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Voice Coaches Radio Episode 697 “Recording Studio Bloopers”
John: [00:00:00] All right. It's Voice Coaches Radio. Once again, this is episode. 6 97. I'm John.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: Yeah. And we are here today to talk about something. I think it'll be kind of amusing. It's, yeah, it's recording. Studio bloopers. Um,
Tina: yeah,
John: yeah. Like things that have happened in the recording studio that could be a little embarrassing or, or just funny.
Tina: Yeah.
John: And there's plenty of those. I mean, do. You know, doing this for so long, uh, there are many things that have happened, but, but Tina, why don't you start? What, what, what do you have? What, what, what stories do
Tina: you have? The one that stands in my mind, and it was just probably a couple months ago now, it wasn't me, it was a, um,
John: sure it wasn't,
Tina: yeah, no, it actually was not.
I know, [00:01:00] but I had, um, a student actually doing, um, doing a demo and it, they were, they were at one of the studios in between sentences, her stomach growled.
John: Oh, that happens.
Tina: Yeah. And that happens. And, and, and it was funny because she just continued on, which. Fantastic. She didn't let it, you know, um, as we're listening back, you could hear the like, she's like, oh my goodness, that happened.
And I'm like, yes. You know, microphones are sensitive. They pick up everything I go. The good thing is it fell right between sentences, which was perfect. I mean, she finished her sentence and then all of a sudden, sudden you hear the. You know, the stomach and then she kept on going. Yeah. It was just so funny.
I said, it's right in between. It's no big deal. But I could tell that that affected her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, because it does, you, you, things like that. The bodily noises that we have, you know, and it, but it happens and it's no big deal. So I try to tell her that it's no big deal. I go right between sentences.
Look at edit, delete. And [00:02:00] even the engineer, he was so good. You could tell he was laughing, you know, but he was just like, look it, I took it right out. We never even know. But right then and there, she's like, can I take a break? Oh yeah, go right ahead. That's, that's funny. But it happens. It's no big deal
John: that, yeah.
Well, since you talked about someone else's blooper, I will do the same thing. I will tell one about me as well, but this is a good one. So, David, who, and if you know David, he, he, uh. Is the owner voice coaches, and he's here actually. So he, so he'll appreciate this. But so, uh, this is years and years ago.
Mm-hmm. But this is a good one. Um, so David was producing two different demos for two different people. Mm-hmm. They happened to be in the same day. Okay. One of the gentleman was an auctioneer.
Tina: Oh
John: my. Yeah, that's, that was his professional job. Okay. And so when David had worked with him before mm-hmm. He had said to this fella, he said, okay, you know what, since that's your skill, we should actually put an auctioneering piece on your demo.
Yeah. Like, that's, that's a skill. And he said, oh, that's a great idea. [00:03:00] Well, what happened was, uh, whoever was working the front desk at the time, these two guys, for some reason has switched appointments. Now we re, you know, we remember people for the most part, you know, sometimes, but the thing is, so David, but here's the thing.
She didn't print out a new schedule for David. So David had the old schedule. So in his, so he sees this then? Mm-hmm. We go in and we look at, you know, we look at notes, Hey, here's what we talked about. So as far as David knows the guy coming into the studio mm-hmm. Right now, yeah. Is the auctioneer. Oh, it was not the auctioneer, however.
Oh, so, so this guy's in the booth doing his voiceover demo. And David goes, great, now let's do, let's do that auctioneering piece. And the guy goes, uh, what? And he goes, auctioneering, let's do an auctioneering piece. And so the guy, but I will say this, to give it to, to this guy. He didn't say, I don't know what you're talking about.
He goes, okay, okay. And he goes, uh, I got, I have $1. I have $1, half, $2. [00:04:00] David's like, this is, this guy's the worst auctioner I've ever heard in my life. Like, this guy's awful. And so David finally brings the guy in. He goes, um, I, yeah, I'm not sure the auctioneering piece is gonna work. And he said, well, I've never done that before.
And David said, what do you mean? Because I've, I've never done a rock sharing piece before. And then o obviously Dave figures out that this is not the guy. No, but it was hilarious. I can't imagine what was going through that guy's mind.
Tina: Yeah.
John: When someone says, I mean, think about that, you're, you're new to voiceovers and someone's telling you.
Tina: Yeah,
John: they, you have to do an auctioneering piece. You probably in your mind think, oh, this is what voice actors do.
Tina: That's what I, that's how I would be it. I'm like, okay. Okay. Yeah, sure. Great. Anything else? Yeah, $1. $1. $1. That's all I would be saying the whole entire time.
John: But when that happened to me, I'd be fair and telling.
So I, I had a voice actor, it as a professional job. I had a voice actor in the booth and, um. I let 'em look at the copy. I did sound check. I was ready. And I said, okay, let's, [00:05:00] let's, let's do this. Um, and so the person read it, but it was weird. It was like, not good. The person has a great voice, by the way.
Mm-hmm. But it wasn't, there was no expression or anything. And, and so I let 'em kind of get through it. I thought they're kind of just like running through it. Yeah, yeah. Comfortable words. And I, and I said to the person, great. All right, now let's do it for real.
Tina: Oh.
John: And the voice actor goes. What? No, that that was for real.
And I went, oh, oh, okay. Well let's try it this way instead. I was, I felt so bad, other, let's do it for real. The voice actor thought they were totally doing it for real. Uh, so that was a valuable lesson for me because after that, now I never do. Now I'm like, okay, great. Let's try it like
Tina: this. Let's try it a little bit
John: this way.
Even though I'm way, I'm not sure. Yeah. Uh, so that, that was a, that was a good one. That was good. That, that was my embarrassing experience. I don't do that anymore. Yeah. But do you have any more?
Tina: No, I
John: Nothing about your you. Oh, you, there must have been some good ones for you.
Tina: Well, oh, thanks. Thanks a lot.
Well, there's, you know, you have [00:06:00] bloopers. She's a blooper queen. Uh, what I, what I try not to do is I, and when I do have like a stumble. You got, you kind of get in your own head, you know, and then, then the stumbles just happen. Then at that point, when the, you just keep having a stumble and you're supposed to just stop, take the breath, go right back to the beginning of the sentence where the stumble was.
After a little bit, I get a little mad at myself, and then I start to swear. And so that's why, because you don't, you never know who you're working with. Who, yeah. Somebody might be offended by it. Yeah. And I, I, all right, I swear a lot.
John: That's why we have that button now, I guess. Yeah. We already just, I know, I know.
No one's at it, so we can't do it now.
Tina: Yeah. So that's, that's my thing. And no matter what, it's just, and so there's a lot of times I walk out and I'm just shaking my head going, oh my goodness, I can't believe you did that again. You know?
John: That's funny. I, yeah. I had another one where. Actually, I, I was the voice actor.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And David was the producer, actually.
Tina: Oh, [00:07:00] geez.
John: Yeah. So, uh, so this is, and I, to this day, I don't know, I still don't know what I was thinking. So this wasn't in the copy. He said, do me a favor, say, in other words.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I don't know what was going on my, to this day, I can't figure it out. I went, in other words.
And he goes, he stopped and he goes, in other words, and I just kept saying in another words, I must have said it 10 times. Like, and I, I could see David's face like, what is wrong with this guy? Yeah. What is going on? Like I going in another words, which isn't even a thing no one says in another words,
Tina: and now you have me thinking about it.
John: Yeah. In other words, but in other words, I kept saying, in other words, over and over and over again and I, I was, what is going on? You know? It was a wild one. D David did one on the mic. David doesn't do a lot of stuff on the mic. Mm-hmm. Um, but he was doing, uh, a video and it was about voiceovers, of course.
Mm-hmm. His voiceover produce. So he was doing this [00:08:00] video about, actually it was a video, just audio. It was an audio about voiceovers. Boy, maybe it was, now that I think back, I wonder if it was one of our first podcasts ever.
Tina: Okay.
John: It may have been. I can't remember, but, so he did something that was really funny.
He was talking about, I, I don't even remember what he was talking about. Mm-hmm. But he was, he was saying like. Uh, boy, I wish I could remember exactly. Yeah, but he said like a bunch of numbers. Like instead of going like the 1, 2, 3 times mm-hmm. He was like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 times. I'm like, what? Like why are you saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8?
It was just, he was saying numbers like it was so weird. Uh, but I think that might've been one of our first podcasts. Actually. Some of the podcasts have disappeared.
Tina: Oh, I was gonna you
John: full look, listen for it. First few. Yeah. Because I went back to listen and some of them aren't there. Maybe 'cause they're so old because lets, let's face it, like everything ages.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Right? Yeah. And so a lot of the podcasts we would've done in the [00:09:00] beginning
Tina: mm-hmm.
John: Wouldn't really apply now. Some of the information. Yeah. You know, we're talking
Tina: 2008. It has, yeah, it has changed.
John: So that's 17 years ago at this point. So some of those episodes aren't probably very helpful. At this point, I would imagine.
Oh, what you
Tina: don't listen to.
John: Sorry, go on MySpace and, uh, you know, market yourself on my space. Who knows? Probably said that I could have said anything. I, you never know.
Tina: You probably could have. Yeah, it was
John: MySpace around 17 had to be 17 years ago, I think it was. I
Tina: don't even remember it.
John: I can't remember either.
I, you know, as you get older, you forget what was around when, you know. Yeah. Uhhuh, like I, it was funny. Someone said to me. Something about like 20 years ago, recently. Mm-hmm. And I genuinely thought they meant the eighties.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah.
John: When they said 20 years ago, I thought they meant the eighties.
Tina: I know.
Yeah.
John: But it's not the eighties.
Tina: No, no,
John: no, no. 20 years ago it was 2005.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: It's still in the two thousands.
Tina: Yeah, I know.
John: So when they're like, oh, it was so long ago, 20 years ago, [00:10:00] and it is like 2005. I'm
Tina: like, you're like, no, that's not that long ago. That was like yesterday.
John: It was, I still remember when everyone was panicking when the year 2000 was gonna hit.
Tina: Oh, 1999. Yeah.
John: Remember? Yeah. And everyone was like, everything's gonna go down. Everything. You know? I still remember that. So
Tina: See, everybody played that Prince Song.
John: Prince was still around. Yeah,
Tina: prince was still around. I know. See,
John: yeah. So, uh, but yeah, so there's, listen, there's lots. I think the point of this episode, by the way, is to, is to show, uh.
That the recording studio, when you become a voice actor mm-hmm. The recording studio can be a lot of fun.
Tina: It is.
John: It's such a cool environment. Mm-hmm. And, and while it is a professional environment mm-hmm. I always encourage people to be a professional. Yeah. It's a really relaxed, fun environment.
Tina: It is.
John: Mistakes are gonna be made. Mm-hmm. And you're gonna see, we're gonna laugh it off. Um, there's been many times mm-hmm. Where I have done things in the studio and I look through the glass and I see them laughing.
Tina: [00:11:00] Yeah. Yeah. That's, you
John: know, so, uh, they're laughing at something. I said something. Mm-hmm. The way I did it, if I, my voice cracked.
I mean, you're gonna find this is a really relaxing environment with a bunch of people who all want be here. Mm-hmm. And they all want to have fun.
Tina: Yes.
John: That's what makes this job different. You know, I always say. Um, the key to being successful, one of the keys to being successful as a voice actor is to understand that this is no harder and no easier than anything else.
Mm-hmm. It is very similar to everything else. Except when it comes to this. Yeah. I feel like this is a super relaxed and fun environment where there are many jobs where people are not having
Tina: fun. Yeah. Oh no. Absolutely. And I, I always tell people just because a lot of it is they get so nervous, you know, being in there, which is, that's understandable.
I always just, I, but I remind them, listen, nobody sees you. They only hear you. That's it. So just take it as that, you know? But we have, it is a lot of fun. Everybody that I've met, no matter where I've gone to record nicest people. Nicest people, they know how we feel in that booth, and they want us relaxed and have some fun.
John: Yeah. [00:12:00] Yep, yep. It's, uh, it's, it's a really cool environment. And you meet just a bunch. I mean, there's not, you know, that's the one thing that does make this different. I don't know if you meet that many people in one. Work environment that all love what they do.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Right. There's no one that's like the daily grind.
Here we are at the studio.
Tina: I don't think I've ever experienced that. No.
John: No, not
Tina: at all.
John: No. Um, I, it brings me to another blooper, by the way, that was not me. It was another voice actor. And I'm, and I'm only telling the story because I encourage you to have a good sense of humor.
Tina: Yes, yes.
John: This fellow did not.
Tina: Oh,
John: we were doing a voiceover and it was, uh, it, it was. About Tibet. He was British and he said, by the way, pick one pronunciation. There's, here's my advice. Pick one pronunciation to something. And if, and if we don't like it, we'll say, Hey, can you pronounce all this? Yeah. But because he was British, he said he was reading the cop and he went, [00:13:00] Himalayas, Himalaya, if you want it.
And
Tina: Okay. I,
John: I was like, what just happened? What did you just do? Himalayas. Himalayas, if you wanted. And I, and as I, I stopped him and I go, dude, what just happened? And he is like, well, you know, we pronounce it, you know, as Brits, we pronounce it, uh, Himalayas, but you guys say Himalayas. So I just wanted to get both.
I go, but we can't, I can't have that in the voiceover. Oh, that's
Tina: awesome. I thought I would be dying.
John: But he, at first he didn't think it was funny. He was like, well, no, I was, he eventually caught, you know? I was like, this is really funny. Believe me, no one's ever done this. And he finally laughed about it.
But at first he was like, kind of like weird. Like he thought, like, I dunno, maybe he thought I was gonna, he could get fired or something. I have no idea. But it was, uh, it was great. It was such a funny, funny thing. Oh,
Tina: I would save just that little piece of audio and play that back all the time.
John: Him, Alize, if you wanted.
Oh, so good. Oh, so funny. Pick one.
Tina: Yeah,
John: pick one [00:14:00] pronunciation and stick with that and we'll let you know.
Tina: They will definitely let you know because I get a lot of people who ask that about the ant and the aunt. That's the biggest thing. Yes. Oh
John: really? You get that a lot. Yes. I've never said aunt in my life.
Tina: I don't say I say ant as well,
John: aunt.
Tina: Yeah,
John: I mean that sounds fancy.
Tina: It is. And we're not fancy
John: aunt. This is my aunt.
Tina: Yeah.
John: I tried to get my son for a long time when he was young. My son has always been kind of a. He grew up with us and you know, I grew up in this, like, one side of my family was this Irish family.
Mm-hmm. Where you couldn't even have a new pair of sneakers without them making fun of you. Yeah. And then, uh, but the other side of my family was, they were actually kind of nice. So, but my son mostly grew up with the Irish side of the family who would just, they just, it's not Stop making fun of you.
That's what we do. Yeah. So my son was always kind of hip to it. Mm-hmm. You know, he always knew that you, that uh, you know, you're probably, uh, gonna make fun of him. Uh, at some point. So he, uh, you really couldn't do, you couldn't [00:15:00] really say anything to him where he didn't like get it, like, you know, you say something, he'd be like, yeah, I know where this is going.
I know, I know. He's still like that. He's hard. He is hard to deal with actually, because he, I can, you can never really get anything over on him. I don't even know where I was going with this story, by the way, where it came from, but, um, oh, I was trying to get him when, that's why, 'cause we're talking him Aya.
Him Aya is the pronunciation. I was trying to get him for a while to call me Papa. Huh? When he was really young too, and he did not bo, he did not bite on it like he was like four years old. I'm like, I want you to call me Papapa. I just thought it would be hilarious if he would say Papapa in front of other people.
Mm-hmm. He was like, not calling you that. Like at four years old. He's like, I'm not calling you Papapa. No.
Tina: And
John: I'm like, no, no, no. Come on. That's what you are supposed to call me. I'm Papapa. And he is. You're not your dad. That's what I call you. I call you dad. He would not do it. And to this day I'll bring it up to him like, you know, remember when I was trying to get you to call me Papa?
He's like, never calling you that. Yeah. Like, but I wanted it so bad, Papa. [00:16:00] Excuse me, Papa.
Tina: That's so fitting though. I think I could hear you having a son doing that for you. Yeah.
John: Yeah. So he used to think when he was really young, 'cause he had a speech issue when he was young. Which is interesting 'cause I'm a voice actor.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, uh, he, he doesn't really, now, you know, we, we put him through speech therapy Yeah. And all that, but he had a little bit of a lisp and so again, he was young and so he decided that he didn't have a lisp. Yeah. He sounded British.
Tina: Oh.
John: He actually said, I know why I sound like this. He goes, it is a British.
And again, this is when he is like five years old. I'm like, it's not a British accent, which is why we have you with a speech therapist because it's not a, it's not a British accent. I don't know what made him think. 'cause he watched a lot of shows.
Tina: That's a good state
John: and a lot of his kids shows had like.
British people. Funny
Tina: it. Yeah, they do.
John: So, yeah. So he, I, he just decided that he didn't have a speech issue, uh, at like five or six years old that he was British. Which is weird [00:17:00] 'cause
Tina: Yeah.
John: We are not British.
Tina: Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. Oh my goodness.
John: So, yeah. So, uh, there you goes. Listen. So again, remember, this is a super fun environment.
Mm-hmm. You are going to make mistakes. There are gonna be some funny things that happen. This is just, by the way, tip of the iceberg. I could think of a ton of, mm-hmm. Really funny things that have happened in a studio, but I think you get the idea. Always remember you're gonna have a ton of fun here.
Mm-hmm. Voiceovers to me. Uh, I've, I've had a lot of jobs when I was in college, I worked like two jobs, you know? Yeah. Until, and I got into voiceovers really early, fortunately for me. Um, but those jobs I had before I got into voiceovers. I was not having fun.
Tina: No, absolutely not. This is, this is fun. This is really fun.
I'm having a
John: lot of fun. So if you wanna have fun, you wanna, yeah. And you wanna make good money, um, this is the thing for you.
Tina: Yeah.
Yeah.
Tina: Looking for creativity. This is it.
John: This is it. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So again, uh, episode, what, what did I say? 6 97.
Tina: Yeah.
John: 6 97.
Tina: The seven. Yep. Seven. I
John: don't think we did say, did we say it in the beginning?
Tina: Yes,
John: we did. Okay. Yeah, [00:18:00] I can't remember it. It's hard. We we're getting up there in episode. Yeah. So it's hard to remember. But there we go. Episode 6 97. And again, my email, if you wanna reach out and you have ideas for episodes, uh, if you want to maybe make an appearance on the podcast, but you have any questions, comments, anything, John [email protected]
Tina: or Tina at voice coaches do com.
John: There we go. Yeah. I wanna thank everybody for listening. We out.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: Yeah. And we are here today to talk about something. I think it'll be kind of amusing. It's, yeah, it's recording. Studio bloopers. Um,
Tina: yeah,
John: yeah. Like things that have happened in the recording studio that could be a little embarrassing or, or just funny.
Tina: Yeah.
John: And there's plenty of those. I mean, do. You know, doing this for so long, uh, there are many things that have happened, but, but Tina, why don't you start? What, what, what do you have? What, what, what stories do
Tina: you have? The one that stands in my mind, and it was just probably a couple months ago now, it wasn't me, it was a, um,
John: sure it wasn't,
Tina: yeah, no, it actually was not.
I know, [00:01:00] but I had, um, a student actually doing, um, doing a demo and it, they were, they were at one of the studios in between sentences, her stomach growled.
John: Oh, that happens.
Tina: Yeah. And that happens. And, and, and it was funny because she just continued on, which. Fantastic. She didn't let it, you know, um, as we're listening back, you could hear the like, she's like, oh my goodness, that happened.
And I'm like, yes. You know, microphones are sensitive. They pick up everything I go. The good thing is it fell right between sentences, which was perfect. I mean, she finished her sentence and then all of a sudden, sudden you hear the. You know, the stomach and then she kept on going. Yeah. It was just so funny.
I said, it's right in between. It's no big deal. But I could tell that that affected her. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, because it does, you, you, things like that. The bodily noises that we have, you know, and it, but it happens and it's no big deal. So I try to tell her that it's no big deal. I go right between sentences.
Look at edit, delete. And [00:02:00] even the engineer, he was so good. You could tell he was laughing, you know, but he was just like, look it, I took it right out. We never even know. But right then and there, she's like, can I take a break? Oh yeah, go right ahead. That's, that's funny. But it happens. It's no big deal
John: that, yeah.
Well, since you talked about someone else's blooper, I will do the same thing. I will tell one about me as well, but this is a good one. So, David, who, and if you know David, he, he, uh. Is the owner voice coaches, and he's here actually. So he, so he'll appreciate this. But so, uh, this is years and years ago.
Mm-hmm. But this is a good one. Um, so David was producing two different demos for two different people. Mm-hmm. They happened to be in the same day. Okay. One of the gentleman was an auctioneer.
Tina: Oh
John: my. Yeah, that's, that was his professional job. Okay. And so when David had worked with him before mm-hmm. He had said to this fella, he said, okay, you know what, since that's your skill, we should actually put an auctioneering piece on your demo.
Yeah. Like, that's, that's a skill. And he said, oh, that's a great idea. [00:03:00] Well, what happened was, uh, whoever was working the front desk at the time, these two guys, for some reason has switched appointments. Now we re, you know, we remember people for the most part, you know, sometimes, but the thing is, so David, but here's the thing.
She didn't print out a new schedule for David. So David had the old schedule. So in his, so he sees this then? Mm-hmm. We go in and we look at, you know, we look at notes, Hey, here's what we talked about. So as far as David knows the guy coming into the studio mm-hmm. Right now, yeah. Is the auctioneer. Oh, it was not the auctioneer, however.
Oh, so, so this guy's in the booth doing his voiceover demo. And David goes, great, now let's do, let's do that auctioneering piece. And the guy goes, uh, what? And he goes, auctioneering, let's do an auctioneering piece. And so the guy, but I will say this, to give it to, to this guy. He didn't say, I don't know what you're talking about.
He goes, okay, okay. And he goes, uh, I got, I have $1. I have $1, half, $2. [00:04:00] David's like, this is, this guy's the worst auctioner I've ever heard in my life. Like, this guy's awful. And so David finally brings the guy in. He goes, um, I, yeah, I'm not sure the auctioneering piece is gonna work. And he said, well, I've never done that before.
And David said, what do you mean? Because I've, I've never done a rock sharing piece before. And then o obviously Dave figures out that this is not the guy. No, but it was hilarious. I can't imagine what was going through that guy's mind.
Tina: Yeah.
John: When someone says, I mean, think about that, you're, you're new to voiceovers and someone's telling you.
Tina: Yeah,
John: they, you have to do an auctioneering piece. You probably in your mind think, oh, this is what voice actors do.
Tina: That's what I, that's how I would be it. I'm like, okay. Okay. Yeah, sure. Great. Anything else? Yeah, $1. $1. $1. That's all I would be saying the whole entire time.
John: But when that happened to me, I'd be fair and telling.
So I, I had a voice actor, it as a professional job. I had a voice actor in the booth and, um. I let 'em look at the copy. I did sound check. I was ready. And I said, okay, let's, [00:05:00] let's, let's do this. Um, and so the person read it, but it was weird. It was like, not good. The person has a great voice, by the way.
Mm-hmm. But it wasn't, there was no expression or anything. And, and so I let 'em kind of get through it. I thought they're kind of just like running through it. Yeah, yeah. Comfortable words. And I, and I said to the person, great. All right, now let's do it for real.
Tina: Oh.
John: And the voice actor goes. What? No, that that was for real.
And I went, oh, oh, okay. Well let's try it this way instead. I was, I felt so bad, other, let's do it for real. The voice actor thought they were totally doing it for real. Uh, so that was a valuable lesson for me because after that, now I never do. Now I'm like, okay, great. Let's try it like
Tina: this. Let's try it a little bit
John: this way.
Even though I'm way, I'm not sure. Yeah. Uh, so that, that was a, that was a good one. That was good. That, that was my embarrassing experience. I don't do that anymore. Yeah. But do you have any more?
Tina: No, I
John: Nothing about your you. Oh, you, there must have been some good ones for you.
Tina: Well, oh, thanks. Thanks a lot.
Well, there's, you know, you have [00:06:00] bloopers. She's a blooper queen. Uh, what I, what I try not to do is I, and when I do have like a stumble. You got, you kind of get in your own head, you know, and then, then the stumbles just happen. Then at that point, when the, you just keep having a stumble and you're supposed to just stop, take the breath, go right back to the beginning of the sentence where the stumble was.
After a little bit, I get a little mad at myself, and then I start to swear. And so that's why, because you don't, you never know who you're working with. Who, yeah. Somebody might be offended by it. Yeah. And I, I, all right, I swear a lot.
John: That's why we have that button now, I guess. Yeah. We already just, I know, I know.
No one's at it, so we can't do it now.
Tina: Yeah. So that's, that's my thing. And no matter what, it's just, and so there's a lot of times I walk out and I'm just shaking my head going, oh my goodness, I can't believe you did that again. You know?
John: That's funny. I, yeah. I had another one where. Actually, I, I was the voice actor.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And David was the producer, actually.
Tina: Oh, [00:07:00] geez.
John: Yeah. So, uh, so this is, and I, to this day, I don't know, I still don't know what I was thinking. So this wasn't in the copy. He said, do me a favor, say, in other words.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I don't know what was going on my, to this day, I can't figure it out. I went, in other words.
And he goes, he stopped and he goes, in other words, and I just kept saying in another words, I must have said it 10 times. Like, and I, I could see David's face like, what is wrong with this guy? Yeah. What is going on? Like I going in another words, which isn't even a thing no one says in another words,
Tina: and now you have me thinking about it.
John: Yeah. In other words, but in other words, I kept saying, in other words, over and over and over again and I, I was, what is going on? You know? It was a wild one. D David did one on the mic. David doesn't do a lot of stuff on the mic. Mm-hmm. Um, but he was doing, uh, a video and it was about voiceovers, of course.
Mm-hmm. His voiceover produce. So he was doing this [00:08:00] video about, actually it was a video, just audio. It was an audio about voiceovers. Boy, maybe it was, now that I think back, I wonder if it was one of our first podcasts ever.
Tina: Okay.
John: It may have been. I can't remember, but, so he did something that was really funny.
He was talking about, I, I don't even remember what he was talking about. Mm-hmm. But he was, he was saying like. Uh, boy, I wish I could remember exactly. Yeah, but he said like a bunch of numbers. Like instead of going like the 1, 2, 3 times mm-hmm. He was like, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 times. I'm like, what? Like why are you saying 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8?
It was just, he was saying numbers like it was so weird. Uh, but I think that might've been one of our first podcasts. Actually. Some of the podcasts have disappeared.
Tina: Oh, I was gonna you
John: full look, listen for it. First few. Yeah. Because I went back to listen and some of them aren't there. Maybe 'cause they're so old because lets, let's face it, like everything ages.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Right? Yeah. And so a lot of the podcasts we would've done in the [00:09:00] beginning
Tina: mm-hmm.
John: Wouldn't really apply now. Some of the information. Yeah. You know, we're talking
Tina: 2008. It has, yeah, it has changed.
John: So that's 17 years ago at this point. So some of those episodes aren't probably very helpful. At this point, I would imagine.
Oh, what you
Tina: don't listen to.
John: Sorry, go on MySpace and, uh, you know, market yourself on my space. Who knows? Probably said that I could have said anything. I, you never know.
Tina: You probably could have. Yeah, it was
John: MySpace around 17 had to be 17 years ago, I think it was. I
Tina: don't even remember it.
John: I can't remember either.
I, you know, as you get older, you forget what was around when, you know. Yeah. Uhhuh, like I, it was funny. Someone said to me. Something about like 20 years ago, recently. Mm-hmm. And I genuinely thought they meant the eighties.
Tina: Yeah. Yeah.
John: When they said 20 years ago, I thought they meant the eighties.
Tina: I know.
Yeah.
John: But it's not the eighties.
Tina: No, no,
John: no, no. 20 years ago it was 2005.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: It's still in the two thousands.
Tina: Yeah, I know.
John: So when they're like, oh, it was so long ago, 20 years ago, [00:10:00] and it is like 2005. I'm
Tina: like, you're like, no, that's not that long ago. That was like yesterday.
John: It was, I still remember when everyone was panicking when the year 2000 was gonna hit.
Tina: Oh, 1999. Yeah.
John: Remember? Yeah. And everyone was like, everything's gonna go down. Everything. You know? I still remember that. So
Tina: See, everybody played that Prince Song.
John: Prince was still around. Yeah,
Tina: prince was still around. I know. See,
John: yeah. So, uh, but yeah, so there's, listen, there's lots. I think the point of this episode, by the way, is to, is to show, uh.
That the recording studio, when you become a voice actor mm-hmm. The recording studio can be a lot of fun.
Tina: It is.
John: It's such a cool environment. Mm-hmm. And, and while it is a professional environment mm-hmm. I always encourage people to be a professional. Yeah. It's a really relaxed, fun environment.
Tina: It is.
John: Mistakes are gonna be made. Mm-hmm. And you're gonna see, we're gonna laugh it off. Um, there's been many times mm-hmm. Where I have done things in the studio and I look through the glass and I see them laughing.
Tina: [00:11:00] Yeah. Yeah. That's, you
John: know, so, uh, they're laughing at something. I said something. Mm-hmm. The way I did it, if I, my voice cracked.
I mean, you're gonna find this is a really relaxing environment with a bunch of people who all want be here. Mm-hmm. And they all want to have fun.
Tina: Yes.
John: That's what makes this job different. You know, I always say. Um, the key to being successful, one of the keys to being successful as a voice actor is to understand that this is no harder and no easier than anything else.
Mm-hmm. It is very similar to everything else. Except when it comes to this. Yeah. I feel like this is a super relaxed and fun environment where there are many jobs where people are not having
Tina: fun. Yeah. Oh no. Absolutely. And I, I always tell people just because a lot of it is they get so nervous, you know, being in there, which is, that's understandable.
I always just, I, but I remind them, listen, nobody sees you. They only hear you. That's it. So just take it as that, you know? But we have, it is a lot of fun. Everybody that I've met, no matter where I've gone to record nicest people. Nicest people, they know how we feel in that booth, and they want us relaxed and have some fun.
John: Yeah. [00:12:00] Yep, yep. It's, uh, it's, it's a really cool environment. And you meet just a bunch. I mean, there's not, you know, that's the one thing that does make this different. I don't know if you meet that many people in one. Work environment that all love what they do.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Right. There's no one that's like the daily grind.
Here we are at the studio.
Tina: I don't think I've ever experienced that. No.
John: No, not
Tina: at all.
John: No. Um, I, it brings me to another blooper, by the way, that was not me. It was another voice actor. And I'm, and I'm only telling the story because I encourage you to have a good sense of humor.
Tina: Yes, yes.
John: This fellow did not.
Tina: Oh,
John: we were doing a voiceover and it was, uh, it, it was. About Tibet. He was British and he said, by the way, pick one pronunciation. There's, here's my advice. Pick one pronunciation to something. And if, and if we don't like it, we'll say, Hey, can you pronounce all this? Yeah. But because he was British, he said he was reading the cop and he went, [00:13:00] Himalayas, Himalaya, if you want it.
And
Tina: Okay. I,
John: I was like, what just happened? What did you just do? Himalayas. Himalayas, if you wanted. And I, and as I, I stopped him and I go, dude, what just happened? And he is like, well, you know, we pronounce it, you know, as Brits, we pronounce it, uh, Himalayas, but you guys say Himalayas. So I just wanted to get both.
I go, but we can't, I can't have that in the voiceover. Oh, that's
Tina: awesome. I thought I would be dying.
John: But he, at first he didn't think it was funny. He was like, well, no, I was, he eventually caught, you know? I was like, this is really funny. Believe me, no one's ever done this. And he finally laughed about it.
But at first he was like, kind of like weird. Like he thought, like, I dunno, maybe he thought I was gonna, he could get fired or something. I have no idea. But it was, uh, it was great. It was such a funny, funny thing. Oh,
Tina: I would save just that little piece of audio and play that back all the time.
John: Him, Alize, if you wanted.
Oh, so good. Oh, so funny. Pick one.
Tina: Yeah,
John: pick one [00:14:00] pronunciation and stick with that and we'll let you know.
Tina: They will definitely let you know because I get a lot of people who ask that about the ant and the aunt. That's the biggest thing. Yes. Oh
John: really? You get that a lot. Yes. I've never said aunt in my life.
Tina: I don't say I say ant as well,
John: aunt.
Tina: Yeah,
John: I mean that sounds fancy.
Tina: It is. And we're not fancy
John: aunt. This is my aunt.
Tina: Yeah.
John: I tried to get my son for a long time when he was young. My son has always been kind of a. He grew up with us and you know, I grew up in this, like, one side of my family was this Irish family.
Mm-hmm. Where you couldn't even have a new pair of sneakers without them making fun of you. Yeah. And then, uh, but the other side of my family was, they were actually kind of nice. So, but my son mostly grew up with the Irish side of the family who would just, they just, it's not Stop making fun of you.
That's what we do. Yeah. So my son was always kind of hip to it. Mm-hmm. You know, he always knew that you, that uh, you know, you're probably, uh, gonna make fun of him. Uh, at some point. So he, uh, you really couldn't do, you couldn't [00:15:00] really say anything to him where he didn't like get it, like, you know, you say something, he'd be like, yeah, I know where this is going.
I know, I know. He's still like that. He's hard. He is hard to deal with actually, because he, I can, you can never really get anything over on him. I don't even know where I was going with this story, by the way, where it came from, but, um, oh, I was trying to get him when, that's why, 'cause we're talking him Aya.
Him Aya is the pronunciation. I was trying to get him for a while to call me Papa. Huh? When he was really young too, and he did not bo, he did not bite on it like he was like four years old. I'm like, I want you to call me Papapa. I just thought it would be hilarious if he would say Papapa in front of other people.
Mm-hmm. He was like, not calling you that. Like at four years old. He's like, I'm not calling you Papapa. No.
Tina: And
John: I'm like, no, no, no. Come on. That's what you are supposed to call me. I'm Papapa. And he is. You're not your dad. That's what I call you. I call you dad. He would not do it. And to this day I'll bring it up to him like, you know, remember when I was trying to get you to call me Papa?
He's like, never calling you that. Yeah. Like, but I wanted it so bad, Papa. [00:16:00] Excuse me, Papa.
Tina: That's so fitting though. I think I could hear you having a son doing that for you. Yeah.
John: Yeah. So he used to think when he was really young, 'cause he had a speech issue when he was young. Which is interesting 'cause I'm a voice actor.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, uh, he, he doesn't really, now, you know, we, we put him through speech therapy Yeah. And all that, but he had a little bit of a lisp and so again, he was young and so he decided that he didn't have a lisp. Yeah. He sounded British.
Tina: Oh.
John: He actually said, I know why I sound like this. He goes, it is a British.
And again, this is when he is like five years old. I'm like, it's not a British accent, which is why we have you with a speech therapist because it's not a, it's not a British accent. I don't know what made him think. 'cause he watched a lot of shows.
Tina: That's a good state
John: and a lot of his kids shows had like.
British people. Funny
Tina: it. Yeah, they do.
John: So, yeah. So he, I, he just decided that he didn't have a speech issue, uh, at like five or six years old that he was British. Which is weird [00:17:00] 'cause
Tina: Yeah.
John: We are not British.
Tina: Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. Oh my goodness.
John: So, yeah. So, uh, there you goes. Listen. So again, remember, this is a super fun environment.
Mm-hmm. You are going to make mistakes. There are gonna be some funny things that happen. This is just, by the way, tip of the iceberg. I could think of a ton of, mm-hmm. Really funny things that have happened in a studio, but I think you get the idea. Always remember you're gonna have a ton of fun here.
Mm-hmm. Voiceovers to me. Uh, I've, I've had a lot of jobs when I was in college, I worked like two jobs, you know? Yeah. Until, and I got into voiceovers really early, fortunately for me. Um, but those jobs I had before I got into voiceovers. I was not having fun.
Tina: No, absolutely not. This is, this is fun. This is really fun.
I'm having a
John: lot of fun. So if you wanna have fun, you wanna, yeah. And you wanna make good money, um, this is the thing for you.
Tina: Yeah.
Yeah.
Tina: Looking for creativity. This is it.
John: This is it. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So again, uh, episode, what, what did I say? 6 97.
Tina: Yeah.
John: 6 97.
Tina: The seven. Yep. Seven. I
John: don't think we did say, did we say it in the beginning?
Tina: Yes,
John: we did. Okay. Yeah, [00:18:00] I can't remember it. It's hard. We we're getting up there in episode. Yeah. So it's hard to remember. But there we go. Episode 6 97. And again, my email, if you wanna reach out and you have ideas for episodes, uh, if you want to maybe make an appearance on the podcast, but you have any questions, comments, anything, John [email protected]
Tina: or Tina at voice coaches do com.
John: There we go. Yeah. I wanna thank everybody for listening. We out.
Tina and John tell a few entertaining stories about on the job bloopers.
