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Voice Coaches Radio Episode 710 The Everywhere Voice
John: [00:00:00] Hello my friends. I'm John.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: And guess what time it is?
Tina: That Time
John: Coach is radio time. It's time. It's time. Uh oh. I can't say that's probably, I think that's, uh, trademarked.
Tina: That's time.
John: It is time.
Tina: Oh, it, oh, see, well now one, now you're gonna, oh my
John: goodness. No, I didn't say the whole thing. I stopped.
I dunno if it is. Yeah,
Tina: yeah.
John: No, no, no, no, no. The other one is, I can't say it.
Tina: I don't even know what it is.
John: Let's get ready to, oh, can't say it. That is trademarked. You
Tina: can't, that's like trademarked. Yeah. Like the big game.
John: Michael Buffer. Is it Michael Buffer? Yeah. Michael Buffer has trademarked that. So no one can say it like on anything like you could say in your normal life.
Of course that'd be weird, but, uh,
Tina: yeah,
John: but you can't say it. Uh, like he, when when they do video games mm-hmm. He gets paid it. Um, there's a voiceover. There we go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which is a topic.
Tina: Yes.
John: Look at that. Where that topic accidentally, right on topic. Uh, so the topic today is gonna be the everywhere voice, right?
Tina: Yes.
John: And [00:01:00] what we mean by that is, I, I do have people often in my intro, but I think you get it even when you're working with people Yeah. Who basically ask. Are there really a lot of voiceovers out there? Mm. And so we wanna talk about how they are everywhere in your everyday life. Yes. And you just don't even think about it?
Tina: No, not at all.
John: The one that, that, the one that I, that I, that popped in my mind right away when we decided to do this was. You're in a department store.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: It could be grocery store too, by the way. Yeah. But department store, and I'm not talking about the live announcements. It's like clean up aisle five.
Yeah. I'm talking about when you're in the store and all of a sudden you go attention shoppers. Mm-hmm. There's a sale on polo jeans today. Yes. That is a voiceover and you're not even really paying attention to it.
Tina: No, not, not at all. 'cause the music's playing and you're shopping and all of a sudden they tell you Yeah.
40% off. And that's not someone just pulling up the, in the back room. Yeah. Pulling on the speaker. It's already recorded,
John: prerecorded,
Tina: but it has to be a voice.
John: Yep.
Tina: To record that.
John: And most of the time, and this is if you [00:02:00] can score a job, like that's great. Mm-hmm. 'cause they tend to. They tend to use you as almost like their brand.
Yeah. They tend to use the same voice actor for it, like mm-hmm. A great example of that is Universal Studios. This is how much they use the same person, by the way. Yeah. I didn't even realize it until recently. Mm-hmm. When my wife will call Universal Studios. Yeah. Like to book something or to change something or whatever.
Mm-hmm. There's this guy who's really good, who, who kind is goofy on it. Yeah. He is like, he's like, thank you for calling Universal Studios. Oh, there's a dinosaur, you know? Yeah. Things like that. And, and, uh. Although he, although he says Diagon Alley, very interesting. It says Diagon Alley, which I always thought was weird.
Mm-hmm. And no one ever said, Hey, why? That's Diagon Alley. But, um, but Diagon. But anyway, he's, he, he is a good voice actor for sure. Yeah. And I always hear him on the phone. Mm-hmm. But we were there recently. Oh, they have Mardi Gras this time of year. Oh, so we went to Mardi Gras. It's a fake Mardi Gras, not the real one, you know.
This is the, this is the g-rated Mardi Gras at Universal Studios. We went to the G-rated, uh, Mardi Gras Universal Studios. And on the boat [00:03:00] we, we, we stayed at a hotel where you could take the boat. We prefer to do that 'cause it's super easy. You hop on the boat and brings you to the, to city walk, and then you walk in.
They play, they, they, now they have that same voice actor doing announcements on the boat.
Tina: Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. It's
John: so cool. Basically telling you, Hey, this is what time it's over and mm-hmm. Same voice actor. Yeah. It used to be the, and they used to have, they used to have the, the, the, uh, boat captain do the announcements.
Tina: Oh, yeah. No. But
John: now they're using the voice actor.
Tina: Well, that's a, that's a lot of work right there. And then when, when you're talking about the amusement park, think of when they're talking about strap it in, you know, and then, or you know, they're telling you the instructions on the, on the rye that you're about to get in.
That's voice acting. That's a voice
John: acting. So think about that. You probably don't even think about, no. When you go to a theme park, you probably, no, I
Tina: would never even thought of that.
John: Right.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So much voiceover work. Uh, also. Airports.
Tina: Yes.
John: Public transportation in general, but airports.
Tina: Yeah. That's, you see something, say something.
Yeah. You know, by heart now, you know. Right, right, right, right. So that's not someone coming on every single 15 minutes to [00:04:00] say that. No, it's 15 minutes. It, it's played re They already recorded it. They hit play. Yep. That's it.
John: Yeah. There's and GPS,
Tina: uh, yes. You think about that. Yeah. There's, there's a ton of that.
Your voice, your voice messages. All those recorded. Think about when you start a new job and all those HR videos you have to watch. That's a voice. Yes, they're filming stuff, but they're, it's not like they're recording it right then. Yeah. And there no. Then the voice comes on, they give them the script and the voice and they put that over the video.
All of those videos.
John: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one too. There, there, there's so many that I think that we, we just don't. We walk through our daily life. Mm-hmm. And we don't go, oh, wow. That's a voiceover. You know? So highend cars, they're, a lot of those are voiceover completely.
Tina: Yeah.
John: You know, uh, so there, there's that.
Um, you know, I, I mentioned this one is still, is the one that's hilarious to me is how in Philadelphia they have trash cans that Thank you.
Tina: Oh my goodness. Oh, that's right. The [00:05:00] street at the, when you're waiting for the light to turn that you can walk across the street.
John: I know. Crosswalks, and I think that's for the, I think that was originally for the blind, right?
Yes. Crosswalks for the blind. Mm-hmm. I think that's why they do it
Tina: originally. Yes, yes. But you still hear it. Yeah. You hear it all the time. In certain cities, other cities are like, good luck.
John: Yeah. Yeah. Good luck across the street. But he was in public transportation in New York City now.
Tina: Yeah.
John: That used to be done by the.
Subway conductor.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Or whoever was in there. Yeah. And it was funny 'cause it would be like, watch the dolls, please watch the dolls. You know? Now it's voiceover.
Tina: Yeah, it is.
John: A lot of 'em are. At least when I was on the subway. Mm-hmm. It was, it was like a clean, like professional sounding voiceover, which is kind of funny for New York.
Yeah. I almost prefer the. To watch the dogs, please. That's more in New York, but
Tina: now it's like, get out of the way.
John: Yeah, yeah. Elevator
Tina: the door's about to shut
John: elevators.
Tina: Oh, yes. Yeah.
John: Elevators. I've been in many, many, many elevators that, that, uh, named the floors.
Tina: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
John: I just, I was just in one. Where was I?
Oh, it was in, it was at, uh, [00:06:00] universal Sapphire. Sapphire, uh, which is the hotel I was at.
Tina: I thought that was the voiceover. I'm like, oh, yeah, they named her.
John: No, but I was, when I was in the elevator, it was naming the floors.
Tina: Oh,
John: yeah.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, yeah. And, uh, I'm sure there's some other ones. What, what? That's what I mean.
It's so hard to think because they're so common.
Tina: Yes. You know, it's
John: just, they're just so common. How about this? You're So my iPhone.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Used to have one choice. Like Siri was one person.
Tina: Yes.
John: Not anymore. Mm-hmm. You can go into your settings.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And you can pick. From, I, I don't even know. Is it 10 different voices?
Tina: Oh, there's more than that. There's
John: an Indian accent. There's Irish. Mm-hmm. There's English, there's, I don't know what other accents.
Tina: Yeah,
John: there's a bunch of different accents and different, and just male female of each one.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: So there might be more than that. Yeah.
Tina: Yeah. And you do that and then like GPS even offers you different voices too.
Yes.
John: Yeah.
Tina: You can, you can get like Kermit the frog to give you Oh
John: yeah,
Tina: yeah. There
John: you go.
Tina: I'm [00:07:00] sure it's not really, I
John: wonder Well, that would, yeah. I wonder if, I wonder if it is, or there's an idea I have to mention how impersonations aren't very, uh, they don't, you don't usually. Impersonate other voice actors.
Mm-hmm. Or other characters. But maybe you do in those, maybe in like GPS they do use,
Tina: yeah.
John: Uh, character impersonators
Tina: maybe.
John: Or maybe it's the real one.
Tina: It could be the real one, but there is a, there's, it's all over and you just don't pay attention to it because it's just so everyday life for us. You know?
It's just like us getting up to walk out. It's something we do all the time. Voice acting. You just hear it all over the place.
John: Definitely. They're even pre-recording. You know how I mentioned like. Clean up aisle five.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Yeah. They, they, that I know in, in many stores is still someone saying it. Yeah. But they've actually prerecorded in some stores.
I was in a Walmart.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I heard it, and it was clearly prerecorded.
Tina: Oh yeah.
John: They were like, there's a cleanup in aisle five. And I was like, that's not even a, that's crazy what that is there a button they push? Like, how is it like [00:08:00] IL five? Like it must be so specific. Yeah, I, I'm very curious about
Tina: that.
They probably, maybe they recorded it for every single aisle that's They must have. Right. And they just pulled it up and that, oh, there's one there. So put that in there.
John: Yeah. So interesting. I, yeah, I was, I was fascinated by that. 'cause I, 'cause I know that when I, when I was young, I worked at a supermarket, like when I was like 15 and.
You'd have to make that call, make that announcement. And I have heard it by, you could tell just regular people, but
Tina: Yeah,
John: when I was in Walmart recently, it was clearly prerecorded and I mm-hmm. That's wild. How are they doing that?
Tina: Yeah.
John: I, I'm just like, I'm a voice actor. I'm a producer, but I am so sometimes blown away.
Tina: Yeah.
John: By technology
Tina: and,
John: and how it's works.
Tina: Yeah. I mean, there's other think of like, when you go to, um, you know, like even you like a doctor and they, um, they want you to, there's a procedure coming up. There's sometimes you'll have that patient, you know, this, Hey, follow these guidelines. You know, and, and you have to listen.
That's a voice actor. It's already recorded. You know, things like that or, or talking about your appointment coming up when they call you and say, please [00:09:00] bring this, this, and this.
John: That's what I, so I call, it's funny you say that. I, when people sign up for my webinar, I call them to remind them about the webinar, like two days at a time.
Okay. Most people send me their voicemail.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Some people hang up on me, which is, yeah, I don't understand that. They're like, they don't even send it to voicemail. Yeah, they just like hang up,
Tina: like, who's this? Yeah.
John: I don't recognize this number. I get it. No one recognizes numbers, but some people will answer.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And they think I'm a recording. That's how used to it. We are like, I'll say, Hey, it's John from the voiceover webinar he signed up for. And they go and they'll even say, oh, hello. And I go, hi, how are you doing? Great. And then I'll tell 'em, Hey, webinars Thursday night, February, whatever. And then, then there's silence.
Yeah. And they go, oh wait, is this a real person? I'm like, yes. I answered you a second ago. I answered you. I said, you said hi. I said Hi.
Tina: Yeah.
John: But people think it's, but we're so used to everything being automated or everything being, uh, you know, a voiceover, which we don't [00:10:00] consider voiceover. I don't think we look at 'em like that, but they are.
So there is just so. Much work out there.
Tina: There is, and it just in unexpected places, but it, there is, there's a lot of work. Yeah.
John: And now lot of work. And that is the new year. I don't know if I mentioned this. So last year there was $4.4 billion worth of voice of work out there. Geez. It is now 2026 and there're saying there's 4.8 billion Wow.
Worth of voice of work out there annually. So it's growing.
Tina: It's work. Yeah. It's growing. There's a lot of work out there. You just never, you never know where it is. You'll find it.
John: Yep. So, so yes, you're the answer to your question in long form.
Tina: Yes.
John: Is there's plenty of work. Plenty of work for you
Tina: there. Yes.
John: And you know, most people don't. Most people do not stick with it. Mm-hmm. If you do, you will get somewhere. I always say that to people. You're gonna get work.
Tina: Yes.
John: Patience. Mm-hmm. And again, maybe you don't need patients. Maybe you'll get a job right away, but maybe you won't. Mm-hmm. Have patience. Mm-hmm.
There's work out there. Keep plugging away, keep sending demos out. Yes. And, and [00:11:00] follow up.
Tina: That's the biggest thing.
John: Follow up. Yes. That's the, that's the big one where they drop the ball.
Tina: Well, it's a, it's like every other job you, you're gonna follow up on those jobs. Why not? For voice acting.
John: Yeah. Yep. So, yeah.
Now again, I'm gonna remind you heard me mention the webinar. Mm-hmm. Again, webinar, if we haven't met yet. Come to the webinar. Yeah, we can meet, uh, if that's the only reason you're going to the webinar, that'll be weird. But hopefully you're interested in voiceover. Hopefully the only reason you're going is not to meet me.
Yeah. Although I think I'm, I'm fantastic.
Tina: You're really Did that sound convincing it?
John: It did, it did. My wife wouldn't even try. So at least you tried. Yeah. My podcast wife tried. Yes. Yeah. So my wife wouldn't even have tried. She like, mm.
Tina: Yeah. She's like, you're kidding me.
John: Not at all. Not at all. Uh, so, so, yeah.
But no, listen, if you're interested in voiceovers, come to the voiceover, the intro webinar. Again, you can find out voice coaches.com. Uh, it pops right up, I think, or you, I think it's learn more. Yeah.
Tina: It's under
John: learn more.
Tina: Learn more. Yep.
John: [00:12:00] And, uh, the, I'll give you a 50% off code. This is from Tina and I, a gift from us.
Tina: It is,
John: we're saving you 50% off.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Pod, POD pod.
Tina: Now we know. Then you'll know who's really listening to us and they took the discount.
John: It better be a lot of you.
Tina: Yeah.
John: It better be a lot of you Don't embarrass me. Don't you dare embarrass me. No, by the way, John, not one single person. Yeah.
Tina: Use that.
John: Use the, use the word pod.
No one is listening to you.
Tina: We're used to that.
John: All right. Well, and by subscribe, if you're not subscribed, I, I ask that because,
Tina: Hmm.
John: I am guilty of this.
Tina: Okay.
John: Okay. I listen, there's some podcasts I listen to.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I, and I do listen religiously and I've never subscribed and, and I don't know why. I just, yeah.
I'm just like, I'll just go. I'll just search it. You
Tina: just forget every week. Yeah.
John: Subscribe. Make us look good.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Don't make me like a fool. Don't make me look like a fool. Or actually, you know what? It's not me. Don't make Tina look like a fool.
Tina: I know. Come on. He's used to it. I'm not. [00:13:00]
John: That's right.
Remember?
Tina: Yeah.
John: We, we did an episode on, on like a studio blunder. She had none.
Tina: Yeah,
John: she had none.
Tina: I have a ton.
John: Alright, everybody again. Um. I wanna thank you very much for listening. I'm John [email protected]
Tina: and [email protected]. There we go, [email protected]. There's a podcast.
John: There we
Tina: go. My one and only.
John: There you go. Alright, thank you everybody. We out.
Tina: And I'm Tina.
John: And guess what time it is?
Tina: That Time
John: Coach is radio time. It's time. It's time. Uh oh. I can't say that's probably, I think that's, uh, trademarked.
Tina: That's time.
John: It is time.
Tina: Oh, it, oh, see, well now one, now you're gonna, oh my
John: goodness. No, I didn't say the whole thing. I stopped.
I dunno if it is. Yeah,
Tina: yeah.
John: No, no, no, no, no. The other one is, I can't say it.
Tina: I don't even know what it is.
John: Let's get ready to, oh, can't say it. That is trademarked. You
Tina: can't, that's like trademarked. Yeah. Like the big game.
John: Michael Buffer. Is it Michael Buffer? Yeah. Michael Buffer has trademarked that. So no one can say it like on anything like you could say in your normal life.
Of course that'd be weird, but, uh,
Tina: yeah,
John: but you can't say it. Uh, like he, when when they do video games mm-hmm. He gets paid it. Um, there's a voiceover. There we go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Which is a topic.
Tina: Yes.
John: Look at that. Where that topic accidentally, right on topic. Uh, so the topic today is gonna be the everywhere voice, right?
Tina: Yes.
John: And [00:01:00] what we mean by that is, I, I do have people often in my intro, but I think you get it even when you're working with people Yeah. Who basically ask. Are there really a lot of voiceovers out there? Mm. And so we wanna talk about how they are everywhere in your everyday life. Yes. And you just don't even think about it?
Tina: No, not at all.
John: The one that, that, the one that I, that I, that popped in my mind right away when we decided to do this was. You're in a department store.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: It could be grocery store too, by the way. Yeah. But department store, and I'm not talking about the live announcements. It's like clean up aisle five.
Yeah. I'm talking about when you're in the store and all of a sudden you go attention shoppers. Mm-hmm. There's a sale on polo jeans today. Yes. That is a voiceover and you're not even really paying attention to it.
Tina: No, not, not at all. 'cause the music's playing and you're shopping and all of a sudden they tell you Yeah.
40% off. And that's not someone just pulling up the, in the back room. Yeah. Pulling on the speaker. It's already recorded,
John: prerecorded,
Tina: but it has to be a voice.
John: Yep.
Tina: To record that.
John: And most of the time, and this is if you [00:02:00] can score a job, like that's great. Mm-hmm. 'cause they tend to. They tend to use you as almost like their brand.
Yeah. They tend to use the same voice actor for it, like mm-hmm. A great example of that is Universal Studios. This is how much they use the same person, by the way. Yeah. I didn't even realize it until recently. Mm-hmm. When my wife will call Universal Studios. Yeah. Like to book something or to change something or whatever.
Mm-hmm. There's this guy who's really good, who, who kind is goofy on it. Yeah. He is like, he's like, thank you for calling Universal Studios. Oh, there's a dinosaur, you know? Yeah. Things like that. And, and, uh. Although he, although he says Diagon Alley, very interesting. It says Diagon Alley, which I always thought was weird.
Mm-hmm. And no one ever said, Hey, why? That's Diagon Alley. But, um, but Diagon. But anyway, he's, he, he is a good voice actor for sure. Yeah. And I always hear him on the phone. Mm-hmm. But we were there recently. Oh, they have Mardi Gras this time of year. Oh, so we went to Mardi Gras. It's a fake Mardi Gras, not the real one, you know.
This is the, this is the g-rated Mardi Gras at Universal Studios. We went to the G-rated, uh, Mardi Gras Universal Studios. And on the boat [00:03:00] we, we, we stayed at a hotel where you could take the boat. We prefer to do that 'cause it's super easy. You hop on the boat and brings you to the, to city walk, and then you walk in.
They play, they, they, now they have that same voice actor doing announcements on the boat.
Tina: Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. It's
John: so cool. Basically telling you, Hey, this is what time it's over and mm-hmm. Same voice actor. Yeah. It used to be the, and they used to have, they used to have the, the, the, uh, boat captain do the announcements.
Tina: Oh, yeah. No. But
John: now they're using the voice actor.
Tina: Well, that's a, that's a lot of work right there. And then when, when you're talking about the amusement park, think of when they're talking about strap it in, you know, and then, or you know, they're telling you the instructions on the, on the rye that you're about to get in.
That's voice acting. That's a voice
John: acting. So think about that. You probably don't even think about, no. When you go to a theme park, you probably, no, I
Tina: would never even thought of that.
John: Right.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So much voiceover work. Uh, also. Airports.
Tina: Yes.
John: Public transportation in general, but airports.
Tina: Yeah. That's, you see something, say something.
Yeah. You know, by heart now, you know. Right, right, right, right. So that's not someone coming on every single 15 minutes to [00:04:00] say that. No, it's 15 minutes. It, it's played re They already recorded it. They hit play. Yep. That's it.
John: Yeah. There's and GPS,
Tina: uh, yes. You think about that. Yeah. There's, there's a ton of that.
Your voice, your voice messages. All those recorded. Think about when you start a new job and all those HR videos you have to watch. That's a voice. Yes, they're filming stuff, but they're, it's not like they're recording it right then. Yeah. And there no. Then the voice comes on, they give them the script and the voice and they put that over the video.
All of those videos.
John: Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one too. There, there, there's so many that I think that we, we just don't. We walk through our daily life. Mm-hmm. And we don't go, oh, wow. That's a voiceover. You know? So highend cars, they're, a lot of those are voiceover completely.
Tina: Yeah.
John: You know, uh, so there, there's that.
Um, you know, I, I mentioned this one is still, is the one that's hilarious to me is how in Philadelphia they have trash cans that Thank you.
Tina: Oh my goodness. Oh, that's right. The [00:05:00] street at the, when you're waiting for the light to turn that you can walk across the street.
John: I know. Crosswalks, and I think that's for the, I think that was originally for the blind, right?
Yes. Crosswalks for the blind. Mm-hmm. I think that's why they do it
Tina: originally. Yes, yes. But you still hear it. Yeah. You hear it all the time. In certain cities, other cities are like, good luck.
John: Yeah. Yeah. Good luck across the street. But he was in public transportation in New York City now.
Tina: Yeah.
John: That used to be done by the.
Subway conductor.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Or whoever was in there. Yeah. And it was funny 'cause it would be like, watch the dolls, please watch the dolls. You know? Now it's voiceover.
Tina: Yeah, it is.
John: A lot of 'em are. At least when I was on the subway. Mm-hmm. It was, it was like a clean, like professional sounding voiceover, which is kind of funny for New York.
Yeah. I almost prefer the. To watch the dogs, please. That's more in New York, but
Tina: now it's like, get out of the way.
John: Yeah, yeah. Elevator
Tina: the door's about to shut
John: elevators.
Tina: Oh, yes. Yeah.
John: Elevators. I've been in many, many, many elevators that, that, uh, named the floors.
Tina: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
John: I just, I was just in one. Where was I?
Oh, it was in, it was at, uh, [00:06:00] universal Sapphire. Sapphire, uh, which is the hotel I was at.
Tina: I thought that was the voiceover. I'm like, oh, yeah, they named her.
John: No, but I was, when I was in the elevator, it was naming the floors.
Tina: Oh,
John: yeah.
Tina: Yeah.
John: So, yeah. And, uh, I'm sure there's some other ones. What, what? That's what I mean.
It's so hard to think because they're so common.
Tina: Yes. You know, it's
John: just, they're just so common. How about this? You're So my iPhone.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Used to have one choice. Like Siri was one person.
Tina: Yes.
John: Not anymore. Mm-hmm. You can go into your settings.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And you can pick. From, I, I don't even know. Is it 10 different voices?
Tina: Oh, there's more than that. There's
John: an Indian accent. There's Irish. Mm-hmm. There's English, there's, I don't know what other accents.
Tina: Yeah,
John: there's a bunch of different accents and different, and just male female of each one.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: So there might be more than that. Yeah.
Tina: Yeah. And you do that and then like GPS even offers you different voices too.
Yes.
John: Yeah.
Tina: You can, you can get like Kermit the frog to give you Oh
John: yeah,
Tina: yeah. There
John: you go.
Tina: I'm [00:07:00] sure it's not really, I
John: wonder Well, that would, yeah. I wonder if, I wonder if it is, or there's an idea I have to mention how impersonations aren't very, uh, they don't, you don't usually. Impersonate other voice actors.
Mm-hmm. Or other characters. But maybe you do in those, maybe in like GPS they do use,
Tina: yeah.
John: Uh, character impersonators
Tina: maybe.
John: Or maybe it's the real one.
Tina: It could be the real one, but there is a, there's, it's all over and you just don't pay attention to it because it's just so everyday life for us. You know?
It's just like us getting up to walk out. It's something we do all the time. Voice acting. You just hear it all over the place.
John: Definitely. They're even pre-recording. You know how I mentioned like. Clean up aisle five.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Yeah. They, they, that I know in, in many stores is still someone saying it. Yeah. But they've actually prerecorded in some stores.
I was in a Walmart.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I heard it, and it was clearly prerecorded.
Tina: Oh yeah.
John: They were like, there's a cleanup in aisle five. And I was like, that's not even a, that's crazy what that is there a button they push? Like, how is it like [00:08:00] IL five? Like it must be so specific. Yeah, I, I'm very curious about
Tina: that.
They probably, maybe they recorded it for every single aisle that's They must have. Right. And they just pulled it up and that, oh, there's one there. So put that in there.
John: Yeah. So interesting. I, yeah, I was, I was fascinated by that. 'cause I, 'cause I know that when I, when I was young, I worked at a supermarket, like when I was like 15 and.
You'd have to make that call, make that announcement. And I have heard it by, you could tell just regular people, but
Tina: Yeah,
John: when I was in Walmart recently, it was clearly prerecorded and I mm-hmm. That's wild. How are they doing that?
Tina: Yeah.
John: I, I'm just like, I'm a voice actor. I'm a producer, but I am so sometimes blown away.
Tina: Yeah.
John: By technology
Tina: and,
John: and how it's works.
Tina: Yeah. I mean, there's other think of like, when you go to, um, you know, like even you like a doctor and they, um, they want you to, there's a procedure coming up. There's sometimes you'll have that patient, you know, this, Hey, follow these guidelines. You know, and, and you have to listen.
That's a voice actor. It's already recorded. You know, things like that or, or talking about your appointment coming up when they call you and say, please [00:09:00] bring this, this, and this.
John: That's what I, so I call, it's funny you say that. I, when people sign up for my webinar, I call them to remind them about the webinar, like two days at a time.
Okay. Most people send me their voicemail.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Some people hang up on me, which is, yeah, I don't understand that. They're like, they don't even send it to voicemail. Yeah, they just like hang up,
Tina: like, who's this? Yeah.
John: I don't recognize this number. I get it. No one recognizes numbers, but some people will answer.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And they think I'm a recording. That's how used to it. We are like, I'll say, Hey, it's John from the voiceover webinar he signed up for. And they go and they'll even say, oh, hello. And I go, hi, how are you doing? Great. And then I'll tell 'em, Hey, webinars Thursday night, February, whatever. And then, then there's silence.
Yeah. And they go, oh wait, is this a real person? I'm like, yes. I answered you a second ago. I answered you. I said, you said hi. I said Hi.
Tina: Yeah.
John: But people think it's, but we're so used to everything being automated or everything being, uh, you know, a voiceover, which we don't [00:10:00] consider voiceover. I don't think we look at 'em like that, but they are.
So there is just so. Much work out there.
Tina: There is, and it just in unexpected places, but it, there is, there's a lot of work. Yeah.
John: And now lot of work. And that is the new year. I don't know if I mentioned this. So last year there was $4.4 billion worth of voice of work out there. Geez. It is now 2026 and there're saying there's 4.8 billion Wow.
Worth of voice of work out there annually. So it's growing.
Tina: It's work. Yeah. It's growing. There's a lot of work out there. You just never, you never know where it is. You'll find it.
John: Yep. So, so yes, you're the answer to your question in long form.
Tina: Yes.
John: Is there's plenty of work. Plenty of work for you
Tina: there. Yes.
John: And you know, most people don't. Most people do not stick with it. Mm-hmm. If you do, you will get somewhere. I always say that to people. You're gonna get work.
Tina: Yes.
John: Patience. Mm-hmm. And again, maybe you don't need patients. Maybe you'll get a job right away, but maybe you won't. Mm-hmm. Have patience. Mm-hmm.
There's work out there. Keep plugging away, keep sending demos out. Yes. And, and [00:11:00] follow up.
Tina: That's the biggest thing.
John: Follow up. Yes. That's the, that's the big one where they drop the ball.
Tina: Well, it's a, it's like every other job you, you're gonna follow up on those jobs. Why not? For voice acting.
John: Yeah. Yep. So, yeah.
Now again, I'm gonna remind you heard me mention the webinar. Mm-hmm. Again, webinar, if we haven't met yet. Come to the webinar. Yeah, we can meet, uh, if that's the only reason you're going to the webinar, that'll be weird. But hopefully you're interested in voiceover. Hopefully the only reason you're going is not to meet me.
Yeah. Although I think I'm, I'm fantastic.
Tina: You're really Did that sound convincing it?
John: It did, it did. My wife wouldn't even try. So at least you tried. Yeah. My podcast wife tried. Yes. Yeah. So my wife wouldn't even have tried. She like, mm.
Tina: Yeah. She's like, you're kidding me.
John: Not at all. Not at all. Uh, so, so, yeah.
But no, listen, if you're interested in voiceovers, come to the voiceover, the intro webinar. Again, you can find out voice coaches.com. Uh, it pops right up, I think, or you, I think it's learn more. Yeah.
Tina: It's under
John: learn more.
Tina: Learn more. Yep.
John: [00:12:00] And, uh, the, I'll give you a 50% off code. This is from Tina and I, a gift from us.
Tina: It is,
John: we're saving you 50% off.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: Pod, POD pod.
Tina: Now we know. Then you'll know who's really listening to us and they took the discount.
John: It better be a lot of you.
Tina: Yeah.
John: It better be a lot of you Don't embarrass me. Don't you dare embarrass me. No, by the way, John, not one single person. Yeah.
Tina: Use that.
John: Use the, use the word pod.
No one is listening to you.
Tina: We're used to that.
John: All right. Well, and by subscribe, if you're not subscribed, I, I ask that because,
Tina: Hmm.
John: I am guilty of this.
Tina: Okay.
John: Okay. I listen, there's some podcasts I listen to.
Tina: Mm-hmm.
John: And I, and I do listen religiously and I've never subscribed and, and I don't know why. I just, yeah.
I'm just like, I'll just go. I'll just search it. You
Tina: just forget every week. Yeah.
John: Subscribe. Make us look good.
Tina: Yeah.
John: Don't make me like a fool. Don't make me look like a fool. Or actually, you know what? It's not me. Don't make Tina look like a fool.
Tina: I know. Come on. He's used to it. I'm not. [00:13:00]
John: That's right.
Remember?
Tina: Yeah.
John: We, we did an episode on, on like a studio blunder. She had none.
Tina: Yeah,
John: she had none.
Tina: I have a ton.
John: Alright, everybody again. Um. I wanna thank you very much for listening. I'm John [email protected]
Tina: and [email protected]. There we go, [email protected]. There's a podcast.
John: There we
Tina: go. My one and only.
John: There you go. Alright, thank you everybody. We out.
Tina and John talk about how voice overs are everywhere, everyday, and most of us just don’t realize it.
