Brian Marshall & The ROCK 108 Morning Show - "Haunted Doll Warning"

You think you got it bad woman posted a video after someone stole two dolls from a display case at her yard sale and The video is warning the thief something to be aware of

To the thief that stole these dolls out of the yard till at three o'clock this morning, you're going to regret it.

They're haunted.

Had you waited till sunlight, you would have seen the sign that was under them that said haunted dolls, you can have children, please don't buy.

I put them in this glass hutch to try and contain whatever was attached to them and it got so cold that it fogged up.

Now take these vaccines.

Nobody wanted them because I warned everyone and showed them the videos of what these dolls do when they're in your vicinity because they were not scared to move right in front of you.

Enjoy.

This sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.

I'm trying to get rid of these haunted dolls and I'm gonna put them at a yard sale and now these haunted dolls are gonna Terrorize our community.

Don't be here at night.

These dolls will take you to take care of you The Rock 108 Morning Show

It's at 9.21.

Morning to you, Russ.

Morning.

When you're in the world of radio, you don't just get to use your golden pipes to introduce records.

Sometimes you have to use it to do spots, commercials, advertisements, right?

Yup.

Florida retiree was stunned to learn that a video that he recorded in the 80s is now being used by millions on YouTube to put him to sleep.

No, have you heard about

this?

Well, I've heard about I've read sorry I've watched videos about a great way to make money on YouTube YouTube is to do sleep videos because people so that's one of the number one searches and you make them really long and really boring and you put a an ad at the beginning and you put an ad at the end because people tend to let it go all night long and

apparently it's a great way to make money on YouTube.

So it doesn't surprise me that somebody has stolen an old something or other and repackaged it.

That's interesting.

This is from an 89 tutorial on the latest version of Microsoft Word.

This is Randy Smith.

We're over on our Macintosh and we're going to type out the rules to living in our property.

So we sit down and we say the following are the rules for living in my house.

Number one, I want you to keep your crummy

dog off of my brand new carpet.

Why are the typing

noises?

Because he's showing you the

latest version of Microsoft Word.

I know, but unnecessary.

Because I imagine the visual is the lettering across

the screen.

Which puts you to sleep, doesn't it?

Okay, all right.

Yeah.

Have you ever done something that has lived on beyond the initial time that you had it recorded outside of your Grand Theft Auto work?

Yeah, I

mean, obviously

that.

I don't know how long it lived on for, but as everybody knows, I have a highly specific voice.

And a guy was driving through Baltimore once on 95.

He was going from New York to somewhere, probably DC.

And he heard me on the radio and he called the request line.

And he said he was a radio spot producer and he really liked my voice.

and I would like to record you tomorrow, if possible, find a studio in Baltimore.

So he found a studio in Baltimore, I went to the studio, and all it was, was the tag for a commercial.

It wasn't even the whole commercial, it was just the tag.

He asked me if I was in the union, I said no, so I had to sign a waiver.

And I remember the tag.

Get Mac, it pays.

That's it?

That's it.

Mac was a banking system, and they were trying.

The ad was for, you know, their ATMs, used Mac ATMs.

And I guess they were a bank around Philadelphia, which is where the spot would have run.

And it took about half an hour.

He was in the control room.

I was in front of a mic, a Shure SM57, by the way, not even a very great mic.

I remember that, it's like, why are they using this mic?

And I said, get Mac, it pays.

Go up on the end, get Mac, it pays.

Go down on the end, get Mac, it pays.

And I just sat and did that 15 different ways, and he would give me little pointers, and back then it was all real to real tape.

He packaged it up the tape, asked if I had tickets to a concert that was at Hammerjack's to follow it, and I did.

So wait, you had to provide him tickets and your

vocal work?

Sure, why not?

And I guess I do know that it stopped running because I was getting residual checks for a while.

Really?

Yeah.

Even though you weren't in the union?

Yeah, because you still get the union benefits.

You just have to, you can't sign off, I think, more than twice without then having to join the union.

So I got residual sex for a while.

I mean, I totaled probably paid a couple thousand dollars.

Really?

Just to say a couple of words.

Just to say get back at pace.

That's it.

And for what, 30 minutes of your time?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Did you do any other vocal work beyond that, you know, in your career besides what we've talked about before?

No.

I mean, I auditioned for a lot.

Really?

Yeah.

What's that

process like?

Well, back then you had to go to the auditions a lot.

I tended to try to do the ones where I could just, you know, send in tapes like air checks, you know.

But auditioning is weird because, you know, you get one out of a thousand and most people don't have the time to continually audition.

So, you know, I tried it for a while.

It's like, yeah.

So now that you see services out there

and again

highly specific voice Yeah, they have to be looking for you know They do like weird voices because it cuts through it penetrates Interesting.

Yeah So if you were to have a voice over like these services have you know, they say warm, you know female corporate, right?

What would your little words be quirky?

Yeah, I

Boy, I had a description that somebody wrote for me.

I had a voiceover coach slash sort of a manager.

And she wrote a description for me.

Adult grumpy might have been in there.

That type of language.

She related me to who's the old comedian that kind of shakes when he talks.

Is he still around?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, he's an older comedian.

He's got a real rough voice.

Oh, it's going to kill

me.

I'll think of it.

But she related me to him.

Just basically an old codger, you know.

And I was probably 30 at the time.

Wow.

Wow.

And because you have the specific voice and somewhat of an accent in there, they would not have you necessarily in the Northeast all the time.

Or would you?

be someone in the Northeast that they would want?

They could ask me to, if we were in the Northeast, they could say use the accent.

Interesting.

Or if you weren't in the Northeast, they would try to, you know, can you minimize the accent?

You know, give me hard hours, which I just did.

I gave you my hard hours.

I know, I watched as you like powered through

that.

My gosh.

It's a fun little business, but it's again, it's a full time job.

Yes.

Yes.

When anybody says, oh, I bet you do voiceovers all the time.

No, there is 10,000 people right now on the internet all looking for work and thinking they can do it.

I went to a couple of cattle calls when I lived in LA and the line's like, you know, 70 people long.

Yeah.

And just waiting to go in and they give you a script and they do have very specific prompts, you know.

Sometimes the prompts are at odds with each other, you know.

Be a sensitive male who's a construction worker.

Okay, let me think about that one a little bit

I love my mother Chevelle send the pain below and Nirvana both coming up

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We were talking about Russ's voiceover career and how he was classified by his voiceover coach.

Ben, from Charles City, you had kind of compared yourself to a comedian, and he thought you meant Rodney Dangerfield.

No, it was Lewis Black.

Oh, wow!

It was my voice coach.

She wrote up, you know, a little synopsis of who I am to give to the potential clients.

And she had me as a Lewis Black type, Lewis Black sounding.

Can you imagine the two of you in the same room at the same

time?

I think she pretty accurately Can I bring something up?

Yeah There's a thing going around that Tyson foods has been approved by the FDA to put bugs of their food.

Have you heard this

a?

While ago, but I didn't know if it was Tyson or not that they were gonna use it as what additional protein.

Yes, right now

They've started using it in their animal feed

in their

animal food.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm OK with that.

Yeah.

What kind of bugs does it say?

Yeah, crickets, mealworms and grasshoppers.

OK.

I don't know.

It's a plague of locusts.

Yeah.

I think if they tell you it's in there, like on the label, now with mealworms.

Back to the voiceover stuff.

We need a grumpy man to introduce Tyson's new bug-infused food.

Now with locusts.

Do you want millipedes in your meat?

Get it now at Ticens.

Here's the thing, everybody has images in their head, right?

When I think of bugs in food, the only thing I can think of is remember when you were a kid and killing bugs was kind of a thing.

And I remember those bugs where you would kill them and that green goo would come out of them.

The blood wouldn't be red, it would be like a greenish.

That's what I think of when I think of eating bugs, not the, you know, wonderful, crispy crickets.

No, I think of the gooey, green, slimy innards.

Yeah.

I mean, just in the last day and a half, I've killed a spider that was the size of a quarter.

Never kill spiders.

I don't eight legs.

They are the devil.

Really?

Yes,

they

are.

your best friend in the house.

Are they now?

Well, they can be outside of the house.

And then this morning, I was wandering back to get some coffee, and then there was this thing that was about the length of my finger, and I was like, it was me and waters.

And I just went, wham!

And you killed it?

Yep.

Oh, jeez.

No, this is my space, thanks.

Oh, by the way, Jeff Stewart came up with Lewis Black.

I just looked at my messages.

Good job, Jeff.

Good boy, Jeff.

He knows you better than you know yourself.

But yeah, I didn't look.

I know there's people out there like, don't kill spiders, don't kill spiders.

But yeah, eight legs.

No, yeah, definitely do not kill spiders.

They are your best friend.

They eat all the bugs that really creep you

out.

No, seriously, I am the guy that's like in the meme.

You see a spider, you burn your house down.

Do you know we had one crawling on this the other day?

Yep, I would have quit.

Yeah.

He was, he was just walking.

I was on the air and I'm like, oh, there's a spider crawling on me.

Of course.

I wonder if he's a jumping spider when I tried to pat him.

Oh, yep.

Yep.

Well, that's you.

For me, it would have been.

What's that over there?

Whack.

Done.

Guns and roses.

Sweet child mind on the way.

Pop a roach and leave a light on.

What do

you think the new era of ballads started?

I have a post.

that I think I have a guidepost I think that kind of changed the music world recently to accept balance go in and out of popularity

right now

huge acceptance huge popularity for balance they started

sending them our way what last October November when did they get accepted

I think there's one ballad that kicked in kicked it in because it was so successful shine down no even before that really

Yeah, the Godsmack one with for the kids charity that they do.

Which ones?

Yeah, bring up the Godsmack

songs.

I'm going to take a look.

All right.

Give this a minute because it's a real

slow ballad.

They they did.

What's the name of his charity?

Because I think the song is the same title as the charity.

And that song was just a runaway train.

And I think all the other bands, it went number one.

And I think all the other bands looked at that and said, you know what, time to start doing some ballads.

I really thought that Shine Down with like 45 in like 01, I guess I would have been 02, 03.

Like maybe that's kind of where I thought some of them at that point.

Cause then you got Never Too Late from Three Days Grace.

Some of those other ones.

Those were always outliers of their time.

It's not like you were in a ballot heavy time

like we

are now.

I'm trying to find the

God smack and I'm not in the G's right now.

Well, no, this

God smack just was released a couple years ago.

It wouldn't be in the book.

Even this book goes to 2020.

You're saying that's later than it does.

Maybe it would be

the last couple.

Bulletproof, When Legends Rise, Under Your Scars.

That's it.

That's the one.

Scars Foundation is the name of this foundation.

Under Your Scars was a runaway train.

Just unbelievable how well that song did.

This hit the charts in April of 2019.

So you think that that's the switch point, huh?

I think

that's the, I think, and again, it's just my opinion,

right?

I think that's the one that all the other artists looked at and said, oh my God, look at what Godsmack just did.

And I think that kicked in.

you know the delayed process it takes to write the record and two years later we're in we're in Ballad Heaven when you're in the

or hell depending how you look at it fair because if you're a pillar of the rock community as got smack is nowadays and if they do that then you're like well that was successful right go grab it like you to your point yeah the

labels and bands to a certain extent always copy success

You know when when Nirvana broke through all of a sudden you had to have you know Grunge bands from Australia with 16 year olds in them silver chair was cool

But a but a and our reps were going to the clubs to try and find that exactly they went to Seattle first and then they went to Minneapolis And then they were you know toodling around everywhere else.

That's why Nashville is suddenly picked up right because it's not just country

But now you have rock artists that are hanging out in Nashville and it's like the other place to go if you're not in New York,

LA.

Once again, we have country infiltrating the rock chart.

And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

It's happened time and time again over the years.

Interesting.

I think I think country and rock have a they walk hand in hand in a gay relationship down the lane.

That should be on your T-shirt.

A happy couple.

Yes.

Coming up here in just a few.

Russ will take over.

Walking hand in hand with you, I guess.

I'm just gonna put my hands up.

Here I am.

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