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Speaker: All right, you got you can take it this time. Ooh, okay. hu Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and people up, down, all around, inside and outside the gender binary. My name is Danny Guarantee, and joined, as almost always, with me is my bestie for restie, my broski with the moski.
Speaker: It is the Adam Boy. I just found that there's a part of my chair that started squeaking again, and I'm trying to make it stop. Fantastic and this is TOQ or that's our Q for long Welcome where we answer questions that people ask the internet as if they give a crap what we have to say But we answer it anyway to help spread some smiles and good vibes to the world.
Speaker: We're on the internet. We are on the internet So you don't get a choice because the internet gave everyone a voice The internet for better for everyone a voice The better or for worse. Mostly for worse. Anyway.
Speaker: I'm sorry your chair is squeaking. Mine also squeaks a lot and it gets really annoying when I'm voice acting. It wasn't though. And then Hitch sat in it and now it's all creaky. That Hitch.
Speaker: I can't believe Hitch just came in it barged their way in here and just threw you out of that chair and took your spot in the show. Yeah, for, you know, if anybody who listened to this episode first, which, you know this this podcast is designed to be listened in whatever order that you want.
Speaker: True. um And the episode recorded before this one, Hitch was all like, can I please come be on your podcast? And I was like, fine. If you have to.
Speaker: And so I took a backseat while they came in. Took a backseat is a way to put it Adam did some some martial arts and some exercises in the background. Yeah, we really should have been streaming that episode, but I didn't want to put you on the spot. Jumped the of buns.
Speaker: I was trying to get my calisthenics in while you guys were recording. But anyway, we have a new question. And hey, before we get started, just we can get it out of the way now, we have a co-fi, we have a store...
Speaker: You you have fun to support the show. We're trying to kick things off in a good way. or that we're a couple months into the fiscal year. You know, we want to make a good impact. Yeah, don't be a dick. Don't be a piece of shit. All those things. Now let's get the questions going.
Speaker: I have an Upwork. Go look me up on Upwork. Oh, yeah. We can talk about that. dan Dan G. Dan G on Upwork. Aw, dang. It just looks like dang. It's just dang. I've never heard that one before. Anyway.
Speaker: I have a question from my good friend here. ah They want to know. Their name is Cocky205 or Cokie205. We're really good friends and I know how to say their name. But they want to know.
Speaker: Adam. Mr. Adam. Dadam, if you will. Yeah. What personal trait would you want to keep if you woke up tomorrow and lost all your other qualities?
Speaker: What personal trait would I want to keep if I lost all of my qualities tomorrow? Yeah. We can say ah physical or metaphysical. So emotional.
Speaker: Things like that. Whichever you decide. If you're like, oh, well, I think I look really good. I would want to keep the trait that I look good. Or I want to keep my kindness. I want to keep my hair good.
Speaker: uh man that's tough because i have a few things i would want to hold on to um i think
Speaker: know that's a good question um i don't know what the right answer is because i'm trying to find the one that if i chose it it could still help me potentially find my way back to um Being you.
Speaker: Being as much of me as possible. Do you want me to go first? Because I have an answer. I think I have one, but if you want to. but I think I have an answer, though. But go ahead. If you have one, go for it.
Speaker: I would say I'm torn between a ah few. um So you don't have an answer. But I think the one that I am ready to at least talk about would be whimsy.
Speaker: Okay. i think You are chock full of whimsy. It's true. yeah And I think the reason why I'm leaning that direction is um i think if someone were to find me or to help remind me of things that I've lost, like I think knowing that I still have that sense of whimsy and adventure and like want to just like have...
Speaker: not just have an enjoyable experience, but like bring others along with me on like whatever enjoy joy I'm feeling. I think people would be able to find other things that connect to that. And I think it'd be easier to trigger like a memory or to like rebuild somewhere.
Speaker: So I'm answering this question strictly out of like, how do I find my way back? Um, But I don't know if that's like the impetus of the question or if it's like, oh, hey, if you had to restart, what would you at least like to have and figure out the rest of? But it would either be whimsy if I if i weren't trying to find my way back and it was just like a fresh reboot of my brain.
Speaker: um If not that, I think the same level of... um I've always been a very curious and empathetic person, so I've been torn between those two things. like either my drive for curiosity My curiosity about people, I would say. I don't know what you call that, but my curiosity about individuals probably would be the most important thing for me to keep.
Speaker: um I think we call that being nosy. it could I mean, it could be depending on how you approach it. you know And I could totally later understand how someone perceived my curiosity is as, or as we say out in the Pittsburgh area, we say Nebby.
Speaker: You think I'm being Nebby. Yeah. What about you? Well, you kind of stole my answer. I was afraid of this. But mine would absolutely be my empathy.
Speaker: I consider myself a very empathetic person. I have a very, i have too easy a time putting myself in other people's shoes to the point where I can't help but do it. If somebody gives me a sob story, I will feel bad for them no matter what.
Speaker: ah But it is also what informs most of me. It's what made me the man I am today. It's how I act is based on how I feel other people are around me.
Speaker: And I'm fine with that because I think it makes me pretty likable. i'm very I consider myself pretty easy to get along with. I am not one to you know think I'm all that and a bag of chips.
Speaker: But if there's one quality of mine that I actually feel proud of, it's my empathy and and how I use that to inform my decision making. So that would probably be the quality that I would want to keep. If everything else changed, I feel like like you said, that would kind of slowly bring me back to where I am now.
Speaker: If that stuck around. um What's one that you would be fine with losing?
Speaker: My empathy. Yeah. That's a good, good question. What is one that I would like to lose? Yeah. What's one that if like, you know, they said, hey,
Speaker: I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and going to lose something about yourself, but you get to pick what it is. What is it? I'm going to pick something metaphysical, like emotional and stuff, because if we're talking physical, I would like it if I woke up and I wasn't diabetic tomorrow. So that's kind of a gimme. I don't want to just go with that.
Speaker: ah If I had to pick something more like that.
Speaker: I would like to take away my...
Speaker: What's the word for it? Imposter syndrome. Second-guessing myself all the time. ah and Lack of self-confidence and anxiety. Yeah. you know um with
Speaker: so I don't remember if I told it on the show yet, but... ah The job that I had gotten last month or so, that contract was canceled. So I'm unemployed again. And one of the things I'm doing to really try and and make some money on the side is I'm getting really serious with the voice acting thing. I'm only applying to well-paying positions and everything.
Speaker: Whereas it used to be i would take on just about any job just to kind of get my name out there, get some stuff in my portfolio. Now I have things in my portfolio. I've done a couple audiobooks and stuff.
Speaker: I'm trying to attract actual paying clients and everything. And let me tell you, the imposter syndrome hits hard when you start trying to make money doing something on the side like this.
Speaker: It hits so hard. There are so many times where I record something and I'm like, it sounds fine. I know it sounds fine, but I am not happy with it because this is asking for money and I don't feel it's up to that quality. And I just have to force myself to just hit submit before I can second guess myself anymore.
Speaker: Because perfection is, what is it? Perfection is the enemy of complete or something like that. I'll never submit anything. don't know. I'll never submit anything because I will never think it's good enough.
Speaker: ah But yeah, that I wouldn't mind giving up. I wouldn't mind being a bit more confident in myself in the way that some people are just like stupidly confident and can make fools of themselves on TikTok.
Speaker: Just a touch of that. Just enough that I'm like, I don't care if you like my voice acting. Here's what I can do. And there you go. Instead of constantly dreading it and everything.
Speaker: Yeah, funny you say that. I was like i was just at a Sheetz the other day. those of you who don't Sheetz is like the Wawa of our area. um And there's a guy, because it was late at night, and there's always different characters that go in there at night.
Speaker: And there was one guy who just walks up out of nowhere, where he goes, Hey, boss, do you wear cologne? i was like, and I smell myself. i was like, no. And I lately I I do, but I don't spray because it's another thing that could kill hitch. And it's just like, God, their ailment really gets in the way of everything I want to smell. If they had a trait that I could replace. God, I just take away that. So I didn't. So I could just smell good.
Speaker: um But um but he says, hey, man, do you wear cologne? I said, no, not anymore. or Sorry. At first, I thought he was asking me for something. um But I was like, why do you ask? And he says, oh I'm just trying to sell some.
Speaker: And apparently he just has a a trunk full of cologne. I don't know where he got it from um because I heard him approach another gentleman with the same level of just I don't care-ism. He's just like, I'm just going to go and tell this person, hey, man, do you wear cologne?
Speaker: I sell cologne. I'd like to sell you some cologne so I can get something to eat. That's what he said. And so I was like, so you can get something to eat is a good line of like, I want to sell something so I can get food. But he was dressed in decent clothes.
Speaker: I don't know who he drove up in, but he, you know, he didn't look like he was homeless, but like maybe that is just his side gig. He's like, yeah, it's just what I do. And I need to make extra money. I don't know where he gets a stash from, but he just walked to like seven dudes throughout that evening. And he got one guy who was like, well, yeah, like, do you just have like samples on you? And a guy goes, no, I have like, i have a whole supply like in my car.
Speaker: You know, we can go look. and I can tell you show you what I have. And the guy went out and bought cologne out of the back of this dude's trunk. You know, like just but like just the confidence to go up to some stranger and say, hey, I would like to sell you something like I'm comfortable talking to strangers, but I also do not have that level of, well, now I want something from you. So, you know, and I want you to give me money for something.
Speaker: I'm just going to ask you about like that's hard. That's like. That's the level of either you have to train yourself or just you just don't care. Some people just do not care. they're not they don't They've never experienced that level of self-consciousness.
Speaker: They're just like, I'm just going to go do it because that's what I do. It's a powerful thing. Your story kind of brought up a little bit. and Look, grain of salt is just something I've seen, heard on the internet and everything. but Apparently,
Speaker: just from my own experience, I can absolutely believe it, but there is a growing population of people who have a job but are homeless because workplaces don't pay enough for a home. Consider this ah a PSA for everybody.
Speaker: The idea of a homeless person having literally nothing, you know being in like ripped up, smelly clothes, dirty, all that, that's not really true anymore.
Speaker: There are a lot of people that have enough money to buy clothes, to buy some food, not crazy, but some food. Maybe they live in their car or whatever.
Speaker: But I think that just real quick, this is something that I think people don't realize is that the homeless look is less so a thing now than it used to be.
Speaker: People are able to look presentable even while they're homeless because the One of the biggest expenses now is rent, mortgage.
Speaker: It's not the first thing you get anymore. It can't be. Yeah. and And the thing too about that is that you know I have been in the situation where While technically I'm not homeless, I don't own a home or i'm not or I don't have enough money to pay rent or anything right now. like There's been times where like my sister put me up for a couple months or like a buddy let me stay with him for a few weeks while I was figuring life out. like you know There's also situations like that where somebody might just be like couch surfing.
Speaker: and um Yeah, so that guy could absolutely be homeless, but still well enough dressed, you know? Right. He was palling around with another guy, and I think that guy was, like, helping him out. I think, like, whatever the situation was, other dude just like, all right, you know, if this is what your work is, to go do your hustle while I go get food or something. So, like, he was probably putting the kid the kid up while he tried to sell cologne. um But, yeah, I just couldn't quite tell what was going on. um But, yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker: It just kind of depends. Like there are certain levels of like inner city homelessness where it's just like, it's just bad. And like, you know, the city designs ways to cut people off from things. And, you know, it's a little bit tougher. And then there's people who are like a little bit farther out away from the city who like have different means of,
Speaker: getting around or they hang out at certain corners and stuff like that. Like I see them everywhere, but, um, which is still shitty. It's not the episode that would talk about this, but like, it's something I've thought about since I was a boy was like, why do we have this issue when we're supposed to be like a really good country?
Speaker: Um, but yeah, uh, but you were talking about imposter syndrome and things and you like to have that confidence. Like I definitely get that. Um, I think, For me, if I pick like a really practical one, I hate how bad my allergies are. Oh, dude. Like just I know. And the thing is, it's like I don't have an allergy that like except for seafood that like I could just like like hitch like because they have asthma. Like if someone sprays something into the air, I'm not going to go to anaphylactic shock and die.
Speaker: um But it's just like a constant annoyance where like just what they call the T-zone of your face is mine is constantly inflamed, itchy, sweaty, like stuffy. Like my nose right now if feel feels like there's a bunch of tiny little fire ants crawling all through it. and It's just really uncomfortable. Yeah.
Speaker: and like makes me all sniffly all the time. And God, I just if I could just not have that, if I woke up tomorrow, I thought when I got my septum fixed, everything would be better. And there's things that got much better. But then also more allergens can get in now. So like it's a it's a trade off where like I can taste and smell and enjoy things more. But also Earth's atmosphere tries to kill me twice as much.
Speaker: You know, what's crazy to me? Yeah, I heard as you get older, your allergies can get worse. And that's absolutely been true for my animal dander allergies. Cats and dogs, so much worse than I used to be.
Speaker: I used to be able to spend a night at somebody's house with a dog, and I'd wake up with a little wheeze, I'd take a shot of the ah the puffer, the albuterol, and I'd be okay.
Speaker: Nowadays, couple hours in, I'm sneezing like a maniac. I'm like, I can feel it in my chest. But my seasonal and just general allergies have gotten so much better.
Speaker: I almost never have like normal outdoor allergies anymore.
Speaker: But the cats and dogs have gotten a lot worse. It's like, yeah, it's interesting I mean, the body changes, man, like um like full on allergies that would kill you at one point can like regress and you can develop new shit. Just very interesting, like how certain tolerances can develop over years and then how other ones just one day you're like, hey, I like cheese. And the other day it's like, no, no cheese gives you diarrhea or no cheese blocks you up and you can't have it anymore. It's just.
Speaker: Absolutely crazy. yeah The idea that you can become allergic to something just out of the blue through no fault of your own is terrifying to me. Yeah, there's definitely like, what do you do about that? You know, how do you, you know, like, oh ah you know, like some people have to learn the hard way that peanut butter almost kills them.
Speaker: You know, like that would absolutely suck balls. Your kid, your Easter time. If I woke up and was suddenly allergic to peanut butter tomorrow, I wouldn't know until I ate peanut butter. Right. Right. Yeah. And like sometimes you just know and things like, oh, I have to give my kid an allergy test to see what they're allergic to before they eat anything.
Speaker: Where, you know. Uh, Yeah, that would just absolutely suck to be that kid on Easter morning and a hospital visit. This actually happened with my one friend. He had a cat a couple years ago.
Speaker: And he was like, yeah, you know technically I'm allergic to cats, but like I just get a little sniffly. I kind of get used to it. That cat passed.
Speaker: They just got a new kitten. And his allergies are so much worse now. To the point where he had to get put on some kind of medication. And thankfully that's enough that he's like, I feel better. I feel about the same as I did before.
Speaker: So we can keep the kitten. Yeah. So we can keep the kitten, but now I have to be on this med. I'm like, you know, that's fair enough. But it's crazy how like, it's the same animal. They're not the same breed, but I don't think they're so different that the allergen would be different.
Speaker: But yeah, just over time, his body got more sensitive to cat dander. Yeah, I mean, dander is different for all people and all animals. So, you know, it's very.
Speaker: Sometimes some animals, depending on their fur and hair, I mean, people, too, they hold different kind like they hold dander in more. They collect it more before they shake it off. um Yeah, it's very interesting. ah And frankly, I don't even know if I'm not allergic to animals either. Like, I absolutely hate it. I hate the feel of fur on my face.
Speaker: like Especially if it's a cat fur that flies off all the damn time. It's why I'm really big on like no animals on my bed ever. i just hate If I lay into my pillow and I pick my face up and I just feel ecstatic.
Speaker: fucking Oh, yeah. you know I could get that. yeah well God, I hate it so much. um just I don't like it. um yeah and I'm still not entirely sure what about animals I'm allergic to. I've been told it's dander.
Speaker: But I'll also get localized hives if like a dog licks my hand. I'll get hives just on my hand for only like an hour and then they'll go away. But like, I feel like it can't just be dander then because they don't have dander on their tongue, do they?
Speaker: It doesn't sound like a thing that would be unless they lick themselves a bunch before they licked you, I guess. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But some animals have different enzymes and stuff, too. it's yeah it's hard to say. You might just have like a like just say a general animal.
Speaker: And of course they know. So like anytime I go to somebody's house and they're like, oh, don't worry, the dog, the cat, they don't they don't like people come right up to me. They know.
Speaker: Well, that's exactly it. the The dogs and the cats, especially the cats, they want to go spend time with the humans that aren't trying to spend time with them because they're like, what fuck's your problem? And then the dog gets said that I'm not petting it, so it comes and bothers me. Yeah, so it's like, here, allow me to grace you with my presence. The cat says, I noticed you have a hard time breathing when I'm around, so let me sit on your lap.
Speaker: yeah And I'm an animal lover. So now I have a cat on my lap, which I can never have because of my allergies. And I'm like, I don't want to move you. I want you to sit on my lap so I can pet you. Yeah, it's a constant struggle.
Speaker: Yeah, that's that's why I think if I had to just if someone said, Adam, you have five seconds to make a decision of something that you would just lose. I like, yeah, I don't want to be allergic to anything like I want to not have allergies anymore. And they'll be like, cool, done. Like I would fucking call the life change like you wouldn't believe, baby. Oh, my God.
Speaker: I can breathe. Yeah, I don't know if I'm allergic to the atmosphere or what. I know I'm allergic to grass, um so in but like it doesn't always manifest the same way.
Speaker: a But I don't know. Even when I'm indoors, if if I'm in a sealed area, just there's something always floating in the air that just makes me fucking miserable and I hate it.
Speaker: Mr. Adam, I do have a second question if you want to extend this episode. Go for it. Okay. This is very important. Is it OK? I'm sorry. This is from my my other friend.
Speaker: I have a lot of friends. This is for you. ABK 29. My good friend, ABK. Yes, ABK. Yeah. Don't ask about the other 28. We don't talk about them. Shout out.
Speaker: But 29 good old 29 wants to know, is it OK to heat up ice cream in a microwave if you don't like eating it cold? Yeah, why?
Speaker: Not going to you give them very gentle. Would you think somebody is weird to do that? like Like, would you judge them? Would you be like, what the hell? I wouldn't be judgy. I'd be more concerned if it was like they got like a full.
Speaker: If they got a full pint of it, oh, I guess a pint. If I'm in a mood, I could eat a pint of ice cream. But like lately, that's just even still too much. That's going to take me a few days.
Speaker: But i would be more concerned if they just put like a pint of ice cream in the microwave, melted it and drank it like that's just. Because that means that they could do multiple at a time, like if you can pound like a a smooth drink like that, I mean, you could do you could probably go through several pints, which the quickest way to gain weight and to get diabetes is to drink a shit ton of sugar.
Speaker: Um, so I wouldn't judge them. I would be more concerned if that was, if, if it was a ah domino effect. Yes. Like I wouldn't judge. I'd be like, Hey, like, are you okay? You know, because also some people just can't eat cold stuff. Like, you know, I have sensitive teeth. So some things are harder for me to eat.
Speaker: Um, you know, you might like the taste, but you just hate, you know, you want something more like a milkshake. Like I don't, No, I wouldn't judge. You can do what I fucking want long as you're hurting somebody. I asked this question because ABK29 and I were on similar wavelengths here.
Speaker: When I was younger, I had very sensitive teeth and I never ate actual ice cream. I would only get milkshakes. And if we had ice cream at home, I would take a few scoops, throw it in a bowl.
Speaker: And I would take a metal spoon and I would stab at it and mush it until it was just a mush. And then I'd wait like five minutes for it to melt a bit. And then I would just kind of drink it with a spoon like it were soup.
Speaker: Sure. But the real reason I'm asking this is that last job that I was just contracted at, I actually got looks from people because I would make coffee in their coffee maker. They had like the K-cup coffee maker things, but they had it set to like the max heat.
Speaker: So if I got a coffee, I wouldn't be able to drink that thing for like an hour until it cooled enough to be hot instead of scalding. And they had nice machine, so I would...
Speaker: grab a cup, throw like four or five ice cubes in the cup and then get my coffee. And I had people giving me looks and I'm like, well, I want to drink it today. yeah Like that ice just takes that heat off and makes it hot instead of scalding hot.
Speaker: Yeah. But yeah, I definitely got looks for it. Did you know, i just learned somebody was just explaining the difference between cold brew and iced coffee to me the other day.
Speaker: Do you know that iced coffee is just old coffee that they cool down with ice and then leave in the fridge and then put more ice in it and then serve it to you cold the next day?
Speaker: I did not know that that's how they do it. I know... Like my Keurig that I have at home was like, this Keurig's great for making iced coffee. And I was like, you know what? That sounds kind of good. How do I, what's the setting for that?
Speaker: So I looked it up in the user manual and it said, just take your favorite mug and put ice in it and then make coffee. And i was like, Yeah. So every cake cup or every curing is perfect for making ice. Yeah. Literally all it is. Like I didn't realize that like, and I know it sounds so simple, but they charge so much for it.
Speaker: Yeah. that And it's just the leftovers. Yeah. And I thought, well, there must be something to it. And a lot of times it's just, we heat up a bunch of hot coffee and then we just let it cool down.
Speaker: yeah And then we put ice in it. And sometimes I'll just chuck it in the fridge and then bring it back out and pour it and then put ice in it again to make it extra cold. But like, I don't understand the idea of make hot coffee to cool down coffee.
Speaker: And then charge me because you wait, you you made it cold after making it hot. Well, they charge you more because you think that. Huh? They charge you more because you thought it was like special.
Speaker: right Right. Well, that's exactly it. That's why I'm upset about it. is you guys are making me think because, again, you also get less coffee in the cup, much like how when you go to a fast food joint and they fill half the cup with ice, you get less drink.
Speaker: So I'm like, so yeah I could have had the same amount of the same size cup of coffee. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but if I were, I'd be like, I would want the whole eight ounces of it to be coffee.
Speaker: But now you filled up an eight ounce cup with just filled with ice and then coffee poured on top of it. or ice put in after the coffee's been there. I don't know what comes first, but essentially I'm drinking less coffee and it's cold and it's old.
Speaker: And you want me to pay $11
Speaker: Fuck your coffee machine. just make coffee at home. Yeah. And cold brew is just they brew it cold. Yeah. I was like, well, that OK, well, then just just do that. The only difference that I can understand between the two is that I don't know which is which, but there's an acidity difference, which I guess might make the taste slightly different.
Speaker: But outside of that. It's just old turns out coffee tastes good, hot and cold, just not warm. Yeah, they just. I'm pissed off about that. Not even drink it, but I'm pissed that iced coffee is just old coffee with ice in it.
Speaker: I use your argument about why you don't like ice. I use that for good now. Whenever I have soda, I fill the cup up with as much ice as possible. Like if I got like a two liters Diet or something that. Sure, so you drink less?
Speaker: Instead of filling my cup with soda, I will fill it with ice and then soda. Keeps it nice and cold. And yeah, I drink. It slows me down. I get less soda per cup. but i yeah But it tricks me because I still feel like I'm drinking a whole cup of soda.
Speaker: I still feel like, you know, I have this huge cup and it's filled with soda and I'm drinking it. But no, it's like half soda and half ice. That's why for similar reasons. That's why I've been drinking a lot of bubbly things.
Speaker: Because if it's flat, I'll pound it and I won't. These things being the exception, these little Gator light things, it got me slightly the wrong one. This one has a little bit of sugar in it, but I'm still going to drink it because it was a gift.
Speaker: But um But like if it's like an eight ounce cup of anything that's flat, it won't make it beyond like me feel like I will fill up the cup and then drink it immediately. um So bubbles slow me down because I can't c chug without like giving myself hiccups or like upset myself.
Speaker: So I've been drinking a lot of bubbles to stop myself from being a fucking pig. I don't know if it's because when I was younger, like i said, I drank a lot of Coke. I don't know if it's from that or just the fact that like I've always been a big eater.
Speaker: But sometimes I feel like, especially when it comes to drinking like a flat beverage, like water, you know ah Hitch seemed surprised by the fact that I said I drink two liters of water a day.
Speaker: But like I could pound a water bottle like this in less than 10 seconds and not even feel it. I can drink liter water. Especially it's room temp. Yeah, exactly. If if it's room temp.
Speaker: Just today, I ate lunch. And I guess whatever it was was salty. And i was super thirsty afterwards and I had my two liter bottle of water there.
Speaker: I just downed half of it. I downed an entire liter of water all at once. And like I was still like, I don't feel full. Stomach wise, I'm like, Jesus, this thing is just a black hole.
Speaker: Yeah. Bodies are weird. Mm hmm. Potties are weird. Danny, you know, I want to change the subject a bit because I would like for you to okay use this little platform of ours to tell everybody about your up work and what you're doing. And, you know, that way, if anybody knows anybody who knows anybody, sure, read the word. And then, you know, so let's see. Let's talk about it. Yeah. Like we were talking about, I did start an up work.
Speaker: Trying to get past that. That ah imposter syndrome stuff, you know, trying to get in there. Wait, I'm sorry, real quick. I'm sorry. Was it Upwork or Fiverr? Upwork.
Speaker: So you have an Upwork account, not a Fiverr account. I have both. You have both. Is it for the same thing? I have an Upwork account. I have a Fiverr account. I have a Cast and Call Club account.
Speaker: And it's all for voice acting stuff, but the Upwork one... Out of all of them, Upwork seems the most professional. Okay. You know, it's less, hey, I'm making a project for school.
Speaker: I'll give you five bucks to voice a character. And it's more, I'm making a video game or I'm doing audio books and I need narrators and and more professional stuff.
Speaker: um So I have an account now on Upwork. It's Dan G. ah You'll probably find it pretty quickly. i I think you can even search Danny Guarantee and it'll come up, but I'm not entirely sure.
Speaker: ah But yeah, I do ah voice acting for... i specialize in like cartoony, over-the-top cartoony villainous roles as my favorite.
Speaker: But I am able to do more down-to-earth conversational things like this. I've done audiobooks. That's kind of where the most of my work has been. so if you have an audiobook you want done, one of them I've done just my normal voice. One of them I voiced you know with Adam. The two of us are narrating and voicing every character.
Speaker: So I'm able to do that. I've done serious things. I've done comedic things. So yeah, hit me up on Upwork if you want. I've been applying to different jobs on there, so maybe you'll see my name floating around. Who knows? That would be cool.
Speaker: You are muted, sir.
Speaker: Sorry, I was clicking around trying to find you on Upwork, and I didn't want all my clicks to come through on the microphone. Did you find it? ah No. um Which is why i was goingnna I was trying to ask again what it was called so I could find it real quick.
Speaker: All right, hang on. Let me see if I. It says Danji. Upwork.
Speaker: If you go to Upwork.com and you scroll down a bit, there's a thing there.
Speaker: Find freelancers who can help you build what's next. And then says explore freelancers.
Speaker: Aha. And there's a search bar.
Speaker: Gotcha. um Yeah, but you also have a Fiverr for similar things, right? Because think that one's a little bit more friendly to share Oh, there's a lot of Danges. Dang. Other people. Because Upwork is a lot for like other people to find you to hire for work.
Speaker: And then Fiverr is a little bit easier for like more laymen to find you. Yeah, Fiverr would be more just like... you know, hey, I'm making a ah little project. It only needs you for like a day or two.
Speaker: You know, you want, here's a couple bucks. Right. Whereas this is more long-term projects. So yeah, you could try finding me on Fiverr if you want. You could find me on Upwork. You could, Casting Call Club also has a bunch of random things on it. If you want to make a project there, you can find me on there too.
Speaker: I'm all over the place.
Speaker: Yeah. um So, yeah, help ah help help Danny If you want to find him on those places, Danny, if Danny will share the links later and not try to make sure to remember to put them in the show notes or in the very least, we'll try to get them on our website. So they're all there. um Yeah, actually, if you want to send that stuff over to Cass and ask her to put it on there.
Speaker: I can do that. Or I'll do it. I haven't fucked around the website a lot, but either way, please do that. um I would appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. It'd be very cool.
Speaker: I only just started, so, you know, there's nothing on there yet, but hopefully one day or if somebody sees this and is like, hey, I've heard your show. I like your voice. It's not awful. I can listen to it.
Speaker: Hit me up. It's not awful. It's not awful. could be better, but it's not awful. It could always be better. Why do you think that it could always be better? Well, you know.
Speaker: i actually, it's taken me a very long time to even like my own voice.
Speaker: Actually, I don't remember if I said this on here, but ah the author for the audiobook Me and You were doing. Mm-hmm. sent a message to somebody saying,
Speaker: asking well, asking them if it's true that I'm voicing all the characters in the audio book. did you Did you know about this? No. I forget who. I think they asked Cass ah if it's true that I'm voicing everybody because they're like, there's no way that one person is doing all these different voices.
Speaker: And like, it doesn't sound like them at all. And i had never gotten that compliment before. And I was like, that that's impossible, like because if I hear it right, it's my voice. I can hear the me in all of these different voices clear as day.
Speaker: Sure, sure. But apparently, you know, they can't because they don't know my voice like I do. But that was the first time I ever got. That compliment.
Speaker: So that was very cool. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker: Yeah, I think i think it's it's like... I think about that a lot in other regards because like there's always... like I've been seeing a lot of discourse online about like how blockbuster movies and TV shows often are trying to recruit big name actors to do voices instead of voice actors, you know, fucking hate that. And like now actors are doing most of the big voice acting work. Yeah. and like, i always just found it to be very cool that there's so many, like, I know it sounds weird, but like, I like that there's so many voices that if somebody did the character, I would know, but like, i don't know what they look like all the time, you know, or like, I only know them because like the fandoms really gotten big and like, they come to conventions and things, but like,
Speaker: ah But like but also there's so many people who like a true talented voice actor can do so many voices. And I love being like, oh, my God, they they did that character, too.
Speaker: Yeah, that's crazy. You know, like in ah in a book, especially like you hear it like back to back, you're talking to yourself or usually you don't hear it as much. um Although there are plenty of voice actors, I mean, like Seth MacFarlane, for instance, talks to himself all the time in his own show.
Speaker: um You know, he plays Peter, Brian and Quagmire. I was going say, he's he's like that in Family Guy. I could never tell that. Right. Like, ah you know, so but there's plenty of other, you know, like Jim Cummings, who does so many iconic voices that like I didn't know he could go from being fucking.
Speaker: you know, Winnie the Pooh to Goofy. i don't know. It's not goofy. He does that. But or to like Darkwing Duck or something. It's like I didn't know. Yeah. Any of that. Or Charles Martin. Right. Yeah. Mario also did the super deep voice dragon in Skyrim Parthenax.
Speaker: Yeah. Which is just that like blew my mind. when i Right. And that's like the mark of like a good. David la is another huge one that I adore. Because I love being like, oh, they did that, too? Oh, shit. Like, oh, wow. I didn't. Oh, I know that name. And I see them in, ah you know, on Instagram or in a text or something like, oh, I know them um or in the or or in in the credits or in the opening credits. i'm Like, oh, who does this person play?
Speaker: So, you know, all that to say, like, I think there's there's a talent there that I think there's acting You know, like, like, I hate to poke shots at the guy, but like Seth Rogen only does Seth Rogen and any voice character he's ever very good at doing Seth Rogen. Right. But he's good at being him. And so I you just kind of have to get over that. Like the character you're listening to is clearly Seth Rogen. Well, it's it's the same thing with like Patrick Warburton. They're all Patrick Warburton, but he is a good voice actor.
Speaker: He is great at acting. at expressing a character the way only he can. Right. So like, but I don't want it to sound like you're only a good voice actor if you can do a bajillion voices. No, I'm just saying, like but there's a talent to it. It's different. There is, yeah. like It's not just... pat Patrick Warburton's talking voice is not the characters that he plays. like They are in some exaggerative way or characterized way of his voice, but he's not just talking because that's not what he sounds like when he talks to everybody.
Speaker: like He doesn't sound like Kronk. yeah know He doesn't talk that way. But also, if I heard him just talking, I bet you I could hear the Kronk in it. sure sure and in the same way that you can hear your own voice when you listen to these other characters like sure that is a human being who does that and like um but um all i'm saying is like there's like a level of like if i pick on seth rogan and like he does the characters he's supposed to do when he does the lines the way he's supposed to do them he's a good actor but like he there's nothing about his voice that makes me think like if you'd had him say like
Speaker: hi, hello, my name is character name, and he introduced all five of his other characters, I'd be like, or or if he just said some iconic line, I'd be like, I still don't know which character he's trying to be. Well, that that's my problem with, um what's his name? Chris Pratt, when when he came out as Mario for like the Mario movies. Right.
Speaker: i was like, Chris Pratt, he can voice act. He's not bad at it. But he can't do other voices. It's just Chris Pratt. Right. Which is fine. Be Chris Pratt. Which is fine. But like... Not in like animated shit. in Mario. Yeah. Like there is plenty... Can we leave the animated stuff to the people that can do wackier voices? Like the whole point of animation is that you can cross physical boundaries that normal humans can't do.
Speaker: It's why real life adaptations of animated things never work out. like the Lion King movie that the new ah real life version looks so flat is because there is no way a lion that's trying to be realistic can do the things that these cartoon lions can do. They can't make those expressions without looking goofy as hell.
Speaker: But it goes the same for the voice and an animated character having a larger than life, wackier voice is what you want. I don't want just a normal dude.
Speaker: Yeah, so I all that to say, like, I think Like, so well, before I move on to that, like a point i I wanted to make real quick was I never quite understood why they always had to go for these big names in these movies, these animated movies, because they would actually save on budget because I imagine it must not cost nearly as much to hire.
Speaker: you know, they're trying to get people in on the name. Right, right. But like they would save on budget if like if they got Jim Cummings to come and do the voice, because like if you just say I'm doing a Mario movie, the kids are like, yay, Mario. I don't care if it's Chris Pratt. Like if it's an animated movie that's typically for kids anyway, kids don't fucking care. They don't. It doesn't have to be Chris Pratt in the movie.
Speaker: People probably learn who Jack Black was, you know, who, you know, kids who didn't grow up with Tenacious D or anything, you know, or saving silver. I'm telling you. um You know, but like.
Speaker: Not that I'm ungrateful, but it's also. You know. There's there's. I just wish it was separated a bit more. Yeah, there's people who are better at it, and that should be like their shtick first, like they should get first right of refusal for roles before you just say, oh, let's get this big actress or actor in here. I forget somebody.
Speaker: I had seen something on this subject and somebody had pinpointed what movie did it first. What animated movie was the first to be like. We want this huge name to be the star.
Speaker: Voice wise. And ever since then. All the main cast for all these animated movies are real life actors so that we can get we can say, you know, so and so.
Speaker: it But it's Chris Pratt playing Mario. Was it Eddie Murphy? Was it Eddie Murphy? don't think it was Eddie Murphy. Not Muffy. I don't think it was Eddie Murphy.
Speaker: Was it was it Michael Myers Shrek? don't think it was that either because michael myers he wasn't he was big but i don't think he was ever crazy big and he still does like a voice for shrek he does yeah he has a lot of characters that he plays and he just puts that one in his voice form um yeah all that to say know i think you know to your point like i think someone who's good at it like
Speaker: If you're good at there's just a talent to it that I think a lot of people don't understand when it comes to you, whether it's narration, voice acting, any blend of the two.
Speaker: um It is hard. and I got to say. No one ever give Adam credit for this, but Adam, Adam kicked off a lot of this, y'all. i just want everyone to know that the Fun Installer's network, Adam dove into learning how to narrate books and then shared all the wisdom to the world.
Speaker: And I got to tell you, he's such a good boy. I am a good boy, goddammit. No one wants to give me credit for it. I just want a little acknowledgement, that's all. It's a little acknowledgement that Adam took care of his kids. ah like Adam took care of his children. That's that's's all about it. But anyway, um it is exhausting because even if you read your pages, your notes, your books, your, you know,
Speaker: Dozens of times like you a lot of the times. Again, I've never been in a booth where like someone else is doing the editing and things like that or or a director. But when you're doing a lot of this stuff independently and I'm sure it's ah there's their own set of challenges when you're in the booth and like a professional studio.
Speaker: But. Man, when you do recording for a couple hours and you have to do so many takes and redos because you fuck up or because like equipment isn't working or you realize you've been talking this whole time and you never hit the record button on Audacity. I've done that before ah where I'm like, i'm missing a whole chapter. What the fuck happened?
Speaker: um or you Or I've had times where the editor's like, hey, you read the same line four times in a row. And I'm like, fuck, I thought I erased those. I left them in the edit. you know But but like by the end of like a couple hours of recording, you have maybe like...
Speaker: If like unless hour. Yeah, as you say on a good day, on a good day, you have like 30 minutes if you were really kicking ass and you didn't fuck up that much. But like I've had so many days where I'm like sitting here recording two, three hours and I have like 15 minutes or less. I'm like, fuck, it's all I have. It takes me on average. It takes me about an hour and a half to two hours to do a chapter of a book. And yeah, a chapter is about 10 pages.
Speaker: Because you're not just reading it. You're reading it, figuring out how people would say it. like Because you can't just read. Right. You can't just read it. You cannot just read it. That's not fun. That's not engaging. So you almost have to... How would they read this in a cartoon almost? so like Not necessarily that...
Speaker: big, but you need to use some of that in order to make your voice more engaging. Right. Like your narration is its own character. Yeah. Like, because the thing is, too, is unless you're reading like a fact book, which is I've done one where you're just kind of keeping the same energy and tone for the whole thing.
Speaker: But if you're reading a book that has characters in it and you have to be all of those characters, you have to remember what all of them sound like. You have to think about how they would react to different situations. You have to understand the characters.
Speaker: You have to read ahead because some authors write differently. And so it might not be always a apparent right away what they're trying to say. Or some people write in longer sentences and you run out of breath partway through reading it And you're like, do I just take a breath and keep reading? Or do I try to suck it all in and just read that all in one big breath?
Speaker: How would they want me to read that? um It's a lot of work. and and and my throat has been a few times. i don't know about you, Danny. but There's been a few times where like my jaw was hurting. My throat was hurting because I'm just like I'm doing these different faces to do voices and I'm trying to keep the energy high and I'm getting gravelly. I just hear my voice is just getting raw.
Speaker: When I do like a chapter for our book. I'm usually OK. Some of the voices, like, I had to do this voice for a bit. Because my character is a little bit younger than Adam's, and he's um he's a teenager. Basically, he's basically's a teenager.
Speaker: So they told me, like, hey, this whole book, everything you're narrating is from his point of view. So voice the characters how you think a teenager would hear their voices.
Speaker: So the fact that Adam and i actually don't even know how we voice most of these characters. Uh, like, I don't know what he would have done for this character, but to my character, she's an older woman and she's kind of an ass.
Speaker: So I did something like this voice. And after doing this voice for a little bit, you know, it started to hurt, but, yeah um, a different project I recently had to do. i had to do a narration and they wanted it in, uh, what was his name?
Speaker: um Kind of like the the old spooky Scooby-Doo announcer. Sure. And so I did my best kind of impression of that. And when I sent it to her, i was like, look, i you know let me know if it sounds like it got lost anywhere. Because by the end of that, my throat was freaking raw.
Speaker: And I was like, i at this point, I've been doing this for like three hours. I can't even hear it. and I can't hear that voice anymore. It's like because I've been doing it for so long now. Yeah.
Speaker: I need you to listen to this. And just if there's a part where you're like, it doesn't sound right, just send it to me and I'll do it again another day with fresh ears, fresh voice. Yeah. But also I looked up that movie.
Speaker: What? The first one to really kick off the idea of bringing in celebrities to do voice acting. What's that? It was... And i had a feeling it was this.
Speaker: My favorite movie as a kid. 1992's Aladdin. Oh, Robin Williams? o Which, fair enough, he was the perfect genie.
Speaker: It was a match made in heaven. But he was also... a giant name in live acting. And you bet your ass. A lot of people went to see Aladdin to see Jim Carrey or Jim Carrey, Robin Williams. Yeah, but I would, but Robin Williams also, he did a lot of TV. Like, yeah, I don't think like, yeah I know about you. Remember these are executives.
Speaker: Right. but These are people that are like, hey, people are going just to see Robin Williams. Like, OK, I guess the next film we need to throw in another star so people will come see that. Right. Always learn the wrong lesson.
Speaker: But that was like he was the main guy and like Gilbert Godfrey was the fucking parrot. But yeah, you know, there's not like they had like this epic billing of like all these the biggest stars at the time doing Aladdin.
Speaker: Well, no, but I got them. I don't know. That's what it evolved into. Right. Like, I don't mind if it's a couple people that are recognizable, but like they're entertaining. But yeah. um Also, I just yeah pick pick actors who would do well as a voice actor. Like just because they can voice act.
Speaker: Doesn't mean that I would say that they are that kind of animated person like Robin Williams was a real life cartoon. Let's be honest. That dude was a real living cartoon character.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, he and he and Jim Carrey. criminal that he was a live actor more than he was a voice actor. And Jim Carrey, yeah. Yeah, both of them. um but Yeah, I was just thinking about that voice thing, too, about like why it gets so raw. And then I remembered in the book that you and I are doing, you have I have like Way fucking longer chapters.
Speaker: And I'm stupid and I do like four or five in a day. don't know why you do that. I do one, maybe two. And at first Because have so many. Well, at first I was worried because I was like.
Speaker: You know, I heard you're doing like five or six, you said. And I was like, well, I'm only doing like one or two. You know, I hope that I'm going fast enough that it's not a problem.
Speaker: And then I talked to our friend Cass, who's editing it. And she was like, oh, yeah, I'm only on like chapter three. Like they take a long time to edit. I was like, they do. OK, great.
Speaker: Good. I'm done. Especially now with like, you know, I have a lot more free time again. I'm I'm banging out two or three chapters a week. Easy. And I'm like, well, le yeah, I only do one chapter a day. Oh, man. Yes. Gonna say no. That's why I'm killing myself over here. Yeah. Don't do that.
Speaker: Well, I shouldn't do that in this particular book. Like it goes like links three chapters and then Fox and then maybe Fox gets a second one and then links four chapters and then Fox again and then link three more chapters and then Fox. I was like, I have to like.
Speaker: Like, I want to make sure because I didn't know what the editing, how long was going to be. So and Iris is always checking. So i was like, yeah, I have a lot more. Every time I look at the thing, i'm like, fuck, I still have like 40 more of these to do. God damn it.
Speaker: So like I was like, I have to keep up up up of this because I wanted to keep up the same. I didn't know what your pace was going to be. So i was like, I want to make sure that like story wise, we're keeping up together.
Speaker: And then at some point I was like, well, Marty, I've had a few days where i was like, well, um um you know what? I read ahead. I'm like, ah, it's only like three pages. I'll do one more chapter. So there's days if it's a real short one, I'll do like six or seven.
Speaker: But it was actually enjoyable too, because I just kept reading like your chapters in between, which was really cool to be like, I wonder what that... It helps that it's like a genuinely good book. It is fun. Like I was having a good time being like, oh, oh, that little scamp. What's he getting up to? Well, what a dick that box is. Yeah. Because there's also characters that like don't have, that they don't have overlap.
Speaker: So or characters that like I have my characters will have the main character I voice will have very little interaction with that your character will have talked to a bunch. So it's nice. for Like, oh, who the hell is that?
Speaker: haven't met this person yet. Who the fuck is this? Am I going to know them soon? How do they describe what they sound like? Because if they come into my. you know I want to know what their personality is because if they come into my character's purview, I want to know what the fuck that to voice them as.
Speaker: um So there was a few where I had to like write down character names that I didn't know yet, just in case I met them. and i like What I would do... i don't know if you do this or not, but if I'm doing a ah book that has characters, I keep a little list right next to me of like roughly kind of what voice I use because I don't always remember what I make them sound like.
Speaker: What I do is I come up with whatever voice I want for them the first time they're brought up. I will do the first line in that voice. And if I'm happy with it, I will snip it, copy it to its own Audacity file, save it as that character's voice, you know, that character voice so that I can reference it later and say, like, what did that person sound like? It was this voice.
Speaker: That's a way probably way better than what I do. What I do is I would like i have like just this little baby notebook that I'm always writing things in. and i write I have like a a running list and it would say like,
Speaker: Character A, it's like your walk-in voice, but they're sick. or like I mean, look, I get it like i play I've played a lot of D&D in my day, so a lot of my voices have been used in that.
Speaker: So when I'm doing... like I recently came out with a little commercial for myself that I think I'd shown around. And in and in it I was writing down what voices I wanted to do for it.
Speaker: And instead of describing them, I just wrote the D&D characters that had those voices. That helps, though. but that's, yeah. I mean, gives you a point of reference. it's They're more personas than they are voices alone.
Speaker: True. like that's like That would be some other notes I would add. It's like... this character is gravelly and kind of always a dick or something like that way. Like I know, like the energy to bring into it is to be kind of smarmy when I talk.
Speaker: Um, it helps me lot that mostly there's only three characters I need to voice. And that's me, you and this girl, Elise. Everybody else is pretty tertiary for me.
Speaker: Yeah, ah you do. Yeah. When I read your chapters, I remember getting pretty envious a couple times. i was like, man, this dude only got to do. But one of my three voices is a girl, so I have to do a lot of female voicing.
Speaker: Yeah, I have a couple. I think my favorite that. Oh, you probably don't get then forgot to meet his partner. i met him, but I didn't get a chance to talk to him.
Speaker: Yeah, because he yeah. Anyway, we're talking about a book y'all can't have access to yet, but hey, keep an eye out for when the when the ah the gold weeps coming out sometime in the coming months. Keep an eye out for that.
Speaker: um Good stuff. Anyway, you want to wrap up this episode, Danny? We kind of got enough a little bit of voice. my God. It's been another fricking hour. Holy crap. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I did that on purpose because I didn't want you to have talked to H more than you're talking. about Don't worry. There's enough Dan to go around.
Speaker: It's fine. Yeah, i know. But yeah, I think this was a good, good stopping point. Hey, everybody, going to be super quick with it because we only got 10 seconds left until we hit an hour. Exactly. Don't be an asshole this year. I love you all. This is a dream come true. Okay. I got five more seconds. Goodbye.
Speaker: Don't be a dick. Bye. And go.
