New shows coming up/ Thanks to Gary and the guests/ Voice acting is next

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.439 Hey, what's up? Welcome back to the EMO DO JOE. I'm Johnny 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:12.470 emotions with today's signal jams. All right, so today's show I'm just going 3 00:00:12.550 --> 00:00:16.070 to catch you up on what I've been up to. I've recorded tons of 4 00:00:16.109 --> 00:00:20.550 episodes and well, I have adhd and when I go back to listen to 5 00:00:20.670 --> 00:00:24.899 them, to edit them and post them, I get bored of them and 6 00:00:24.980 --> 00:00:28.660 I stop what I'm doing. So, you know, like we record an 7 00:00:28.699 --> 00:00:34.140 episode every weekend, literally every Saturday morning, and how many of I put 8 00:00:34.179 --> 00:00:38.689 up? Harley any so that's on me. So, but you know, 9 00:00:38.850 --> 00:00:43.530 I'm learning about myself. That's what I wanted to share with you. So 10 00:00:43.810 --> 00:00:46.850 anyway, I'm going to keep making podcast. That just the nature of things 11 00:00:46.890 --> 00:00:52.399 is always changing, right, so work, you know I've been I don't 12 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:56.359 do you listen to these in backwards order or front words order, because, 13 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:00.240 like today it's June, right, it's the beginning of June, two thousand 14 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:03.430 and twenty one. I'm feeling all right. If you're listening to these from 15 00:01:03.469 --> 00:01:07.069 the newest to the oldest, you're going to get this episode and if you 16 00:01:07.150 --> 00:01:11.310 keep going backwards, you're going to just listen to a guy whose mental health 17 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:15.349 deterior rates. If you've been listening from the other direction forward. Hey, 18 00:01:15.430 --> 00:01:21.379 welcome to the now and wow, you got a lot of patients. Are 19 00:01:21.420 --> 00:01:26.859 you just or nuts something weird? Anyway, I appreciate you either way, 20 00:01:26.060 --> 00:01:29.900 because we're here now. So let me get on with what I was about 21 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:34.569 to say. Anyway, Gary got the shingles. He's doing much better. 22 00:01:34.609 --> 00:01:37.049 He's fine. If you want to send them an email, you can just 23 00:01:37.170 --> 00:01:41.370 send it to, you know, signal jams at Proton mailcom. I'm sure 24 00:01:41.409 --> 00:01:47.480 I'll love to hear from you. I put a AD on Pottit, which 25 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:53.079 is a platform. It's PODDI DOTNET, Pott it dotnet, and that's a 26 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.920 place where podcasters can go and find guests to be on their show. So 27 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.120 I put up an ad and I said hey, tell me about where you 28 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:07.549 live, and the two people that followed through happen to be from the UK. 29 00:02:07.110 --> 00:02:12.150 They're different women, different ladies. So I'm going to put those episodes 30 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:15.550 up. I'll cut those into two separate episodes to, you know, give 31 00:02:15.590 --> 00:02:17.060 them the honor that they spent the time to talk and share their story. 32 00:02:17.139 --> 00:02:22.819 So I don't want to step all over their story with all this stuff I'm 33 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:27.780 talking about now. At any rate, the next two episodes will be one 34 00:02:27.860 --> 00:02:32.530 with Kim from north Wales and the other one from de Laura from the Jurassic 35 00:02:32.650 --> 00:02:38.610 coast off of southwest England, and I just yeah, we got into it 36 00:02:38.729 --> 00:02:42.610 like deep, like I'm just curious what it's like where other people live. 37 00:02:42.689 --> 00:02:47.280 We haven't been able to travel much laye and I like the storytelling bit and 38 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.719 I'm genuinely curious. So I tried to pull a lot out of them as 39 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:55.919 far as describing what it was like where they live, like physically. What's 40 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.870 the sand like on the beach? You know how taller the houses in your 41 00:02:59.909 --> 00:03:02.789 neighborhood? Kind of like little mini vacations, I guess. So tune in 42 00:03:02.870 --> 00:03:08.430 for that next Kim, north Wales, de Laara, southwest England. That's 43 00:03:08.469 --> 00:03:13.539 going to be super cool. And of course Gary will be back. He's 44 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:16.860 already back, I mean we've already recorded episodes since he fixed his shingles. 45 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:22.379 And as a warning to all you gen x people, go get your shingles 46 00:03:22.419 --> 00:03:25.099 shots. If you had the chicken pox when you were young, you can 47 00:03:25.180 --> 00:03:30.849 get the shingles now and it's fucking miserable. So, on behalf of g 48 00:03:30.129 --> 00:03:35.449 shock. Go get you Goddamn shingle shots old people. So here's the thing 49 00:03:35.530 --> 00:03:38.650 I discovered. And sometimes, man, I'm hardheaded, for sure, like 50 00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:44.400 I'm an aries the RAM, like we're hot. That's the nature of our 51 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.680 being. Is just hardheaded in this and I learned things the hard way. 52 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.520 So works going fine. It's a challenge. I don't really make as much 53 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.629 as I'm worth, but I have a killer opportunity that I could leverage into 54 00:03:57.509 --> 00:04:00.669 back to that kind of money. Anyway. I'm in the I'm in the 55 00:04:00.710 --> 00:04:01.909 period now. We just got to grind it out and try to hope it 56 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:05.990 things work and trust the people you work with. Fortunately, I do trust 57 00:04:05.990 --> 00:04:10.860 the people I work with and work for and I think things will work out. 58 00:04:11.020 --> 00:04:15.899 It's just hard right now. A lot of experimentation and just finding out 59 00:04:15.939 --> 00:04:21.259 what the best way to attack the challenge is right. But that always gives 60 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:24.889 me thinking, like am I doing the right thing? This is just the 61 00:04:25.009 --> 00:04:28.490 thing I'm doing because it's convenient. I love a challenge, but is it 62 00:04:28.569 --> 00:04:33.129 the right thing for me? And get that always gives me just looking around, 63 00:04:33.290 --> 00:04:38.170 keeping my radar ope for other things I can do on the side and 64 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:43.360 maintain kind of a balanced life while pursuing something I'm really passionate about. So 65 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:48.160 it came across and add on instagram talked about voiceover. Now it's not the 66 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:50.639 first time I've heard a voice over, not by any means. I mean 67 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:58.269 I went to college for television broadcasting, was in radio in high school. 68 00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:03.069 We had a high school radio station and conquered called Clayton Valley High School Radio 69 00:05:03.110 --> 00:05:08.339 Sord, K vhs. I guess you call it the edge. Ninety five 70 00:05:08.459 --> 00:05:12.620 at them. So that was fun. But I never thought so anyway, 71 00:05:12.699 --> 00:05:15.980 and I didn't think of voiceover nowadays. And my son Nick wants to do 72 00:05:15.139 --> 00:05:20.689 voice over as well because I'd shared with them documentary called I know that voice 73 00:05:21.610 --> 00:05:25.329 and so my sons are really into it as well. But I don't know 74 00:05:25.529 --> 00:05:29.970 really what voiceover means. I didn't know what it was all about and L 75 00:05:30.129 --> 00:05:38.040 I saw an ad on instagram. So I thought voiceover was like doing character 76 00:05:38.360 --> 00:05:41.800 characters or impressions. I don't I don't know. We're having a certain radio 77 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.079 kind of voice or just shit. I don't have. I'm not a radio 78 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.040 guy. I don't have a radio kind of voice. I mean I kind 79 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:49.509 of do, but that's the way I actually talked in real life. So 80 00:05:49.589 --> 00:05:53.149 if you if you run into me at the supermarket, I'm like Hey, 81 00:05:53.350 --> 00:05:56.750 that thing's on sale. If I can kind of talk like that, it's 82 00:05:56.870 --> 00:06:02.110 weird anyway. But I don't think I qualify in that realm at all and 83 00:06:02.230 --> 00:06:08.579 I definitely can't do impressions. The Best I can do voices and weird make 84 00:06:08.660 --> 00:06:12.980 weird noises. But now I didn't think that was the thing. However, 85 00:06:13.980 --> 00:06:19.449 the ad I saw on instagram was from this gentleman called the voiceover beard, 86 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:25.370 and I dug a little deeper. I listen to is what it's called Webinar. 87 00:06:25.529 --> 00:06:28.209 You know video? You know you basically those things where you give away 88 00:06:28.290 --> 00:06:31.089 your email address and they show you a video of what the rest of their 89 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:38.800 course program will be like. Well, right off the bat, I like 90 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.279 wait a second. First of all, the guys got a great voice, 91 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.800 and there's no doubt about that, and just came through loud and clear. 92 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.709 It's really weird. But also he cut off the top half of his face, 93 00:06:49.870 --> 00:06:53.550 like you can only see from the tip of his nose down to his 94 00:06:53.589 --> 00:06:56.550 chin. You see his voice, I'm sorry, you see his beard and 95 00:06:57.110 --> 00:07:00.860 you hear his voice. The voiceover beard. Simple enough, right, but 96 00:07:00.939 --> 00:07:05.860 I'm like, wait a second, that's right. This is voice we that. 97 00:07:06.139 --> 00:07:09.819 I'm like, well, wait, hold back up, saying this is 98 00:07:09.819 --> 00:07:14.139 all a branding thing. That's where I came to the realization, Holy Shit, 99 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:16.009 I could do voiceover because I know about branding, that I've been in 100 00:07:16.089 --> 00:07:21.250 branding and marketing, but branding specifically, for like twenty years. Like Shit, 101 00:07:21.449 --> 00:07:25.850 this is all about branding, it seems to be. I could be 102 00:07:25.970 --> 00:07:30.839 wrong and join me on my journey and we'll find out. Voiceover work seems 103 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:36.360 to be about branding and being yourself. So I know about branding and I 104 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.480 definitely feel like I'm myself. And can you read? MMM, yes, 105 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.470 I can read. And then, I think the last one is, can 106 00:07:45.550 --> 00:07:48.509 you take direction? And other words, are you humble enough if someone says 107 00:07:48.670 --> 00:07:53.350 now that's wrong? Can you try it like this to be able to like 108 00:07:53.470 --> 00:07:56.790 jump on that and do the Improv and try to get where they're going or 109 00:07:56.829 --> 00:08:00.740 where they're trying to go with whatever the words are? Right, I get 110 00:08:00.779 --> 00:08:05.180 all that, and so my fucking day that maybe we should do voice over. 111 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:07.779 Let's try voice over, and I'm not saying like try to be the 112 00:08:07.819 --> 00:08:11.259 voice of a fucking you know, national car commercial or nothing like that. 113 00:08:11.699 --> 00:08:16.089 Not even read one of my favorite books. I'm just thinking simple things like 114 00:08:16.329 --> 00:08:22.290 whatever, reading, corporate video verbiage or whatever, stuff like that. I 115 00:08:22.370 --> 00:08:26.129 came upon this realization at the job I'm at now, so you know how 116 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:30.439 one thing kind of really does lead to the next. I came upon the 117 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:33.399 realization because I drive a lot now. A drive like I don't know what, 118 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:35.480 at least a thousand miles a week, more like five thousand miles a 119 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:41.110 month, and I listened to lots of things, lots of podcasts and whatever, 120 00:08:41.190 --> 00:08:45.990 but podcast is one thing. That's that person's voice just talking, kind 121 00:08:46.029 --> 00:08:50.509 of like I'm just talking now. But then I started to listen to audio 122 00:08:50.629 --> 00:08:54.629 books and then I'm like, what the Fuck, Oh my God, every 123 00:08:54.710 --> 00:08:58.620 one of these audio books had to be read. Some of them are read 124 00:08:58.659 --> 00:09:03.179 by the author, most of them are not. And I loved reading, 125 00:09:03.299 --> 00:09:07.220 like in first grade when you, the teacher, would like have all the 126 00:09:07.460 --> 00:09:13.450 students around the classroom take turns reading. I love that and, as you 127 00:09:13.490 --> 00:09:18.809 can tell, I just love running my mouth in general and as extrovert as 128 00:09:18.850 --> 00:09:24.039 a sound on the mic, I'm pretty introverted and can definitely take direction and 129 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:31.759 be humble when necessary. I think I don't know. It's funny you don't 130 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:35.039 know your blind spots because they're blind. So I'm going to give that a 131 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.309 go. I have an account and some profile stuff set up under my real 132 00:09:39.389 --> 00:09:45.470 name, but I think I'm going to try it as John Emotions, except 133 00:09:45.509 --> 00:09:48.870 I'm going to put the dot back in after the e S. instead of 134 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:54.220 John Emotions, will be John e motions, kind of like Wilde Coyote or 135 00:09:54.299 --> 00:09:58.740 Doug e fresh or Bunny Carlos. You get it. I've explained that before, 136 00:10:00.580 --> 00:10:03.539 but I think it's kind of fun for the reader when they read a 137 00:10:03.580 --> 00:10:07.100 name like John Emotions. And again, remember it's all about branding in this 138 00:10:07.210 --> 00:10:11.049 voiceover thing that I'm going to attempt. So I think it's fun for the 139 00:10:11.129 --> 00:10:15.529 reader's mind to connect it when they say John Emotions. Oh, I get 140 00:10:15.570 --> 00:10:18.690 it, Johnny emotions. Anyway, I'm just fucking around, but the human 141 00:10:18.769 --> 00:10:22.600 mind does do that and people feel they have a connection when they figured it 142 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:26.240 out. A little puzzle for them, and that's what I thought. Started 143 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:30.200 to think when I was talking about the guests earlier, like these are two 144 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:33.399 great guests to Laura and Kim. Thank you so much for being on and 145 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.789 also thanks to Gary G shock. Thanks for always showing up every Saturday and 146 00:10:39.070 --> 00:10:41.309 recording podcast with me, even though I don't always get them edited, and 147 00:10:41.509 --> 00:10:46.029 put up your help in like. Like I said, I'd got to keep 148 00:10:46.070 --> 00:10:52.379 a hand in the token. Your help and just continually being there helps me. 149 00:10:52.700 --> 00:10:56.220 So, however, I can repay you, G shock. Let's do 150 00:10:56.379 --> 00:11:00.179 that. I could just hear him. They could now know. Yeah, 151 00:11:00.259 --> 00:11:03.100 motherfucker edited episode and put one up with me in it. Gary, Gary, 152 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:07.570 Gary. That is the thing about this particular show. A lot of 153 00:11:07.649 --> 00:11:11.210 podcast and it drives me nuts. Like back in the music business, there 154 00:11:11.250 --> 00:11:15.490 were always these kind of people out there telling people how to make a hit 155 00:11:15.730 --> 00:11:18.080 song, how to write a hit song and get it may like there was 156 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:24.159 a right way and a wrong way to make a song. Well, that's 157 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:30.440 kind of a heated discussion. Right. There is definitely a formulaic way to 158 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:35.149 make a song that could be promoted enough to become a hit song in America. 159 00:11:35.629 --> 00:11:41.149 It's not it's not magic. There's you know, you write the verse 160 00:11:41.629 --> 00:11:45.350 and then you have a precurse, then a verse and then a chorus and 161 00:11:45.470 --> 00:11:50.259 maybe a bridge and then another verse and Maybe Guitar Solo Back in the day 162 00:11:50.299 --> 00:11:54.820 or you know key synthe Soelo nowadays, and then chorus, course, course, 163 00:11:54.220 --> 00:11:58.980 there you go. There's a song. But as a musician, particularly 164 00:12:00.019 --> 00:12:03.769 a drummer, I like jamming. I like the jams. I like when 165 00:12:03.809 --> 00:12:05.929 you just go in there and you sit in a room with three or four 166 00:12:05.929 --> 00:12:11.330 dudes, chicks whatever, everybody knows their instrument and you just start playing. 167 00:12:11.649 --> 00:12:15.529 Nobody knows what each other's going to play. You literally having a conversation with 168 00:12:15.690 --> 00:12:20.279 your instruments, and I think of this podcast and that sense that this is 169 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.120 just a jam. We are not trying to create a structure that's some kind 170 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:30.750 of fucking like formula podcast where people know when the fucking sing along. It's 171 00:12:30.789 --> 00:12:35.990 not that at all. Hence the name signal jams. It's also a twist 172 00:12:35.629 --> 00:12:41.070 on a g shock and my TV show back in San Francisco back in the 173 00:12:41.110 --> 00:12:46.620 day. I don't know, was Theydan twenty seven orundred eight? Gary will 174 00:12:46.659 --> 00:12:52.860 correct me. I'm sure we had the TV show on public access. Yeah, 175 00:12:52.940 --> 00:12:54.379 like Wayne and Garth, we had like a fucking waynes world in San 176 00:12:54.419 --> 00:13:03.090 Francisco called TV pirates. I wanted to do signal pirates originally for this show, 177 00:13:03.169 --> 00:13:05.970 but I don't think I could get the socials. I think you know 178 00:13:07.090 --> 00:13:11.570 they were just people had signal pirates here or whatever. I think that's important. 179 00:13:11.570 --> 00:13:13.240 Whenever you create a new brand you want to make sure all the social 180 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:18.759 handles are available and sometimes you're forcing the thinking of new names, and signal 181 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.960 jams came about like Oh yeah, this fucking better name anyway. So signal 182 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.879 jams covers what we do here. We just jam with their voices. We 183 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.789 just talked, chop it up, sometimes about interesting things. Well, you 184 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:31.590 know the other thing, a lot of times I don't actually fucking edit those 185 00:13:31.629 --> 00:13:35.149 podcasts that Gary and I do, because when I listened back, not only 186 00:13:35.190 --> 00:13:39.230 it's kind of boring to me because I've heard the conversation already, but we 187 00:13:39.429 --> 00:13:43.500 might kind of or not incriminate ourselves and say some shit that I'm like, 188 00:13:43.700 --> 00:13:48.019 Guy, I don't think we should put that up. Something horrible, I 189 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:52.700 mean not cancelablel just awkward, weird, just makes us look stupid kind of 190 00:13:52.740 --> 00:13:56.570 stuff. So yeah, there it is. If you want to join on 191 00:13:58.210 --> 00:14:03.490 and follow along on the voiceover journey, that's going to start now, like 192 00:14:03.610 --> 00:14:05.450 June, like right now. It's June two thousand and twenty one. Let's 193 00:14:05.450 --> 00:14:11.120 see in June of two thousand and twenty two, if I've booked any gigs, 194 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:16.159 if I've read any e books or read for a commerce shoulder, anything 195 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.679 like that, like my diarrhea. Guy Tired Anyway. So tune in fast 196 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.230 forward to the next episode if you want to go on a little quick trip 197 00:14:26.350 --> 00:14:31.389 to the UK. And after that we'll start putting up some more with Gary 198 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:35.110 and I and maybe, I think I might have gary and go over some 199 00:14:35.230 --> 00:14:39.860 lines with me or critique each other on some scripts or something fun like that. 200 00:14:41.299 --> 00:14:43.659 We'll see. We'll see how it goes. Cool then I'll talk to 201 00:14:43.740 --> 00:14:48.259 you and well, you'll hear me as soon as you press the fast forward 202 00:14:48.259 --> 00:14:58.409 button to the next episode. But we'll check in this Jah by. And 203 00:15:03.129 --> 00:15:05.090 now back to the wall.