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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.

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).

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

Rose Marie Holt's avatar

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

Andrea's avatar

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

Lucas's avatar

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

Ben Dreyfuss's avatar

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

Sherman Alexie's avatar

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

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.

Julie Fajgenbaum's avatar

If you do more audio add a transcript

Ben Dreyfuss's avatar

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

Ms Murph's avatar

This is pretty great.

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.

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!