So this is the 10th anniversary of the student research poster competition in College of Engineering and Applied Science. It's an event that brings together our undergraduate and our graduate students to allow them to showcase the research work that they've been doing in conjunction with our faculty over the past year. What you see at this event is you see UWM reaching into technology as it's advancing and bringing it to those of us that are involved in practice. The students that participate in this activity are really highly motivated. Well UWM has benefited me in a lot of ways. I feel like I get a lot of attention here more than I would at most universities. The one-on-one with the students and really being able to get that conversation going with them has been very nice. The College of Engineering is really good at supporting you if you want to pursue your network. A lot of companies are here, a lot of big names are here. They're looking at UWM output to see what they can bring to their business. This place is about applied research. And so many of the things I saw today, whether it was the interviews I did with the individual poster or the presentations that were done up here, it's all about what's the technology going to deliver. GE Healthcare's mission statement is improving lives and moments that matter. And so many of the areas of research here deal with improving life on planet Earth. Undergraduate research, graduate research, it's great opportunities to both combine your independent work ethic with being a part of a team. The students come to us as clay and it's our faculty and staff and the infrastructure and the systems and the talent that we have at a Research One University that enables us to really be able to create in partnership with the students and our faculty and staff the types of outcomes that you're seeing today. I did not realize the level of research UWM has. Most people are now aware that UWM is a Tier One Research University. I mean, we're at the same level as MIT. I think the impact on the community and on the city and on the region is really vast. Research itself, but the talent development, the interconnections between the students and the alumni, between the university and the industry, all of those things I think are really great for the city and for the region.


In today's video, we attempt to prove that old gold is better than new gold. What's up guys? We're back with another gold opening, which I know you guys love these gold openings and I enjoy doing them. So we're going to find out today if old gold is in fact better than new gold. We've tested this theory many, many times. Go check out the gold series opening playlist. I've opened every gold series. I've done some versus new versus old, old versus new, all that different stuff. And if you haven't seen those, you want to go check those out. But in this one, we're going to be opening 20 packs of maximum gold El Dorado. This is our new gold, but this is an entire display, but they're open. They're, you know, loose packs. But then we have a sealed premium gold, infinite gold. This is a European box that I actually got from a guy in Europe. Before we actually get into it, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards. You have to my see United Dragon, we have master of chaos and a guardian chimera secret rare. Just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications and let me know down below, which will win new or old and which do you prefer a lot of you guys like old, but some of you guys are new fans. All right. So how we're going to do this is we are going to total up both of the total pulls out of both of these. So it'll be like maximum gold. We'll have a total like normal and premium gold level total. But the difference is these costs different amounts for like a display of this versus a display of this. So we are going to have the total out of the cost. And then we're going to do a little math at the end to see which one one that way. It doesn't give an unfair advantage to the old gold by being more expensive to buy. But then you of course pull more value because you know, obviously it's an older, more expensive product. So let's hop right into it. And we're going to start off with a pack of maximum gold L Dorado. So let's see what can win new versus old. I think with this little wrinkle of how we're counting the score and like value, I think the new has a better chance. IP masquerade and it is starting off hot. All right. What a pull. Also, there's another gold. Okay. A gold book of moon. Not that crazy, but hey, IP masquerade alternate art. That's about as good of a pull as you're going to get besides the access code talker. So great start for the new gold. All right. We're going to do like one mini box at a time. So that should be four packs here. Like we're pretending like it is a mini box because these are, of course, loose packs, but Oh, a preta plant, Verte and a condo. That's a nice one. But of course, band. So not that great in terms of value scrap dragon. We of course only count everything over a dollar. I think right. Gekki could be getting there at some point. I don't know if that's a dollar at this point because gold, you know, with the new gold doesn't really hold value that well because it's really new.  So they're kind of everywhere for a while. And then they slowly fade and become a lot more hard to find. So scrap driver and we have prank kids, preta plant, Verte and a condo would have been great when it came out. Okay. We have cybers and a soul leading over raptor. Another card that I really love because the dino deck is awesome. But yeah, one good pull out of the first few packs, one more pack of El Dorado. Then we're going into our first pack of premium gold. Let's go. And by the way, you can get max C on a premium gold. So more band cards, urgent schedule. We have scrap dragon. We're about to get back to back. Gold's here. We got plasma. Another book of moon. So some books are being found. Okay. So it looks like IP masquerade is going to be most of the value there. Yeah, we'll see what premium gold and infinite gold can do. Infinite gold. I can't say that's a lot of words. Okay. The interesting thing about the European ones is look at this.  So you don't even like need a knife or anything. You can just kind of pull it apart like this. So shout out to the guy who sold me this. I can't remember his Instagram name off the top of my head. I'm going to try to have it pop up. If I can find the conversation, if I can't, thanks to you, man. Either way, I appreciate it. Pretty cool item. And it's different with the European ones. As you can see, these are a lot smaller than the US versions, which we have opened in the every gold opening. So pretty cool to see these like really many ones. I kind of like the size. It's they're a little bit too big in the US. All right. This cute little premium gold infinite and so adorable. Okay. First edition, by the way. So I think the cost of this was something like $175. Maybe I will have the exact cost of what I paid up there, but it wasn't it wasn't as expensive as I thought it might be. So when he offered it to me, I was like, that actually sounds like a good deal. I'll grab that. Okay. And if you guys want to see more gold openings, let me know because we, of course, have done many of them. I think I've done like 18 gold videos or at least videos with the word gold in the title before. So when I was checking up on this, so not that many actually for how many videos we've done, we've got a burning abyss card. I got cowboy. Do they have secrets in here? Gold secrets? I can't remember. Oh, yep. They do. We have Kings, consonants, and a fire hand. This is actually a pretty fun card for like casual by fun. I mean, really hard to beat in casual, but it's pretty good. All right. I'm sure some of those are worth a couple of bucks will be going through attempting to price them. But like with these older gold sets, a lot of cards are over a dollar because like, you know, they're nice rarities. They're like probably a first the loss like maybe the last reprint in a long time. I can't speak. We got Paladin. We got the Phantom Knight of tomb. There's a maxi in here. We want to pull that. Cosmo Good Witch. I think this is a pretty decent one. Cosmos, you know, based on the old Star Wars stuff, that's pretty awesome. These cards feel a little bit like Bindi for some reason. I don't know. They're like the structural integrity feels a little bit weak on these. We have the Monarch Stormforth. It's kind of weird though. Like, yeah, they're kind of flim, like flimsy, flexible. We have a Red-Eyes Flare Metal. I know this one's pretty decent. That's a good card. Hey, oh, Stardust Charge Warrior. That's another solid Gold Seeker Rare and a Black Horn of Heaven Gold Seeker Rare. So I know we got some value there. Here's the score at the moment, but of course, you got to keep in mind. We're going to be dividing it by the total cost. So we'll see what has the best percentage at the end. So if you did notice there, there's only three packs inside a maximum gold infinite, infinite gold, right? Premium gold, infinite, not maximum gold. Yeah. And there's four and maximum gold. So it's a little bit different there. We have a Pranked's Place. Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Alternate Art. That's pretty cool. Weatherwasher. And we have the Fanzies. All right. One pack down for this mini box that we are pretending is a mini box. Let's see if we can get that access code. I don't think I've pulled that since the set game out. Like literally, I bring it up every time and never get it. There's a patch of Cephalo for those Edison decks. We've got a Scrap Dragon, a Cyber's Gadget, and a Red-Eyes Black Dragon Alternate Art. Probably my favorite card in the set. I know that's worth at least a couple of bucks. It's not worth a lot, but it is worth a couple of bucks. This art is so good. It's so good. I love it. So far, we got an IP Masquerain Alternate Art and a Red-Eyes Black Dragon Alternate Art. That is pretty solid. Let's see if we can continue that. It's really hard to read these gold names. I like the silvers better. We got Danger Nessie. We've got Nessie Could Be Decent. I don't know. Rygeki again. That's two of those. And then a Huquero. I don't know if there's any like gold letter rears that are worth anything in here. I doubt it, but maybe there is. All right. One more pack and then we are back to premium gold. Infinite gold. We have Ultra-Guess Multi-Faker. Probably a Verenze Anaconda. I was looking and apparently you've never opened a display of infinite gold. So at least I don't think so. That's kind of cool. We have a Gamma. That's definitely a couple of bucks. And then a Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. So honestly, I feel like new gold is winning right now. All right. Infinite gold time. Will they be able to make the comeback, get the Maxi? That'd be pretty sick if we got a Maxi. I think it's the most expensive card based on TCG player. So if we were able to get that, that would be pretty awesome. And obviously we changed the battle here. Okay. Three packs of infinite gold. Our second mini box. Will there be a Maxi inside? We have a Volcanosaurus. Very nice. Emergency Teleport. That's probably a decent card as well. We've got the Traveler of the Burning and the Burning Abyss. I should say we got Phantom Knights. Secret gold traps just don't really, you know, not that exciting. We have a Cosmo Dark Destroyer. That's a, man, look how shiny this card is. I know some people hate this because it's way too shiny. Let me know your opinion of it. But honestly, I think this is pretty awesome. We're pretty close to a Starlight Rare. Like if it just went all the way, you know, it'd be like a foil bleed secret, but it'd still be pretty nice. All right. Next pack. That was a very sick looking card. Let's see if we can get some more awesome cards inside like a Maxi. We have Evil Swarm or a Boros. A Reasoning. Another nice card. We got the Terminus. Junk Changer and a Cosmo Forerunner. A lot of Cosmo cards in here. It's the Cosmo and the Burning Abyss set basically. A premium gold and infinite gold. So it's got to be one of Pharpas' favorite sets. What will we get in this next one? Constellar told me. We got Chimeritex Fortress. That's nice for some medicine stuff. Man, I'm really struggling today. Giant Hand also probably a good print. The number 84 Pain Gainer. That is a thick spider. Look at those legs. That's insane. And then avoid Trappole for Trap Trick Stacks out there. All right. All right. This might be like somewhat of a longer video. I mean, I feel like, you know, we're only two-fifths of the way through and I'm not going that fast. It seems like another Mask of Rain alternate art. Man, this is good news for the for the new gold. I don't think they've ever won before. So changing the rules a little bit to make it more fair for the new gold might actually pay off for them. Good looking stuff. Here we go. We have Golden Land. We have Eva. We have Red Eyes. Darkness Metal. That's a good card. We have the Eldlixer of Scarlet. We have the Ezafraxie and Cursed Eldland for all of those Eldlix players out there. Two more packs in this third mini box. Will we pull something crazy like the Access Code, Tarker, Lost World for Dinos, Black Dragon, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend. We got Baby, where are the golds? We have Numeron Storm. Okay, weird. They're back-to-back magical dimension. Okay. That is not a great one. Win the Wind Charm, or this is not the Starlight Rare version. Just saying. One more pack. Then we go back to Infinite Gold. Okay, not... Okay. They did get IP Masquerade, so it's still not a bad mini box so far. Brankin's Bowel. We got the Calling. We got... Ooh, a Gamma, man. So many good pulls. I feel like New Gold is doing really well right now. But the plus side of Premium Gold is they probably have a lot more value card. Like, they're not... They're gonna pull like multiple in one pack versus in Gold. You know, you could pull two, I guess, in Maximum Gold. Why is this so hard to open? This is insane. Okay, I got it. I didn't... Also didn't pay for Cut Myself. That's good. All right, we got these open. They're not easy, but we did open them. Now we are onto the third Infinite Gold. It's looking good for the Young Gold. Oh, we've got the Black Rose Dragon. That looks amazing. Dark Mirror Force. We've got Fire Lake of the Burning Abyss. So, like... Like, this has, like, the shiny name. Is this of the shiny name? Oh, yeah, it does. I just couldn't tell. We have Frost Blast of the Monarchs and an Ice Hands. We've got Fire and Ice Hands, so I think it's Thunder Hands, the other one. Two packs to go. What will we get? Will we get something out? But we have the... What is this? The Blasting Draco Slayer. We got the Fairy Wind. Skarm, Metal Branch of the Burning Abyss. That's a good card. Number 37. This was in a Dual Link's Water Deck for a while. Cosmo Lightsword. So, okay, Skarm's a good card. One more pack before we go back to Eldorado. Let's see. Can we get that Maxi? We have Arcanine Magician. That's not bad. Radium Mirror Force. We got it! The Maxi! It's not even a Seeker Rare. It's just the regular Gold Rare. Maxi has been pulled. Best card in the set. Then we have a Hope Harbinger Dragon Titanic Galaxy. That's a great card. And a Void Trapple. So, wow, that was a pretty good pack. Those are both really good. Before that reprint, was it Ghost from the Past? I think Ghost from the Best, too. That's pretty crazy. All right, Old Gold making a move now. That was a very solid last pack right there. Let's see. I mean, not the last last pack, but last of that. Minibox. We got Lambda. Okay. I tried to go for Cyframe Lord Lambda and I just, I couldn't say all of it. I just quit. We have Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. Come on, we need that access code. Whoa, this one looks like it got cut open or something like that at some point. Maybe when I was opening the Minibox at some point, whenever I did that. Fossil Dragon Apache Cephalo, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend, the Code Talker, the Familiar Possessed, Lina, and Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Bane. Two more packs in this Minibox. Our second to last Minibox of El Dorado. This hasn't been an intense battle. We got Numeron. We need that access code, Ruxen Special, right to the Plasma Alternate Art, which is not that expensive, I don't think. Okay. We need something out of here. Let's go. Will the access code be inside? Lost World. We got Black Dragon. Awesome. Number C1000. We've got a number IC1000. I think it says IC1000, right? I don't know how to say that, but that was not a good Minibox. Definitely their worst yet. Premium Gold.  They know they have a chance to come back right here. Let's see if we can pull another Maxi Playset anybody. I don't know. Maybe we should hold on to that Maxi to when it gets unbanned, you know? Anybody excited for the unbending of Maxi? Let me know in the comments. All right. Premium Gold, Infinite Gold. What will we pull? We have, oh, we got a Pendulum card. We got Storming Mirror Force. We got the Rubik. Phantom Night of Tomb Shield and a Cosmo Farmer. I'm telling you, these cards feel like, I feel like I could just bend them in half really easily, which, I mean, I could bend any card in half really easily. I'm just pretty strong. I'm not going to lie. I've got some serious muscles. I can bend Yu-Gi-Oh cards in half. We got Mistake. We have Seer. We have Junk Caribo.  All right. Another Void Trap Hold. That's like the third or fourth one. Come on, Infinite Gold. Our second to last Minibox here. Old Gold needs some juice. We've got number 11 Big Eye. Not a bad card. Breakthrough Skill. Not a bad card. We've got Graph. Red Supremacy and a Horn of Heaven. Secret Gold Rare. That was not a good Minibox. Our final Minibox of Maximum Gold El Dorado. The fourth was kind of a dud for both sides, so maybe that'll even out. We'll see who's going to win this. I don't really know at this point. After the Max C, it's been interesting. Conquistador. And then we have familiar possessed Lina. That is not really going to help too much. Three packs left and it's going to come down to the old Gold. Will the old be better than the new this time with the new Scoring System? Oh, Ruckson Special. That's a playset of Gamma. This has been an insane opening. Oh, Rescue Cat. Also a good one. All right. Not bad for new Gold. Two packs to go. A playset of Gamma. It's not bad. Problem is, have we pulled a Driver? I'm sure we have. It's just a Gold Rare, but I don't know if I've noticed one. We have Super Explex Bullet Train. We have Black Cross Dragon Alternate. Nice. And then a Tempest Dragon Rule of Storms. I have a PSA 10 of that now. If you have checked out my PSA video, you know that.  And our final pack before we get into the final mini box of Premium Gold. Here we go. Tricia. Nice. Prankids. Super Ever Dreadnought Rail Cannon. And a Chamber Dragon Maid. Could be worth something. Maybe those Chamber Dragon Maid fans will have to find out. But on to Old Gold. In this, the final chance of Old Gold. Premium Gold. Infinite Gold. And this is sort of middle Gold. I know. It's not like the oldest Gold, but it's still pretty old. I mean, it's like what, 2014, 13, 15, somewhere in that range. It's pretty old. Okay. It's definitely not 13 because I think like the Burning Abyss came out like what? 2015 and Secrets of Eternity. So it's got to be 2016 probably is when it came out. Okay. Seven years ago, by the way. Keep that in mind. We're old. Luster Pendulum. We have Reasoning. Let's see if we can pull into the Maxi. We got Skarm, Shardus Charge. That's a big one. And then a Black Horn of Heaven. Again, so we have pulled some of the good cards out of here. I mean, a lot of them actually. So I think that Old Gold might have a chance. We'll have to see how it works out with their total costs. You know, we have Chimerite's Like Fortress Dragon. That's good. Another Maxi! Old Gold might pull it up again. Are we getting a play set? It would be insane. We have a Magical King Moon Star and a Cosmo Dogfighter. Okay. Double Maxi. I'm feeling good about Old Gold now. We'll just have to see how it plays against their costs. Final pack opening. If you enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more Gold openings and other random openings for Yu-Gi-Oh! And of course, other Yu-Gi-Oh! stuff. Here we go. We have Blazing Mirror Force. Come on. Let's pull something crazy. Secret Rare Jump Charger. Final card. Here we go! It's a Treacherous Trapple. Not actually not a bad card for, you know, Trap Tricks, which is still pretty popular right now. Here's the scores. And here is how they went. You know, the total percentage that we got back of their cost, that'll tell you the winner. I don't know it right now because, you know, it's got to be edited. Shout out to To Info Show, Daxer JT Show, Puffets of Dume, Ernesto D'Ande, Dizzy, Missykel, America, Deutcher, Supreme Stage 21, and then a Tide Show, Ian Moosa, Junior Barting, Mehmet Gekko, and Thomas Poclain. Thank you guys for supporting the channel. I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace.


From the heart of the jungle comes a savage cry of victory. This is Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. From the black core of dark Africa, land of enchantment, mystery and violence, comes one of the most colorful figures of all time, transcribed from the immortal pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan, the bronzed white son of the jungle. And now in the very words of Mr. Burroughs, the story of Tarzan and the man from another world. Tarzan's mission had brought him deep into the Congo near the great rubber plantations at Lamp Fonday. He traveled rapidly through the jungle night, moving easily through the upper level. But suddenly he stopped and his eyes opened wide as he looked up at the Congo heavens. A moment ago all had been inky blackness, but now a huge ball of fire streaked across the sky, leaving in its wake a shower of red and green and yellow. For a moment all was deathly still and terrifying.  And from far off came the sounds of native drums. Tarzan moved quickly again. A few minutes later he entered a native village that was strange to him. Signed in sky is message from demons. Now you know God's angry with you. He's big sign. You mean God's not spare next one who go against word of white water? Why are you attempting to frighten the people of your tribe, witch doctor? Who are you? I am Tarzan. And I've known to many tribes as Lord of the Jungle. So you are Tarzan. Did you see sign of demons? I saw the strange ball of fire in the heavens, but I doubt that it was a sign of the demons. But why are you so convinced of that fact? White water tell us God's angry because of one who break rules. You refer to Mobokia whom I found wandering far from here? The deal. I talked about Mobokia. You find him? I found him and I was shocked to see the welts across his back and the lash marks upon his legs. I came here to find out about them. That man, he talked to stranger. He spoke to a stranger. That was the crime for which he was half killed? White water tell us not to talk to stranger. Already I talked too much to you. Leave now Tarzan. The white water you talk about, is it the Mr. Van Kruger Mobokia said he worked for? I not talk to you more. Leave. You will talk to me and I shall not leave until you do. Now is Van Kruger the white water you speak of? The deal. All of tribes belong to him. You belong to him? I thought slavery was a thing of the past. Where is this Hema? Other side of forest of rubber trees. But you're not go there. He not like strangers. You'll like me far less when I get finished with him. Thank you for pointing out the direction of his home. Look. Look. The hysteria of the natives mounted as the sky filled with a shower of brilliant colors. But Tarzan had no time to speculate on their fears or on the strange phenomenon that illuminated the heavens. He left their village and started across a plantation toward the jungle home of Jakob Van Kruger. Below him the terrified animals milled in hopeless confusion in a vain attempt to flee from the terror that painted the Congo blackness in garish colors. Suddenly Tarzan saw a young girl running through the maelstrom of half-crazed animals. He grasped the swinging vine and propelled himself into a great downward arc. And as his body reached the lowest point of the arc he grasped the girl firmly about the waist and then continued his flight to the top of another tree. I'm sorry I frightened you. You? You? There wasn't time to sound a warning. Any one of those animals might have leafed upon you at any moment. Oh! I am sorry. My name is Tarzan and I was on my way to Van Kruger's house. I saw you down there and I acted without stopping to think about how frightened you might be of me. But I am slightly less dangerous than the other animals. Well, I guess the animals won't be so bad now. The fireworks seem to be letting up a little.  Where did you come from? Where are you going? Which question would you like me to answer first? Well, I suppose it's obvious that you've come from Van Kruger's. This is the only house within many miles. Well, so far you're 100% wrong. I don't even know Van Kruger. I've just come from the mission school on the other side of the plantation. I was heading for the native village near here. Why? I was going to try to persuade some of the natives to escort me to Luanda so that I could get a boat. Well, those natives aren't to be trusted. Those fireworks, as you call them, are as hysterical as the animals. A young girl would stand little child. I've happened to be 18, and I'm very well able to take care of myself, but I could never get down from here alone. All right, I'll help you down. Just put your right arm over my shoulder and I'll hold this wrist and... Oh, what's that? It's called a slave bracelet. It's nothing. Just a trinket. You wouldn't be interested. Well, I am interested with undying love from GP to J. Van Kay. You've got it all wrong. You can possibly read it right in this light. My eyesight is more acute than the average. J. Van Kay. The Van Kay couldn't possibly stand for a Van Kruger, could it? Yes, it does. All right. Does it miss or misses Van Kruger? Oh, I'm not a runaway wife, if that's what you're thinking. He happens to be my father. Not that I'm very proud of it. You don't get on well with him? That's putting it mildly. Oh, Tarzan, please don't make me go back. Please. We'll return in just a moment to our story of Tarzan. There were many miles of impenetrable jungle between the rubber plantations of Lamp Fonday and the government observatory at Kilama. And the people who worked and studied within the small institution were far different from the inhabitants of the jungle. But they had one thing in common, an all-consuming interest in the strange fireballs that had streaked across the jungle heavens. Dr. Forbes is the greatest opportunity we've ever had. If we can just find out where those meteors landed, there's no telling what we can uncover. How do we know they landed, Jack? Maybe they burned themselves out. Well, that's possible, of course. But, suppose they didn't. Suppose we can get to them while they're still fresh. We'll transport a few of them back here for study and we'll...  Perhaps this one will prove to be no more... Doctor, your nether hasn't been anything like this for years. Well, this one makes the billet shard 1914 look like classroom stuff. Perhaps if we get some reports of their actually landing someplace... No, it'll be too late then.  But, Jack, we have so very little money at our disposal. No, I'm afraid that outfitting a large safari is quite beyond us. Well, the lack of money isn't going to cheat me out of my one big chance. I know about where those particles landed, if they did land. And I'm going there, alone, if I have to. But it would mean a journey right through the heart of a Congo. Wild animals, dangerous savages, plantation owners who resent strangers. You'd be risking your life, Jack. Well, I guess it's mine to risk, Doctor Forbes. And while the young scientist was making his declaration of independence, Tarzan was escorting a very resentful young lady back toward the jungle home of Jacob von Kruger. The sky was dark again, and the animals had ceased their frightened screams, but a feeling of dark foreboding hung over the mysterious Congo. I can't just turn you loose in the jungle. He's kept me like a prisoner, Tarzan. If you take me back, I'll never get away again. Everything I've heard about Jacob von Kruger is bad. I refuse to promise that I'll help a daughter run away from her father, but if what you tell me is true, I'll do everything within my power to help you. You haven't told me your name. It's Johanna. Father calls me Yopi.  I like to be called Joan. That's what they call me in America. In America? I went to school there for a year. And then, just when I got to like it, Father made me go to England. By the time I'd grown to love England, he made me come home. His whole objective in life is to make me miserable. Is that your house just ahead? Yes. I'm very anxious to meet this unnatural father. You may not even live to meet him. He has native guards surrounding the house, and they shoot every stranger on sight. Very hospitable. Perhaps you'd better climb that tree that extends over the roof and drop in on him unexpectedly. He's too late. They spotted us. That's dad on the veranda. You fool, strong fighter, that's Yopi coming with a stranger. Well, at least he doesn't want to kill his own daughter in cold blood. Oh, Yopi, my little girl, where have you been? I've been wearing sick for you. Fat lot, you'd care if something happened to me. Oh, Yopi, to say such a thing. I didn't know you were gone until a minute ago. The excitement of the comets, we were used to about to go hunting for you. This gentleman was kind enough to save you the trouble. This is my father, the well-known Yakopan Kruger. Father, meet Tarzan. It is a great pleasure to meet you, Tarzan. Any man who has brought my daughter back from the dangers of the young girl is a friend. My house and everything I own are yours for as long as you will remain with us. I came a great distance to inspect your methods here, Mr. van Kruger. I shall accept your kind hospitality. Well, Tarzan, you have enjoyed looking over my plantation? Yes, it's been very interesting. I had no idea it was so large. It would require another three, four days if you were to inspect the entire plantation. And by this time next year, that large clearing to the south will also be planted. For 30 years of my life I have given to this place. And your workers, many of them have given 30 years of their lives? Yeah, that is so. They have been loyal friends. Most of them belong to one tribe. They say they are van Kruger's people, that they belong to me. You mean that's their own idea? They find a certain security in the belief that they are my property, and as my property they will be fed and clothed and protected. Punished? Sometimes whips and hot irons? Tarzan, you have known me for several days now. I believe you will take my word that I personally have no hand in the drastic punishments the natives sometimes meet out to their men. It is not important whether you actually administer the punishment yourself. A little over a week ago I came upon a native who had been beaten within an inch of his life. He came from your plantation and I learned that he was punished because you were angry with him. It seems he dared to talk to a stranger, a very serious crime apparently. Yeah, a loose tongue is a serious crime. You see Tarzan, rubber is an essential of peace and also an essential of war. There are many powers who would stop at nothing to acquire a plantation like this one. And we also have secret methods of curing rubber that some nations would find valuable. Strangers are dangerous. I was very angry at Mabuki. I saw the signs of your anger upon his back. Ah, the others of his tribe are too hard on those who disobey me. Tarzan, you know the mind of the natives. I tell them something is wrong. They make a capital crime of it. I tell them to stop all strangers from entering. They are inclined to shoot first and ask questions later. I cannot seem to stem their fierce loyalty to me, which is translated into acts of violence. I see. I am not the kind of man to apologize for my people or to defend my actions. But you have saved my daughter. A daughter you keep a virtual prisoner? I keep her here for her own good. I sent her to America to school two years ago. She was 16. She'd been there only a short time when she wrote me, she'd fallen in love. A friend made inquiries about the man. His name is Gregory Payne, a man of close to 40 who lives extravagantly but has no visible means of income.  So you had Joan Santuonga. Yeah, but this Gregory followed her there. So I had her brought home. She's too young to know her own mind and I love her far too much to have her throw her life away on a fortune hunter or worse. Mr.  Sometimes fate takes a hand in proving what? Look, Tarzan, outside! The fireballs tricking across the heavens again. During 30 years in the Congo I have seen many strange things in the sky. But never anything like this. I wonder what it can mean. Did you see the fireballs? We were just talking about them. Meet your rights again. Well, yes again. One of them landed in the south clearing. But... Only it looks like some sort of a strange rocket ship and a weird-looking creature crawled out of it and he's coming toward the house. I'd rather call the native guard. He won't do any good. The guards fired porn blank at him, only the bullets had absolutely no effect. No effect? And all of the plantation workers are lying prostrate on the ground. They think the demons are really out of them this time.  Only from the veranda. He looks like an illustration out of one of those science fiction magazines. Like a man from another world. You two wait here. I'll go to meet him. In just a moment, we'll return to our story of Tarzan and the man from another world. And now back to our story of Tarzan and the man from another world. As Tarzan crossed the wide expanse of the south clearing, he could see in the distance the strange-looking spaceship Joan had described. And on the ground, hundreds of native workers lay in silent terror as through their ranks a weirdly dressed bean stalked majestically. His angular suit was of highly polished metal. He wore many fantastic bits of mechanism strapped to his metal uniform.  Tarzan was filled with apprehension and curiosity. But his curiosity was uppermost. And he continued on until he stood squarely in the path of the outlandish creature. How do you do? Jambo. Bonjour. Bonjour. Comment, as thou hast said, regates. You may converse with me in any of the Earth's languages. On the planet Uranus, we understand them all. Then you do come from another world. I come from the planet Uranus, a world nine times the size of the Earth and thousands of years more advanced in its knowledge. In what way? In every way. I am told, for example, that the peoples of Earth are still engaged in continual warfare. Yes, it's true. We seem resolved to kill one another in endless wars. I have come to put a halt to this threat against the universe or to liquidate the Earth completely. Our observation ships chose this as the site for my first visit to Earth. Your observation ships? Then those must be the fireballs we've been seeing in the heavens. Exactly. Tarzan. And yours? It will not be necessary for you to address me. I shall ask anything I wish to know about this part of the Earth. And then I shall visit other places. Upon the report I make will hinge the future of your world. I desire to meet other Earth... Would you like to take off that heavy helmet? I am not yet used to the Earth's atmosphere.  I do not like people to stand where I cannot see them easily. Of course, I'll stand over here where you can see all three of us at the same time. Mr. Van Kruger, you will tell me more about this rubber. You know nothing of rubber on your planet? Our planet is almost 2,000 million miles from here. And our vegetation is far different from that of the Earth. I will be happy to give you bioleseed. We are having much good fortune with that variety of rubber plants. I am very much interested in this product of yours. Incredible as it seems, we of Uranus may yet learn something from you, Earthlings. In the morning, Van Kruger, you will escort me about your plantation. You will show me everything. Wait until you see my new coagulation. That's my presses. My improved smokehouses and drying sheds. You will find our methods here are very advanced. During the war, we made remarkable progress. You manufactured rubber for war? Well, naturally. I doubled my output during the war years. It is men like you, Van Kruger, men who make the materials of war who are driving the Earth into oblivion. If we permit the Earth to endure, you will be among those who are first eradicated. What are you doing here at the plantation? Come to see man who not field bullets. He's gone back into his spaceship for the night. He refused to sleep in the White Warner's house. Tarzan goes to see Great Devil Bird? Yes, I'm on my way to inspect his rocket ship, if I can. But he's on ground. Oh, look like bits of cardboard. I don't know where they came from. He's strange. Not nearly as strange as the man from another world. Wish me luck, witch doctor, and say a spell that will make him a sound sleeper. Tarzan could observe an open hatch at the top of the weird contraption, but it was impossible to see in. It was possible, however, to see out of the windows. But as Tarzan started to climb up the fuselage, the man within it pointed a powerful looking gun at the open hatch. As Tarzan drew close to the opening, he curled his finger around the trigger. Tarzan started winter, and then from far off, in the roar of an animal, and a man's frantic cry for help. Tarzan leaped to the ground and sped toward the jungle. moments later, he was looking down at a man, pinion beneath a huge rock, the helpless victim of a hungry panther who was about to spring. Tarzan leaped to the ground and his night flashed in the air. You didn't get here a minute too soon.  Oh, this must weigh a ton. Not quite, but it proved a lot farther than I could carry. I don't wonder. Take it easy. It's valuable. That rock? Valuable? Yes. It's a meteor fragment, and I came a long way to find it. Have you noticed those fireballs in the sky lately? Of course. Well, this is part of one of them. When the fireballs were not observations from another planet? Observations from another planet. I didn't think the comic books had reached the interior of the Congo. Oh, there's nothing comic about this. Are you sure this is part of what we saw in the sky? Yes, I'm positive. You see, I work in the government observatory at Kaloma. Just what are the possibilities of a spaceship reaching here from Uranus? Seriously? Uranus is one of the most distant planets from the Earth. But is it possible that a rocket ship could travel from Uranus here? They'd be awful fools to head for Africa. Uranus isn't even in the Southern Hemisphere at this time of year. Can you walk? I think so. I just had wind knocked out. Well then, leave the rock here and come with me. I don't believe anyone will steal it and we'll come back for it later. It may turn out to be exhibit A. The rest of the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle are beginning to fit together. It hadn't been slept in, Tarzan. Van Kruger doesn't seem to sleep much. He may still be here in his den. We often used to talk late. Is that Van Kruger crumpled over his desk? Yes. Dead. A bullet right through his head. It looks as though he was writing a will. This is a sort of rough draft here. Do you think it was suicide?  And if he completed a will, where is it? Maybe his daughter has it. Her room just across the hall. Come on. John? John? Open the door. Something terrible has happened. John! She's gone. I think I know where. I may need help, Jack. Listen, it sounds like a plane getting ready to take off. It may be too late to save her, but we can try. The scientist was left far behind as Tarzan streaked across the plantation to the south clearing and scrambled up the fuselage of the strange airship. But already the plane was about to take off. The motors were purring evenly, and as Tarzan lunged forward, the hatch began to close. Even Tarzan's powerful fingers could never open it. All that remained was one wild guess, one desperate chance. Right! Right! Any idea of how you turned the motors off this thing? Well, the first thing he did was to push the switch up before he started the motors. Maybe we can turn them off by pulling it down. Let's see. Horrible, Tarzan. After you disappeared, he came back to the house. Dad was writing a will. He was convinced that the man from another world was going to have him liquidated because he'd contributed to the war efforts. And your dad wanted to make sure you'd inherit everything, right? Yes. And then as soon as Greg had the will in his hand, he killed Dad and carried me here. The natives were too frightened of him to do anything. When did you find out who he was? Just a minute ago, when he took off that costume. That's why he made love to me in America, Tarzan. That's why he followed me to England to get control of that plantation.  Well, his days of scheming are over now. This is one valuable plantation his country will never own. Maybe I'd better tie him up before he comes to. What happened? A very good plan went bad, Jack. A friend here must have been hanging around here several weeks ago. He managed to bribe one worker into substituting blanks for the cartridges and the guns of the native guards. A cardboard from the blanks are on the ground back there. But that's as far as he got until the meteor shower began. Then he put a little window dressing on this plane, got a fancy costume with a built-in microphone. He figured quite correctly that he could frighten the natives and delude the rest of us. And he almost succeeded. He planned to learn as much as he could about the plantation from Van Kruger. But my curiosity made him abandon his original plan. Poor Dad. And I treated him so terribly just because he talked against Greg. Joan, your father worked to build something here. It's up to you to see that it doesn't fall apart. Greg, although he didn't mean what he said, spoke many truths about war. Well, rubber and steel and lumber can be materials of peace too. And they will be if we can keep them out of the hands of men who speak too loudly of peace while they dream of war. In just a moment, a preview of our next exciting story of Tarzan. A beautiful young woman with a title and a fortune. A lustful Arab who rules a jungle stronghold. A vicious cockney guide to whom everything has a price. And Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle. These are the central characters in a story of dangers and fears. Of a kidnapping that threatens to set off international warfare. And of lives at stake in the quicksands of Wadahara. Included in our cast were Jack Moyles, Gladys Holland, Marvin Miller, and Olin Suley. Tarzan, the transcribed creation of the famous Edgar Rice boroughs, is produced by Walter White Jr. Prepared for radio by Bud Lesser with original music by Albert Glasser. This is a Commodore production. Listen to our next story, the quicksands of Wadahara. Another thrilling episode of the Lord of the Jungle.


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We're gonna spin this one tonight tonight We're doing for those watching the show live. We are doing a pride month tribute Is that what it is you on the screen right now for the live viewers are color bars Let your freak like font colors fly. That's right Watching live, but at least you can still listen and still ask great questions of Rebecca and us Because she wants to answer your questions, but we got questions for it too Rebecca Davis welcome officially to being an actual Guest featured guest here on voiceover body shop. Thank you so much. It's so nice to be here Really are saving the best guests for last because this is the last voiceover body shop show we're ever gonna do ever I am honored my friend Well, I wasn't ready for that. Are you telling me something? I don't know. No, it's okay. It's the last one We're gonna do with v mix Right. All right. Anyway, the guinea pig that does not work. Yes, right. Anyway, Rebecca welcome to the show It's so glad to know we've known each other. Oh for at least ten years. I think so at a time is I have no idea, but I think about ten years. I think we first met at a faff No, it was it was at voice 2008 oh My gosh, you're right. Yeah, it was my first ever voiceover event ever ever Yes, which would have been when Dan and I met too, so that's something right. It's it's reunion time Yeah, I know but yeah, not I remember meeting you and saying who's this lovely curly haired girl over here That's so incredibly bubbly You're sweet.  I am a kid still yes And we're at least acting like one so where exactly where are you from originally? Um, I guess I grew up in New Jersey I was born in Texas, but somehow went from there to Connecticut and then mostly Jersey from third grade till I Was done and then I went to Austin, Texas and I was like, I'm not meant to be a Jersey girl Let's get the hell out of dodge. Yeah How long were you in Austin? About seven or eight years Okay, a little hazy in there And then I kind of woke up one day and said it's time to go. Let's go to grad school and ended up in Los Angeles somehow Never thought I'd be here. Yeah, but you you were you've you've been acting, you know since a young age I take it. Yes. I was about I was a child actress Cue the violence. Um, yeah, I've kind of been doing this all my life I can't remember a time when I wasn't an actor And so yeah, I did all the shows and I was And I was in Annie like every orphan in Annie except for Duffy for those you crazy Annie fans out there I don't understand what I'm saying but yeah, I did the whole tri-state area circuit and Then went to undergrad did more acting and just haven't stopped I don't know what I would do if I wasn't an actress. It's scary Well, yeah, you know, it's got it's got to be in your gallbladder to be an actor It's in my toes. It's everywhere. I feel it in my finger You're too young to know that song. Anyway, Peter Peter and Gordon. But anyway, um So, uh, you you you did lots of acting. How did you drift your way Into voiceover though? Good question when I was living in Austin and I finished school and I got an agent and she sent me one day for an audition for Anime which at that point I had no idea what it was. She said just go you'll find out I went and I got behind a microphone This is fun and then I booked it and then I started doing anime in Austin and just Fell in love with it fell in love with the microphone all of it and then uh, then I came out here to LA and kind of forgot about it a little bit and then, uh But I was kind of new I don't know and then one day out here. I Was doing the artist's way, which is wonderful for any of you who don't know about it And at the end of it all the people that that I was doing it with said, why aren't you pursuing voiceover? You keep talking about it that that's something you want to do and it just was this little light bulb and uh, I stopped doing on camera and was like, I'm not doing this anymore and just put all of my focus on the voiceover at that point and Yeah, that's the shortened version of the long version. Okay. Well, you could have given us the long version We're willing to you know, we've we've got an hour here. You could just ramble on for as long as you want to do So what type what type of work do you specialize in? What have you been kind of stuff you've been doing? Yeah, my my heart is in animation and video games and and part of that I think comes from Just having that pure acting background and always wanted to wanting to inhabit characters and get deep into things and what I love about voiceover and animation and video games is I you know, you talk about this all the time I could play a six year old boy. I could play an 90 year old woman and you know a dog stuff that I can't do on stage stuff that I can't do on film um, I'm not typecast Which is I mean, I do get a lot of the same time to stop but in a different way um, and I still do commercial and promo and narration and everything else But when I get those animation and video game auditions and jobs my heart just starts Getting so excited, but I'll I'll take the you know, I'll take the commercial money. I'll do commercials That's like oh it gets me going. That's that's the gravy. You know, I mean you you got to keep yourself working You get a good commercial. That's just gravy Exactly that keeps you going to the next one. That's right You know, I mean it's yeah As actors were always unemployed until until our next gig Our job is finding our next job. Our job is auditioning our I mean, there's so much more to it than that But uh, it's getting the next job is our job early But but animation and gaming is your favorite stuff. That's the stuff you really like doing Oh, I love it. Oh, I'll sink it in my teeth Yeah What what do you think is the key to really to really scoring in that particular genre? Because everybody wants to do it because everybody says well, I can make funny voices And I'm like, yeah, well, it's not exactly how you get into voiceover and doing animation. It's Maintaining characters, but what what do you find is working for you? Uh bingo, you're right about saying it's not about funny voices. Um, it's about the characters It's about doing the character work It's about going back to the basics and who are you talking to what's going on? Where did you come from all the stuff that we learned that we're doing on stage and in film and really taking that on and using your imagination and putting yourselves in The situations that you may not be in in your real life most of the time I mean, I I played a baby zombie. That is not something I could personally relate to I think how how did you play a baby? Zombie, I don't quite get that one. I know Babies can be zombies too, Dan. It's equal, you know, anyone can be a zombie But it was very funny. It was very fun trying to An infant zombie is a very weird Concept and that's why I love animation and video games and you figured it out and that's why they hired you But I think my favorite bit of direction I've ever gotten once was Can you make the vomit sound more like a river and less like a stream? Wow best direction ever And your reaction to it was Yes, I can't Always say yes That sure Yes, and Sure, how fleshed out was the baby zombie character. We need a cast What do you mean fleshed out meaning like They knew they really knew what they wanted. Oh, they had to completely create the character You'll they just wanted me to go for it It was like here's an image of the baby baby zombie Trying to crawl and you're like I mean just Mix those baby sounds and those zombie sounds and you Tonight's theater of the mind too folks because people watching live all they're seeing is rainbow, so It's even better for people watching live Creepier I guess maybe I don't know. Yeah, we're sort of like these disembodied voices.  That's one of the things like I like about not being on camera is uh It doesn't matter you make the craziest faces I do the weirdest things in the booth and no shame no worries about Some but I mean except the director I guess if they can see you but I don't really care about them either It's just get it in every weird spot. That's right. Well, as I like to tell our home studio clients Nobody needs to see how the sausage is made You know it you're only going to hear it So, you know if it's going to take contorting doing that kind of stuff I mean physicality is important with acting anyway, especially with voice acting people don't realize that I mean, do you put a lot of physicality into when you when you're doing games and animation or just any any type of voice over Absolutely, absolutely, especially I was uh working with a director a couple days ago and the character is um It's a very large woman and we were talking about the amount of space that I needed to take up in in the booth without hurting myself My I tend to speak with my hands and waxed in my booth a lot But we were just talking about taking that space because somebody who has the big lungs and speaks From their gut is so different than someone who just doesn't take up a lot of space and Gets all tiny inside. They talk completely differently. They have a different attitude And yeah physicality, especially I mean like you watch people like D Bradley Baker and the people who do creatures And what they do and how they and it's I could watch them All the time It's so cool. They just like transform their body. I keep forgetting no one can see me right now But I just do it anyway I think it was it was Maybe it was tom kenney or or maybe no Or bob burgui one of those folks who's in animation and he was telling us this is work Where do you learn how to do this and yet look you can go to coaching you do it's watching the other pros do their thing And I it must be great being able to watch these people do that kind of work Oh, yeah, thank goodness for the internet now and in many ways. I mean, it's wonderful and it's horrible and I love it but being able to To watch them work and you're never I mean No matter what in my opinion no matter how much of a pro you are You're never above learning And you can never stop learning And just watching you get so easy to just get online and watch people and listen and Anywhere like I'm I'm kind of creepy in the sense that I work. I mean, I guess we should be maybe creepy but record people a lot when I used to be out in public um And just I'd have my iPhone if I'd hear somebody with a weird sound or a kid and just like Try to hide it and record them I'm pretty sure the nsa is probably tracking me for the amount of times that I've uh Searched online like five-year-old boy talking Right They're watching me using duck duck go or something that's anonymous Because you're browsing history Maybe that's so hot They are searching me constantly What do I digress? Yeah, how many games have you done? I I would have to count um Gosh probably at least 30 by now At least I don't know. I'm bad at keeping track of that. Awesome. Yeah, some of it's online You know some of it's on on imdb some of it isn't um there are You know, it's a mind screw sometimes because I'm like I know people I'm like Oh, well, they have hundreds of of Credits and video games. I'm like here's me But that's where I am now and I would have killed to be me 10 years ago So I'll take my 30 plus. There you go There you go. Once again, if you're just tuning in and seeing color bars, you're still We're still you're still hearing us and we know you're out there because we know you're you're at least listening Our guest is the one and only bubbly rebecca davis Uh, who is a voice actor and Does all sorts of interesting stuff and we just love having her around we wish we could have you around more often Um, I want to see you in person and hug you. I know I'm you know Alison jenny says we have to save the hugs. I see that commercial one more time We're all in this together gather In these unprecedented time No, we're not you're you're where you are and our directors somewhere else and george is in tepanga and i'm all alone In this big empty studio My body's here and my head's over here. That's right Fascinating You guys can't see what he's holding up right now Someone's gonna see it. Anyway uh Anyway, if you've got if any of you have a question for rebecca Put it in the chat room in facebook and I know jeff holman is out there somewhere Taking down your questions and passing them on to us and we'll get to them in just a little bit Yeah, so how has This quarantining affected Your your voiceover practice that's quarantine um You know, it was crazy at first just like with everybody and trying to adjust and figure out what I can't stand the phrase But i'm gonna say it the new normal um But it you know, it was up and down which is to be expected. Um and kind of navigating Figuring it out. Um, and i'm so thankful Actually partially due to the two of you that I already had a complete home setup and a booth and I already had my source connect I've got i've got don la fontaine source connect account. Thank you voiceover the don la fontaine voiceover lab. They gave that to me many years ago and it's uh Very special. Um, so I was already set up for all of it. Um, and my heart really went out to everybody that that wasn't Depending on where you are you're you're used to You know, you've got to set up good enough for auditioning Um, but not good enough to sustain longer sessions. Um, or the right equipment and everything So my heart's been really going out to everybody Um, but I feel very fortunate That I was prepared For all of this. Yeah, no, um, yeah The most challenging thing has been dubbing projects. That has been an interesting Uh, yeah, how do they hit me? I want to know about that. Yeah Yeah, it's been it's been crazy. I just had one this morning where uh, I've got my zoom Well, no, no, this one was everyone does it every studio does it differently. This one was Skype on my ipad So that I could see the video But then source connect on my computer wired into my booth Uh, so listening on there, but things were kind of matching up at the directors in one place the engineer somewhere else We're all seeing things in just a little bit of different time Uh, so that was weird. I had one studio at the very beginning and this was just cool I was like, yeah They uh, they sent me a whole rig. Now. I already had the uh, the mic that they want to they wanted me to use I already had the uh 416 But they were sending out this rig because they wanted everybody on the same microphone So everybody had that same Sort of sound even though our spaces were treated differently, but it was definitely more uniform And somebody arrived in their mask and gloves and sanitized box a giant box in a bag and There was a third thing to bring it up got a whole second mic stand a giant screen The the the box the suitcase was amazing what they did because they carved it out They had foam in it and it was carved out and here was the computer and then there was the The different extension cords and everything and here was the mic and here was the Um the preamp in there and the interface and everything and it always labeled of where to put it and what to do And I got on the phone with the engineer the night before and we tested out All the different spaces and what would be great and I put my uh in my booth I don't have a monitor, but I've got For those of you who can see later on I have a lovely window So I was able to put the monitor right at the window Yeah, lovely big monitor and then we were able to change the way my microphone was so I could face it and you know, it was the band on the bottom just moving as you're talking and It was great That was you know, they ran the whole session Didn't have to use any of my equipment and then I called the end and somebody came in like an hour to pick it up and Do whatever they did with it and disinfected and Bring it off to the next person. I guess It was it was fascinating and I've done that a couple times So what you're saying is with these guys apparently money was no object Well, I think they had a couple of those setups that just went from place to place I would imagine maybe money was no other I don't know But uh, I mean I'd still would rather go into a studio any day of the week Than like any chance because also it's just so much more fun And you don't have to think about anything right with the other sessions that I've been doing I've still had to be engineering myself a little bit that one. They just took over which was awesome Always nice if you can do it that way from home. Uh, yeah, yeah Had they had they has anybody suggested that they're going to start opening the studios again Or do we think that this is going to be the new normal that everybody's gonna have There are some studios that are open. There are some that are trying to there are some that aren't Everybody has different opinions on it. Um, so who knows? I mean, we might be shutting back down in California Los Angeles. Anyway, but And they all have different precautions that they're sending out ahead of time of like, this is what we're doing. This is what we're doing Um, I hear, you know, you hear different stories from facebook and what you personally encounter as well and You know, everyone's just trying to get by I feel bad the studios are they're going out of business You know, I mean it breaks my heart We need we need the engineers Yeah, yeah, we do but we all need home studios challenged say that again dad We all need our home studios though now Now it's going to be vital that you have that I think if you're if you're an engineer out of work right now, it's time to get really creative And reach out to some of your past clients or voice actors you've worked with and Start offering some kind of a virtual engineering because You know, I'm talking to voice actors who are doing I mean what you're describing is kind of like the extreme Like where they literally bring the whole system out and yeah But I mean there is a version of that where they ship it to you and then you set it up and then They can remote run the studio I don't know if that's what they did in that case or back. Yeah, they Running it to everything. Yep. They ran everything because they had their whole computer Set up in this little box. It was beautiful.  Yeah, I guess you'd say but it's never to that extent I never have a I don't I don't think I've ever had a four-hour session At home Like before all of this right with my own clients So it's a it's a lot We just want to be actors, but we need to know how to do that stuff now. It's even before The the way everything is now we we needed to know Thank goodness. I had people like you to help show me and I had the lab That's how I learned with you George how I learned to use twisted wave And I think about when I first started Oh my god, how many years ago did the lab open? It was 10? More than 10. Yeah, at least 10 it goes right before we started doing this show that it opened up about 10 Yeah, they have it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because they just recently had the 10 year anniversary Well, that would well that would steal that Yeah, I was there from the beginning that place was a gift. Yeah Once again, we're talking first rewards that you got was through there through the lab Yeah, yeah, the the Don LaFontaine voiceover spirit award was uh That was amazing. I don't know. It was crazy. I do remember I know it's so long ago. I mean, maybe what was that maybe six Six years ago sounds about right. Yeah Yeah, and Eric over there kind of uh I can't think of the word at the moment steered me in the wrong direction. It's like we're having a little luncheon Can you just show up? Can you come?  Because those of you who know me I'm like a t-shirt and jeans girl. I am not a dresser nicer type of person um and then uh, rebecca from source connect was making a speech and then They presented me with this award for emulating don and it was um I praise indeed I will not get foot clumped right now um But it was wonderful and they they gifted me as I was saying earlier Don's Original source connect account that he used to I think it was the simpsons that he worked on when he was in scotland Maybe he was like at a castle and he used it and I was just learning what source connect was and it's just It it blew me away and and I still have that obviously And then and then you right after that that was kind of like my impetus to set up my home studio And you came to my house george and helped me uh, that was the closet. Oh, yeah, I got my closet Set that up where I keep I kept dating myself as well surprise surprise I have a whole reel of bloopers now that I've kept for myself Oh good It's like I think it's about 30 minutes long of all the times that I just hurt myself or I cursed or just Something stupid happens or I belch in the middle of a take. I just saved them Didn't you have neighbors that were making a lot of noise too? um, I had construction for a while In my old place and hey, they're gonna build a house next door in my new house. Yay Oh, man, you're really knocking out of the park. We're just great with that Yeah, they're building a whole new ridiculously giant house. Um, so uh, but yeah, we had a we had a lot of noise In the old place, but the space that george helped me with Really helped a lot A whole lot and then I got my booth and then that helped But I would have to tell my neighbors there because the house had been walls And I'm sure for those of you who live in apartments and other things telling your neighbors about when you're screaming Like I swear my husband isn't doing anything to me. I'm fine.  I am not throwing a grenade. There's no frack out. I'm just being a zombie Yeah, I'm just a baby We're talking with rebecca davis again if you've got a question for her boy, she's had a fun career Uh, throw it in the chat room right now because we'll get to those questions in just a little bit One of the things, you know, that I I really love about what what you do is you're very active in The community the voiceover community in the community at large as well Uh, what are some of the organizations you work with? Um, I work with women in animation Right now I've been working as the lead with them for a while and voiceover programming And um, we had to take a step back for a little bit, but we're ramping back up now. Um, it's great Yeah, tell us a little bit about wia Uh women in in animation It's it's basically if they see it then they'll emulate it if people can see women in power in other positions Then they know That uh inherently that's where You can be it's you know everything that the world is talking right about right now you have to see it And so women animation has been helping to uplift The voice not i'm sorry not uplift the entire animation community from From the writers and storyboard artists and directors and voiceover actors and just really um Strengthening the way women are uh the way we're represented I should say I went to one event Gina davis was talking and she was amazing and she Said to she said I have a challenge for all of you writing out there Take your lead character and take the character's best or best friend one of the leads and turn it into a girl And that's it and then just go back and reread your script and see What it changes And so many people afterwards at the little shinde we're talking about wow Why haven't I done that before why do I always see the sidekick is is the guy friend and It's things like that that women in animation are doing to change things, which is Which is beautiful So yeah, so I've been working with them and i'm just a big advocate I work with um For those of you in la this is an amazing program. I love it. It's so close to my heart. It's called young storytellers and uh, we go into uh schools that are under uh Underfunded and we work with students is about 10 students for eight weeks And we go in there. Um, there are 10 of us mentors and 10 students and we work as a group for a while and then one on one And by the end of it, they have a five minute screenplay That they wrote completely from start to finish and then it's performed for the school. Um by actors that come in and do it a lot of professional actors and uh, they get some big names and That's how I got involved originally as being an actor and then Fell in love with the program and I've been mentoring there for I guess 10 years. I don't know. I've been here 20 years. Everything flies But uh, it's a wonderful program and when it's running It's just the highlight of my week to just go in there because you get to see These amazing kids. I didn't say they're they're fourth and fifth graders And every year there are some of them that in the beginning don't even want to talk They don't want to say anything. They don't want to participate And by the end of it, you can't stop them from talking. They just They open up and it It changes lives. Um, but it does it's beautiful. It's that kind of stuff just You know If you can change lives If you can change one life, you're saving an entire world, which is hey, you never know I mean, that's an important thing an interpretive dance. There'd be no war. So let's keep it going. Good point Anyway, we're talking with rebecca davis. We're gonna take a quick break right now And uh, if you've got a question for please put it in the facebook chat room We'd be a little just thrilled to have your questions And I know rebecca would too so put them in there right now jeff holman standing by and we'll be right back with rebecca davis Here on voiceover body shop. 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I think the very first thing everybody just heard was no belching I didn't think we were on yet I'll put it on my blooper reel. Yes. It belongs Yes, we haven't put a good blooper reel together for this show in a while No, we edit them all out. Anyway, uh, our guest tonight is the one and only rebecca davis Just does all sorts of cool stuff a very active person in the community.  He lot. He he lived to be about 18 We were never sure how old he was but he had a Very good good long life. Mr. Samuel pantalones davis jr. Robertson Okay, pantalones. That's what you do with your dog. Yep And now we have wilbur biggles bartholomew the third. So, you know, uh very waspy name. Um Anyway, if you got a question for Rebecca throw it in the chat room. So ellen dubin asks What would be your dream role? Oh my gosh, ellen, that's actually a really tough question.  Um Oh my goodness Take your time We don't have a lot of time a villain. I don't know For some reason villain is in there because I I never get to play the villain Which just sounds like it'd be super fun. Have you auditioned for one or?  Yeah dating myself Uh, that's what I feel like auditions are sometimes you just throw it at the wall and you're like, I don't know if it'll stick Let's find out, but you don't really ever get feedback. It's so rare So maybe I've gotten close to being an event to be a villain. I got no idea. Um Throw that out to your agent. Hey find me a villain role I'm a villain. I don't know. I think because it's so far from From uh myself. You're just maybe I am a villain in someone's story and I don't know it. I'm very well could be Very well, we all want to know what person's stories in which we are the villain, right? I'm really fascinated by that. I really am and a dog. I want to play a dog I'm just gonna put that one out there. Hey universe. I want to be a talking dog Uh Wasn't it a, um George, uh, what's his face? You know that handsome actor guy George Clooney. Yeah, that one You know, he was the first dog on um the very original um South park Really? Yes I forgot about that. He essentially discovered, sort of discovered it Like he was a little brown dog. I think so and he passed the tape around, you know, it was To his friends I need to watch that show again. So that could be you something That's it. That'll if you just work harder I could just work harder and be better. Just be better Work harder. Do your job You know In video games now, of course, you know women seem to be taking a very domineering role in a lot of this stuff There's always some woman superhero and which means there has to be super villains Oh, yeah, I mean the last of us right now the character I'm not gonna put any spoilers out there for you people who are freaks like me She's such a badass So cool seeing women kick awesome video games It's the best It makes me excited. All right. Well, I'm glad to hear that Um Here's one from our own to do the one from our own chat moderator. Yeah, sure. Jeff has a good question Mr. Jeff Holman You mentioned you made a conscientious decision to switch away from on camera Just going full on vo. He says I can't imagine doing that. Why do you like voiceover better than on camera? Good question. Um, there are a lot of reasons For me and some people who are on camera people will disagree and that's fine That world was hurting my soul Um, it's just it just hurt walking into auditions and being sized up and just The people I the the positive spin on it is the voiceover community um is just it's so welcoming and so kind and so generous and It's my tribe and it's my people and once I started doing it in LA. I just kind of knew like, oh, this is Yeah, this is it. I just the The on camera world it was good to me, but it just wasn't Satisfying I think it was there was a moment where I was called in for an audition in Santa Monica and I lived on the east side And of course it was probably like five o'clock And I was just Not happy about it. This is me. Oh come on in my agent my on camera agent when the phone ring Like my heart would sink. I'm like, what now? But when I get an audition for voiceover to go to a studio or something I'm super excited about it no matter what time it's at I'll drive to Santa Monica at five o'clock. Sure And that is a huge change in thinking and in that difference of oh, I really enjoy this So why was I pursuing something that I was unhappy doing?   I mean if you handed me a role, okay, yeah, of course But it's it's it's a different kind of abuse now It's yeah, but you get sized up It just never felt like the vibe was never good when you walk in a room But when you walk into a studio The vibe was just always It's just good Yeah, it's just good people and and the voiceover community itself You know, you and I have been involved in it for years, you know, we're supportive of each other a rising tide floats all boats Oh, yeah Absolutely, that was one of the things early on with going to the conventions and going to like voice and fathcon and wovo And there's so many now and vio Atlanta and one voice. It's always. Oh, I have great information Let me share it with you. Yeah, instead of let me hoard it. So you can't be my competition Because we all sound different. We all approach things differently It's it's competitive, but I feel like I'm more competitive with myself as the person I'm most competitive with Absolutely uh Now one of the interesting things you well, you can't do a lot of it right now is you like to travel And you you have a blog called the the voiceover in ninja. Tell us about that Um, well really it's it's more my instagram was uh became ninjas blog Well, I even have you guys can't see but I even have a little microphone ninja.    Um, and so we just became ninjas. We called it and so one day I had gotten I think it was one of this might have been the original anyway. Um To go with us because like you said traveling is our thing and so I got a little ninja. I found um This woman in england and oh it is this is the original ninja because he's all broken Anyway He went around and so that was the way instead of taking selfies everywhere and stuff We would just document our travels and adventures and then it became It was just us and then all of a sudden I would bring it with me everywhere So if I'm bored somewhere I'd be like, why can't I put ninja here? And like try and find a place to hide it and take a picture or do something weird and It just became From there it just kind of blew up Into something very fun And then I had to get a lot of ninjas because they started like one fell off a boat And I was just stressing out my husband so much like we need to get you more. I can't handle this anymore So So ninja can't travel right now But I I mean like I have enough ninja pictures to fill So many albums one day. I'll actually make one But it's fun Well traveling is fun traveling's fun when it's safe Well traveling. Yes. Oh my gosh. Is anyone having an interest fun? Yeah, is anyone gonna want to get on an airplane again? It's I'll let you know how it goes It hurts We were supposed to go to japan before all this started I was saying you guys china and japan and we all know how that went. Yeah. Yeah I'm happy to be here and you know, I just hope everyone is okay. And one day we can all travel again I can't wait a couple more questions. Yeah. Yeah Shantae yerby. Well, hoping that's the right way of saying that name. Um What is one thing you wish you knew when you first started out? I'm gonna assume that She's asking about voice acting started out voice acting That's a great question. Shantae. Um, I hope I'm pronouncing that right as well Oh Goodness the one thing. Um gosh everybody, you know is meant to be there in a very philosophical kind of way, but You come across and I guess this is life as well, but you come across people for different reasons in your life And I wish that I had kept in touch with people that I had met early on in this career Um For so many different reasons a myriad of reasons, but I think every single person you meet Could be your next co-star could be your next friend could be your next I guess playmate Could be your next director.  I don't think at least with voiceover. Um, but Maybe a few here and there who knows but I guess I wouldn't say I wish I had known that because I'm always like be kind to everyone you meet But your receptionist is gonna be an agent one day The person at the front desk at the studio is gonna be a director one day And I guess that's more like my advice really than something I wish I had known Which is just be nice. Nobody wants to work with a douche I Yeah, no, I can't I can agree with that one. Um All right, we got one from lee pennie lee. Where are you? Yes, uh, this is is this rebecca's idea of taking ninja to the next level What what's my idea of taking ninja to the next level? I don't know you tell me I don't know. I mean, how could you do the next level? Give me ideas because I can't make a ninja in public so If you're talking about the little ninja you're talking about me, um You know, I don't really like to ninja strangers so much But you tell me what do you think I should do to take it to the next level because I'm Oh video Have a ninja in space ninjas in space That would be amazing Ninja video, are we talking ninja human or ninja? I'm not sure maybe you can clarify Which one do you mean? Ellen had one more question. Um She said talk about the letters That you send to people all over the world She is amazing. Telling pilots is going. I need guys Um, so I started this thing called postcards for kindness. Um, check it out on facebook join us and letters of love to people um It started in response to In the summer last summer fall We were having that slew of gun violence and everything like that And uh, I had seen the story about a girl who said she was afraid to go out of her house because she thought everybody was bad And that the bad people were gonna get her and it just like tore me and so I came up with this idea because I I wanted to help and You know donating money and whatnot. You don't really ever know exactly where it's going to go But something tangible that you can get in real life. I think makes a huge difference, especially right now um So I started postcards for kindness and got school boards involved and Stores like in Dayton, Ohio all the stores that were involved with the shootings and wallmarks Got all these places involved to give addresses and allow us to send things um And just started this movement of people like hear the addresses and I started printing up postcards for people and give them them to strangers and stamped and just send them and uh, it grew into this very beautiful thing where suddenly care homes what we call Um nursing homes here in LA in the uk. They call them care homes and elderly homes started joining the page on facebook and it just Grew into this whole thing between sending cards to care homes and then they would send them back and it Not gonna get the club. Do y'all stop it. Um, I have a tissue here somewhere Don't get for cleft again Thank you But yeah, so it just grew into this international movement and especially right now People need that more than ever people need something a card from stranger that just says you're loved or i'm thinking about you I hope you're okay It just makes a world of difference in my mind. So i'm always Collecting, you know, I always say and anybody out here listening right now If you know somebody that could use a card in the mail Um or something that is celebrating a birthday alone or has lost of anything. Um Just email postcards for kindness at gmail Send me the address the name a little story about it and as long as you're okay with it being public I post it to the specific facebook group and people just start writing. It's amazing Joan baker had reached out her mom Had a birthday and she was isolated because of all this And I want to know from Joan how many she got because there were at least 30 people on the the page Or like i'll send her one i'll send her one i'll send her one and it's just like Just makes me happy People need that there needs to be more more love and kindness. And so yeah, that's where yeah Yeah, we got one more question here from is bear Is there is izbear? Well, hello. Hi is bear. It says hi rebecca How do you or did you go about finding voiceover classes and or teachers that helped you along the way? Great question great question um I start asking people I started looking online um There's someone who who I know I still richard tatum richard.  Where should I study? He started giving me a list I'd go there Then I ask other people who are you studying with and then they gave me a list and You look online and you just have to be um very judicial and do your uh research When you find a teacher depending on if you're doing it online or if you're in la or new york or something and just find people And I and ask other people. What did you think about that teacher audit a class if you can? um bob bergen i'll tell you quick stories quick as I can um Very in the beginning he was one of my first teachers and I wanted to study with him so bad and I asked Can I audit and I went to the first class and audited and he's like a four-year waiting list And somebody that night just didn't show up And then at the end of the night they called and they said I can't come next week either something I can't remember it was so long ago and he's turned to me and he's like well, you're here You've already been here for the first class. You want in? yes like World aligns like that sometimes So hopefully I answered your question. Just do your research and ask people you trust Go online to the facebook community and ask people that you trust Who they've studied with and see if you can audit make sense Every teacher has a different approach. So you don't know in like acting school if you're gonna like Strasburg or if you're gonna like Uh udah again or any of these stuff just figure it out what works for you Well, Rebecca, it's always great to see you. It's always great to see you in person because you and I both need a big hug I think oh my god Well, we'll get to it eventually but thanks so much for being with us tonight. It's been a pleasure Thank you for having me here and and good luck with all this cool stuff that you're doing right now Thank you and keep everyone out there. We'll get through this keep working. We got it Alrighty, thanks for being with us. Thank you. All right. Bye. Bye. All right. 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Don't we never you know, because we haven't seen anybody in a while but especially her One of the one of the really nice people in our business and great to great to see indeed So, uh, next week on this show, we'll have uh, it'll be tech talk number 36 Yep, we're gonna tape that here in just a little bit. Yeah, so we'd love to get your tech questions Get them here in the facebook chat room. But who are our donors of the week? Yes, and we are still getting donations, which we really appreciate you can donate right on the website or get a subscription and be just on auto donate donate, which I believe some of these folks are those kinds of people like sarah borges phillips appear Trey speaks for you. 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