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Making passion heard.
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Now, Robbo, you're being heard and seen on
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socials.
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In fact, I saw a post of yours
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about doing a webinar.
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Yeah, I thought I'd dip my toe in
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the water, you know.
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As you know, I started doing demos.
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Well, you and I started doing demos a
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while ago.
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And I'm still going doing them and having
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a lot of fun doing that.
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And something that sort of occurred to me
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as I was doing them with people was
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at the same time as we were recording
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demos, I was getting asked a bunch of
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questions about, you know, what's my room sound
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like?
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You know, do you think I could do
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anything to improve it?
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Rah, rah, rah.
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And I kind of thought, well, you know,
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there's obviously a lot of people who want
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that information out there.
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So let's slap a nominal fee on it
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and sort of see who would like to
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see what I've got to say about it.
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So, yeah, so for 30 bucks on June
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the 12th at 7.30 p.m., you
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can jump online and look at my ugly
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mug for an hour and a half and
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we'll talk about home studios.
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And five people who pay a little bit
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extra will get their audio cleaned up and
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listened to and talked about by me and
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they can take all that stuff away and
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make the changes for themselves.
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Cool.
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Because it's like, you know, all these voiceover
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events, which we don't have in Australia or
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New Zealand for that matter, and they're really
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big in the States, of course.
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That's the main body.
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But I did see there was one just
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recently in the UK with Gravy for the
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Brain.
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They had their one.
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I can't think what it's called, though.
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But we don't have one here.
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And I'm wondering whether it would work in
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Australia or New Zealand if we did a
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voiceover conference event.
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I reckon it would be good to have
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one, wouldn't it?
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I mean, you know, I know we're not
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the United States, right?
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And I remember some statistic George came out
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with.
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This was years ago.
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But they did some census in California or
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something.
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And I wish George was here, he could
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tell us.
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But they did some census.
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I know it.
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I actually told you.
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I think I told you this one.
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Oh, was it you?
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It was like just in California alone there
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was some ridiculous amount of people who identified
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as a voiceover artist.
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250.
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Yes, there you go.
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Just in California.
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Right.
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But if we were to do one, I
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know we've talked about this and we actually
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talked to George and Robert about would they
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be interested in coming to Australia, for instance,
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as part of an event.
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And they seem pretty keen to do it.
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So I guess we should just put it
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out there.
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I think so.
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The Just Ask Robbo thing that I do
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as well, which is like a home studio
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help thing, I mean that's slowly getting a
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bit of momentum.
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And there's certainly plenty of people out there
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who may already have a home studio and
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they move and they'll sort of jump online,
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you know, make a booking with me and
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jump online and we'll have a listen and
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make some changes and stuff.
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And I think I've saved a few people
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from embarrassment along the way because there's some
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that you sort of go, yeah, you need
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to have a bit of a better listen
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to that.
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Maybe put some headphones on and have a
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listen back to that one.
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Yeah, exactly.
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And stuff like that.
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So, yeah.
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So, look, I mean I guess what I'm
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saying is I think there's definitely a taste
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out there that people will want to make
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their audio sound as good as they can.
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And let's be honest, I mean the home
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studios aren't going away, you know.
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We're only going to go the way of
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the States where, you know, you may not
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have to leave home.
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Well, I don't.
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No, that's right.
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You're a hermit.
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Yeah, I look like a hermit and I
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act like a hermit now.
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Yeah, so I mean someone asked me how
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often I travel into Melbourne and I had
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to really scratch my head.
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I was there once probably in three years
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and that was earlier this year.
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I think I went in for a session.
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But that was the first time in years.
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Yeah.
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What kind of things do you reckon?
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I mean you'd have to talk about Source
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Connect and all that sort of stuff given
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the conversation we've just had, you know, about
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how it's not going to be that long
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and you won't be leaving home.
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So Source Connect would have to be there.
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Source Connect, I think also if you're talking
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about working remotely, I would definitely talk about
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Twisted Wave because the good thing about Twisted
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Wave, it works on iOS and so if
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you're, you know, out of, away from the
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studio and you get a job or someone
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wants you to audition for something, I just
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use iOS on my phone and sit in
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the back of the car.
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And remember we did that as a test
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a few months back.
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Yeah.
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And it sounded pretty good.
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It was more than a few months ago.
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It was about a year or so ago
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or even longer.
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But yeah, it was great.
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Actually, I'll stick the link in the notes
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for this episode because that's great.
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So we've got Twisted Wave, we've got Source
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Connect.
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Got to talk about home studios clearly.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Obviously, getting those set up.
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So maybe, you know, George will have to
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be, if you were going to do it,
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George might have to come out.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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I mean, I wonder, it's got me thinking,
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you know, whether there's a taste for that
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sort of thing here.
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And I kind of feel like there is.
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I kind of feel like that people would
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sort of put their hand up, you know.
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Let's face it, if you did it, where
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would you do it?
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Sydney probably.
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That's the most central.
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Yeah, you'd do it in Sydney.
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Well, it's just easier, I think, Sydney.
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Yeah.
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So if you did it here, there's a
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good excuse for a weekend away.
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Do it over a couple of days.
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Yeah.
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And if you're not from Australia and you
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can write it off on tax, if you're
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US-based, you get yourself a bit of
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a vacation.
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That would be good.
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That would be another good reason to do
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it.
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All these listeners from the States that you
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and I keep talking to on email and
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Facebook and stuff, actually meet them face-to
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-face.
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There's a good enough reason to do it
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in the first place.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So I reckon it would be like you
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do breakout rooms as well.
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So you'd do home studios.
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You'd do gear.
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You would do Source Connect.
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And just, you know, maybe you have agents
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turn up and they can talk about what
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they want, casting directors, that kind of thing.
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And then you can get down into the
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weeds with a lot of audio stuff, which
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if Robert came up with Source Connect, he
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can get right down in the weeds with
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audio engineers if they're from studios around the
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country.
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Imagine what he'd – those poor voiceover artists,
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you'd have to give them a stiff scotch
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before they go into the session.
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Get their head around it.
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But I reckon, you know, we talk about
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voiceover artists, but I also think, you know,
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like audio engineers could be interested as well.
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Yeah, I would think so, especially that sort
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of stuff.
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Yeah, totally.
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Yeah.
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I mean, just thinking about it, you could
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also do business stuff.
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I mean, you know, there's plenty of Australians
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who are doing well in the States at
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the moment and overseas in certain places.
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It would be good if you could get
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a guest speaker like that maybe to come
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and have a bit of a chat.
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Just talk about business.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Because that's a big side of things these
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days, isn't it?
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I mean, let's be honest, agents aren't exactly
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proactive in getting out there and promoting people
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on their books.
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You've kind of still got to get out
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there and do it yourself.
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So if you're a bit like me, you
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might be scratching your head about how you
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do that.
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Well, it's certainly a mix.
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It's a mix of your agent promoting you
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and you promoting – because you've got to
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feed your agent as well.
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I mean, they're not going to – you
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know, they literally don't have time to be
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digging around trying to find stuff.
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So like for me and – But do
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you know what, AP?
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I was talking about this the other day.
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I remember – and this is a while
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ago now.
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So this was when I was at George
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Pat.
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So we're talking late 90s, early 2000s, or
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at Take-Two even.
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It used to happen.
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You know, if an agent got a new
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person on their books, they'd do like the
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record company thing.
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They'd do the rounds of the studios.
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Oh, can we make a time to come
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and see you, Robbo?
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You know, blah, blah, blah.
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And they'd turn up and, G'day, Robbo, this
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is Andrew.
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He's new on our books.
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You know, he's really versatile.
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Here's his demo.
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Let's have a listen.
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You know, blah, blah, blah.
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And they don't do that stuff anymore.
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No, it's funny, isn't it?
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We used to do the rounds.
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I remember doing the rounds myself, you know,
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not necessarily with an agent.
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I'd just go, you know, contact people and
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hit all the ad agencies and studios and
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stuff.
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And that was, oh, God, that was like
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nearly 30 years ago when I used to
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go door knocking.
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That was in the days of cassettes.
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In fact, I remember I was probably one
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of the first guys to do a CD
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demo.
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I remember I did demos when those little,
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what do you call it, the little micro
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SD card things, just as a bit of
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a gimmick, I chucked my demos on those
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and I dropped them around places when I
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was looking for a job once, just to
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do something a little bit different, make you
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stand out in their heads.
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So maybe what we should do, if anybody
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is slightly interested in us putting together an
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event, a conference in Sydney at some point
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in the future, next year or maybe, maybe
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just shoot us a note.
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I'll tell you what I'll do.
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I'll build a quick little form that'll take
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you two seconds to fill out, maybe just
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a couple of quick questions and a few
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multi-choice yes or no's and I'll stick
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a link.
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I'll stick it everywhere.
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I'll stick it on the website and I'll
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stick it on our socials and I'll stick
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it in the show notes if they're here
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and jump on there and tell us what
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you think if you've got any ideas.
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Yeah, cool.
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I love it.
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There you go.
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All right, we'd better go and start preparing
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for our conference.
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There's no business like show business.
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Well, that was fun.
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Is it over?
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It's over with me.
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