Podcast appearances and mentions of Bob Bergen

This is just a reupload of my Bob Bergen interview from 2023, in video form!

This is just a reupload of my Bob Bergen interview from 2023, in video form!

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RMR 0272: Join your hosts Chad Robinson, Dustin Melbardis, and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit Spirited Away (2001) [PG] Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy Starring: Daveigh Chasxe, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Egan, Paul Eiding, John Ratzenberger, Bob Bergen, Tatsuya Gashūin, Rodger Bumpass, Tara Strong, Michael Chiklis, Lauren Holly, Jim Ward, Jack Angel   Director: Hayao Miyazaki Recorded on 2024-06-14

In this episode, Anne Ganguzza and Tom Dheere dissect the key components of building a robust online presence. From identifying customer pain points to harnessing the power of color psychology in your website design, The BOSSES explore what it takes to convey competence and reliability. We also delve into the subtle yet vital aspects of maintaining an easy-to-navigate, professional website that establishes credibility and trust. Learn how consistent visual cues and coherent storytelling can make or break your brand's effectiveness in today's competitive market. Finally, The BOSSES tackle the nuances of maintaining a consistent brand across social media platforms. We underscore the importance of professionalism and how off-brand or controversial content can jeopardize client relationships. 00:01 - Intro (Announcement) It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss a VO boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  00:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey, hey everyone, welcome to the VO Boss Podcast and the Real Boss Series. I'm here with my special guest co-host Tom Dheere. Hey, Tom Dheere, how are you?  00:30 - Tom Dheere (Host) Hey Anne, I'm good. How are you? I'm awesome.  00:33 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Thank you very much.  00:34 - Tom Dheere (Host) You look fabulous today.  00:35 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Why thank you? So do you. I love your coloring.  00:39 - Tom Dheere (Host) Thank you, it's one of my Hawaii shirts because my wife's from Hawaii, so we go to Hawaii all the time.  00:43 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) There you go. It's very boss.  00:45 - Tom Dheere (Host) Thank you. I love your blue because it kind of matches the coloring in the background. You look very branded today.  00:51 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Why, thank you. You know I have multiple brands and multiple colors for my brands, and so it's interesting because red is typically my boss brand. But I thought, you know, let's work a little A&G and Guza brand in here as well, which is my blue, my signature blue. So I'm kind of combining them right now. And, yeah, I've been branded for a while yet, but I don't know, tom, what are your thoughts? I think we should talk about branding, because it is a big discussion among voice actors and it's like everybody makes a big deal like oh my God, I have to like figure out my brand, and they and it's like everybody makes a big deal Like, oh my God, I have to like figure out my brand and they stress out over it. And so let's talk about brands. I mean, how important is it for voice actors to brand these days?  01:33 - Tom Dheere (Host) Well, my thoughts have evolved on this quite a bit over the past 15, 20 years or so. I used to be of the mind that every voice actor absolutely must brand themselves. They should design a logo, they should pick a font, they should pick a color scheme and then their demos, their business cards, their website, their social media content, all of their outbound marketing content newsletters and things like that should be 100% branded. It should be 100% aligned.  02:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well then, I fit the bill there for you. You're perfect. Okay, you're perfect.  02:08 - Tom Dheere (Host) But over the years when I had that perspective, I was focusing primarily on direct and indirect marketing strategies to get the bulk of my voiceover revenue.  02:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I agree, myself included.  02:21 - Tom Dheere (Host) I have representation. I'm on casting sites, but for me, direct and indirect marketing was the place and it's like the old mentality. It's like Anne, why aren't you wearing my glasses? Because they help me see better. So obviously they should help you see better. But gotten a little older, hopefully gotten a little wiser, and just looking at myself and looking at all the students I've had over the years and watching what other successful voice actors do, I don't know if everybody needs to brand themselves.  02:50 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, gosh Tom, for many years there was no branding, right, there was no internet. Well, I shouldn't say there was no branding, but it wasn't as visible. And so how did voice actors in the 80s stand out?  03:02 - Tom Dheere (Host) They didn't, they just auditioned and booked.  03:05 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) They were managed by their agents, right or managers. And so they didn't have to necessarily brand their businesses. They became known for their voice and their agents were out there kind of branding for them, right.  03:20 - Tom Dheere (Host) Yeah, their reputation was built solely on the quality of their auditions and the quality of the experience when they were in the recording studio working with the clients. And that was it. The value promise was the audition Sure, the value delivery was the recording session. Yeah, platforms on top of that. Most voice actors feel obligated in a way that they have to brand themselves because they have to be on all of these social media platforms and they have to be spewing out content all the time in the hopes that they will catch somebody's attention to stay top of mind to get them into and through the sales funnel and all of that stuff.  04:01 But to your point, if representation was the only casting portal in the industry, no, we wouldn't need to brand. There are online casting sites too pay-to-play sites, voice123, voicescom, vidalgo, what have you? You don't need to brand yourself on there either, because all it's about is the value promise of the audition and the value delivery of the recording session or delivering the files properly formatted, with the proper amount of takes, and you took the direction on the casting notice or whatever. You know what I mean.  04:28 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) What about Fiverr? Just out of curiosity. I know we've had this, I know that's a bad F word but I think it depends on how the platform is marketing you right, or how are people finding out about you right On the platform?  04:38 - Tom Dheere (Host) Yeah, and it's interesting because Fiverr and Upwork, which are technically online casting sites, they weren't designed as voiceover casting sites like Voice123 and Voicescom, but they seem to be conducive for voiceover casting. There's very little auditioning happening on Fiverr and Upwork.  04:54 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) People come and look and listen.  04:55 - Tom Dheere (Host) It's direct bookings. So, with that in mind, yeah, your branding actually is very important.  05:01 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Your headshot's very important, I agree.  05:05 - Tom Dheere (Host) Your tagline, the verbiage, how you package and present yourself. Yeah, branding is important.  05:07 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So then, if you're direct marketing, right, I feel that a brand is very, very important. If you're direct marketing and if people are finding you online, let's say at your website, like for me, tom, and we have different businesses, right, you and I I have multiple brands. I don't have a ton of time to audition, except for my agents, right, which that's a whole different way that I obtain my job, and I don't have any time literally these days to audition on pay-to-plays. However, I do exist on pay-to-plays because I want to make sure that I know the platform so that I can recommend to my students. So for me, my branding is still relevant, I would say, because that's how I get a lot of people that say, oh, the Ann Ganguza brand or Ann, I see you everywhere, and that's good, because that's kind of my purpose.  05:53 - Tom Dheere (Host) Yeah, I have two brands. I have the Tom Dheere the H is silent, but I'm not voice actor brand and then I have the VO strategist brand, and both of them serve different needs. Well, obviously, one for me as a voice actor and then one for me as a voiceover business and marketing consultant and coach and mentor. What's interesting, and tell me, if you have this experience, is that your branding as Ann Gangu's a voice actor greatly informs your reputation and branding as Ann Gangu's a voiceover coach. Because, with a very precious few exceptions, like a Maurice Tobias or a Mary Lynn Wisner, you need to be a boots on the ground, successful, consistently working actor to be taken seriously as a voiceover coach. Absolutely, absolutely.  06:39 So a part of my branding as a VO strategist is go check me out at tomdeercom, listen to my demos, look at my YouTube channel, see all the work that I've done, because the fact that I've done a bunch of e-learning modules is one thing, but the fact that I was the voice of Inspector Gadget in the Inspector Gadget video game last year gives you a lot of street cred. So that attracts certain types of voice actors who want to do that sort of business. And even if they don't. They grew up on Inspector Gadget, so I'm writing the coattails of the brand of Inspector Gadget when I brand myself as Tom Dheere voice actor, because I was Inspector Gadget, which also then feeds into well, if he's able to book work like that, he's competent as a voiceover business and marketing coach. So they all feed into each other.  07:23 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I love that. You said that you branded on the coattails of another brand and I think that's definitely a strategy. I mean he used to talk about that all the time is that to get credibility? If you are the voice of a brand that is out there and that is heard and seen, then that is your brand right, gaining credibility from another brand, and so it's kind of a strategic partnership. However, I think you can get that strategic partnership. It doesn't necessarily mean like oh, I'm Ann Ganguzza, I have to have blue. That's only a visual part of my brand, that is one part of the encompassing brand when people come to my website. But people if they don't see anything right. So there's a visual part of your brand, there's an audio part of your brand and then there is, I would say, an in-person, physical part of your brand as well that all contributes to who you are and if people decide if they want to work with you or not.  08:20 Right, there's that personality, part of your brand that says I'm reliable, I'm fast, I am accurate. I have the voice that can work with your brand and make it come alive. So there's so many aspects to branding besides, let's say, a website, which is what I think most people think. When they talk about branding, they think, oh, I've got to have that tagline Gosh. I gave up my tagline years ago because it just wasn't pertinent for my particular brand. It just wasn't, and I was out there showing my photograph a long time ago because for me it worked. I felt like people wanted to connect with a person and not necessarily an image of a microphone.  08:59 - Tom Dheere (Host) Sure, it's funny that you say that, because I've been teaching branding for well over 10 years and I've always told my students that branding is telling a story what is the story of you? But also there's usually two ways that you can tell your story as a voice actor from a branding perspective. You can brand your sound or you can brand your personality. So the more distinctive your sound is or the genres that you can do, the easier it is to brand in that direction. If you've got a particularly young voice or particularly deep voice, or if you do movie trailers primarily, or if you do military fiction, audio books exclusively or almost exclusively, it's a lot easier to brand. But the branding of your personality is what is the experience of working with you? So for years I used you as one of my examples of, yes, branding your personality using your tagline are you ready for awesome?  09:54 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's true. Are you ready for awesome? I like that. I did use that and I haven't used that in a while, so let's talk about that. Tom, tell me, what was it that attracted you to that particular aspect of my brand?  10:06 - Tom Dheere (Host) What attracted me to that is that you were setting expectations of what the experience of working with you was is like. So there's the value promise. Like I said, value promise and value delivery. This is about the value delivery. If you work with me, you're going to have a great experience. You're going to be working with a professional, intelligent, excited, ethical, prepared voice actor. That's what are you ready for. Awesome means to me.  10:33 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Geez, maybe I'll bring that back, Tom.  10:36 - Tom Dheere (Host) I mean, why not?  10:36 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I love that, I like that it meant something to you and yeah, absolutely, and it's not that I actually got rid of it, tom. Before that one, I had Dream Out Loud. That was my tagline, and I thought Dream Out Loud didn't do anything for me, necessarily because Dream Out Loud was kind of more focused on me rather than my client. Right, in terms of like, are they dreaming out loud? No, they need somebody that's not dreaming, they need somebody that can speak. Their brand, right, and so therefore, are you Ready for Awesome, kind of helps out their predicament in a much better way. So, yeah, actually I think that that's a great brand. I'll have to talk to my web person.  11:15 Your webmaster, business coach my webmaster to maybe bring that back. And it doesn't have to be all over my page, right it can be in certain parts of my page or in, let's say, in my signature file. It could be in a lot of different places, but I like that. You're right. It basically tells people this is what you're going to be working with.  11:32 - Tom Dheere (Host) Right, and one of the key aspects of any successful brand, regardless of whatever sector that you're in healthcare, automotive, beverages or whatever is that an effective company is able to identify the pain points of the customer. What do you need, what are you struggling with? And then your branding helps you tell the story of how you can solve their problems, how you can address those pain points, how you can cure what ails them, so to speak. Are you ready for awesome is a great way of letting them know that if you work with me, everything's going to be okay, Everything's going to be taken care of, you're going to have an awesome experience and you're going to get what you need, which are quality audio files delivered on time, properly formatted and that help you tell the story of your company's brand most of the time right.  12:21 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now I do believe that people visually see that text, they read it, they comprehend it. There's also something to be said for your website in general, and we can have a whole other podcast on websites. But I do believe that, like when I go to purchase something from a website, I have to see that website and feel that I trust it and that the people behind that website have a valuable product and I can purchase that without fear that I'm not going to get that product delivered in a timely and quality manner. And so I assess a lot visually the product by looking at a website. If the website is not constructed in a professional manner, of what standards are today, I hesitate to click and buy. And so I do feel that if you are a voice actor that has a website out there and people happen upon your website, at least have it functionally and visually professional enough so that it instills trust in your potential client, so that they can say oh, okay, this looks safe, right For me.  13:31 I mean, gosh, it's like oh, I buy online all the time. I mean this is like the 21st century, right? We buy online all the time. So again, that place where I buy needs to instill trust in me. And now a quick word from our sponsor, which could be me. Hey bosses, are you looking for even more voiceover resources? Head on over to vopeepscom and take a look at our special Vopeeps VIP VIPs membership. You get access to over 350 hours of on-demand video workshops in addition to free live monthly workouts. Plus, you'll get 15% off each monthly VO Peeps workshop in the future. Sign up now at vopeepscom.  14:12 - Speaker 4 (Host) Hi, this is Debra Elaine Fowler sending a huge shout out to Anne for her VO Boss podcast. I've been listening now since the very first episode six years ago, and I always learn something new. The guests are interesting and Anne brings up topics that maybe I haven't thought about. I find myself researching new topics almost every week. Anne, keep it up, I love what you're doing. And now back to the show.  14:38 - Tom Dheere (Host) The website tells the story of you and of the experience they're going to have as a result of working with you, Because they're immediately. Obviously the first thing that happens as they go to the website is they see the website. Yeah, you know what are the colors that?  14:50 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) come out?  14:51 - Tom Dheere (Host) What are the fonts Right? How is it organized or laid out? What are the colors? What are the fonts? Is it easy to find your demos?  14:58 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Can I contact this person that's like so important to me?  15:01 - Tom Dheere (Host) Can I contact this person in the way that I want to contact them? Do I want to pick up the phone? Do I want to email them? Do I want to message them on Instagram, or do I want to use their contact form or any of a number of ways? So this tells the story of your competency as a voice actor, and it needs to be consistent. That's why you should be looking up the psychology of color when it comes to establishing a brand. It's like what is the type of voiceover work that you do? How does that reconcile with your personality? How does that reconcile with the needs of the customers that you want to attract? A lot of this stuff is very subconscious or unconscious on the part of voice seekers when they go to your website, but what's there and what isn't there speaks to your brand.  15:43 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Absolutely. And there's something to be said, like there's something almost intangible. When I go to a website and I say oh, oh, I like that, Like it's like pretty packaging, right, I mean.  15:52 I like that package, and so that makes me interested to want to find out more, and if the verbiage on the website helps me to find out more and gets me to where I need to be quickly. Because, again, I don't know. I mean, how many people go around just looking at websites to say, oh, that's a pretty website or, oh, I don't like that website. I mean, really there's a purpose, right, people are shopping around going to a website either finding information.  16:18 Maybe you somehow attracted them to get to your website to find out more about you and your brand and your voice. And if they can get that information easily and it seems to speak to you as being a credible, professional, trustworthy business, product right that they can purchase, then I think that really all has a handle on. It's like a part of the sales funnel, right? I feel like your brand is part of the sales funnel.  16:41 - Tom Dheere (Host) It absolutely is, and that also extends onto your social media platforms and the content that you're creating on the social media platform. If you're trying to brand yourself effectively and consistently, the branding on your social media platforms should line up perfectly with what's going on on your website the font, the logo, the color schemes, the banners, the verbiage and the content that comes out. All of this needs to be consistent Verbiage.  17:07 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Tom verbiage, and that means if you're on a social media platform and verbiage is coming out of your mouth that isn't necessarily conducive to promoting your brand in a positive way. You might want to think about that. That means if you're going to be controversial or you're going to be spewing verbiage in your social platforms that may be off brand. You might want to consider maybe not doing that or having a completely different brand. I feel like personal brands and voice actor brands are very close.  17:40 It used to be, where, okay, I have a business brand and I'm going to only talk about business on that and I have a personal brand, but I feel like those two brands have really melded together over the years, tom.  17:51 - Tom Dheere (Host) Oh, yes, no, they've completely blurred for a number of reasons. I mean, one reason right now is that if, through your marketing strategies, you've been able to get a voice seeker to go to your social media platforms or to your website, one thing they're trying to determine is are you human?  18:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah or are you an AI? That is slowly becoming more of a consideration for voice seekers, and if you're human, are you a good human.  18:12 - Tom Dheere (Host) And are you a good human there?  18:13 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) can be human actions that are controversial that would potentially harm their brand if they were to align right Strategically. We talked about strategic alignment with brands If they were to align with your brand right, it could hurt their brand.  18:27 - Tom Dheere (Host) Right. That leads me to a great point, Anne, is when it comes to your branding. To be perfectly honest, the vast majority of voice seekers aren't paying any attention to anything we're doing on social media, and they're not paying attention to much that's going on on our website. However, they will vet you. They will check out your brand for the aforementioned AI reason and for exactly what you said because nobody wants to work with a voice actor who is an NDA violator.  18:52 Sure sure, absolutely. And starts talking about auditions that they did for projects that haven't been cast yet.  18:57 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Or negatively about companies that they've worked with.  19:00 - Tom Dheere (Host) Or client questions, whether it's warranted or not.  19:02 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh my gosh, whether it's warranted or not, guys, just don't do that.  19:05 - Tom Dheere (Host) I see, specifically audiobook narrators regularly complaining about the publishers because, oh, I didn't get enough of a pronunciation guide or there were too many spelling errors on this manuscript, and I'm just as they're doing it. I'm like, what are you?  19:16 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) doing yeah yeah, why Because?  19:18 - Tom Dheere (Host) audiobook publishers are the ones that are the most likely to pay attention to your branding and pay attention to your website and pay attention to your social media platform and if you're kvetching about your client like that's a great way to lose a client.  19:32 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's like anybody complaining about their employer. Right, hr is continually going out online to see if you're making complaints and then that's the first line of fire to get fired if you're speaking negatively. And so even if you think it's private, like in a Facebook group, and it's marked a private group, it's not. Screenshot is like literally a couple of keystrokes away, and even if it says it's private, it's not. We all know things are not private.  20:00 I mean yesterday I happened to be on a family outing at Disney and everything I talked about came up on my Facebook feed just saying so nothing is private. And so really just for your brand's sake, and so I do want to. I know now we've got into the whole what's good for your brand, but let's go back to Tom. If someone is just doing jobs through their agent, is it required that they have a website now and a brand specifically, or maybe not?  20:28 - Tom Dheere (Host) Website yes, brand maybe.  20:30 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Okay. Maybe, what's on the website then?  20:33 - Tom Dheere (Host) Okay, well, from a branding perspective logo consistency of font on the logo itself and the tagline and with the verbiage on the website the color scheme that you have established on this logo needs to align with the color scheme that is on the homepage and all the other pages, unless there's a possibility you've branded yourself based on genre or subgenre.  20:55 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Is this for voice actors who are managed or who have talent, agents only, or is this?  21:00 - Tom Dheere (Host) It's a great question. I can't speak to what voice seekers that work through managers and agents are doing. How much are they vetting the voice actors that are represented by the agents and managers that they're working with? Most of the time they're probably not. It's usually just send me these auditions. We'll pick the person that we think is the best who vocally represents this company brand message.  21:19 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Unless you're well-known, I would say right as a video game, character or an animation, character and then I think, your brand is important online. Right your actions in your social media. I'm thinking Daniel Ross, who recently, you know, is now the voice of Donald Duck. Bob Bergen has the voice of Porky. Pig, I mean and Christina Milizia, who I just interviewed as well on this podcast, and Christina Milizia who?  21:41 I just interviewed as well on this podcast the characters that they represent. She has to be careful. They have to be careful what they do online and also their actions, because a lot of them might go to cons and do autograph signing, and so that's an in-person branding as well, so they have to be very careful about their brand.  21:58 - Tom Dheere (Host) Okay, there are two groups of voice actors. There's public figures and private figures. Public figures in voiceover are those who do cartoons, video games and audiobooks. Okay, because if you're an audiobook narrator, you're being followed by authors, rights holders and listeners of the audiobooks. Okay, and it's a very public thing because these are very front-facing products audiobooks, cartoon and video game voice actors are also public figures, also just because of the fan base. The fan base really wants to know and loves to adore and follow the voice actors who are the voices of their favorite cartoon and video game characters. Everybody else is kind of clumped into the private voice actors. With the exception of, for me, inspector Gadget, red Dead Redemption and a handful of other things. I'm primarily a private voice actor. So me talking about my e-learning and her explainer experience online, nobody cares, nobody cares that?  22:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Tom Dheere. I'll tell you what his e-learning module.  23:03 - Tom Dheere (Host) That HR video he narrated oh for God's sakes. Like nobody does that. Nobody does that, nobody cares, nobody cares about that. And yes, that, nobody does that, nobody cares, nobody cares about that. And yes, your branding should be influenced by that Absolutely. So you want to be careful. So if you're a private voice actor, yeah, don't be an NDA violator. Don't be a client basher. Don't be some religious political whack job.  23:24 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's all you have to worry about. And even if you're a public figure in a way that you don't think like because I know there are people who are out there that troll. I've been trolled. If you're out there as a coach, as a demo producer, I guess you can say if you've been trolled, you've made it.  23:39 - Tom Dheere (Host) Right, because then, so you actually matter. I matter in a way, but yes, I've been trolled and that's very upsetting, but Tom, I'm sure you've been trolled too, Maybe.  23:46 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I don't know if Inspector Gadget has, but I mean Inspector Gadget.  23:51 - Tom Dheere (Host) I only got trolled in that. I'll just put it to you this way. There was one person who hated my performance so much that they took the trailer for the Inspector Gadget video game and replaced my voice with Don Adams, who was the original Inspector Gadget. So You've made it Tom, congratulations actually I'll take that as a proper trolling. There you go.  24:11 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) So I guess then, in essence, tom, I know you've evolved over the years with your views on branding. You don't know if it's as necessary, or maybe just branding in general has evolved. I still feel like, in this sea of voice actors, if somebody is going to see you online, then brand is important.  24:29 If you're not necessarily online, if maybe you're part-time and hey, there's a lot of amazing talent that we hear every single day on national spots that don't have websites that I don't even know. We don't even know who they are, right, Because they don't need to have that brand. So I tend to agree with you and I think that we have to continually be educated about what's important for your business when it comes to being recognized. Now, what about voice actors that are new to the industry? Is it important that they have a branded website, that they have a tagline? Is it important that they have a headshot?  25:07 - Tom Dheere (Host) Okay, I think at first it's a terrible idea. I think it's a terrible, terrible idea because what drew them to the voiceover industry may not necessarily be what keeps them in the voiceover industry. In other words, they may not be any good at what they want to do and they may turn out to be really good at something that they don't want to do. So from a branding perspective-.  25:27 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) They don't know their brand yet.  25:28 - Tom Dheere (Host) They don't know their branding because they don't know what they can book. So if you're early in your voiceover journey, us bosses are taking a little pressure off. You Don't worry about branding yet Book gigs.  25:38 See what the voiceover industry tells you are the types of genres and subgenres in the markets that you can book Then you can build a brand around that because if that's something that's bankable, if people are willing to give you money to say this kind of voiceover work, then you can build a reputation on that because, like we said, branding, storytelling, reputation all of these things are intertwined. So just to have a basic, nondescript website with your contact information, basic information about you and downloadable demos which is the most important thing to have on a website- yes, absolutely.  26:12 Then let the branding come about you and downloadable demos, which is the most important thing to have on a website. Yes, absolutely. Then let the branding come to you and then you can and you're talking visual branding. Visual branding.  26:17 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, I'm going to say vocal branding. I'm very much into vocal branding, depending on what genre you study with me, right. So vocally branding, that's something that you can have a good coach help you with, because they're going to help and you will discover that vocal branding in the beginning.  26:34 For whatever genre you're studying Now, that doesn't mean that you won't evolve over time right To have more vocal brands. I think you can have multiple brands that are related, but you cannot, like, if you're a young person and you sound young right, for the entirety of the time that you are younger, for a few years at least, you're going to be more of that youthful sound, probably if that's how you've been vocally branded. So I think if you're new it helps to have a good coach to help vocally brand you. But visual branding and you're right, tom, as you go you'll find out. What do you get hired for? Right, I never thought about medical and all of a sudden I started getting hired for medical and now, oh well, that makes sense now because I used to work in the medical field. So you know something I didn't know before.  27:21 - Tom Dheere (Host) Yeah, what a great coach like you can help people with is what celebrities do you sound like? What sectors of the voiceover industry can you get work in? You know there's commercials in general, but then there's automotive in particular, or home and family products, or alcohol, or boots you know what I mean or cowboy boots or whatever that sort of thing. Anne can definitely help you with that. And then when you are positioning yourself, and then when Anne helps you make your demo, it can help with that vocal positional branding. So the spots that you would do on a demo with Anne would align with the celebrities that you can sound like. Not imitations, but just like reminiscent of.  27:58 You know what I mean. I'll give you an example For me right now. For the past year or so it's been Ryan Reynolds. I've been booking spots because I have a Ryan Reynolds sound.  28:07 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, you do.  28:08 - Tom Dheere (Host) A voice actor just connected with me on LinkedIn and said do you know that you sound like Ryan Reynolds and I don't have that branding anywhere on my website. I'm seriously considering doing it because these casting notices that tend to have the Ryan Reynolds celebrity reference I'm booking. So that may be something I would need to consider. But again, that's the industry. At this point in my journey, that's the industry telling me, because Ryan Reynolds wasn't a factor when I started in the 90s. But if I was starting now and working with Anne, she's got a good enough ear to know that like, yeah, you got kind of a Ryan Reynolds sound. Maybe we should get kind of these kind of quirky, fun, cute little spots on your demo to showcase that particular sound.  28:50 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Absolutely Well. That was a very involved branding conversation but I love it, I love it. I feel like we still could go on, and, on, and on. But, thank you, tom. So much for that. Guys, I'm going to give a big shout out to our sponsor, ipdtl. You too, can network and connect like bosses like Tom and myself. Find out more at IPdtlcom. Have an amazing week, guys, and we will see you next week. Thanks so much.  29:20 - Intro (Announcement) Bye. Join us next week for another edition of VO Boss with your host, anne Ganguza, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at vobosscom and receive exclusive content, industry-rev, revolutionizing tips and strategies and new ways to rock your business like a boss. Redistribution, with permission. Coast-to-coast connectivity via IPDTL.   

In this episode, Trevor welcomes legendary voice actor Bob Bergen. Bob, known for his iconic roles as Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, and Tweety Bird, shares insights from his extensive career. They discuss the challenges of voice acting during quarantine, including upgrading his home studio and working on the new "Looney Tunes Cartoons" for HBO Max. Bob reveals the meticulous process behind bringing beloved characters to life, his experiences with different animation projects, and the evolution of Porky Pig over the years. He also recounts his early days, including meeting the great Mel Blanc, and offers valuable advice for aspiring voice actors. Join Trevor and Bob for an engaging conversation filled with behind-the-scenes stories and expert tips on mastering the art of voice acting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/portabletrevor/support

BOB BERGEN continues with tales both funny and touching about Mel Blanc (The Flintstones), Daws Butler (Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear), and the art of voice acting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Voice acting great BOB BERGEN tells us about the new MeTV Toons network and stories about June Foray (Rocky & Bullwinkle) and Billie Hayes (H.R. Pufnstuf, Smurfs). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More with BOB BERGEN about Porky Pig's voice, working with cartoon legends, and announcing for the new MeTV Cartoon Network and its creative approach to its vast library. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unveiling Fun Secrets of The Brady Bunch & Gilligan's Island with producer Lloyd Schwartz! John and co-host, Bob Bergen chat with Lloyd Schwartz, producer of The Brady Bunch and Rescue from Gilligan's Island about what the Brady kids were like off set, his close relationship with Ann B. Davis "Alice" and the emotional toll of working with Robert Reed and his insults of his father, Sherwood Schwartz when shooting the Brady Bunch. Lloyd also talks about emotional storylines that affected the Brady kids in real life, working with Vincent Price on the Hawaii episodes and how he changed the Brady Bunch theme song. Also, Lloyd talks about Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus and other Gilligan's Island cast members off set through some very personal stories. In addition, Lloyd talks about his latest comedy film coming out "Love and Taxes", starring Jake Reiner, Rob Reiner's son and how they shot a full feature film in 3 days! Thanks Lloyd, we had a blast! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-cato/support

GGACP celebrates the upcoming birthdays (March 8, March 11) of award-winning voice actors Bob Bergen (Tweety, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian) and Rob Paulsen (Pinky, Yakko, Jimmy Neutron) by revisiting this funny and moving interview from 2019. In this episode, Bob and Rob talk about the loyalty of voice performers, giving back to fans, the generosity of Daws Butler and Casey Kasem and the voices behind Toucan Sam, Charlie the Tuna and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Also, Orson Welles hits the bottle, Mickey Rooney “inspires” Walt Disney, Rob hangs with Rip Taylor (and Jonathan Harris) and 14-year-old Bob cold-calls Mel Blanc. PLUS: “What's Opera Doc?” The genius of Randy Rogel! The outrageousness of Bob Ridgely! Remembering Marvin Kaplan! And Bob teaches Gilbert to do Porky Pig! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bob Bergen, three time Emmy nominee, voice of Porky Pig, and hundreds of other animated characters, has talents that exceed his voice acting! He discusses leadership, mentorship, his initiatives at the TV Academy, home of the Prime Time Emmys, and why perfomers, partiularly AD performers, recognition matters. Professionalism echoes throughout this interview!

Anne and Lau share a valuable discussion about the pivotal role websites play in any business, and how they can be a driving force behind attracting potential clients. In this episode, The Bosses discuss how a well-presented, professional, and easy-to-navigate website has a crucial role in enhancing online shopping experiences, increasing sales, and building trust with potential customers. Learn how to ensure your website is professional, easy to navigate, and trustworthy to drive potential customers to your content. Transcript: Anne Ganguzza: Hey, hey, everyone. Welcome to the V.O. Boss podcast and the V.O. Boss Superpower Series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and I have today with me the effervescent, lovely, amazing Lau Lapides. Lau Lapides: Keep going Annie, keep going. You don't need to stop. Anne Ganguzza: She Lau Lapides: Ha ha Anne Ganguzza: is everything. She is everything, bosses. Lau Lapides: ha. Aw, thank you. Anne Ganguzza: And we love her, and we Lau Lapides: We Anne Ganguzza: love her. Lau Lapides: love you too. So awesome to be here, always. Anne Ganguzza: Well, it's awesome to have you as usual. So Lau Lapides: Thank you. Anne Ganguzza: today, or I shouldn't say today, but this week, Law, I had a very exciting thing happen to me. I got an email from a potential client that said they had been researching quietly in the background, looking for a new voice for their brand. And they found me. And they listened to my d- demos. They found me like on a Google search and found my website and listened to my demos. And then apparently narrowed down that search to about, I don't know, a handful of people. And they said that they would like me to audition for this very cool possibility for a major brand. And I was so ecstatic because... I didn't do a thing. Like they found me. They found me on a Google search and they found my website and they were able to listen to my demos and they were able to assess, right, my voice, obviously, and decide yes, she's going on a short list. All because I had a really great website that had things laid out easily, easy to find my demos, easily played. and easy to contact me. And so I thought it was important. I thought it would be an important topic to discuss websites. And I know I talk about it incessantly, but I thought let's dedicate an entire episode to websites and how they are so important to your business bosses. Lau Lapides: Oh, that's so fabulous. I'm so happy for you. Anne Ganguzza: Thank Lau Lapides: Congratulations. Anne Ganguzza: you. Yay, thank you. Lau Lapides: Big yay. I love that you got my jazz hands. Whoo. Anne Ganguzza: Thank Lau Lapides: It's really Anne Ganguzza: you. Lau Lapides: awesome. I do have to qualify one thing you said for Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: the listeners and that you said you did nothing. Anne Ganguzza: Oh, well. Lau Lapides: You actually have 25 years behind you that Anne Ganguzza: You're right. Lau Lapides: led up to that moment that made that prospect. clients life really fast and easy Anne Ganguzza: Yes. Lau Lapides: so that they didn't move on to the next person. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: So I just wanted to catch you on Anne Ganguzza: Thank Lau Lapides: that because Anne Ganguzza: you, thank you Lau Lapides: you're Anne Ganguzza: for Lau Lapides: so Anne Ganguzza: that. Lau Lapides: used to Anne Ganguzza: Yes, Lau Lapides: being fabulous Anne Ganguzza: I know. Lau Lapides: that you think you're doing nothing when really you've done all the work leading Anne Ganguzza: Well, Lau Lapides: up to that moment. Anne Ganguzza: and I'll Lau Lapides: Right? Anne Ganguzza: tell you, and I did do the work on my website, my storefront that made that available, right? I'm always saying that you can have the best voice in the world, but it doesn't do you any good if people don't know about you. And one of the easiest Lau Lapides: That's right. Anne Ganguzza: and quickest ways that people can find out information about you and your product and contact you is that website. And so many people put that website on the back burner. Or they're like, I don't have the money to invest. Guys, I'm here to tell you, you have to do that. If you are a business in 2023 or for the past 10 years, if you've been a business, you really need to have that storefront. You need to have that website. It is critical. And I always tell people, don't skimp on it. We talk about investing in our business all the time. And it is one area I think you need to invest. And I've invested over the years, thousands of dollars. I don't want to say that it's super, super expensive. It can be. I'm a big believer in presentation. Really matters. Presentation matters. And so yes, can you do your own website? Sure. Are you a website designer by trade? Maybe not. So I tend to. try to make it as presentable and as professional as possible so that it really makes an impression. Lau Lapides: Yeah, it pops. Yours always pops and it just comes right out at you. So I'm not surprised that you have this huge brand that's looking at you now because you look like a huge brand. You have to you have to Anne Ganguzza: Mm. Lau Lapides: project exactly Anne Ganguzza: Yes. Lau Lapides: the karma and the boomerang that you want to get back. You have to really be honest about that. And when someone says what you just said, Annie, like, oh, I don't have the money for that. Well, make the money. Go Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: go Anne Ganguzza: Oh, Lau Lapides: do Anne Ganguzza: please. Lau Lapides: whatever you need. Wash cars. take care of puppies and Anne Ganguzza: Yes, Lau Lapides: flip pancakes Anne Ganguzza: yes, Lau Lapides: to make the money Anne Ganguzza: wash Lau Lapides: so that you Anne Ganguzza: cars, Lau Lapides: look Anne Ganguzza: clean Lau Lapides: like Anne Ganguzza: houses, Lau Lapides: that. Anne Ganguzza: do whatever you gotta Lau Lapides: Whatever, Anne Ganguzza: do, but get Lau Lapides: we all Anne Ganguzza: that Lau Lapides: did Anne Ganguzza: money, Lau Lapides: it. Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: right? Yes, exactly, and I love that you said that because again, we all did that, right? I mean, Lau Lapides: We all did that. Anne Ganguzza: you'd be amazed at what I do for money, but that's another topic. But, Lau Lapides: By Anne Ganguzza: but. Lau Lapides: the way, websites are cheaper and quicker and Anne Ganguzza: Hmm Lau Lapides: easier to create now than ever. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: I remember the days Anne Ganguzza: and Lau Lapides: where it would take $10,000, Anne Ganguzza: yeah Lau Lapides: $15,000 Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: to make a website. Anne Ganguzza: and well, and I'm gonna mention this I'm gonna qualify this because I have a website that's very functional Okay, I have multiple websites number one I don't think you need to be held to just one website. Although, you know for my voiceover, right? I've got one website, but remember I've got multiple multiple divisions of my business, right? I've got the VO Boss, that's a completely different brand. I've got the VO Peeps, that's a different brand. I've got Nganguza Coaching, that's a different brand. I've got my Studio Cats, that's a different brand. So literally, for each of my brands, I have a separate website. And I, for, depending on what you wanna do with that website, especially because I sell products, I sell physical products, I sell digital products, I sell memberships. And so because of the extensive selling that I do on my website, and I think, hey, every VO needs to be able to sell on their website. You have to make it easy for people to pay you, right? Who wants to step through hoops to make a payment? I mean, Lau Lapides: No Anne Ganguzza: just Lau Lapides: friction. Anne Ganguzza: click, click and pay. Yeah, and same thing with all aspects of your website, right? People should be able to find what they need and buy as quick as possible. Right? Lau Lapides: Yes. Anne Ganguzza: So my websites, and you know you were talking about, they used to cost a whole lot more money. You're right. Any voice actor can get a one page website, and I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that Lau Lapides: Hmm. Anne Ganguzza: a little later, but for not a tremendous amount of money. And I think there are templates out there that can make it look very professional. Lots of great people out there as well. For my websites, because of the extensive functionality, I have memberships, I have multiple ways to pay me, I have calendar appointments, scheduling going on, then that's gonna cost you a little bit more on the back end, but again, it is an investment in your business. Lau Lapides: Mm hmm. Yes. And I want to caution listeners, too, that as much as you want one and need one and eventually will have one, if not more than one, be careful of doing it prematurely. Because I know, Anne Ganguzza: Mm. Lau Lapides: Annie, you go through this. I go through this as on the coaching end. that will get a lot of newbie starters, like within the first month or Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: two, they're just literally investigating VO, they're just starting training, and already they're thinking about, oh, I need a website, I need Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: marketing, I need this. I'm like, wait a second, you don't even know if you like it. Anne Ganguzza: Well, Lau Lapides: You Anne Ganguzza: wait, Lau Lapides: don't even know if you wanna Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: do it yet. Anne Ganguzza: And wait till you get the product to market first, right? Because the whole idea of a website is that you have, well, I should say the whole idea of a voiceover website is that you have a product that you can market. Well, you want to make sure that you have the product first. That means get your coaching. Get your demo, because the demo's going to showcase that product, right? Make sure that you've got those things in place. But I would say it's never too late to start thinking about your website. Start thinking about a brand. But again, that's something that you'll discover as you go. And so I think a lot of times, if you start too early with that website, your branding is not quite finalized. And then that could be costly for you later on, because you could be thinking, oh, I really like this way to brand me. I'm going to use this tagline, or I'm going to use these colors. And then as you evolve in developing your voiceover product, you might say, oh, well, maybe that doesn't fit me as well as this one does. And then you're going to have to rebrand, and that's going to probably cost you more money. So absolutely start planning for it. But there's lots of development work you can do on the back end before it is out there and present on the web, on the interwebs, where people go to your website and they say, but I don't have, there's no demos. How do I hear you? Right? Lau Lapides: And be careful too, that once you do this, or at least the beginning stages of doing this, of saying, I see this all the time. Well, I have my website is up and out, I got my demos on there, I've got some training, I'm ready to go. I'm ready for the jobs, where's my work? Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: Be careful of that way of thinking, because on average, a business that's a startup business in any industry, takes a good three to five years to get Anne Ganguzza: Oh Lau Lapides: off Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: the ground, it just does. Anne Ganguzza: Oh yeah. Lau Lapides: So be careful of this, I'm ready to go. Where's my work kind Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: of mentality? Like you have to work at getting work. You have to earn it. You have Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: to reach out. You have to do the hard work labor of directing traffic to the website. Anne Ganguzza: Yes, Lau Lapides: The Anne Ganguzza: yes. Lau Lapides: website doesn't necessarily do it for you. You Anne Ganguzza: Exactly, Lau Lapides: have to direct Anne Ganguzza: exactly. Lau Lapides: people to the website, right? And... Anne Ganguzza: Exactly. Your content, right, that's out there is what helps to generate the SEO where people are searching for a specific, you know, product or a specific voice that hopefully, you know, it's getting increasingly. difficult that you show up on those pages, right? So if you're not getting good SEO with people finding you through the search engines, you can absolutely put content out there that is of interest to your potential clients. And that can mean social media. You can be entertaining on social media. You can put out blog articles on social media or on your website. You can then drive people to that website so that they can then have access to your demos, to a button where they can click and contact you and say, hey, I have this script, how much would it cost? And of course, I always like to make it easy Lau Lapides: Right. Anne Ganguzza: to pay as well. So absolutely driving. Lau Lapides: I always love to, I'll tell you, speaking as an agent, one of the big things that I'm asked is, how do I deal with driving someone to see my website? I say, easy, give me one link. It should be one link Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: navigation and drive me exactly, point me in exactly what you want me to see. Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: right away. So Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: let's say I'm an agent. I am an agent. I don't want to go through all your pages. I don't want to scroll way down. I don't want to find the Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, Lau Lapides: demos. Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: For me, it's the commercial demo. Send me exactly to where the commercial demo Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: is. And then Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: if I have time and I want to scroll down, and oftentimes I do, I'll scroll, I'll Anne Ganguzza: Right. Lau Lapides: see what it looks like. It's kind of cool. But I'm not frustrated trying to find that particular item that I'm looking for. So really point. the people that you're driving in exactly Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: where they need to go so they're not kind of looking around figuring Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: it out, having trouble with navigation. Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Having trouble with navigation. Yeah, that's a big plus, is to be able to have concise information quickly available to the shopper. Now, I always make this comparison that when I shop online, and I love to shop online, I'm a shopper, okay? Lau Lapides: You're a shopaholic. Anne Ganguzza: So the free I kind of am so the first thing I do think about when you shop online, right? What is it that makes you click and buy right Lau Lapides: Mmm, Anne Ganguzza: number one? Lau Lapides: I Anne Ganguzza: It Lau Lapides: like Anne Ganguzza: has Lau Lapides: that. Anne Ganguzza: to be right for me. It has to be a professional looking website It has to really speak to me that this is what okay old Navy sells clothing and accessories And so therefore I was used old Navy, but it could be anything Nordstrom rag It could be all of my favorite places, Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: right? They have to absolutely when I get to that first page have to look professional. They can't be, you know, they have to be with the Lau Lapides: Right. Anne Ganguzza: current, they kind of have to be current trends, you know. It can't be like anything screaming, you know, blinking graphics like from the 90s or, you know, when websites were first made. It can't just be one big long, long page. It has to look professional. I have to be able to access the products that I want right away. I need to be able to find out information right away and I need to be able to maybe read, get more information, or look at pictures of it. Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: And so for a voiceover, I listen to demos, listen to samples, maybe watch videos. And then I need to be able to do, OK, if I have questions, how am I going to get those questions answered? Is there an FAQ? Is there somebody I can contact that I can talk to? Is there a phone number, believe it or not? There are people who still like to talk on the phone, just saying. You know, I like to talk on the phone. When I need to find out information, like I literally. I bought a pair of glasses, there's a big surprise, and I needed to return them so that I could get a new pair of lenses, and I went to the website, they're like, well, we're sorry, we don't make those anymore, right? So you're gonna have to pick out new lenses, or you're gonna have to pick out new glasses, and I'm like, wait a minute, okay, now this is getting complex. So I literally was like, where's the phone number, right? So I got the phone number, I called customer service. So. Things like that, right? So for me, when I buy, what's important for you when you buy, when you go to a website? It looks professional, it's trustworthy, I feel as though I could put my credit card information in there and it wouldn't be stolen or compromised. And so you have to work on creating a business storefront on that website that is trustworthy, professional. and just easy to access and navigate. Lau Lapides: I love that word easy. Easy is the word we wanna keep in mind because as creatives, we wanna go into a lot of content, a lot of information, a lot of different directions because it's a nature of a lot of what we do, but yet the audience does not want that. The audience wants super quick, 10 second, find what I need, look it over fast, Anne Ganguzza: Or Lau Lapides: or, Anne Ganguzza: after that, if they Lau Lapides: or. Anne Ganguzza: want to find out more information, like how experienced are they? How have they been doing this a long time? Now I'm gonna ask you a lot as an agent, and for me also for casting people, a lot of times I will go to their website because it tells me a bunch about their brand. Just like when I research companies, when I'm researching companies so that I can voice their brand more effectively, I look at what is their website saying to me? What is their brand? Who is their audience? Do you, when it comes time to deciding who you might want to put on your roster, let's say, okay, you hear the commercial demo, but don't you also, if you've got, maybe you've got a similar voice, or maybe you're trying to find out if they have versatility in maybe another area, do you not continue to go through their website and or even their social media, right? I think your social media links got to be on there as well to kind of find out more about the person because before I let you speak, we always buy from people we know, like and trust. And that website is going to be the storefront of that in providing that information. Lau Lapides: Yes, I would say yes, and yes, and be Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: careful. Anything that's leading you to anything else, you've got the tentacles out there. So whatever you put on your website may lead you to other places, Anne Ganguzza: Sure. Lau Lapides: whether they're socials or articles or stories, whatever. I would just be careful. Just go through all of that. So play the role of someone who is landing on you and maybe looking at you for a job. Just put yourself Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: in their shoes and say, okay. Joe Smith, great. Let me go and investigate Joe Smith because Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: maybe I want to represent them. What are all the places that I'm led to? Anne Ganguzza: Sure. Lau Lapides: And are they good places? Are they Anne Ganguzza: Sure, Lau Lapides: not Anne Ganguzza: absolutely. Lau Lapides: good places? How do they represent you? Like, you have to be really careful about that. The panel that I was on at the conference that we just attended, one of the agents brought up, one of the casting brought up, you know, be careful of what's on your social media. Anne Ganguzza: Oh, gosh Lau Lapides: Be very Anne Ganguzza: yes. Lau Lapides: careful, Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: right? You may need a You may need, well, you can control that yourself, but you may need a reputation defender type Anne Ganguzza: Absolutely, Lau Lapides: of a service Anne Ganguzza: absolutely. Lau Lapides: to wipe out all your crap that you've done for 10 years, pay Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: him a thousand bucks or whatever it is, and clean your slate. Just like you and Anne Ganguzza: Well... Lau Lapides: I clean our closets and our, right? Clean your online Anne Ganguzza: Wait, Lau Lapides: slate, right? Anne Ganguzza: we are, look, we are celebrities, okay? I'm just saying, right? First of all, I'm manifesting, I'm manifesting. We are celebrities, right? We are Lau Lapides: Yes. Anne Ganguzza: celebrities. And how many celebrities do you know have tarnished their brand, right, by something they've said or something that's gotten out on social media, right, that wasn't appropriate, okay? And so when a brand is going to hire you, a company's going to hire you to represent them, That is of concern to them, right? They don't wanna Lau Lapides: Yes. Anne Ganguzza: be hiring people that are talking, talking badly or poorly Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: on social media or representing themselves poorly because then it's gonna represent the brand poorly. So it starts with your website, because again, if people don't know how to hire you, if they can't find you Lau Lapides: Yep. Anne Ganguzza: and they don't know, it's never going to happen. So that website is... a very, very worthwhile investment. And I'm gonna say, I wouldn't go for the cheapest website developer out there. I just wouldn't. There are some reasonably priced websites that you can, and so I guess the question to me would be, okay, is it good enough? Lau Lapides: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Anne Ganguzza: Well, okay, so for me, right, I don't know. Look at my websites. I spend the money. And I'm just saying, I'm not saying that my websites are the. well, I'm very proud of my websites. I made sure, it took me a long time to find my website designer, and I make sure that I'm refreshing, and I'm trying to update them, so that it is a professional-looking website, and I constantly get complimented on it. And I'm thinking to myself, well, I think that's wonderful, but you could have it too, right? It really comes down to Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: researching. you know, a good website designer, understanding who you are, what your brand is, what you want to put out there, right, in your storefront. And that requires a lot of work, guys. It's not a, oh, let's do this overnight. Let's get this, and let's just write a quick paragraph bio. Lau Lapides: No. Anne Ganguzza: No, this is something that really has to evolve. And like I said, if you can plan and you can start that planning sooner, I would recommend that, right? Because there's a lot of thought that goes into how you present yourself. Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: And again, I am that type, I will spend the money, I will make the investment to present myself in the very best light possible, right? I wanna be better than every other website out there because I want there to be that little something that people say, you know what, I just, I'm gonna go with her. And again, I cannot tell you how many people who have found me on my website and said, wow, you are so impressed, and they go on about, you are so impressed, and I'm thinking to myself, okay, I'm in. And you know, I've been doing this for a while, thank you. And but in my head, I'm going, okay, but they're going on about it because of the presence, right, that I project. And every one of you can project that presence and manifest that celebrity, right, on your website, because that is going to make such a statement about who you are and what kind of work you're going to be doing for that company. And of course, I am a celebrity, so I manifest it. I'm just saying, Lau Lapides: I'm all Anne Ganguzza: right? Lau Lapides: over that. Anne Ganguzza: Right, Lau Lapides: And Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: I do think there is something to you get what you pay for. Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: I think, Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: you know, but be careful in Anne Ganguzza: Yes. Lau Lapides: who you pay and who you entrust. Like you really have to look at their work, look at their portfolio, see Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: if they're someone that you want to trust with your brand and are they capable? Are they competent? Are they fast, the designer? Are they someone who's gonna stay with you? Or are they just wham bam, done, here, pay Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: me, I'm gone and you never Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: find them again? I would suggest you go with someone who, to some degree, can help you manage it, even though Anne Ganguzza: Yes, Lau Lapides: you're gonna manage Anne Ganguzza: I Lau Lapides: your Anne Ganguzza: agree. Lau Lapides: own site. You Anne Ganguzza: I agree. Lau Lapides: do need an assistant Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: manager, someone who you can connect with, who has that artist mentality and say, Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: yeah, I'm gonna be available to you for help with plugins or help with the backend Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, Lau Lapides: or Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: help with stuff that you're just not. capable or competent to do. I also wanted to make mention to any that in regards to like your different websites Be Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: be aware that if you're doing more than one website or even on your one website Don't confuse us that you're in different careers Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: different vocations So what you're talking about is all under the umbrella of your company. Anne Ganguzza: A voiceover. Lau Lapides: It all Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: works hand-in-hand It all is services that make sense to being a voiceover coach and on Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: and on. But don't tell me you're a nurse, don't tell Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: me you're a Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: landscaper, and Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, Lau Lapides: be careful Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: of talking about your bartending site. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: Because that Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: side hustles that are quiet and Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: underground and for you to have. And I see that a lot with talent actually. Sometimes on the same website, they'll be telling me something that confuses me. Like, I'm like, hmm, are they career? Is this Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: something Anne Ganguzza: Is this Lau Lapides: that Anne Ganguzza: their Lau Lapides: they're Anne Ganguzza: full Lau Lapides: serious Anne Ganguzza: time? Lau Lapides: about? Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, exactly. That's Lau Lapides: Right? Anne Ganguzza: a really wonderful point. Yeah. So you want to make it, you want to make it, you know, that this is your... professional, this is your vocation, this is what you do. Even if you're doing it part time, right? You don't necessarily have to mention that you're doing it part time, but what you showcase to the world is that you are a professional and that you can turn things around within a certain amount of time and that there is no question about that, right? So Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: if you're going to put content on your website that makes us question that, then I might go to another talent. Now, if I had to choose, right? from one talent and I like their voices and I'm like, oh, I like, I love this voice and I love this voice. What's the next thing you're gonna do? Law, look at social media, look at websites, see what they've done before, right? Do they Lau Lapides: Yep. Anne Ganguzza: have other experience that might be, especially if you don't know, right? When I don't know a product and I've never purchased from a store before, I'm looking at testimonials. I am looking at reviews. And of course, that's something that I think is super helpful to have on your website, right? Testimonials, reviews, you know, of your work, because how do I trust, right? And not just reviews on the website. Oh, I think that's a great place to start, because I think a lot of people can actually, you know, put reviews and make them up. But I certainly don't. I don't, but I'm a testimonial. I don't even know what the word is for it, but I am constantly asking for testimonials. But not just putting it on my website, but putting them in blog articles, putting them out there on social media so that they kind of just become all over the place where it becomes a good word of mouth. And also I want to back that up, right, with performance so that people are actually talking about me. And talking about me, that's probably the best, I think one of the best things. that you can do for your career is get people talking about you in a good way, of course. Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: And talking about, God, she's so talented, or I love her voice, she just executed for me and I would hire her again and again and again. And that is people talking, right? In groups and forums, you know, good word of mouth, I'm going to say word of mouth. But to get to the word of mouth, people have to know you, right? And so you have to put yourself out there. first and foremost on a website, right? And then social media, and then back that up with good performance, with reliable, solid work. And then, then after a certain amount of time, hopefully people start talking about you, right? And then that becomes one of the best referrals and best ways of getting the gig ever. Lau Lapides: I love that. I love that. I mean, as an agent, the first thing I'm going to go to Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: on your website are jobs. Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, Lau Lapides: So Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: if I see visuals, I'll always go to the visuals first. Actually, before your Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: demo, sometimes I'm a very visual person. So if I see videos, I'm going to run on the assumption those are actual jobs of some kind. I'm going to poke on one or two videos and see if they look like they're professionally produced. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: If they do, then I'm like, oh, this guy, he's selling to you. OK, all right, perfect. Then I Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: kind of listen to the demo, but I already know. He's a top pro, he's already Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: in the Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: market, on the national market, and he's Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: doing stuff. I just think that's the nature of what we do, moving fast, Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: working at a business level, and working with top notch Anne Ganguzza: And visuals. Lau Lapides: customers and clients, and visuals, yes, Anne Ganguzza: I love that you said Lau Lapides: visuals Anne Ganguzza: visuals because, Lau Lapides: are really important. Cleanliness, Anne Ganguzza: yeah, yes. Lau Lapides: space, structure. A lot of times I'll see the designer put the content in, but it looks messy. It looks... Anne Ganguzza: Mm. Lau Lapides: it looks like it's not formatted well, it looks like it's hard to read, Anne Ganguzza: Mm. Lau Lapides: the font is too small or the colors are wrong. Things like that sort of get in the way of the messaging. So Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: I think one of the more important things is, yes, visuals, but keep it clean, keep it fresh, keep it streamlined, keep it open, keep it easy to read. Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: Above the fold is good. It doesn't mean I won't scroll, I'll scroll, but keep the most important stuff. boom Anne Ganguzza: above Lau Lapides: when I Anne Ganguzza: the Lau Lapides: land Anne Ganguzza: fold. Lau Lapides: on it, it's right there. Your Toyota commercial is right there. Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm, Lau Lapides: I Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: don't have to look for it, you Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: know? Anne Ganguzza: And again, I like the, like you said, visual. I think visual is so important these days, because again, most of Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: us have less than a seven second attention span, and that Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: includes people who are looking for people to hire. And so if you can put the most important stuff above the fold, make it visual. If you just have commercial demo and it's a one, gosh, I'm a big fan of breaking up your demos into each spot and then labeling those spots with, let's say, Ford F-150, Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: powerful, motivational, that kind of thing. Hogue Hospital, compassionate, warm. So putting those descriptors on the individual spots as well, because people don't click to listen. Sometimes we're not in a spot where we can listen, although you hope that people that are hiring you are going to be listening. But sometimes visually, right? Or they'll see a video of a Ford commercial that you did. And so that alone, and then they'll click and go to the YouTube of it, right? And then maybe on your YouTube channel, you'll have a playlist of all of the work that you've completed. So that kind of just helps and lends itself to your professional credibility. And visual, visual. And Lau Lapides: Peace Anne Ganguzza: again, Lau Lapides: out. Anne Ganguzza: visual, not just in visual videos, but also visual words saying, Ford F-150. They know, oh, she does automotive, right? Or a Hogue hospital, oh, she does health care. Or, you know, I don't know, Dominion Energy. You know, oh, there's an energy spot. I'm an energy company, so I'm gonna click and listen to that spot. Or Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: fast food, right? So people can just get to what they need to quicker, and visually it's there, boom, when it shows up. And then also, you've got the media behind it. And absolutely, I'd say, put everything above the fold that's important, and yeah, make it clean. And I'm gonna say that... Oh gosh, you can think that you can do it yourself. I don't know how many people are like, well, I'm just gonna do it myself because I don't have the money. I'm gonna Lau Lapides: Right. Anne Ganguzza: do it, I'm gonna make my own website. There's a template, I can, you know, Wix has got time. First of all, I'm just gonna say, like, okay, so if you are a website designer, then I would say yes, go ahead and do it yourself. However, you know, there are people trained, and this is what we talk about all the time, like I am Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: a trained voice actor, why would you hire someone? that, you know what I mean? I've got Lau Lapides: Mm-hmm. Anne Ganguzza: the experience. I'm a Lau Lapides: Right. Anne Ganguzza: demo producer. It's what I do eight hours a day. So if you want something, you get what you pay for. If you want something awesome, pay somebody that does it. That's their job. So why do you have to do it yourself? Why? Lau Lapides: Exactly, Anne Ganguzza: I mean, Lau Lapides: exactly. Anne Ganguzza: yeah, OK, maybe you're proud. I mean, I tried to do mine myself, because I actually did websites a long time back in the day. But I know enough. to be dangerous. And I know that I may know the back end of things, but I am not a graphic designer. Lau Lapides: Great. Anne Ganguzza: So if you're not a graphic designer, please don't. Please Lau Lapides: And I Anne Ganguzza: don't. Lau Lapides: would say, Anne Ganguzza: Do Lau Lapides: I Anne Ganguzza: it. Lau Lapides: know Anne Ganguzza: I do Lau Lapides: how to Anne Ganguzza: it Lau Lapides: clean my teeth every day. I do it Anne Ganguzza: every Lau Lapides: several times a day, Anne Ganguzza: day. Lau Lapides: but I'm not a dentist. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: Do Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: you know what I mean? I know how to figure out if my heartbeat and my respiratory system is moving fast, but I'm not a doctor. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: So Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: I think understanding Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: the difference between something that's a layman and a practical Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: matter and something that's a professional and a really learned trade are Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: two Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: very Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: different things. I wanted to say too, this is a creative choice. But I see this more and more and I get a lot of questions, should I show my photo? Because gone are the days where, no, you shouldn't show your photo, don't show your photo. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: Now, a lot of times, companies wanna see who you are. They Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: wanna see what you look Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: like. And Anne Ganguzza: they Lau Lapides: they might Anne Ganguzza: do. Lau Lapides: even want to reach Anne Ganguzza: They Lau Lapides: out to Anne Ganguzza: do. Lau Lapides: you for on-camera work as well. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: So Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: if you're Anne Ganguzza: And. Lau Lapides: a voiceover interested in on-camera work, or if you do on-camera work, you really have to have the photos of yourself on Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: that website. You really are the face of your voice. Anne Ganguzza: Now, even if you're a character, that's my question. Even if you're a character, do you want to, should you show your face? Lau Lapides: Again, I think it's a creative choice. I don't Anne Ganguzza: I Lau Lapides: think Anne Ganguzza: think Lau Lapides: it's Anne Ganguzza: so Lau Lapides: a Anne Ganguzza: too. Lau Lapides: yes or no, do or don't, but I'll tell you, and this is just me, I'm getting sick of avatars. Anne Ganguzza: Me Lau Lapides: I'm Anne Ganguzza: too, Lau Lapides: getting tired Anne Ganguzza: me too. Lau Lapides: of characters Anne Ganguzza: I'm Lau Lapides: and Anne Ganguzza: getting tired of connecting Lau Lapides: those little Anne Ganguzza: with Lau Lapides: animations. Anne Ganguzza: microphones and Lau Lapides: I'm tired Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: of Anne Ganguzza: mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: it. And it's not that you shouldn't do it. You Anne Ganguzza: Mm-hmm. Lau Lapides: should do it, especially if you're an animation actor, Anne Ganguzza: But Lau Lapides: of course, Anne Ganguzza: put a picture Lau Lapides: but Anne Ganguzza: of yourself with Lau Lapides: it Anne Ganguzza: all the Lau Lapides: doesn't, Anne Ganguzza: animated characters that you Lau Lapides: yes. Anne Ganguzza: do, right? Lau Lapides: Think about all the top notch A-listers. Anne Ganguzza: Yes. Lau Lapides: You see Rob Paulson, you see Debbie Derryberry, Anne Ganguzza: Yep, Lau Lapides: you see Anne Ganguzza: yep, Lau Lapides: them as Anne Ganguzza: you see Lau Lapides: a person Anne Ganguzza: Christina Milizia, Lau Lapides: smiling, Anne Ganguzza: you see Bob Bergen, and you see Lau Lapides: right? Anne Ganguzza: them with all Lau Lapides: Warm, Anne Ganguzza: the characters they've done. Lau Lapides: coming out to you, and then Anne Ganguzza: Yep, Lau Lapides: you see all the characters they've done. Anne Ganguzza: yep, absolutely. Lau Lapides: Because their Anne Ganguzza: And they're Lau Lapides: PR, Anne Ganguzza: gonna do videos. Lau Lapides: their manager says you need to be seen. This is your name and your Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: brand. Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: So that's all I'll say, it's up to you, but that's Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: all I'll say, you know? Anne Ganguzza: I am a big believer in that, you know, that Lau Lapides: Me Anne Ganguzza: oh, I've Lau Lapides: too. Anne Ganguzza: got a face for radio kind of thing. Lau Lapides: No. Anne Ganguzza: Gone are those days. People Lau Lapides: No. Anne Ganguzza: want to connect with people, guys. Lau Lapides: Yeah. Anne Ganguzza: They just do. Lau Lapides: And the more real you are, the better. I don't think Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: they're looking for a supermodel. They're Anne Ganguzza: No, Lau Lapides: not looking Anne Ganguzza: no. Lau Lapides: for an untouchable. They're looking for someone who looks like them that's doing incredible and miraculous things. Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: That's what they're looking Anne Ganguzza: yeah, Lau Lapides: at, you know. So I think that that's fantastic. And Anne Ganguzza: yeah. Lau Lapides: so, you know, your website is you and it's changeable and it's manageable Anne Ganguzza: Yeah. Lau Lapides: and you can shift it. It's not written in stone. It's Anne Ganguzza: Yeah, Lau Lapides: a work. Anne Ganguzza: as you Lau Lapides: It's Anne Ganguzza: evolve, Lau Lapides: a work in progress. Anne Ganguzza: as you evolve, your website evolves. So guys, bosses, get that website. And really, it is an important, really start thinking about it. It is an important part of your business, super important part of your business. So, Law, thank you again for an amazing discussion. I could Lau Lapides: incredible. Anne Ganguzza: go on and on and on about websites. But we do want to let you guys listen to our next episode. We're going to have you consume all of our episodes. And so I am going to ask you, bosses, if you have a local nonprofit that's close to your heart, do you ever wish that you could do more to help them? Well, you certainly can. Visit 100VoicesWhoCare.org to learn how. And big shout out to our sponsor, IPDTL. We love them, IPDTL. You too can connect and network like bosses. Find out more at IPDTL.com. Law, I love you. Lau Lapides: I love Anne Ganguzza: That's Lau Lapides: you Anne Ganguzza: it. Lau Lapides: too. Anne Ganguzza: That's Lau Lapides: I Anne Ganguzza: all, Lau Lapides: love Anne Ganguzza: bosses. Lau Lapides: everything about you. Anne Ganguzza: And bosses, we love you too. So we hope you'll join us next week and you guys have an amazing week We'll talk to you soon. Lau Lapides: Talk Anne Ganguzza: Bye Lau Lapides: to you soon.

Listen: Sermon Audio “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.” … Continue reading →

Folks, this is a big one. I've had a delightful conversation with Bob Bergen about the industry, his work in animation, and using social media to your advantage, and why it can be detrimental to your career. I really enjoyed recording this episode, and there's a ton of insightful info to get started in the business. Thank you so much Bob for taking the time to answer these questions!

My guest today is Vanessa Richardson. Vanessa is an Award Winning VoiceActor, Improvisational Actor & Producer with over 20 years experience.She is bilingual in Spanish and English (Born in Colombia, South America,Raised in the US). Vanessa is a full-time podcast host for several differentshows on Parcast/Spotify and has been doing that for several years now. Imet Vanessa in 2012 in NYC at a weekend animation intensive workshophosted by Bob Bergen! She was still living on the East coast at that point.Vanessa is so talented! She will be appearing at MAVO2023 in November as a guest speaker and you won't want to miss any of her sessions!! I hope you enjoy this fun episode and be sure to tune in next week for Part 2! For more info about Vanessa Richardson, visit her website at: https://vanessarichardsonvo.com/ or follow her on Instagram @vr_voice , on Twitter @vrvoice or on TikTok @voxymamanessaFor more info on Val Kelly, visit her website at https://www.valkellyvoiceover.com or her company website at https://www.midatlanticvo.comYou can also follow Val on Instagram @squackyvoice @Midatlanticvo and @livewithsquacky "Live with Squacky" was mixed and mastered by everybody's favorite VO tech, Uncle Roy Yokelson of "Antland Productions.""Live with Squacky" is sponsored in part by Mid-Atlantic Voiceover, LLC and "Antland Productions." For more info about the upcoming MAVO2023 "Get Inspired" Conference taking place on November 10-12, 2023, please visit our website at http://www.midatlanticvo.comTo register for MAVO2023 today and get $125 off your General admission ticket, enter Promo code JULY125 at the TOP of check out on Eventbrite! Here's the direct link to that: MAVO2023 - "Get Inspired" Voiceover Conference November 10-12, 2023 Tickets, Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 8:00 AM | EventbriteBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

Listen: “The Parable of the Sower” “Then He told them many things in parables, saying, ‘Consider the sower who went out to sow.’ ” (Matthew 13:3). Visit the Big Creek EPC sermon archives.

Guest host Connie Willis and voice over artist Bob Bergen discuss his long career voicing famous cartoon characters like Porky Pig, how Casey Kasem helped him break into the voice acting industry, and how he uses improvisation to give authentic performances.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Jake and Chris on Jake's Happy Nostalgia Show as they speak with legendary voiceover artist Bob Bergen. Known for his iconic roles as Porky Pig and Tweety in the Looney Tunes franchise, Bob shares his experiences in the world of voice acting. They discuss his memorable encounters with voice acting legends like Daws Butler and Mel Blanc, his roles in other beloved animated series including Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series and The Emperor's New Groove and even an appearance on Wheel of Fortune as a teenager. Don't miss this conversation filled with animation stories and cherished nostalgia.

JOIN US as we take a look at some more Porky Pig shorts, with VERY SPECIAL GUEST BOB BERGEN! We see as Porky and Daffy try to handle a influx of babies in 'Baby Bottleneck' Porky trying not to get killed by the creature known as Bluebeard in 'Bye Bye Bluebeard' AND WE CONCLUDE with the winner of our Porky Short VOTED BY YOU THE LISTENER as Porky tries to paint a nice painting but Daffy gets in the way with 'Boobs In The Woods' LINKS: Support the show on Patreon!: patreon.com/TNQAF Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/that_looney Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tnqaf/ https://twitter.com/BobBergen Follow Bob on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bergen.bob/

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You've heard his voice in projects like Johnny Bravo, Monsters, Inc., The Emperor's New Groove, Toy Story 2, Animaniacs, Tiny Toon Adventures, and so much more. But he's best known for voicing several Looney Tunes characters over the years, most notably Porky Pig! We welcome voiceover actor and coach Bob Bergen this week to discuss his interest in voicing Porky Pig since the age of 5, his experiences meeting Mel Blanc, achieving him life long dream of voicing Porky Pig, the voiceover coaching offered on his website, and so much more. A great episode you won't want to miss! For anyone who's looking to become a voice actor, don't miss the 2nd Annual VO Cruise! Join Bob Bergen himself along with casting director and coach, Mary Lynn Wissner of Voices Voicecasting for a 10-day Mexican Riviera cruise on Crown Princess round trip from San Francisco, January 23, 2024 - February 2, 2024. If interested, or if you have any questions, e-mail Marian@MarianMassaro.com who will direct you to our Princess travel agent. You can also follow the link below for more details. Hurry though, there's only room for 40 students and spots are filling quickly! 2nd Annual VO Cruise Info: https://www.bobbergen.com/Cruise/VO_Cruise_2024.pdf @Bergen.Bob BobBergen.com CannedAirPodcast.com Twitter: @CannedAirPod Instagram: @Canned_Air If you'd like to show your support, you can either visit our Patreon page at Patreon.com/CannedAirPod or you can leave us a review on iTunes! Thanks for listening!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brent, Nate, and Kate hop on a dragon's back and fly into May's new theme (AniMAYtion) with the 2001 animated classic Spirited Away starring: Daveigh Chase as Chihiro/Sen, Suzanne Pleshette as Yubaba/Zeniba, Jason Marsden as Haku, Susan Egan as Lin, David Ogden Stiers as Kamaji, Lauren Holly as Chihiro's Mother, Michael Chiklis as Chihiro's Father, John Ratzenberger as Assistant Manager, Tara Strong as Boh, and Bob Bergen as No-Face.Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, produced by Studio Ghibli, and distributed by Toho. It tells the story of a young girl named Chihiro Ogino who, while moving to a new town with her parents, stumbles upon a mysterious world of spirits and demons.The film begins with Chihiro and her family getting lost on their way to their new home. They eventually come across what appears to be an abandoned amusement park and decide to explore it. As they begin to eat the food left out at one of the stalls, Chihiro's parents are transformed into pigs, and she finds herself trapped in a world of spirits.She is taken in by a young boy named Haku, who advises her to ask for work from Yubaba, the witch who rules over the spirits. Yubaba agrees to employ her but takes away her name, renaming her Sen. She is put to work at a bathhouse for spirits and is given a difficult task by Yubaba: to identify and serve a stink spirit that has entered the bathhouse.As Chihiro works at the bathhouse, she learns about the many spirits and creatures that inhabit the spirit world, as well as the rules and customs that govern them. She also discovers that Haku is a dragon who is under Yubaba's control, and that she must help him break free from her spell.Throughout the film, Chihiro faces many challenges and obstacles as she tries to find a way back to the human world. She is helped by a variety of characters, including a friendly spirit named No-Face and a river spirit that she rescues from pollution.As she navigates the spirit world and learns more about herself and the people around her, Chihiro ultimately finds the courage to confront Yubaba and demand her name back. With the help of her friends and the knowledge she has gained, she is able to break the spell on Haku and return to the human world, where she is reunited with her parents.Spirited Away was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who also wrote the screenplay and designed the characters. It was produced by Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio in Japan. The film features music by Joe Hisaishi and animation by a team of talented animators, including Masashi Ando, Katsuya Kondō, and Yoshifumi Kondō.The film was released in Japan in 2001 and became a critical and commercial success, grossing over $347 million worldwide. It won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, and has since become a beloved classic of Japanese animation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the first episode of Season 4 & Flynn is celebrating by bringing you his chat with his friend & legendary voice actor Bob Bergen. You'll know Bob as the voice of Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Lama Su & so many more. Bob took the time last summer to chat with Flynn & now it's your chance to sit back, enjoy the chat and learn from the knowledge Bob has to share! Enjoy this chat...I KNOW YOU HEAR ME!Keep up with Bobhttps://www.bobbergen.com/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0074036/https://www.instagram.com/bergen.bob/?hl=enhttps://twitter.com/BobBergen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorAppearances - I'm available for appearances, bookings & performances, emceeing events, officiating weddings. You name it, I can do it! Contact me at theflynnhendrix@gmail.com & then go to Linktr.ee/theflynnhendrix - this has links to the podcast on all platforms, & my social media. Give me a follow & let's get connected!Advertising - If you'd like to advertise on this podcast, or with Flynn Hendrix Enterprises to reach our worldwide audience, email me at theflynnhendrix@gmail.com and let's get your products and services out there! Use the word “ADVERTISING” in the subject line.DecalsbyKyns - Make sure you're checking out my wife's Etsy shop for all your decals, vinyl & monogramming needs! Head over to https://www.etsy.com/shop/DecalsbyKyns and use the promo code “FLYNN” for 10% off! I KNOW YOU HEAR ME!If you like what I'm doing with the podcast and want to support there are a few ways you can:1. Leave a 5 Star review & share the podcast with your friends, family & anyone that'll listen!2. Coaching, Appearances - Email me at theflynnhendrix@gmail.com for more information on coaching & appearances.3. Merchandise - For shirts, collectibles, & more go to linktr.ee/theflynnhendrix or email me to get what you need!4. Check out my Rakuten link and save yourself some $$$ on everyday purchases! Plus it helps support the podcast! - https://www.rakuten.com/r/CDF630* A portion of all merchandise sales & donations will be donated to either the Nashville Humane Society, or St. Jude's Research. So please feel free to buy some merch, or make donations to support these causes & this podcast via PayPal (theflynnhendrix@gmail.com), Cashapp ($Dyron89) or Venmo (@Christopher-Flynn-38).** This podcast was produced in the Flynn Hendrix Enterprises Studios in Nashville, TN.** Become a member of the I Know You Hear Me Nation at https://plus.acast.com/s/i-know-you-hear-me-with-flynn-hendrix. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen: Isaiah 26 “On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah:We have a strong city;He sets up walls and ramparts for security.Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter,The one that remains faithful.” Visit the Big Creek EPC sermon archives.

What gets you through the hard days? Purpose. It's what keeps you going when things are tough and when life seems overwhelming. Purpose is your why. Your VO biz is not just a job, it's an expression of who you are and what matters most to you. This week, Anne & Lau talk about what purpose is, why it matters (and why it doesn't have to be all about profits), + how you can identify your business' purpose. They also discuss ways to make sure that your clients, agents, and peers can feel your passion in your presence + hear it in your voice. Finally, they talk about how clear communication of your purpose can help align you with other people who share similar visions and goals. Transcript >> It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza. Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast and the business superpower series. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza. And today I'm excited to bring back very special guest co-host Lau Lapides. Hey Lau, how are you? Lau: Hey! I'm awesome. I'm loving being back as always. Anne: I love this series, speaking of the business superpower series. So as business owners, we are superpowers, and one of our superpowers, Lau, has to be our purpose, right? Why did we get into this whole voiceover thing in the first place? And I think it's really important for us to understand what our purpose is and bring it to our business. I've been in this business for a long time, and sometimes that gets thrown by the wayside during the busy days. And sometimes we can maybe forget what our purpose is in the business, but I think we need to realign ourselves with who we are and who we are as a business and what is our purpose. Because people and potential clients align with that. And I think it's important these days. Lau: Yes, well said, Anne. We were just saying before that we start out with purpose when we're starting a business, but the purpose may change. It doesn't always stay the same through the years. If you're have luck and fate and love and passion, and you have a lot of longevity in your business, you become more and more purposeful and more and more subdivided in the reenvisioning and repurposing your purpose. And that, you know, that's something that all of our superheroes that we know and love have in common. They all have purpose. It's like to save the world, right, from certain destruction. Anne: Right. Lau: One of my purposes is to offer the world something specific that helps solve their pain point. What's their problem? What's their need? What is it? Anne: Exactly, what's their problem. And I'm going to say that it's important these days to have purpose beyond profit, right? There should be some element of your purpose that not only are you in business to make money, but you are also wanting to bring value to society or value to a cause that you might believe in, and something that I think your potential clients can hear clearly stemming from your business and get on board with, because I think you'll really end up with a lot of customer loyalty if you get people on board with your purpose. So it's not just to, I wanna voice a national commercial. I know that when we first start in the industry, we start with something very close to us. Well, it's a passion, you know, a lot of people getting into it. I love to create character voices, or I read to my children a lot. And so -- I've been told I have a good voice. And so I wanna be able to bring something to my career with my voice. I wanna be able to use it. So I think we need to look further and deeper into ourselves beyond that sole purpose of, yes, I'm passionate about voicing, but what else is it that you wanna bring to, let's say your business, to society that can help to, I think, elevate you and motivate you forward? And especially as you said over the years, like we kind of conquer and divide or divide and conquer and, and create more aspects of our business. And yeah, sometimes we start to really lose where that purpose -- where did that go? What am I doing this for? Lau: Hmm, yes. It's like losing an inner compass for a lot of us that start out extremely strong. I think it would be fair to say as a sweeping generalization, that many entrepreneurs, many solopreneurs start out with a high level of zest, of passion, of what used to be inserts that none of us ever knew; that was the Retzin. Like what's the Retzin in our purpose? So you gotta have that because that passion, that purpose really inspires you through the difficult days, through the tough times. You're right. It can't just be profit driven because there are gonna be many days where you're simply not gonna make a profit. And it's unrealistic to think that it's my business -- yeah, my business should be making profit all the time. I actually thought that at one point. Anne: News flash! News flash. . You may not make a profit every day. Lau: It sounds ridiculous. But it's like one of my actors, literally, literally this morning, I was talking to her and she said, I'm concerned -- she had switched agencies. And she said, I'm very concerned. I said, why are you concerned? She said, I'm not getting that many auditions. I'm getting like, whatever a week. I said, well, wait a second here. First of all, you have to examine -- I use the word intention, but purpose is great, fits right in right here -- like, what do you realistically want here? And what is your purpose in doing this? Surely it can't be that you're gonna get auditions all day long and book gigs all day long. Anne: Right. Lau: And make a profit all day long. Right? A lot of people actually do think that way. They think, well, I'm here. I'm talented. I love what I do. I'm ready. so why aren't I getting the outcomes that I'm expecting? Well, life isn't like that and business isn't like that. Business is really about relational management. How are you paying attention to the details of the client and what is their purpose and identifying it, like determining do they have purpose? And is it specific enough? Anne: Yeah. And I think that purpose probably starts when people get into the voice industry. I have so many people that I do consults with and there are people like, well, you know what, it's the pandemic, I'm at home. And I wanna be able to work from home and make money. I need to make money. And I'm like, well, okay. So that purpose is not as developed as somebody that I would necessarily wanna work with. So because their whole purpose is to simply survive probably or make money. And that's not necessarily the best purpose to come into the voiceover industry just simply because it's freelancer, and, and yeah, news flash we don't make profits every single day or maybe we do. But in order to get to that point of making a profit every single day, I think there's a lot more steps that need to be taken in terms of evolving your business and growing your business. But in the beginning, it's almost like a self-centered, I have a passion for voiceover. I enjoy it. I'm passionate about it, but I think it needs to go further than that. So it's a passion for you that you love to do, but what can it bring to your business? What can it bring to your potential clients? So for me, for example, some of my background, I worked for a short bit of time in orthopedic industry and in medicine. And so my voiceover genres have evolved into medical narration. And so I really take heart in wanting to voice something that will help people. And so my purpose, when I'm reading the back of that pharmaceutical label, it's not so that I can make money. It's my gig. I'm making, you know, $1000 or whatever I'm making. I'm imagining that I am helping someone who is frantically reading that label to make sure that they're taking the right dosage and to make sure that they're not gonna have crazy side effects and what to do in case they are, and where do they contact? What number do I call? And so I'm really thinking about that purpose, going beyond just me getting paid for the job. I wanna make sure that I'm able to bring my voice and my help and my service to people, to society. And that is just one small example. It's another reason also why I do eLearning gigs, because I feel that my purpose in life is to educate and to be -- I feel like that's really where my sole purpose is, is to really educate and bring education to other people, to help them grow their businesses or grow their voice over careers. And so for me, that love of teaching extends to my business, to my client. And so I take pride in the fact that there's purpose in that. There's purpose in this podcast. You know, this podcast stemmed from my wanting to give back to the community and have an educational resource for people that wanted to find out more about the voiceover industry. Lau: Mm that's great. I love that. What a great soliloquy and you know what? I just had a visual, speaking of branding and everything we talk about with business, I had a visual of like cleaner, like Windex cleaner or one of those cleaners. Why? Because on the front label, you almost always see the word multipurpose, on the front label. Okay, so that's the claim that they're making is that I can use it on my stove and my sink and I can use it on the windows. Right? It makes me think we need to have multipurpose as well. I think its a misnomer to think well, I just have one purpose. What's my purpose? Anne: Yeah. Lau: We're multidimensional human beings. And I can have the purpose that I honestly wanna help someone. I wanna guide them. I wanna sherpa them, if you will, but I also want them to create a viable return based business. And then I also want to lift the ethos of the company or what have you. So it's a multidimensional, multi-purpose framework that I think we can create versus this idea of, oh, I just have one thing in mind. Anne: Yeah. Yeah. Well, and I was thinking about this this past week and I wanted to tell you, Lau, the one thing that I love about you, I honestly feel and I get the vibe that you are more excited even than I am to get work for me as an, as an agent. I really feel that because you reach out and you're asking me questions and then I can feel and hear the excitement. You're like, oh, I've got an opportunity. And I really believe that you get so excited about bringing opportunities and bringing job fulfillment to your roster. But I think it's more than just job fulfillment. It's about helping us to grow. And I really feel that from you. And so it's like practice what we're talking about, that makes me want to align with you even more. And so it really does my heart good to feel that from someone that I'm working with, because that makes me wanna work with you more. And I really believe that if we have a purpose that is to serve our clients, right, in the very best way, that's gonna be very obvious to them that that is what we are there. We are there to help them, to help them grow, to help them sell that campaign, whatever it is. If you are admitting that through your job, through your voice, through your interactions with them, it's very much a feel and something that makes them want to work with you again. Lau: Oh, thank you for saying that. Anne: Yeah. Lau: I deeply appreciate that. And it's all true. Anne: It's true. It's very true. Lau: And I feel like you can feel that from an email, you can feel that from a text, at least I can and you can. Anne: Yeah. Lau: I can feel the level of connectivity. Anne: In three words. 'Cause you're busy, and you send me three words and I'm like, oh God, she's excited. She's gonna get me an opportunity. I can tell -- Lau: That's right, that's right. Anne: -- from that short sentence and it's so amazing that you can do that. And it's like a magnet. And I think that that is something that we all can learn for our own selves in understanding our purpose and understanding us wanting to be more than just the profit making business. that's out there doing voiceovers. Lau: I would venture to say purpose is addictive. It's addictive. It's catchy. It's something when you're around, it influences you. You know, we talked about influencers all the time, but how do we influence our peeps, your VO Peeps and our audiences to move in a purposeful, mindful, specific and honest way is how we demo what we do, how we role play, what we do. It's hard to tell, but, but you guys should do this and you should do that. And then, then they don't see it in you. They're watching, they're mirroring psychologically. They're saying, Anne, I wanna see that in you. And when I see that in you, all of a sudden, I feel like I wanna do more. I feel like I wanna commit more. In fact, I wanna try, I wanna take more risks. Anne: It's motivational. It's inspirational. And again, if I go back to this podcast, I specifically remember, gosh, the podcast is now I'm gonna say close to six years old. Lau: Woo! Anne: That's a commitment by the way. This podcast is, is a free resource for people, my heart wanting to give something back to the community. And interestingly enough, I feel like for myself, when I got to a point in my career where I was not so frantic, but about, oh my God, am I going to make it? Am I going to be okay? And I started to feel the success, I wanted to share that and give back. And that became the sole mission of the VO BOSS podcast was to give back and to provide an educational resource. And even more so like these series, the superpower series, my AI series, you know, that's something that, again, I wanted to be kind of up front and educate myself and help educate the community on what's coming up in the industry. And what do we need to be on the lookout for? And that all comes from a place of wanting to help and wanting to provide resources so that people can use those resources to intelligently make decisions about their own businesses. And hopefully people that listen to the podcast feel that. And they, they can feel that from me as I continue to bring phenomenal guests like yourself onto the show so that we can help to be a resource. Lau: No doubt. No doubt. I do agree with you. I think even if you're not thinking in a philanthropic mindset, there is this essence, this circular, however you believe, a karmic essence, a circular that what you put out into the world -- and I teach this to my children and I try very hard to live it -- is put out exactly what you would want to get back. If it were a boomerang and I said this to someone, I did this to or for someone, would I want that for myself? Anne: Yeah. Lau: That old do unto others. But it really is true because there is a circular effect in our industry of what I'm putting out. And sometimes it's not profit driven, as we know. And sometimes we don't get paid as we know. There's always this karma effect of wonderful things that come back to you, and it could be in the form of just like a quick one liner. Someone says you change the way I think. You change the trajectory of maybe my life and you think, whoa, I love paychecks, but no paycheck can make me feel that way. Anne: It reminds me exactly why I loved education. And that's why I was in the education industry for 20 years. The fact that I had an opportunity to make a difference. And the funny thing is, is that it wasn't even about like, was I a good teacher? It was the fact that I had the opportunity to help and shape and hopefully motivate, hopefully inspire a mind that can grow and be successful, and I can be happy. And there is nothing, nothing better than that feeling of watching a student of yours go on to be successful. And I I'm gonna say I'm so, I'm so blessed, I really am, to have experienced that for so long and continue to experience. And I, I think that's why I think I was born to be an educator, which is why so much of my business is about education. Now, of course it's about voiceover as well. But like you said, there can be multiple purposes. So is there just one purpose? No, not necessarily. Right? I have that purpose of, I wanna be that voice that helps people when they're reading the back of the pharmaceutical label. I wanna be a voice that can educate others through an e-learning module. I also want to actually have something that can, you know, like my podcast or my VO Peeps group that can help the education. And again, VO Peeps was also stemmed from that same reasoning when I moved from the east coast to the west coast, I wanted to meet people who were in the industry. And I thought, well, what better way than let's create a group of people who are voiceover artists and VO Peeps began. And then I wanted to provide resources because I missed teaching. So it's funny because of course I love voiceover, but it turned into like multiple compartments of my business. And I think that anybody today in the voiceover industry, I don't know if I'd be so bold just to say this, but I think there are times as we grow, we do need to have multiple paths of income, right, in this industry. So I might not just be doing voiceover for all of my money. A lot of people it's just starting out have to have a part-time job or multiple revenue streams until they get to a point where voiceover becomes their full-time income. And that's where your purposes come in. Lau: Absolutely, Anne. I mean, that's, to me, it's a given, to you it's a given, but we do have to educate people that that is the nature of being a contractor. That is the nature of being a trades person, that you are going from job to job. And you kind of have to remember that throughout your life, but also it's okay. Like give yourself permission that whatever you call yourself, you're a creative, you're an artist. You are, whatever you call that thing in you that drives you, that gives you purpose also multitasks in different creative directions that you have to realize. A lot of times you can't be satisfied in just one direction. You have to be multi-directional -- Anne: Ding ding ding! Lau: -- multi-purposeful, right, to feel like -- Anne: Ding ding ding! Lau: -- yeah, excited and revived, a little splash in the face, 'cause you got a new project. I'm taking on a few new things right now that scare me to death, which I love. Because I haven't done them before. You do that throughout your whole life. Anne: I think as creatives, right, that's part of the whole creative mindset, is that I've always said I can't be bored, which is probably why I love to learn. Right? It's probably why I loved technology. I was in technology 'cause things change, things evolve. I liked fixing things. I was in technology. I would fix broken computers, all of those things that required me to do different creative things every single day. And thus, yes, I think as a creative entrepreneur, that's why multiple purposes can be beneficial. And for me it's so much about what can I give, and even in our performances, I'm always telling my students, it's not about your voice. It's about your connection to your listener, and what is it that you're going to do for your listener as you are servicing that piece of copy, right, for a company that's selling a product? What is that product going to do for the person that's listening? How is it going to help them? And that is where the glue is. That's where the connection is. That's where sales become successful. When you are able to help people, right, with a product that will make them feel better, look better, whatever, help them in some way. And that's what becomes the attraction, that force. Right? Lau: So, Anne, would it be fair to say that no matter where you're at in this game, that you've gotta think multi-purposeful and multidimensional that, on one hand, okay. It's a truism, I'd like to work. I'd like to be trained well. I'd like to have great equipment. Okay. We get that. But what is the higher purpose? What is the more multidimensional purpose of how -- let's say you're doing educational reads, eLearning -- how am I affecting a generation of middle schoolers as I do do this? Anne: Sure. Lau: How is my messaging? My voice, but my messaging here really taking effect? And is that an honest purpose that I have? Anne: Sure. And it can go beyond just the purpose of the effect of your voice having on let's say certain campaigns or people, but it can go on to say, well maybe I decide to take a percentage of my earnings. And I donate it or whatever that is. Or as part of my day to day business, I have a certain set amount of time where I mentor people, and it doesn't even have to be in voiceover. It could be in any sort of thing. Right? So a lot of companies have that philanthropic part to their business, because again, it's that what is a higher purpose for your company, for your business? And it's funny because a lot of people will relate it to like the creative aspect of it. What is my purpose? But in reality, defining your purpose in your business, right, it goes beyond just what is my purpose? But how does this purpose affect your business? And how is it that you are communicating that purpose? Is it clear? Do potential clients understand this about you and your brand? How are you communicating that purpose out to the world? Lau: And is it in alignment with the population or the clients that you're working with or out of you? Or are you out of alignment? I think identifying that and being honest about that -- sometimes you're just not in alignment with the people that you're working with or clients that you're working with. And then it's not a good thing that. Anne: Yeah, usually that doesn't end up working out. Lau: Yeah. I mean, you might have an organization that's highly philanthropic, and they want you to have an honest connection to the work you're doing. And you're coming in and saying, well, it's good gig. I'll add it to my resume. I'll get some money on it. It'll be good. People will hear my voice, but their vision is a lot deeper than that. And they need a lot more emotional commitment. Anne: Yeah, absolutely. Lau: You have to kind of be honest about that and say, is this a good fit? Are we spiritually aligned? Sometimes you have to think that way. Because sometimes you're not. Anne: Yeah. Lau: And we can hear that. Like we get that. We can hear that. Anne: Absolutely. Lau: I can hear that in a demo even. I can hear it demo when someone is just not aligned, not present. They're not aligned. They're not present, they're doing it. And it's more of a perfunctory exercise than having joy. Some of my closer friends in the industry talk a lot about having honest, happiness and joy in what you're doing. Anne: Yeah, absolutely. Lau: And I think that's okay to have. It doesn't have to be this heavy, serious thing all the time. Anne: Right, right. Lau: There's okay to have humor. It's okay. To have joy. It's okay. To have that level of cookiness and quirkiness 'cause you're creative. That's what creatives do. Anne: Yeah, yeah. Lau: Right? We get paid to be quirky. Anne: Yes. There you go. Lau: In a way, you know what I mean? Like, oh, I shouldn't do this. I shouldn't sound that I shouldn't. Well, but sometimes you get hired for that stuff. Sometimes you have long term relationships 'cause they know how quirky you are. Right? And we're both quirky. Anne: Yeah, absolutely. Lau: And sometimes that becomes kind of part of the purpose is like one of my purposes is I'm gonna stay true to my persona and my personality while I service the client in the most honest way that I can, but I don't wanna lose myself. In other words, I don't wanna lose my identity. I don't wanna lose who I am. That's a toughie. Anne: Sure. Yeah. A lot of times when we think about, okay, do you align with certain ideals? Right? Do you align with diversity, inclusivity in casting? That's a big one today, right, that all around in corporations, it's all about inclusion, diversity and that sort of thing. So is that something that you align with in casting? Are you willing to pass on opportunities if you feel that it's not the right job for you. Are you gonna pass on an audition or are you gonna recommend somebody that you feel would be better? So that goes beyond, well, I'm gonna do every single job, and it's not just about like the political genre, right? Because the political genre, that's very obvious. Right? So are you on one side or the other? And so this really just goes beyond just a political genre kind of thing in terms of like your purpose and aligning yourself with ideals and making them known to your client. It's about everything that you do. It's about how you communicate it to your client. It's embedded in your performance. That's what I love that you, you brought that back into the performance aspect. We can hear it if you are not aligned in that way. And so I think for the BOSSes out there, if you haven't sat down and just, in a quiet area and just thought about your purpose, maybe jot it down or your purposes, right, what is it that you really are trying to do with your business that can be more than just creating profit? Lau: Yes. I'll leave you on this note. My dad who recently passed away, not too long ago, he was a great businessman, great entrepreneur. And he would give me loads of wisdom, loads of gems of wisdom. And one of the ones I will never forget, way before I even started a business, he would say about starting businesses, he'd say you need to do what your plan is, what your plan of action is, do it for free, and do it for a long time to make sure that you wanna do it because once you start a business on it, don't expect to make money for a good five to seven years. Anne: Yeah. Lau: Right? And the Eastern philosophy is like 10 years. Like don't expect to really make a profit. Okay. So I always kept that in the back of my head. Don't mistake that for devaluing what you do. Oh, I'm only gonna do it for free and work for free. It's to say like, if you take that as an example, don't take it too literally. Take that as an example and say for a period of time, whether it's philanthropic or whether it's just for my own sense of knowing what my purpose is, I'm not gonna collect money on this. And these situations are appropriate for me not to collect money on this, and see how I feel about the work that I'm doing. Am I really willing to put in X amount of hours without billing X amount of hours? I found that very telling, and certainly actors who come from actor backgrounds spend years not getting paid or getting paid very low wages, and still do it, still wanna do it, still wanna continue it. Anne: And that's so interesting because if you've ever read any of Bob Bergen's posts, he's all about, I didn't start doing it for the money, and he had a purpose. Lau: Right, right. Anne: And so he's very adamant about that to the point where I think some people kind of look at him and go, okay, okay. Okay. But I've gotta, you know, pay the mortgage. Lau: Exactly. Anne: That kind of a thing, but it's the thought, right? So this is -- Lau: It's the thought. Anne: -- purpose driven beyond profit, but it doesn't mean that if you're a good business, you cannot create wealth, right? Not just, you cannot make money, wealth in so many ways, right, is that you are contributing to society in a positive manner, as well as making money doing it. And so therein lies the question. So what is my purpose? And have I stayed true to that? Or my purposes, right? And have I stayed true to that? Lau: Yes. To piggyback onto what you just said, one testament to that may be that you are working, you are having a viable business -- take on some charity projects, take on some philanthropic, take on some projects where you're mentoring or maybe you are doing something for visually impaired or what have you so that you can balance it out in your heart and your soul and say, not everything is a paycheck, not everything is an invoice, not everything is how much I can get -- but really get you off that just for a moment to say, oh, this may be another purpose for me that is a slightly higher purpose at times. Anne: Right. Right. Lau: That can feed me in a way that the other jobs may not be able to feed me. Anne: Sure. Sure. Lau: And kind of balance it that way versus all or nothing. I either work for free or I work for as much as I can get. Anne: Or if it is for a profit redistributing that, right, maybe giving back in some other way. Right? Lau: Exactly. Exactly. Anne: So sharing the wealth, so to speak. But yeah, what a great conversation. Lau: What a great conversation. Anne: I really had some time to think about it. I really enjoyed writing that blog article. It just really led me to think about, what am I here today doing, and how did I start off, and how have I evolved over the years? And I can say, I'm grateful that I'm still true to my original purpose and also my evolved purposes. So I feel like I'm staying on track. It's something that I, I don't take for granted either. So I think we should all take some time and to kind of check deep within and see if we have that purpose and if we're following that purpose. Lau: I love it. And now we can all be like the cleaners. Like we can all be like Windex and 409 and say we're multi-purpose. Anne: Multi-purpose. Lau: We're gonna clean up. But we're multi-purpose. Anne: I love it. All right. Wow. Great stuff. Lau: Good stuff. Anne: Great stuff. So I'm going to give a great big shout-out to my sponsor, 100voiceswhocare.org. If you wanna find out how you can make a difference, and this can be part of your purpose, go to 100voiceswhocare.org and find out ways that you can give back. Also big shout-out to sponsor ipDTL. I love, love, love ipDTL and networking with BOSSes like Lau. Find out more at ipdtl.com. You guys, have an amazing week, and we'll see you next week. Bye. >> Join us next week for another edition of VO BOSS with your host Anne Ganguzza. And take your business to the next level. 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En este episodio conversamos sobre "The Iron Giant" (El Gigante de Hierro) de Brad Bird.

John and Bob Bergen chat and crack up with Glenn Scarpelli, 'Alex" from the family sitcom "One Day at a Time"! Glenn talks about joining the cast of "One Day at a Time" after Mackenzie Phillips was fired over drug abuse, followed by his special friendship with her as well as Bonnie Franklin and Pat Harrington. Glenn also discusses how Valerie Bertinelli got him his audition for "One Day at a Time", his time working with Al Pacino, Anne Bancroft, Ethel Merman and Van Johnson and so much more! Enjoy this deeply personal and uplifting interview! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-cato/support

Too much for just one episode, Little House on the Prairie , Alison Arngrim "Nellie Oleson" continues to answer the fan questions in (Part 2) of the interview with John Cato and Bob Bergen! Alison is hilarious as she chats about her most memorable scenes, her own speech impediment, her fear of horses and her immense knowledge of the real Laura Ingalls and her family. Enjoy and thank you so much Alison!!! Subscribe for free to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtpVKzLW389x6_nIVHpQcA?sub_confirmation=1 www.YOUTUBE.com/thatsclassictv Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-classic/id1533742435 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4mye7taOcWtcasDgwQqxnf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1533742435/thats-classic Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZmIxYzZiYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Anchor: https://anchor.fm/john-cato Hosted by John Cato, actor, voiceover artist, and moderator for over 20 years for the television and movie industry. John's background brings a unique insight and passion to the podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-cato/support

Host Anthony Corona takes questions from the audience and talks with Actor Bob Bergen after a live listen of Episode 28 of Carcerem. This weeks Carcerem Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/another/id1529006138?i=1000515940792 www.CarceremTheSeries.Com Sunday Edition with Anthony on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acb-sunday-edition/id1531822445 ACB Media: https://onlineradiobox.com/us/acbmedia3treasuretrove/?cs=us.acbmedia3treasuretrove&played=1 Wednesday at 6PT / 9pm EDT ACB Donation page: https://acb.org/donate For updates and weekly links to be able to participate in the live show,  Join the ACB mailing list by emailing Community@acb.org And follow @CarceremtheSeries on all social media platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike and Jesse discuss the 1984 sci-fi horror anime Lily C.A.T. starring Mike Reynolds, Bob Bergen, Julie Madalena and Gregory Snegoff.   Leave us a message at https://speakpipe.com/cdfpod Get your CDFPod merch at https://cdfpodmerch.com Our theme music was composed by CollinDomo AKA Chunky Krill. Find more of his work at soundcloud.com/chunky-krill Facebook: facebook.com/cdfpod Instagram: instagram.com/cdfpod/

One of the greatest voice actors of our lifetime, with 3 Emmy nominations to corroborate my statement - Bob Bergen the legend himself, voice of iconic Looney Tunes characters like Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and Marvin the Martian, as well as hundreds of other characters joins us on the podcast for one of the most educational episodes yet. Bob is by far the most influential educator when it comes to learning about voice over and he bestows some of that wisdom on us with no purchase necessary. https://BobBergen.com https://twitter.com/bobbergen https://www.instagram.com/bergen.bob Support from our Sponsors: -------------------------------------------------- * For 10% off VOICE STRAW visit the link below! * https://voicestraw.com/discount/POX10?ref=c33e2x1zok * FREE SHIPPING on all TURTLE BEACH / NEAT MICROPHONE orders * https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100595441-14299609 * FREE SHIPPING on all ROCCAT orders * https://www.dpbolvw.net/click-100595441-14525775 * For 15% OFF your subscription to Voice123 visit: * https://www.Voice123.com/plans/pox * For 10% off RIVERSIDE.FM SUBSCRIPTION visit the link below! * https://riverside.fm/?utm_campaign=campaign_1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=rewardful&via=Pox -------------------------------------------------- Please subscribe and follow us on all social media and enable notifications on all podcast platforms! https://www.PointsofeXperiencePodcast.com -------------------------------------------------- Questions? Email Info@pointsofexperiencepodcast.com Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/PoXPodcast Twitter: https://www.Twitter.com/PoXPodcast Facebook: https://www.Facebook.com/PoxPodcast TikTok: https://www.TikTok.com/@PointsofeXperience -------------------------------------------------- Original Music by: SkaneMusic - https://www.instagram.com/skane.music/ Edited by: Keith "Neku" Lawson - https://twitter.com/OzmaNeku

This week the guys had some things that kept them from recording, so they all decided to re-release a past episode. Maybe one that was "overlooked" or one of their favorites.THIS ONE was both!The gentlemen decided to re-release episode 66 (January 12, 2021), when voice actor, Bob Bergen joined the Lounge and talked about his career!Take a look at the Show Notes from that episode, and enjoy a revisit to an episode with a fantastic guest!Show Notes, E66 (01/12/2022)W...W...What a fantastic show we had this w...w...week! Voice of Porky Pig (and so many other great voices), Bob Bergen joined the guys in the Lounge! Kicking off the show, Bob talks about the ability to be "unknown" in public even though he is a famous voice, and how that almost changed with a job he took! The guys ask about what it takes to develop a character that is already established compared to one he is asked to "make-up," and Bob has an interesting take! Is he the only person to be Pork Pig, after Mel Blanc passed? The answer might not surprise you, but the nugget he adds to that answer might! Sam asked him about Gremlins and his part in that movie, and again, that answer might surprise you! ALSO, from that question comes a conversation about a very popular entertainment "platform" that normally is looked at as the Gold Standard of reference! Does Bob remember doing all of the gigs he's done in his career? As you can imagine, having done so much, sometimes he needs reminding! How about the directors or producers he's worked with in his career... ever have issues with any of them? He talks about a job that wasn't going in the direction he thought was appropriate, and how that was handled! What a fabulous hangout the guys had with Bob! They want to have him back, and Bob seemed open to that possibility! SO, sit back, relax & g...g...g... #grabalisten, folks!Learn more about Bob at http://bobbergen.com/index.htmFollow him: Bob Bergen (Facebook), @BobBergen (Twitter), @bergen.bob (Instagram)Proud Founding Member of the OddPods Media NetworkShow Promo: Married with Television & BFYTWFollow us on Twitter (@500_section), Facebook (500 Section Lounge(, and find us at www.oddpodsmedia.com, along with the full family of #OddPodsMedia shows!

Barry Livingston may be best known for his role as "Ernie" on the classic television show, My Three Sons, but he has also had a long and varied career in Hollywood. In this interview, Barry talks with John Cato and Bob Bergen about meeting Elvis in a white limousine, working with Lucille Ball, and also working with Paul Newman on Rally around the flag, Boys!. He also talks about the bad blood between William Frawley and William Demarest, and his relationship with Fred MacMurray. Barry also shares some stories about working with Jerry Lewis on 'The Errand Boy', and describes what it was like to work with Jackie Gleason and even going to a baseball game with Jack Benny! Barry's stories are funny, insightful, and provide a rare glimpse into the world of Hollywood. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBtpVKzLW389x6_nIVHpQcA?sub_confirmation=1 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-classic/id1533742435 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4mye7taOcWtcasDgwQqxnf Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1533742435/thats-classic Google: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8yZmIxYzZiYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Anchor: https://anchor.fm/john-cato Hosted by John Cato, actor, voiceover artist, and moderator for over 20 years for the television and movie industry. John's background brings a unique insight and passion to the podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-cato/support

4-21-22: Kim, Brim and Mr. Greer. Apart from all the usual shenanigans, The gang talks about all the things goin on in pop culture. Kim wants to know which sounds more dangerous, prison time or be stranded in the jungle? Brim brings up his latest choice in Netflix shows and Tom enlightens the group on a newish Netflix dating show. Does the illuminati exist and would you sell your soul for fame? All of these crazy things and they are joined by the amazing and legendary voice of Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and a whole bunch of other characters Bob Bergen! So sit back..relax..and remember GHR ITS WHERE ITS AT!

4-21-22: Kim, Brim and Mr. Greer. Apart from all the usual shenanigans, The gang talks about all the things goin on in pop culture. Kim wants to know which sounds more dangerous, prison time or be stranded in the jungle? Brim brings up his latest choice in Netflix shows and Tom enlightens the group on a newish Netflix dating show. Does the illuminati exist and would you sell your soul for fame? All of these crazy things and they are joined by the amazing and legendary voice of Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and a whole bunch of other characters Bob Bergen! So sit back..relax..and remember GHR ITS WHERE ITS AT!

In this episode, voice actor & comedian Ken Pringle enjoys a bowl of new Chocolate Caramel Cap'n Crunch with voice actor Bob Bergen (the official voice of Porky Pig!) while they talk about their days working as tour guides at Universal Studios Hollywood, discuss voiceover tips on how to give a stronger audition, and talk about what it means to be a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Bienvenidos al podcast con Anne Ganguzza y Pilar Uribe! In this episode, your hosts cover how creating a great demo can get you booked without auditioning, the versatility of having multiple demos, and how being kind to everyone you meet is really the most underrated marketing technique…   Transcript >> It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.   Pilar: Hola, BOSS Voces. Bienvenidos al podcast con Anne Ganguzza y Pilar Uribe.   Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast. I'm your host Anne Ganguzza, and I'm happy to welcome back with me as special guest cohost Pilar Uribe. Pilar, how are you today?   Pilar: I'm doing great, Anne. ¿Tú cómo estás?   Anne: I don't know. Sí.   Pilar. Just say bien, just say bien.   Anne: Bien, bien.   Pilar: Bien covers it all.   Anne: Everybody will follow my own journey as I learn Spanish. Thank you. And I learned to be as -- the best bilingual voice artist I can be, but let me talk about another language, another language of love which it comes from my VO studio kitty Sebrina today. I noticed, Pilar, you know how animals, they have that sense. When you're a cat lover and a cat lover walks into my home, my cats know it. And I have to tell you that my little Sebrina, who is the most sociable of the three VO studio cats that I have, she's usually the first one that will come down and greet people, if she feels that they are sufficient --   Pilar: Worthy.   Anne: -- cat lovers. Yes.   Pilar: If they're worthy of her attention.   Anne: So I have to tell you that the last two times we've been recording, she has been scratching at my studio door, and she just doesn't do that. And I know, I know that she hears you because I have inside and outside headphones. And so what I hear here in my headphones in the booth are also kind of projecting outside my booth through my headphones. So I know she hears you. There's no other reason to explain why she's scratching at the door.   Pilar: Oh, I love that.   Anne: Like she must hear your voice.   Pilar: That's so cute.   Anne: She must hear your voice. And she must know that there's yet another cat lover with me, and she's scratching to get into the studio.   Pilar: And she knows there's a possible suitor right outside.   Anne: That's right. Exactly.   Pilar: Paco. Oh yeah.   Anne: Paco. Yes, she probably feels it. I'm telling you.   Pilar: They know, they know these things. They know.   Anne: They do. They know everything. Wow.   Pilar: We're just their, their custodians. They're the ones who rule.   Anne: Exactly. So I had to tell you that story, you know, because we share, we share a love for studio cats, for sure.   Pilar: So I can say, I can give a little shout out. Hola Sebrina, ¿cómo estás?   Anne: Oo. She's going to hear the scratching soon. I'm telling you. So we had a great conversation on our last podcast about being a bilingual voice talent and what it takes to, I guess, be successful in the industry. And I want to continue that to go a little bit more in detail. So if there are beginners out there or people just entering into the industry that want to market themselves as a bilingual voice talent, what are the steps that it would take for them to do so successfully? First of all, I think you must have some sort of a demo, right, that showcases that you have this talent. What are your thoughts about a demo and how you can successfully market yourself as bilingual through your demo or not, or what works for you?   Pilar: Okay. So since I started out in the world of voiceover without any like really any information -- I mean in the world of dubbing, that's what I meant -- they knew I spoke English, they knew I spoke Spanish, so I could do both. And I just kind of jumped in. I did not have a voiceover agent until I got to Los Angeles. So I had to get my own work. And that meant a lot of knocking on doors, talking to other actors and saying, okay, where are you, where are you working? What studios are you working in? And there aren't that many in Miami.   Anne: And you're talking physical knock. I'm just going to clarify this --   Pilar: Oh yeah.   Anne: -- you mean like physically networking with other people, which today really translates into online, right? Maybe --   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: -- groups and online, online networking groups. But yeah, you had to physically become a good networker.   Pilar: Yes. Thank you for telling me that, because, because I don't even realize. I think it's interesting because you know, you get to a place -- you know, I'm talking to you here. I earned my living doing this and it's, it's really, when you go back, and I'm looking at my, my past, everyone thinks, oh, oh, she's doing this. She has it all. Oh, it's oh, it's like really easy. Look at her. And every single step that you make is, it's like, you're climbing up the mountain, and then you slide back down and then you climb up the mountain, and you slide back down a little bit.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: And it's a lot of walking --   Anne: You claw your way up the mountain.   Pilar: -- you, you literally crawl your way up the mountain. My, um, my ex mother-in-law, God bless her, told me one time when I was learning something many, many years ago, she said as much as you may learn and then fall back, and, and if you're, if it's another language or if it's a new profession, you're never going to be at the point where you don't know anything. Once you start learning, you can't say you don't know anything because you actually know something now about that subject. And I, that's just something that I've always taken with me.   Anne: Yeah, that's a cool perspective. Yup.   Pilar: Because the more I learn -- yeah, right? Because the more I learn, the more I realize, oh, okay. I don't know about so much more.   Anne: Exactly.   Pilar: But there's other stuff that I do know now. So I just, I kind of bring it all. You know, my, my little lump of knowledge gets bigger and bigger. And so when I first started dubbing, as I said in a couple, couple episodes before, I just, it was luck that I got the job, but it was because I had been auditioning so many times before for these different studios -- no, excuse me, for this one studio.   Anne: But was it really luck, Pilar? If I ask you to think that back, was it really luck? Because you had really been working, uh, networking with people and getting to know people, and I'll tell you, the first rule of marketing is people buy from people they know, like, and trust. And so I think you might've been establishing that relationship in working in those studios when they said, you know what? We need somebody to do this dubbing job. And boom, guess who's top of mind? There you are. Just a thought.   Pilar: Okay, for those VO voces, those BOSS Voces who are listening to Anne for the first time, you got to go take classes with this woman, because she's completely turning my story around. And I'm sitting there, like my brains are like going, whaat?   Anne: I love it. You're a marketer. It's so funny, the parallels, right?   Pilar: I don't even know how I did it, but you're basically showing me all this stuff that I did without me even realizing it. So thank you for that.   Anne: Well, it's cool because we, we get to work it backwards now because now --   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: -- people just entering in the business, are they networking online? How are they networking? And maybe they should consider all versions of networking because it all helps you, you know, to get where you need to go.   Pilar: We're doing it, we're doing reverse engineering.   Anne: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.   Pilar: So reverse engineering a lot of the times means, and again, I'm not saying I do this, but when I have an interaction with somebody, I always keep them in my mind, and I send them an email, and I let them know what I'm doing. Because a lot of the time -- it's, it's basically being and not stalking them and not being obnoxious about it, but so they know that you're around. You know, for so many months before I actually got my first dubbing gig, I didn't get any response. And the same thing happened when I, when, when I started working for NPR. I didn't hear anything for months and months and months. And what I realized is that marketing is always the long game.   Anne: Isn't it? Ugh, yes.   Pilar: It's, it's the long game --   Anne: That's it, we can go home now Pilar, because that was, that was the wisdom, that nugget of wisdom. It is, it's a long game. So many people want that instant result.   Pilar: Yeah, because we have, we're exposed to instant gratifications through our cell phones, through our laptops.   Anne: Yup.   Pilar: And what it is is that it's basically putting a tiny grain of sand into the atmosphere and letting it go there. It might come back. It might not, but every single time you do it, you're sending the energy out of, I'm a voiceover artist. I can do this for you.   Anne: Yeah, absolutely.   Pilar: And eventually that does come back.   Anne: Yes.   Pilar: So I get my first gig and then I'm thinking, okay, I want more. So then I start asking questions. I started asking my actor friends and like, oh, you're with this studio. How do you get into this studio? And it turns out that the person who recommended me to work in the first studio is also now working part-time in the second studio. So I call him up and I say, hey, you know, what's going on? And they're like, oh, okay, well, I don't really have anything for you now, but maybe. So I was like, okay, great. And then, boom. Maybe I make a call or maybe he calls me again. And then the chain starts happening. So that's really what it became.   So at one point I was working for four different studios and, you know, making these connections and then slowly but surely. So then you reach a point, right? I want more. So then I go into the audiobook world, and I start doing that. And then a big part of my, my voiceover journey was Fafcon because --   Anne: Yup.   Pilar: -- I went and that's --   Anne: Networking.   Pilar: -- when I experienced. Yeah. That's when I experienced, I was like, oh, these people actually make a living at it full-time, because I'm sitting here running around, you know, with four different studios.   Anne: Sure.   Pilar: And I'm sure trying to deal with the whole audiobook thing. And, and they're like, oh no, we have our clients. We have our IVR. We have our people who call us up every so often. And we, and I'm like, oh, that's a new concept. And I had no idea about this part of the business.   Anne: You were learning about now these are all different genres. You were just doing dubbing --   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: -- and then you started with the audiobooks. Interesting about the audiobooks. And I'm going to say that might've been a few years back, right? There was no ACX back then, right? So --   Pilar: No, actually I started with ACX.   Anne: Oh, you did? Okay.   Pilar: So, so it was more recent.   Anne: Oh, okay, so it was recent then.   Pilar: 2012.   Anne: Oh, okay.   Pilar: They had just started 2013. They had --   Anne: Still that's a --   Pilar: -- they hadn't been around that long.   Anne: -- that's a while. Yeah. That's a while. That was when they just started, I believe. So, okay. And right there for audiobooks, that was kind of a, a cool thing because it was online, and you didn't have to necessarily have a demo to present. They were basically just offering you work and you could audition and not necessarily have to present a demo to get work there.   Pilar: Exactly. So I, again, not knowing anything that was back in the day when audiobooks were done in studios.   Anne: Yes, yes.   Pilar: So the publishing companies had their own studios, and you know, the big guys on campus went and they recorded there.   Anne: Exactly, exactly. Now, were you doing, were you doing Spanish or were you doing both English and Spanish?   Pilar: I was doing both. Actually I started out doing English, doing these like really funny romance things. And then I went the other way with Spanish and started doing religious things because somebody asked me to do religious stuff, and this was, and so here's where networking comes in. You never know. You just never know who is going to be somebody who's a valued contact. That's why, and I'll, I'll tell this story really quickly, and so I don't lose my place about this.   When I was working as an extra on "One Life to Live," there was this guy, and I, and I may have mentioned it. And I remember him saying so clearly that he said, you have to be nice to everybody on set. You know, we were just all looking at him like with stars in our eyes because he was so good-looking, and he was just like, you know, he was a series regular. And he said, be nice to everybody. And I never forgot that. So when I went to Colombia, I was very aware that I needed to treat the producer and the director exactly the same as the coffee lady, because the coffee lady, the person who brought me coffee, and that was her only job, she was just as important --   Anne: Oh yeah.   Pilar: -- as the producer.   Anne: Absolutely.   Pilar: You know, it's a courtesy thing. It's a human interaction thing. And I've always been very, very aware of that. But that experience --   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: -- that I had on the set from somebody who was, you know, making, you know, a good amount of money to talk to us who we were just like these little star struck extras was really important.   Anne: See, it's not just a life lesson, right, but a business lesson to be nice to everyone. It's like be nice to the person that picks up the phone. You may think you want to talk --   Pilar: Exactly.   Anne: -- to the boss, but in reality, it all starts with the person who answers the phone or gets you the coffee. You never know.   Pilar: You never know where that person's going to be. So --   Anne: Exactly.   Pilar: -- fast forward to when I would do voiceover dubbing at this one studio, one of the engineers was, he was just such a sweet guy, and we got along really well. And he was so pleasant and jovial. And, you know, whenever he would ask me to do another take, I always did. And you know, if I thought that I could do it better, he would let me do it. You know, if it was just like a little kind of an alteration in, in the way I inflected in my voice. And he said, hey, would you be interested in doing audio books in Spanish? And I was like, sure. And you know, afterwards we spoke, and I did quite a few for him. And, you know, he said, I don't ask everyone this because obviously people can, you know, he, he gets different responses.   Anne: Sure.   Pilar: And so that's why I, I want to emphasize the importance of being really pleasant and nice and courteous to everyone. 'Cause you just, you just never know. And I, I did like four books with him, and that was just something on the side that I did. And I wouldn't have done that otherwise, if I had been like, you know, a bitch on wheels going to the studio.   Anne: And you know what's so interesting though -- let me just try to relate this to today in an online community, when you're communicating with people online and especially in these groups where you think it might be a closed group where you're only talking to voice actors, be nice to everyone, because there are people sitting there watching you, and reading those comments, and making judgements about your comment, if it's not nice, or maybe it's not becoming of a professional. They're watching and you never know who might be looking or listening behind the scenes. So be nice to everyone. I think it's just a wonderful thing to live by. Right? Just be nice to everyone. Be nice.   Pilar: I totally agree with that, Anne, and, and I would go even further because I was listening to somebody about this. When you're on Zoom, you know, it doesn't cost anything to smile.   Anne: True, so true.   Pilar: It really doesn't.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: You can just, you can just be pleasant, and you can have a nice sort of energy to you. I mean, I know we're always in sweats, and it just it's become a way of life. And we're probably going to be doing this for a long time, but there's a certain energy you bring when you come into a Zoom meeting. You know, you can either slouch and you can just be like, uh, you know, and we've all heard them. Everybody on --   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: -- listening to this podcast has heard people who are just like these Nagging Nellies I guess, or the complainers.   Anne: Debbie Downers,   Pilar: Debbie Downers. Debbie Downers. It's like, oh yeah, I'm I'm in voiceover, but I --   Anne: But I can't.   Pilar: -- but I don't have a demo yet. And I haven't --   Anne: I can't do this.   Pilar: -- gotten any work in six months. It's like really, really? Are you kidding? Then why are you even here?   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: You know, it's like, hey, I want to learn. I don't know anything about, oh, I don't know. Let's say you're doing, um, let's say a demo. You want to learn how to do a demo --   Anne: Video games or something.   Pilar: No, I'm thinking of, you know, those slot machine things?   Anne: Oh, casinos.   Pilar: Casinos. They're, they're actually, now that's a new genre that I heard about.   Anne: Yeah, exactly.   Pilar: I was like, oh my gosh.   Anne: Casinos and gaming. Yes. That kind of gaming.   Pilar: Casinos and -- yeah.   Anne: Yup.   Pilar: So it's like, let's say you go in, and you don't know anything about it. Well, hey, you're here to learn. I'm here to learn about casino and gaming. Yay. This is something new. So it's like, I feel like you can always put your best foot forward because it doesn't cost you anything.   Anne: Yeah. You can always learn, and you can always learn.   Pilar: Yeah. Exactly. You can always learn. So --   Anne: You can always learn something.   Pilar: Yeah.   Anne: Even if you're like, oh, I don't know. Like I didn't like this class or -- that's the teacher in me that says, you know, if you're a good student, you can learn anywhere, anywhere.   Pilar: Yup.   Anne: There's always an opportunity to learn.   Pilar: I totally agree. So back to the guy. So I did these four books with him, and somewhere along the way -- so I, I didn't have an audiobook demo. I had a bunch of audio book samples 'cause that's what you do.   Anne: Yup.   Pilar: And the experience at Fafcon, which was just so enriching. And I met some amazing people that I'm still friends with today, I realized everybody was like, oh yeah, the demo this, the demo that. I was like, why in the world do you need a demo? And then after I'd gotten all this information, and then I went home ,and I looked at all, everybody's website that I had met. And I was like, oh, this is our industry's equivalent of a resume.   Anne: Yeah, absolutely.   Pilar: That's basically very simple and quick and dirty explanation. You have to have a demo. So anybody going online, anybody who's considering you -- I just did a session yesterday, and I had a certain kind of demo for this 'cause -- I can't talk about it because obviously it -- now every -- you sign NDAs, wherever you go.   Anne: Absolutely.   Pilar: Um, so I auditioned for this company, and then they said, oh yeah -- he said, so he started talking about the style that he wanted for what we were doing. And he said, yes. And I, from your audition, but especially from your demos.   Anne: That's excellent.   Pilar: I was like, oh, okay. This guy did his homework.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: This guy really looked at my stuff before choosing me, which means that's why my demos have to be in order.   Anne: Absolutely. I'm so glad you said that because there are some people who think that you cannot book off of your demo. And I, I am in disagreement with that because I do believe that people that are doing their homework that are out -- they're searching online. If your demos are sitting there on your website, people listen to them. And I get requests all the time, you know, hey, I love -- can you do the voice in that spot, on your demo, in this particular spot that you're referencing? So I will get people. I know they've listened to the demo and I've booked.   Pilar: In 2020, I booked a year long campaign. I basically paid my rent and then some.   Anne: From a demo.   Pilar: From a demo. I did not audition. I didn't audition for. And I was like, wait a minute. Don't you need? And they were like, no, no. The agent, 'cause I'm so -- I was such a newbie, he was like, no, no, you don't need to audition. I mean, he literally said that to me. No, you idiot. They're booking you off the demo. And, and actually yeah, through my agent, I book off my demo all the time. So it's, I get people will request it because they've listened to the demos. So --   Pilar: Right.   Anne: -- I mean, of course I audition too, like everybody else, but I do book a considerable amount off of my demos.   Pilar: In terms of specifically a bilingual demo, what I did, what I noticed, first I, and I did what everybody does. The, the very first demo I did, I basically just did my spots. That's what I did, you know? 'Cause I, I didn't know any better, so I, okay. I've got a bunch of spots and let me, you know, hook it all together. And I actually got somebody who did it for, you know --   Anne: So for your bilingual demo, right? You --   Pilar: No, for my first demo.   Anne: Okay. First demo, you strung together spots that you had created. Okay.   Pilar: Yeah, exactly, because, you know, that's what you do when you're starting out, and there's nothing wrong with that. But then when I went to Fafcon and I realized, oh, these people actually had this professionally done, you know, the skeptic in me said, oh, come on, really? Why in the world would you need that? And I realized, because that's how it happens in this particular business. It may not happen any in any other business, but I've seen the reason why I've booked work, and why I need that because that's the way, that's the way it is. I mean --   Anne: Well, I think it also shows -- of course, you can put together a demo of spots that you've done already and lots of people do that. But also I think it can show a range. Maybe you get booked for a lot of -- a particular style of spot or a particular read. And I think a demo can showcase a broader range of acting that you can do.   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: And that's where I think that it's really advantageous as well as hooking up with someone who is familiar with what's out there and what's -- a good producer or a demo producer that knows what trends are out there, what companies are looking for and can implement that on the demo as well.   Pilar: Exactly. You just hit the nail on the head. You need somebody, you need a director. That's what a demo producer is.   Anne: Yeah, yeah.   Pilar: They know better than you do. So, you know, it's like you go in stages. So at first I thought, oh, I'll do my own demo. And then I realized, no, I need somebody who can direct me because they're going to showcase my voice to the best --   Anne: Yes.   Pilar: -- of my ability rather than me trying to figure it out because --   Anne: You're too close to it.   Pilar: -- the dirty little secret is that we don't know how we sound --   Anne: That's right.   Pilar: -- really and truly.   Anne: We're very close.   Pilar: We need somebody else. We need somebody else to sit there and tell us, no, no, no, you want the cosmetic read. This is, you know, you want the automotive read. You want the, you know, the Olive Garden read; they're all different. So after that I was like, okay, I'm going to bite the bullet. And I actually did, I had, uh, I did a kind of a double thing because, um, Bob Bergen was teaching a weekend class, and this just kind of came about up in San Francisco. And I had already booked time with Chuck Duran to do my demos because I wanted to go there. This was obviously before, 'cause now you can do it. You don't even, you don't need to --   Anne: You can do it online.   Pilar: Yeah. You can do it totally online. But I was like, no, I want it -- and I wanted to go to LA because there was something about it --   Anne: Sure. Well, there's something about the experience of being in a studio too in LA recording a demo that all you have to do is perform. And this is a really wonderful experience.   Pilar: Totally.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: So the demo that we did -- so I asked Chuck, I said, you know, I'd really like to do two. I'd like to do one in Spanish and one in English, because I was told don't ever, ever mix them. That was the first thing I was told. So I was like, okay, I'm not going to mix them. So we did it in English and in Spanish. So he did the English copy, and he actually speaks some Spanish. And so then I translated some of them and then we came up with some other things. And so then I had two demos. It was great.   Anne: Two identical demos?   Pilar: No.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: Not identical.   Anne: You had different spots in Spanish then?   Pilar: Yeah. Some overlapped, but some did not. And you know, he was very strategic about it. So that was, that was, that was fine. Then I realized that I wanted to have a bilingual demo. I was just stubborn. I was like, I want a bilingual demo.   Anne: So wait --   Pilar: This is what I want.   Anne: So what do you consider a bilingual demo? Do you mean one that is both English and Spanish --   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: -- in the same demo? Oh, okay.   Pilar: And --   Anne: All right. So you are a bilingual talent that has a separate English demo and a separate Spanish demo. Now a bilingual demo means you're going to have both English and Spanish.   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: And I have -- if you listen to my bilingual demo, there's a little bit of a, of a little bit of an accent because that's something else that I get all the time. I don't really have an accent in either language.   Anne: Speak English with a Spanish accent.   Pilar: Yes. All the time.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: That's what I get all the time.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: So then that became almost a third category, and I did that actually online.   Anne: So that's a separate demo or just a separate --   Pilar: That's a separate demo.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: That's a separate demo.   Anne: All by itself, the English with the Spanish accent --   Pilar: All by itself. The bilingual, yep.   Anne: Okay, but let's --   Pilar: But not all of them.   Anne: Okay, but --   Pilar: They're not -- so there's English with a Spanish accent. There's English, normal English. And then there's Spanish. They're all mixed in, in that specific bilingual demo.   Anne: Okay.   Pilar: And so I was told by my -- and so then whatever the agent happened, and they said, no, no, no, we don't want that. We don't want that on. You know, we just want the English and the Spanish. We want it separated. But I tell you, I have booked from that bilingual demo.   Anne: Right, which is sitting on your website.   Pilar: So -- exactly. And so it's kind of like when you go in, when you walk into a store, not everybody's going to buy the same thing.   Anne: Right.   Pilar: But you want to have pants, and you want to have a dress --   Anne: Well, people consume --   Pilar: -- and you want to have a jumper.   Anne: Yes. People consume your audio differently --   Pilar: Yup.   Anne: -- right?   Pilar: Right.   Anne: Agents will consume or deliver your audio separately, right? Or people that go to an agent website may shop differently than people that get to your website, in which case I like to have everything available on your website because you never know who's shopping. It could be an owner of a small company --   Pilar: Exactly.   Anne: -- or it could be a casting director or an agent. And so they're very different buyers because casting agents and talented -- that's what they do for a living eight hours a day, all day long. The owner of the small pizza place, you know, down the road, he doesn't cast voices all day long. He just knows what he hears and he knows what he likes. And so he does a Google search, comes up with your website, right, is bilingual voice talent. Boom. Here's your demo that is sitting there that maybe your agents didn't want to present both ways. And he says, that's it. That's exactly what I need.   Pilar: And here's the funny part. And I can't 100% confirm, but I suspect that -- 'cause of course, you know, when I, when I signed, I gave them all the demos. I'm pretty sure that the demo that they heard that booked me that job in 2020 -- it was just like an ongoing thing -- they booked me on the strength of the bilingual demo, where they heard me speak in English and in Spanish at the same time and with an accent.   Anne: Yeah, yeah.   Pilar: So don't be afraid of the having the accent. So, you know, I run into people all the time. So they, they're Spanish speakers, and they speak with a little bit of an accent. And then there are English speakers who have a little bit of an accent in Spanish, but specifically to the Spanish speakers who speak English, don't be afraid to put different ranges --   Anne: Yeah, yeah.   Pilar: -- of your speaking in English, because like Sofía Vergara, she's Colombian. Very nice. She really puts it on thick in, in that, in the, in the whatever it was --   Anne: "Modern Family."   Pilar: "Modern Family." She doesn't speak like that all the time. If you listen to her, she puts it on thick in some movies and pulls back, 'cause she knows how to do that. You don't have to have a perfect accent in English or a perfect accent in Spanish either.   Anne: Well, you know what's so interesting, and I can see where your agent might say, no, we don't want it mixed. Right? We want one, that's English, one that's Spanish, because traditionally we've moved away from, if you remember in, in narration -- I'm going, I'll make the comparison with narration demos. It used to be a narration demos, you put every genre in there. You had like a documentary style. You had an e-learning, you had a corporate, you had, you know, all different styles of narration.   So it became all mixed up into one. And then we became very target specific. And so then it became, okay, you need a separate demo for an explainer, separate demo for corporate narration, separate demo for e-learning. But when you're talking bilingual, you have a client, a customer that may need multiple versions of Spanish speaking language. And so I think when you mix it together in English, English with a Spanish accent, Spanish, you're giving them all of the range that you have in that language.   Pilar: Exactly. I --   Anne: And that makes sense to me that that would work for you.   Pilar: Yeah. Yeah. And I've, I've had -- I've been in sessions where I speak English with no accent, and they want a run of the copy that way. Then they want a run of the copy with a little bit of an accent, and then they want to run of the copy with a lot of an accent. So I'm giving them three choices because --   Anne: Exactly.   Pilar: -- they don't know at the time how they're going to place it for those markets.   Anne: Right. And the markets may change. Right?   Pilar: Yeah.   Anne: The markets may --   Pilar: Exactly.   Anne: -- be more localized or, or regionalized, or I think it really just goes with the territory. Now, I guess my question is if they use it multiple times, are they paying you multiple?   Pilar: Yeah.   Anne: You know, that's what you want to make sure, which is why your agent helps.   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: And, and --   Pilar: That's where --   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: -- that's where it gets tricky because I've really only been doing the bilingual work this way, to the extent that I've been doing it since I came out to Los Angeles.   Anne: Yeah, yeah.   Pilar: Usually it was that you either do the spot in English or you do the spot in Spanish, before I had an agent. You know like for example, on the pay-to-plays.   Anne: Yep.   Pilar: You don't really have, you don't get that oh, let's -- once in a very long while, but mostly it's like, okay, Spanish speaker, Latin American speaker or American speaker.   Anne: But if you think about it too, I would imagine the type of customer that would go through an agency or casting director to find a voice, they know the target market of who they're advertising to more so than, let's say, somebody on a pay-to-play. Right? They're just like, oh, I need Spanish. Maybe, that's just my guess, an educated guess because, and they come to the agent because they're much more target specific. It would seem to me that would make sense.   Pilar: I agree, because I think that a lot of the times the ad agency is looking for specific markets. So if it's Florida, it's going to be different from --   Anne: Exactly.   Pilar: -- Southern California.   Anne: Exactly. You're going to need a different Spanish that's in Florida than is in California, which makes a whole lot of sense to me. Wow.   Pilar: And it's different than Arizona too.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: So it's like, you're talking totally different markets.   Anne: This is so enlightening for me because what's cool is that I have questions for you because I have no real experience with how to market as a bilingual voice talent, because I'm not one. But yet you tell me your experiences, and it's, so it makes so much sense really for every one of us in the voiceover business, how we need to be very target specific. We need to be able to serve the -- our clients and our clients have many different needs, many different demographics, and the better that we can serve them and showcase, right, through our demos, through auditioning, how we can serve that community, then obviously the more chance we have to get the gig, and you know, that's what it's about.   Pilar: Yeah. And I, I just to, just to piggyback on that end, let's say you don't speak another language. Well, get your accents ready.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: Because a lot of the times I am called to do with a slight Southern accent or with a British accent. There are tons of things, whether it's the video game world or even commercial copy. So having an ear, developing that ear, looking at YouTube videos, there are tons of YouTube videos -- I think is important to listen for, let's say, a specific regionalism --   Anne: Right.   Pilar: -- because you never know what you're going to get in the voiceover. And I think one of the worst things to do is to get an audition and then be scrambling because --   Anne: Absolutely.   Pilar: -- you're like, oh my gosh, I don't know how to do this.   Anne: Right.   Pilar: Let me go look online. How am I going to do this? And then you're just, you're adding all that stuff. It's like --   Anne: Sure.   Pilar: -- why not take some time, take a look at it, listen to it, you know, practice, you know?   Anne: Well, and let me add the caveat here because of, you know, the climate past couple of years that if the casting specs request a native UK Londoner, then perhaps that's not necessarily something you audition for, if it's in the casting specs. But I think it's important that it starts there. Because again, we want, if people are looking for a native speaker or a native ethnicity, then I think that -- that we should respect those casting specs. And also that's a question, do we do a British accent these days? That's an interesting question. Are we taking away work if we do that, if we're not native? That is -- it's, it's a tough question that I think everybody is kind of wrapping their heads around, what is right in this industry these days?   Pilar: So I think that it is very important to distinguish and to be upfront about it because here's the thing. If you present, the person on the other end listening is going to know immediately if you are not a native speaker.   Anne: Yeah.   Pilar: So, I mean, that's just down the line. So I'm very, I'm very clear on the fact that I say anywhere, I, I, you know, on my resume, whatever, wherever I'm a native speaker in Spanish, I speak French fluently.   Anne: Yes.   Pilar: So if you drop me in the middle of Paris, I will not starve. I will be able to get myself anywhere. And I'm not --   Anne: I'm so glad you made that distinction. Yes.   Pilar: Yeah, I'm not a native speaker because native means I was born there or spent most of my life speaking French, and I haven't.   Anne: Right.   Pilar: So I can't, I can't say that with any kind of authority.   Anne: Right.   Pilar: Now in terms of accents, I have run across it. I, it's really more, I run across it much more with video games and especially animation --   Anne: Yes.   Pilar: -- where they're going to ask you --   Anne: Yup. They're going to ask you to have an accent.   Pilar: -- for a Russian accent. And that's really more of a character --   Anne: Yes.   Pilar: -- kind of a situation rather than this is a person of authority --   Anne: Sure, absolutely.   Pilar: -- where commercial copy comes in.   Anne: But again, that might be, and I'm just thinking, right, that could be come more of a discussion as we move on --   Pilar: Yes.   Anne: -- as well.   Pilar: Agreed. Yes.   Anne: So wonderful thoughts on that, and Pilar, of course, it's always a pleasure. I learn so much on every one of these episodes. Thank you so much.   Pilar: Well, you're my marketing guru, so there we go.   Anne: Well, hey BOSSes, I'm going to give a great, big shout-out to our sponsor, ipDTL. You too can connect like a BOSS and find out more at ipdtl.com. Have an amazing week, you guys, and we'll see you next week. Bye.   Pilar: Hasta la vista, baby.   >> Join us next week for another edition of VO BOSS with your host Anne Ganguzza. 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Three-time Emmy nominated Bob Bergen, who is the voice of Porky Pig and Tweety Bird.

That's All Folks! This week we welcome long time voice actor Bob Bergen to the virtual world of Funny Science Fiction Podcast. We talk about his work in Fraggle Rock, Looney Tunes, Robot Chicken, Muppets Little Monsters, Marvel as Winter Soldier, Star Wars Clone Wars and Bad Batch and more. Bob talks about behind the scenes stuff and reminds us that even if you like the Porky Pig rap in the latest Space Jam movie starring LeBron James, that wasn't him. But you can hear him in the movie as Tweety Bird. Not to mention that Bob tells us how he came up with Dolphin noises for a show called "Seal Team" and why he doesn't listen to or watch his work. Bobs a great guest with a great number of stories to share. We hope you enjoy the episode! For more on Bob Bergen, please visit the following - Instagram - @bergen.bob Twitter - @BobBergen For more on our Show Partners, please visit the following - River City Tees - https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rivercitytees?ref_id=22912 Level Up Lightsabers - https://leveluplightsaber.com/?wpam_id=130 go here Support The FSF PopCast by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/funny-science-fiction

Disney and Lucasfilm continue the first season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch with Episode 15 Return to Kamino and Episode 16 Kamino Lost. The series from Dave Filoni and Jennifer Corbett stars Dee Bradley Baker, Michelle Ang, Rhea Perlman, Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, Tom Taylorson, Bob Bergen, Gwendoline Yeo, and Noshir Dalal. The Geek Buddies with special guest Laura Kelly give their spoiler reviews of each of these episodes, talk the finale overall and give their final overall thoughts on this first season of The Bad Batch.#TheBadBatch​ #Review #Starwars #TheGeekBuddies #DeeBradleyBaker #Hunter #Omega #Crosshair #Wrecker #Tarkin #Palpatine #Tech #Echo  Join The Outlaw's Patreon at: https://patreon.com/JohnRochaFollow The Outlaw John Rocha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSaysFollow The Outlaw John Rocha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therochasays/Trailer Reactions from The Outlaw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Film and TV Reviews from The Outlaw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Geek Buddies playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Outlaw Nation Show playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Jedi Way playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...John and Wendy Explain the World playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

Disney and Lucasfilm continue the first season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch with Episode 13 Infested and Episode 14 War-Mantle. The series from Dave Filoni and Jennifer Corbett stars Dee Bradley Baker, Michelle Ang, Rhea Perlman, Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, Tom Taylorson, Bob Bergen, Gwendoline Yeo, and Noshir Dalal. The Geek Buddies with special guest Laura Kelly give their spoiler reviews of each of these episodes.In episode 13, to save a friend, the Batch plot a mission to sabotage a gangster's operation. In episode 14, the Batch receive a mysterious distress call and track it to a secret facility where they find a clone trooper and shocking new information about their status.Chapters:0:00 Intro and Overall Thoughts on Episodes 13 and 145:55 Episode 13 Review39:50 Episode 14 Review1:21:53 Final Thoughts on the Episodes1:24:48 Wrap up and Social Media PlugsRemember to Like and Share this episode on your social media and to Subscribe to The Outlaw Nation channel below.#TheBadBatch#Review #Starwars #TheGeekBuddies #DeeBradleyBaker #Hunter #Omega #Crosshair #Wrecker #Tarkin #Palpatine #Tech #Echo  To become a Patron of John Rocha and The Outlaw Nation, please go to https://www.patreon.com/johnrocha Follow John Rocha: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSaysFollow Shannon McClung: https://twitter.com/Shannon_McClungFollow Laura Kelly: https://twitter.com/ShutUp_Laura--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

Disney and Lucasfilm continue the first season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch Episode 9 Lost Bounty and Episode 10 Common Ground. The series from Dave Filoni and Jennifer Corbett stars Dee Bradley Baker, Rhea Perlman, Michelle Ang, Corey Burton, Bob Bergen, Gwendoline Yeo, Shelby Young, Sian Clifford, Alexander Siddig and Seth Green The Geek Buddies with special guest Laura Kelly are here with their reaction and review.In episode 9, the Batch embark on a rescue mission to save Omega from the bounty hunters Cad Bane and Fennec Shand who are working for two opposite sides in this polite civil war happening on Kamino. In episode 10, the Batch has their ideology challenged. Remember to Like and Share this episode on your social media and to Subscribe to The Outlaw Nation channel below.#TheBadBatch​ #Review #TheGeekBuddies​ To become a Patron of John Rocha and The Outlaw Nation, please go to https://www.patreon.com/johnrocha​ Follow John Rocha: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSays​Follow Shannon McClung: https://twitter.com/Shannon_McClung​Follow Laura Kelly: https://twitter.com/ShutUp_Laura--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

Episode 35: How to become a Voice Actor with Bob BergenHave you ever wondered how to get started in voice acting?Voice Actor, Bob Bergen shares his top tips on the animation voice over industry and how to discover your character's voice.From Porky the Pig to Star Wars, Bob has voiced a wide variety of memorable characters over his 40 years in the business.By the time you finish listening, you'll know:How to become a Voice ActorThe key elements to finding your character's voice Why ‘acting' is so important in Voice actingIf this episode inspires you then I'd love to hear from you! Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram stories and tag me @katherine_beck_Then follow me on Instagram to go ‘behind the scenes' with me and my own journey as an American accent coach and Voiceover Actor.LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Bob Bergen: www.bobbergen.comInstagram @bergen.bobGrab my free voiceover guide here: www.katherinebeck.com/voiceoverReady to take your American accent to the next level?Sign up for my FREE American accent guide here: katherinebeck.com/accent LEARN MORE FROM KATHERINE BECK:WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBESupport the show LEARN MORE FROM KATHERINE BECK: WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE| TIK TOKReady to start practicing your American accent? Join my Practice Club today and start practicing in a fun & easy way! Join The Practice Club here. If this episode inspires you then I'd love to hear from you! Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram stories and tag me @allamericanactorspodcast Have you left a review? If you loved this episode show your support by leaving a rating and review right here. Thanks for supporting the show!

Star Wars: The Bad Batch continues its first season with Episode 7 BATTLE SCARS and Episode 8 REUNION. The Geek Buddies are here with their reaction and review.In episode 7, As Clone Force 99 traverse a decommissioned medical facility, the Batch encounter an unexpected threat. In episode 8, The Bad Batch find themselves cornered on treacherous terrain. These episodes star Dee Bradley Baker, Rhea Perlman, Michelle Ang, Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, Corey Burton, Bob Bergen, Gwendoline Yeo, and Seth GreenRemember to Like and Share this episode on your social media and to Subscribe to The Outlaw Nation channel below.#StarWars​ #TheBadBatch​ #TheGeekBuddies​ To become a Patron of John Rocha and The Outlaw Nation, please go to https://www.patreon.com/johnrocha​ Follow John Rocha: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSays​Follow Michael Vogel: https://twitter.com/mktoon​Follow Shannon McClung: https://twitter.com/Shannon_McClung​--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

Bob Bergen is an American voice actor. He is the current voice of the Warner Bros. cartoon character Porky Pig and formerly hosted Jep!, a kids' version of the popular game show Jeopardy!. He is also known for voicing characters in the English dubs of various anime.

VAM 159 | Interview with Bob Bergen, Part 3 Welcome to episode 159 of the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with yours truly, Crispin Freeman! As always, you can listen to the podcast using the player above, or download the mp3 using the link at the bottom of this blog post. The podcast is also available […]

VAM 158 | Interview with Bob Bergen, Part 2 Welcome to episode 158 of the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with yours truly, Crispin Freeman! As always, you can listen to the podcast using the player above, or download the mp3 using the link at the bottom of this blog post. The podcast is also available […]

VAM 157 | Interview with Bob Bergen, Part 1 Welcome to episode 157 of the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with yours truly, Crispin Freeman! As always, you can listen to the podcast using the player above, or download the mp3 using the link at the bottom of this blog post. The podcast is also available […]

This week, Kiff welcomes Bob Bergen (Looney Tunes - Porky Pig, Luke Skywalker on Robot Chicken, and hundreds of other characters and roles) who goes on a deep dive into his process of character creation, the nature of his mindset, his drive, and the creative power and necessity of risk. This is a master class with one of the most prolific actors and sought after teachers in the business of VO. What a treat! Check out Bob's reels, body of work, how to contact to study with and additional goodies at www.bobbergen.com of follow him on IG at @bergen.bob and Twitter @bobbergen Special thanks to The Studio Venue for a great session! www.thestudiovenue.com