Satchel Page, Cool Papa Bell and Josh Gibson, personally approached the owner of, at that time, the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and asked him, could you please hire us? We'll even work for less money than the white players. And he refused them. Well, and the only reason they chose Jackie Robinson. Turned them down. The only reason they chose Jackie Robinson. And a nice sentence to take anything away from him. He's a great player, but he wasn't the best player. Josh Gibson. He spoke well for a black man of that time, as they say. He was a college educated black man, which the public could possibly accept a little easier. He went to USC. So, you know, it's so much. Well, they said that no one could hit Satchel Page and they also said that Josh Gibson could have very, very well passed the Babe Ruthen. No, no, they estimate, they say the records weren't that great, but they estimate Josh Gibson hit at least 962 home runs. And don't say, it's a Negro Leagues. Yeah. The superior Negro Leagues, they beat the white teams far, far many more times than the whites beat them. And they held their All-Star Games at Kamiski Park in Chicago, and they averaged 46,000 plus. So these aren't as slouches. These were phenomenal beyond the white player players. These guys were incredible what they could do. Absolutely. And what was done to them is just an injustice. They would play sometimes three, four games a day. Corporate teams, professional teams, high college teams, they would accept any and all challenges. Could you imagine how breaking the race, ending the racism in sports and the color barrier? Could you imagine what a contribution to Major League Baseball that would have? That would have. Oh, might have changed the game. Changed the game, manifest itself, you know, by the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates saying, you know what, screw these races. I am going to hire Josh Gibson and Satchel Page and Papa Bell. But then again, why did they only go to him? And why didn't other white owners still say, I'll take you, I'll take you. I don't know. I don't know. Well, me and William H. Moreau III, which I'm very happy to have him on my video, for the first time on live stream. William H. Moreau III, voiceover artist, his very first time on live stream and MegaLife 21 Live. We were talking, before he gives you some demonstrations of his voiceover talents, we were discussing advertisement for products that happened to be exceptional. And there are certain products that are exceptional, that have been around for decades, that people just don't know about it because they- Over a century. Right, over a century. People don't know about it because the company chose not to promote themselves in a way that other more popular companies have and they chose not to spend the money on advertisement. Perfect example. Here's a product, authentic Texas recipe, since, excuse me, well, I put my glasses on. Oh, I forget he has eagle eyes. I got eagle eyes. Okay, so we call it Wolf Brand Chili. Authentic Texas recipe. Since 1895 with beans. Now what happens to the truck? Oh, we didn't bring the clip order? Oh, okay, anyway, yeah, hold it up to the camera. Anyway, the stuff is grand, we love it. And we're wondering why they don't have a bigger or more massive advertising campaign than does a Hormel or other competitor. And they blow away, in my opinion, they blow away all the other supermarket, all the other canned chilies. But I never heard about it until this past week. I found it in a store called the Dollar Tree. And here, Wolf Brand Chili, authentic Texas recipe with meat and beans. The company founded... 1895. 1895. Okay, I had no idea this company existed. Wolf Brand Chili. They've advertised recently for the past year, give or take. Every grocery chain I've been to, nobody has it. And it is great. So do your marketing, Wolf Brand. Yeah, I mean, I love it. I love it. I mean, I make... It's excellent stuff. I make outstanding homemade chili in my pressure cooker. But if I wanted it an easy lunch chili. Real quick, trust us. Wolf Brand has no idea we're talking about this. This is all on our own. We love it that much. Yeah, this is all on our own. We're not getting paid? No. It's just I've looked for so hard. I've been to four or five different grocery big chains. Nobody has it. They haven't heard of it. I said, my God, I can't get this stuff anywhere. Then Jimmy said he saw one of his dollar stores. And I said, you're gonna be kidding me. And he's been looking for it for a long time. About a year, give or take. And of course, if you tell the store manager in supermarkets how great it is, they're so independent that they usually do not order it. No, for one customer. I'm the only guy that ever asked for it. So I'll take a look. But it's really outstanding chili. This is not a paid advertisement. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. We're gonna take a- Be quick. You know what, break it. We'll be back. We're gonna take a little break and we'll be back with William H. Morrow III. Thank you. All right. Thank you. I'm sorry, Jimmy. Okay, we are back with part two of William H. Morrow III, our very special long-time voiceover artists. And we're back from break. Now, William Morrow is going to do some readings. And but before you do readings, do you have any advice for aspiring young voiceover artists that want to learn the basics? Are there any tips that you can give them? Well, the whole new craft, the hardest part, as I said earlier, is getting an agent. Work on your voice. What is your voice? A friend of ours is very good with cartoon voices. Yes. Practice those. Do them. Continuously do different reads. Do different reads. Do the same read or commercial copy, what have you. Different ways. You want to show different inflections, different ways of reading. As one guy might read a commercial, another guy or girl may read it differently too. So keep honing your craft. Practice your diction, your inflection, sometimes different dialects, cartoon voices, if you have them. What do you like in voiceovers? Do you like doing movie trailers? Do you like doing radio log lines, commercials, cartoon voices, industrial narration, books to audio, it can go on and on. Possibly you can do them all. But hone your craft, keep practicing. Always clear your voice when you go into a studio, wherever. Try to learn about cleaning your nose out beforehand too, it'll be all your passes are clear. Not, I don't mean to interrupt you, but Enrico Caruso, the famous singer, he used to drink cold water with a little apple cider vinegar in it to help clear his throat. And I vouch for that, that really helps. Yeah, these little tricks, some of them you have a squirt formula, you put up your nose is colloid, nasal douche. Clean out the sinuses, you want everything clear. You don't want to, there's enough two-legged, naturally born douches. Well, it's very critical. You want to sound your very, very best. When you do a read, each people are paying you large amounts of money to sell their product, so you want to be the best. Yeah, you're talking about the saline solution spray that they sell specifically for cleansing the nasal passage. A little saline, and I found one of the best things to do costs you absolutely nothing. Growl a little bit, clear your throat. Obviously, well, you know, it's like, just before you do a read, you go to your engineer, you're ready. What about like a hall's mental, let this go through? It can't hurt. No, it'll open up your passages. Well, that too, or maybe an inhaler of some sort too. But the main thing is growl, get that throat clear, ready, all little microscopic bubbles, what have you. And do a little practicing before you go on your audition or your job. Oh, not to interrupt, always, when you're giving a copy, proofread it before you even do take one. Because most of these copywriters don't know how to punctuate well. And- Typose? A lot of typo, the main thing is punctuation. You're like, shouldn't there be a pause here? How do you want this read? It all flows into one. Oh, no, no, put a pause there, please. Pause, you mean a comma? Or the three dots for longer pause, a dash? You know, how do you want this read? Can we do a sample read? You know, remember these people aren't here to hurt you. They want the best product too, because they're clients paying big money for this product. So, ask questions, read your copy, edit your copy, clear your throat, go through some sample reads, say, okay, I think I'm ready, let's do it. And you're going to screw up. That's called a blooper, folks, just like you see on the TV shows. The best doer. It's a blooper. Everybody makes mistakes, no one is perfect. Except me. Well, no, I'm teasing, but I- Well, his nickname is man-god. That's right. Man-god Moral. That's right. But no, everybody makes mistakes. You do get tongue tied. And habits are the best. That's the best way to put it. And don't get upset and nervous. God, I'm sorry. Hey, take it right back. Let's go again, do it again. So I've had some great engineers in the past. So it's fun, lucrative, fun, and it's nice when you can hear yourself on a commercial or a movie trailer, what have you. Because as we say, in a world, payback, this time it's for real. Today is R&B, and classic soul. 107.5, WBLS. But it's fun like that. Yeah, you're getting paid to use your talent. Well, if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life. Well, you don't go to work, you go to play. It's, I just had a brain freeze, it was more blank. That happens. But no, it's just fun when you enjoy what you do. It really is. You meet great people along the way. You get paid very well. And it's nice to hear yourself on some things. Well. Well, you can be embarrassing. You can be your own best critic. You are your own worst critic. Or you could be a worst critic. Because you see yourself worse than others. I'm not saying this to brag. Everyone loves my voice, wherever I go. When I hear myself, I can't stand it. I don't like it. I think I sound awful. You know, many actresses and actresses and actors do not watch their own. That's right. They do not watch their own movies. When I was in broadcasting school and they did my playbacks, I would not stay in the room with a class. I'd be in the hallway. I said, please call me when it's over. I said, I can't, I can't. The number one rule we were taught is no one likes their own voice. So don't get upset. It's not the end all. It's natural. You won't like the way you sound. Well, you might. Some people are so overly egotistical. They might just say, God, I'm wonderful. I'm the best. Or you might like the way you look. And you really don't look that good. I guarantees that the guy was a men's club. He went out of business, right? No, no, they fired him, certainly. I thought he was very good. I thought he was the owner. Men's club. So you're the only founder, I believe he was. Men's warehouse. Men's warehouse. There you go. You like the way you look. They had a gravelly point. You like the way you look. I guarantee it. You're going to love the way you look. I guarantee it. He was very good. He was excellent. I don't know what happened there. I like the other guy with the great beard, the Mr. Dos Equis, Stay Thirsty, my friends. I don't know who he's drinking beer, but when I do, it's Dos Equis. That's right. Stay Thirsty, my friends. And I'm high as a kite right now, but I'm enjoying myself. He claims to be the most interesting man alive. Man of the world. Even his pinatas fight back. The most interesting man alive. You're looking at the true most interesting man alive. I want to meet this man one day. We're going to have a go-to. Talk to each other. What would it be? It's like Godzilla versus Mothra or something. Rodan or something? Yeah, one of those. I mean, you know, hey, you're the most interesting. What am I? Lint, you know, it'd be fun. Actually, Godzilla versus King Kong. It was a Japanese King Kong. It wasn't, you know, it looked like it was a red, it looked like an orangutan. You know, was that a red hair? That's right. I met an orangutan once anyway, by the way. Well, orangutans, after you've, after an evening of drinking, of imbibing, orangutans suddenly become more attractive by closing time, right? Is that, is that, that's the old country western song? No, not that I know of. Yeah, the girls get better looking at closing time because you're, you're drunk. No. And the lights are dimmed. Yeah, it's a country western song. It is. An old one. Very old. And then there's another one called, I like my women a little bit on the trashy side. That's another country western song. Well, the other one I like too is, I've got friends in low places. So I love that one. You know, so that's great. Yeah, okay. William is going to, Sir William is going to lay some demo voiceovers on you. Just a few, I won't bore you to death. Give me a few sample reads. For all you aspiring artists, the entire bit, you won't bore them. I hope I don't. Let's see what I have here was good. Federal Express, when it absolutely positively has to be there overnight, the few, the proud, the Marines, Saturday only on bio, we put the good in your morning. If you do another hamburger chain, whatever it's simply haven't your way. American Airlines will take you places. This film has not yet been reared. Oh, we have so many here. Oh, I can teach classes. I think I could here. This is wonderful. Old school. And today's R&B, 98.7. Kiss FM. Oh, these are good things. Do you have enough light? Yeah, I'm just finding, I'm reading over all these, like our cuts are cut above. Poferin's Steakhouse. Dries. I love all this stuff. I mean, when you read these old commercials, I'm, oh, they're wonderful, smooth jazz. CD, what a 1.9. Cool. Like me. Easy listening. Light FM, 106.7. WLTW. Those are some samples of how you can do reads. You can do your rock. 104.3, WQXR, where rock still lives. What a voice. CBS FM. Gotta have a past. We'll keep it alive. CBS again. Some things never grow old. These are great. I love the old, where memories live on. 101.1, WCBS FM. This is such good copy. And these are such quick, but good lessons for those of you wanting to get into voiceovers. Different reads, different styles, like this is CNN, or this is CNN Breaking News. The following is a BBC special presentation. Oh, look at all this. It's wonderful. Simple things. WNBC TV, New York. WSBK TV, Boston. And I love all this. If you can't take the heat, get off the test track. Check out the entire, our turf, the blob. Check out the entire 2013 line of Mercedes-Benz at your Tri-State Mercedes-Benz dealers. This is good, right? Good copy. Good copy. Excellent. That was a sampling. And that was a sample. Okay, well, that was great. There was more, I didn't want to bore everybody to pieces, and I should have cleared my throat a few times more there, but different reads, different styles. Well, your beverage is clearing your throat. That was okay. That was hard. It sounded right to you. Excellent. Outstanding. Because a new wind was about to blow. This time, we've been business. See, all this man has to do is speak to an agent over the phone, and the first sentence that he utters is technically an audition for William. And if you don't remember, coming Friday, if you don't go to the movie theater, we know where you live. Because this time, it's for real. It's fun to have time. I'm only kidding with you. Don't get upset. All right, thank you. Okay, so this concludes part two of our special guest commercial voiceover artist. I'll make sure one more thing. Right? Don't fear rejection. Everyone gets rejected. Every actress, every actor, every screenwriter, everyone gets turned down. It's part of the business. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger got turned down by I think William Morris. That's who I had as my previous agent. They told him you have a funny name. You have a funny accent. Don't even bother. Don't waste your time. You'll never make it. The scary thing will be is if everything goes too easily, you'd say, something's wrong here. Nobody's turning me down. So when you get rejected and turned down, you are in phenomenal companionship. You have a great group around you. It's the greatest. Didn't some famous actors that first went to LA to get discovered, like live out of their car, sleep in their car? A lot. A lot. Before they were discovered. Sadly, Slyce LaRose basically laughed out of the University of Miami drama school. They said, you know, because of his list or whatever. Really, who knows anything, okay? Some of them are very short. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, a lot of your actors. Tom Cruise, Al Pacino. They're very small. Robert De Niro or something. Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman. Don't, number one rule, don't listen to the naysayers. There are too many negatives out there. You know what you've got. Use it. You go for it and do it. All right? And I do wish you the very, very best. And always practice and always, always train. Yes, always. Keep training. Keep training. Try to read the whole bit. Even if you allocate 30 minutes a day or 20 minutes a day, believe me, little things do add up and... Well, even what I do, when I meet and move for coffee. Yeah. Just walking into McDonald's for my car as I walk in a world. Today's R&B and classic soul. That's what? Not even 10 seconds. Practice as you go. Keep it fresh, yeah. Always keep your mind going. All right? You'll be fine. And, you know, training doesn't have to be state-of-the-art or complex. No. The great legendary baseball player of the past, Stan Musial. You know how he used to practice? I hear he had somebody pitch golf balls to him, which are much smaller than the baseball. It doesn't have to be high tech. It doesn't have to be state-of-the-art. It can be simple. In many ways, Jimmy and I have said this in times past. Things we've experienced and gone through. In many ways, the old ways are best. Not everything has to be high tech. Remember that. Okay? For example, the stainless steel safety razor, where you put the single blade like Wilkinson Sword, it still blows away. In many ways, the old ways are. Any multi-bladed. Yes, yes. You know, I don't care if there's 12 blades on it. This, the old way, the old way is the best. And I've tried them all. And, you know, and like, but you know, this is why it's important to, if you have a product that's time-proven and high quality, let the people know. Let them know about it. You gotta market it. You must have a marketing department. You have no idea. Make them earn their money. People had no idea that White Castle makes great fro- Let me excuse you. White Castle makes great fried clams, sweet potato french fries, whole pork sandwiches, barbecued, probably the tastiest milkshakes in fast food. And cod fish nuggets. But who knows? People had no idea until I told them. I never knew until Jimmy told me. I said, how did you find out about this? I never knew. I find out by accident. What did I say? The best ad is tell them, show them in slang. Show them what you got. Nobody knows. Let them know. It's called marketing. Yeah. Please. You have to let people know. Until you tell them. You really do. Yeah. Now we're gonna try later. We're gonna attempt something, but it's not guaranteed. We might be back, but then again, we might not be. But anyway, as far as this show goes, thank you. But we will be back in the future. It may not be tonight. All right? We'll talk some more. Because William, this is your very first time streaming worldwide live on live stream. This is your very first show. Well, somebody here is bringing it. Let's see what happens. You did great. I'm proud of you. You keep trying as well. You never quit. Never listen to naysayers. Best of luck to you. All right.