May 5, 2025
Read It Like You’re Dead Inside?! - VO Direction Gone Mad | Pro Audio Suite
What’s the weirdest direction you've ever received in a session? "Read it more magenta"? "Give me rage, but lean toward anger"? "Sound like a potato"? In this week’s episode of The Pro Audio Suite, Robbo, AP, George, and Robert dive into the...
What’s the weirdest direction you've ever received in a session? "Read it more magenta"? "Give me rage, but lean toward anger"? "Sound like a potato"?
In this week’s episode of The Pro Audio Suite , Robbo, AP, George, and Robert dive into the hilariously bizarre world of VO direction that makes absolutely no sense… and yet somehow still happens every day.
Pulled straight from Robbo’s viral LinkedIn thread, this episode is packed with laugh-out-loud moments, real-life war stories, and a bit of therapy for anyone who's ever heard: “That was perfect. Let’s do one more.” 😵💫
PLUS: Why weird direction is your real job to decode as an engineer or producer, and how to turn “less voice, less you” into a usable note.
🎙️ Edited by Andrew Peters 🎧 Mixed by Robbo
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.”Hunter S Thompson
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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Y'all ready to be history?
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Get started.
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Welcome.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Hello everyone.
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To the Pro Audio Suite.
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These guys are professional.
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They're motivated.
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With Tech the VO Stars.
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George Witten.
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Founder of Source Elements.
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Robert Marshall.
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International Audio Engineer.
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Darren Robbo-Robertson.
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And Global Voice.
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Andrew Peters.
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Thanks to Triboo.
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Making passion heard.
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George the Tech Witten.
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And Robbo and AP's international demos.
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And welcome to another Pro Audio Suite.
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Thanks to Triboo.
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And Austrian Audio.
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Making passion heard.
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Now what are the weirdest things you've heard
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during a session?
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Well that was the question that Robbo put
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up on LinkedIn.
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And the response has been quite astounding to
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say the least.
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Even the weirdest things spoken or the weirdest
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things just heard?
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Well the weirdest direction.
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Direction.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It was the weirdest direction.
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Right?
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So I mean stuff like this a mate
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of mine, David Kirsten, came back with and
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he said, direction I was once given by
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a global pharmaceutical brand.
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Can you pronounce the possessive apostrophe?
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What?
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What the?
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What?
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Exactly.
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Can you pronounce the possessive apostrophe?
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And how would you reply to that?
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Because even I've read that now about half
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a dozen times.
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I still have no idea.
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Howard's microphone.
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No.
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We need that.
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We need that possessive.
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Howard's.
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Howard's.
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What is that?
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I don't know.
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You can't pronounce that.
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It's crazy.
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Right?
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It's just ridiculous.
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There's another one here.
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I once had a senior agency creative ask
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me to direct the voice talent.
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Can they give it a little more magenta?
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Yes.
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I saw that.
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I thought that's a joke when they're like,
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read it more purple.
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That's like the joke, but I guess.
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But he's obviously heard it.
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Yeah.
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That color?
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Magenta.
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Or you always get the brown.
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I know.
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Crazy.
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Another one is, uh, here we go.
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Being an actor for many years, I've been
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directed usually in an audition by a director
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or casting person saying something like, can you
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give me more anger?
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Actually give me more rage.
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I want more rage, but lean and, uh,
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lead toward anger.
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So the emotion sits in the middle of
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anger and rage, but leave it more toward
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rage, uh, but not too much.
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I, I, I, I think I've heard crazy
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stuff like that.
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Oh my gosh.
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I like the, the read it, read it,
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read it faster without sounding faster.
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Oh yeah.
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That's a classic.
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That's the one I started with.
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Cause that's the one everyone's heard.
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Right.
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You know, you hear that so often.
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It's like, yeah, can we, can we do
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it a bit faster, but, um, yeah, just
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make it sound slower.
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Would that be okay?
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But the one that always gets me right.
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And, and, and someone actually did mention this,
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but the one that I always laugh at
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is like, that's perfect.
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Can we just do one more?
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Yeah, that's right.
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That's the one that always has me going.
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One more for safety?
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What was wrong with that?
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Why?
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Yeah.
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True.
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I remember, I remember talking to, uh, Richard
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Lush, who was the, one of the Beatles
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engineers and he was doing some music for
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the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
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And it was cause he's, he's a man
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of tape, but it was being worked on
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in Pro Tools.
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And um, anyway, they did a take and
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then a couple of takes.
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And then, um, the engineer said, do you,
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do you want me to keep those?
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And he said, well, I just asked you
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to do another take.
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So obviously, no, I don't want you to
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keep those.
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So why are you keeping them?
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If we're going to do another one, we're
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doing another one because those ones are not
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good enough.
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So yeah.
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It's ridiculous, right?
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Oh, here's another one.
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This is a good, this is, tell me
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what this one is.
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This one was actually for a funeral directors
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and the direction was read it like you're
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dead inside.
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Was this written by a 17 year old?
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Inside what?
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Exactly.
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What the hell does that mean?
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It's like, I don't know where people, and
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someone actually said, and this is true, right?
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Someone actually said directing voice is a bit
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like describing a red wine tasting.
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And it's kind of true, right?
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It's sort of like, you know, I get
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hints of cinnamon and tea and you know,
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blah, blah, blah.
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It's, it's, it's not just voice.
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It's audio.
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Audio has that weird thing, like all the
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words, like unless you're in the audio industry.
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But here's the thing, right?
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Robert, here's the thing that, that I'm interested
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to know from you because we're the ones,
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we're the conduit, right?
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We're the ones between the client and the
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creatives at the back of the room.
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And we're the ones communicating with the talent
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in the booth.
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Well, we're the ones that take, take, take
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that direction when they go, can you read
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it more magenta?
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And you're like, that means go up at
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the end.
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We're the ones that left to interpret that,
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right?
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We're the ones that are going to go,
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what the fuck does he mean?
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Hang on.
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Uh, yeah, look, I think it's probably, or
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you're rolling your eyes through the glass at
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them because they're looking at you like, what
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was that?
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And you're sort of rolling your eyes going,
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oh, I don't know either.
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Well you have to suddenly throw your direction
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in there, which is enhanced.
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Without making the client look stupid.
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Yes, exactly.
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That's right.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You're just, and one other thing, try it
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like this, which really is kind of like
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co-hosting a podcast.
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All right, Robert.
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So he's, he's a pop quiz and these,
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again, these are real ones.
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Can you sound taller?
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What would you tell the talent?
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Oh my God.
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Okay.
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Taller.
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I would, I would say, um, taller.
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Can you like, like, like, like more, more
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open sounding and less.
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My mind, my mind went to, my mind
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went to, do you want them off mic?
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Do you want them up here like this?
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Hello?
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That's me too.
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Like, have them literally get farther from the
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mic, I guess.
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What about this one, Robert?
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What about, do I sound taller now?
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How about now?
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I'm very tall now.
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Does that sound tall?
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What about this one?
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What about sound like a potato?
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It doesn't need to be a little bit
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like this.
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I'm a potato and I'm under the ground.
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Yeah.
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It just make it sound like you've got
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a bunch of potatoes in your mouth, like
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make it sound more Brown.
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Yeah.
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No, I mean like you have a lot
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of eyes.
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Sound like you have a lot of eyes
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like a potato.
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Oh, what?
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Here we go.
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What about this one?
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Make it feel grounded, but lifted.
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What the hell does that mean?
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I don't know.
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Oh, geez.
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So, so I think grounded is like more
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serious sounding and, and like, and somber.
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And then lifted is like with, with like,
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you know, uh, up, up at the end
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and brightness.
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And it's kind of, it's that typical direction
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where it's two opposites and you're like, how
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the fuck do I do that with authority,
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but with a smile, AP, here's one for
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you.
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I want to know how you'd handle this
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direction.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Bags of energy, but laid back.
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It's always the two opposites, always the opposites.
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Yeah.
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Well, this one for a cremation company, brighten
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it up, but keep it respectful.
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Come on now, you're yanking our genes now.
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No, this is all, this is all people
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have posted on LinkedIn.
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It's just crazy.
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There's gotta be some joke writers in our
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LinkedIn, but I'll tell you what, 40 odd
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lines of gems, just stuff you go, Oh
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my God, but isn't it crazy?
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The four of us all go, well, it's
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not surprising you're hearing shit like that, you
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know, it's just because we've, I, I wish
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I had a memory for some of it,
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but I, I know I've heard insane stuff
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and I've definitely been in the position where
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it's like, I got to interpret that one
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for them because that no one's going to
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understand that.
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I've heard the opposite where the voice talent
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has turned it back onto the producer.
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It's like, okay, we want you to voice
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it.
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You're in a crowd, a crowd of people.
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And the voice talent came back and said,
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whereabouts in the crowd?
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I think you told me that story.
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That was Gibbo, right?
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Yeah.
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And I can imagine Gibbo doing that too.
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Oh, you're in a concert.
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Which row?
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Yeah, that's right.
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And who's on stage?
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Beatles or Zeppelin.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Exactly.
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And is my chair comfortable?
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Does it have a pad or is it
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kind of uncomfortable?
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No, no.
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I need to know.
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I need to, if you're going to go
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here, I need to know everything.
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Is it the Hollywood bowl where it's kind
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of crisp and cool in the evening or
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is it more of an uncomfortable, sticky summer
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evening?
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Did I pay for the tickets or were
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the tickets given to me?
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Yeah, that's right.
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If you paid for the tickets, you'd sound
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a bit annoyed.
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If they were free, you don't care.
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I'll give this one to George.
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Less announcer, less voice, less you.
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What?
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Less announcer, less voice, less you.
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Well, that to me sounds like they're working
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with a professional voice actor and they want
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them to just not sound like a professional
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voice actor and sound like they're mumbling and
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not really giving a shit and kind of
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letting it roll out of their mouth and
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just giving a throwaway read, you know?
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My favorite one is always like, just make
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it conversational.
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Right.
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And then they direct the, make it conversational,
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but can you highlight, sorry, but can you
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highlight this word and that word and this
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word?
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And I'm like, well, I was going to
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say the ultimate irony is the script says,
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get down to Harris Farm Markets this week
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because they've got oranges on special for $2
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.99. You know, just make that conversational, please.
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Yeah.
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I say that shit all the time.
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Exactly.
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I know.
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Crazy, right?
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It's just ridiculous.
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Or two guys in a pub talking about
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something that's completely irrelevant and nothing you would
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talk about in a pub.
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Did you know that the Baxter Insurance Company
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has excellent rates?
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Right.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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That's conversational because it's written as a conversation.
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And look, it's in inverted commas so that
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someone's saying it.
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It seems so authentic.
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Yeah.
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Classic.
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Oh dear.
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I know.
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I'm going to write a book after all
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this.
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I'm going to put them all together and
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turn it into a book, I think, because
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that's hilarious.
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Someone should make the direction dictionary and it's
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just like, like Magento.
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Well, maybe I'll do that.
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But it's just going to be like more
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bright.
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So, so like, like really end with an
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up pitch at the end and everything will
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just boil down to like three directions.
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Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
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I'll chuck all these quotes, I'll copy, copy
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and paste them from LinkedIn into ChatGPT and
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I'll tell ChatGPT to write me a book,
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a direction, you know, and I'll, just for
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a laugh, I'll put it out there for
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our listeners.
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They can, on the Facebook page, they can
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go and download it and have a look.
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No more effort than that.
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All black and white.
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Just print it out.
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AI.
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Yeah.
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I would be interested to see what ChatGPT
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does with it.
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AI is going to be like, this makes
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no sense, I refuse.
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And if you're really into wacky quotes and
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voiceover sessions, go and watch Toast of London.
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Oh, really?
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Right.
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Okay.
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Well, you've got me now.
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That is a great series, comedy series.
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Toast of London.
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Well, that was fun.
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Is it over?
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It's over for me.
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during a session?
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things just heard?
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Direction.
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It was the weirdest direction.
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So I mean stuff like this a mate
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of mine, David Kirsten, came back with and
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he said, direction I was once given by
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a global pharmaceutical brand.
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Can you pronounce the possessive apostrophe?
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What?
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What the?
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What?
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Exactly.
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Can you pronounce the possessive apostrophe?
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And how would you reply to that?
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Because even I've read that now about half
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a dozen times.
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I still have no idea.
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Howard's microphone.
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No.
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We need that.
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We need that possessive.
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Howard's.
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Howard's.
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What is that?
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I don't know.
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You can't pronounce that.
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It's crazy.
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Right?
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It's just ridiculous.
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There's another one here.
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I once had a senior agency creative ask
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me to direct the voice talent.
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Can they give it a little more magenta?
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I saw that.
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I thought that's a joke when they're like,
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read it more purple.
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That's like the joke, but I guess.
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But he's obviously heard it.
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That color?
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Magenta.
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Or you always get the brown.
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I know.
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Crazy.
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Another one is, uh, here we go.
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Being an actor for many years, I've been
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directed usually in an audition by a director
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or casting person saying something like, can you
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give me more anger?
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Actually give me more rage.
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I want more rage, but lean and, uh,
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lead toward anger.
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So the emotion sits in the middle of
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anger and rage, but leave it more toward
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rage, uh, but not too much.
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I, I, I, I think I've heard crazy
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stuff like that.
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Oh my gosh.
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I like the, the read it, read it,
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read it faster without sounding faster.
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Oh yeah.
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That's a classic.
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That's the one I started with.
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Cause that's the one everyone's heard.
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You know, you hear that so often.
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It's like, yeah, can we, can we do
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it a bit faster, but, um, yeah, just
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make it sound slower.
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Would that be okay?
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Yeah.
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But the one that always gets me right.
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And, and, and someone actually did mention this,
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but the one that I always laugh at
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is like, that's perfect.
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Can we just do one more?
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Yeah, that's right.
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That's the one that always has me going.
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One more for safety?
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What was wrong with that?
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Why?
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True.
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I remember, I remember talking to, uh, Richard
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Lush, who was the, one of the Beatles
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engineers and he was doing some music for
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the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
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of tape, but it was being worked on
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in Pro Tools.
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then a couple of takes.
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do you want me to keep those?
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And he said, well, I just asked you
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to do another take.
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So obviously, no, I don't want you to
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keep those.
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So why are you keeping them?
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If we're going to do another one, we're
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doing another one because those ones are not
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good enough.
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So yeah.
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It's ridiculous, right?
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Oh, here's another one.
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This is a good, this is, tell me
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what this one is.
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This one was actually for a funeral directors
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and the direction was read it like you're
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dead inside.
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Was this written by a 17 year old?
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Inside what?
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Exactly.
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What the hell does that mean?
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It's like, I don't know where people, and
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someone actually said, and this is true, right?
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Someone actually said directing voice is a bit
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like describing a red wine tasting.
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It's sort of like, you know, I get
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hints of cinnamon and tea and you know,
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blah, blah, blah.
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It's audio.
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Audio has that weird thing, like all the
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words, like unless you're in the audio industry.
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But here's the thing, right?
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Robert, here's the thing that, that I'm interested
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to know from you because we're the ones,
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we're the conduit, right?
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We're the ones between the client and the
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creatives at the back of the room.
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And we're the ones communicating with the talent
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in the booth.
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Well, we're the ones that take, take, take
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that direction when they go, can you read
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it more magenta?
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And you're like, that means go up at
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the end.
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We're the ones that left to interpret that,
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right?
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We're the ones that are going to go,
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what the fuck does he mean?
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Hang on.
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Uh, yeah, look, I think it's probably, or
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you're rolling your eyes through the glass at
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them because they're looking at you like, what
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was that?
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And you're sort of rolling your eyes going,
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oh, I don't know either.
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Well you have to suddenly throw your direction
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in there, which is enhanced.
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Without making the client look stupid.
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Yes, exactly.
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That's right.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You're just, and one other thing, try it
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like this, which really is kind of like
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co-hosting a podcast.
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All right, Robert.
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So he's, he's a pop quiz and these,
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again, these are real ones.
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Can you sound taller?
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What would you tell the talent?
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Oh my God.
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Taller.
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I would, I would say, um, taller.
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Can you like, like, like, like more, more
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open sounding and less.
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My mind, my mind went to, my mind
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went to, do you want them off mic?
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Do you want them up here like this?
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Hello?
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That's me too.
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Like, have them literally get farther from the
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mic, I guess.
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What about this one, Robert?
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What about, do I sound taller now?
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How about now?
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I'm very tall now.
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Does that sound tall?
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What about this one?
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What about sound like a potato?
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It doesn't need to be a little bit
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like this.
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I'm a potato and I'm under the ground.
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It just make it sound like you've got
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a bunch of potatoes in your mouth, like
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make it sound more Brown.
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No, I mean like you have a lot
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of eyes.
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Sound like you have a lot of eyes
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like a potato.
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Oh, what?
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Here we go.
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What about this one?
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Make it feel grounded, but lifted.
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What the hell does that mean?
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I don't know.
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Oh, geez.
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So, so I think grounded is like more
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serious sounding and, and like, and somber.
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And then lifted is like with, with like,
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you know, uh, up, up at the end
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and brightness.
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And it's kind of, it's that typical direction
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where it's two opposites and you're like, how
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the fuck do I do that with authority,
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but with a smile, AP, here's one for
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you.
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I want to know how you'd handle this
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direction.
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All right.
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Okay.
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Bags of energy, but laid back.
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It's always the two opposites, always the opposites.
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Well, this one for a cremation company, brighten
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it up, but keep it respectful.
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Come on now, you're yanking our genes now.
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No, this is all, this is all people
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have posted on LinkedIn.
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It's just crazy.
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There's gotta be some joke writers in our
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LinkedIn, but I'll tell you what, 40 odd
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lines of gems, just stuff you go, Oh
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my God, but isn't it crazy?
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The four of us all go, well, it's
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not surprising you're hearing shit like that, you
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know, it's just because we've, I, I wish
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I had a memory for some of it,
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but I, I know I've heard insane stuff
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and I've definitely been in the position where
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it's like, I got to interpret that one
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for them because that no one's going to
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understand that.
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Yeah.
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I've heard the opposite where the voice talent
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has turned it back onto the producer.
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It's like, okay, we want you to voice
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it.
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You're in a crowd, a crowd of people.
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And the voice talent came back and said,
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whereabouts in the crowd?
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I think you told me that story.
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That was Gibbo, right?
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Yeah.
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And I can imagine Gibbo doing that too.
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Oh, you're in a concert.
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Which row?
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Yeah, that's right.
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And who's on stage?
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Beatles or Zeppelin.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Exactly.
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And is my chair comfortable?
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Does it have a pad or is it
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kind of uncomfortable?
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No, no.
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I need to know.
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I need to, if you're going to go
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here, I need to know everything.
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Is it the Hollywood bowl where it's kind
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of crisp and cool in the evening or
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is it more of an uncomfortable, sticky summer
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evening?
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Did I pay for the tickets or were
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the tickets given to me?
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Yeah, that's right.
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If you paid for the tickets, you'd sound
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a bit annoyed.
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If they were free, you don't care.
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I'll give this one to George.
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Less announcer, less voice, less you.
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What?
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Less announcer, less voice, less you.
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Well, that to me sounds like they're working
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with a professional voice actor and they want
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them to just not sound like a professional
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voice actor and sound like they're mumbling and
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not really giving a shit and kind of
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letting it roll out of their mouth and
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just giving a throwaway read, you know?
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My favorite one is always like, just make
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it conversational.
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Right.
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And then they direct the, make it conversational,
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but can you highlight, sorry, but can you
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highlight this word and that word and this
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word?
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And I'm like, well, I was going to
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say the ultimate irony is the script says,
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get down to Harris Farm Markets this week
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because they've got oranges on special for $2
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.99. You know, just make that conversational, please.
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Yeah.
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I say that shit all the time.
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Exactly.
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I know.
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Crazy, right?
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It's just ridiculous.
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Or two guys in a pub talking about
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something that's completely irrelevant and nothing you would
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talk about in a pub.
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Did you know that the Baxter Insurance Company
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has excellent rates?
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Right.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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Exactly.
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That's conversational because it's written as a conversation.
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And look, it's in inverted commas so that
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someone's saying it.
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It seems so authentic.
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Yeah.
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Classic.
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Oh dear.
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I know.
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I'm going to write a book after all
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this.
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I'm going to put them all together and
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turn it into a book, I think, because
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that's hilarious.
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Someone should make the direction dictionary and it's
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just like, like Magento.
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Well, maybe I'll do that.
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But it's just going to be like more
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bright.
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So, so like, like really end with an
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up pitch at the end and everything will
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just boil down to like three directions.
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Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
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I'll chuck all these quotes, I'll copy, copy
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and paste them from LinkedIn into ChatGPT and
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I'll tell ChatGPT to write me a book,
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a direction, you know, and I'll, just for
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a laugh, I'll put it out there for
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our listeners.
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They can, on the Facebook page, they can
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go and download it and have a look.
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No more effort than that.
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All black and white.
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Just print it out.
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AI.
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Yeah.
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I would be interested to see what ChatGPT
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does with it.
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AI is going to be like, this makes
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no sense, I refuse.
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And if you're really into wacky quotes and
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voiceover sessions, go and watch Toast of London.
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Oh, really?
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Right.
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Okay.
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Well, you've got me now.
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That is a great series, comedy series.
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Toast of London.
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Well, that was fun.
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