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Keri Tombazian's avatar

As one who has affection for you and roots for your success - and one who makes my living in all manner of spoken word, I urge you to find your actual voice and use it. Gently I say - don’t try accents.

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Duchesse des Esseintes's avatar

Or he could enrol himself into the "Michael Moynihan School for Funny Accents" - I'm sure Moyn could be paid in kind (aka booze).

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Shane's avatar

Congratulations, I made it to “I got me a sister...” before the accent forced me to pause the audio and upgrade my subscription to paid. Not sure why it took me so long, but I’m happy to be here

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Rose Marie Holt's avatar

occasionally I wonder if Emily has given you the Alfie Allen treatment.

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Andrea's avatar

This is why I subscribe. How do you not have a book deal?

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Lucas's avatar

Is it just me or is there music in the background at one point so loud you cannot hear anything else?

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Ben Dreyfuss's avatar

oh im such an idiot. i uploaded the wrong draft. ok it should be fixed now. SORRY

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Sherman Alexie's avatar

Hey, Ben, check out Alitu for recording, editing, adding music, etc. it’s super-easy.

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Duchesse des Esseintes's avatar

Three observations:

1) This sounds like something an old, bearded man smelling of piss would mutter to himself in a subway car.

2) Every woman in your life sounds like a mix of Cartman and Brian's mum in "Life of Brian".

3) I absolutely loved it. This is exactly the unhinged, bizarre stuff I subscribed for.

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Julie Fajgenbaum's avatar

If you do more audio add a transcript

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Ben Dreyfuss's avatar

ok i'll add the thing i was reading off but it's pretty ungrammatical!

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Ms Murph's avatar

This is pretty great.

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Emma's avatar

This was hilarious! I listened on your podcast and there were a couple of weird sound bits I think, but I laughed the whole way through! I like when you do audio - whether the podcast or something like this. I like being able to listen in the car rather than needing to find time to sit and read.

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Michael's avatar

I voted that you should experiment more with audio before I listened, I would like to change my vote.

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Ben Dreyfuss's avatar

Dammit I thought I took that out lol!

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