Good morning! This week for your enjoyment, narrato...

Good morning!  This week for your enjoyment, narrator Nick J. Russo joins us along with his A.I. assistant to talk technology and the magic that is taco delivery. And where does he get all these wonderful toys?


A love letter to technology...

Oh gadgets and gizamatrons - how I adore you. You allow us to post everything our brains think of to be seen by the world. Be it our opinions, vacation happenings, political rants, pictures of  fancy desserts we’re about to eat, or videos of cats acting like they’re on LSD, the ease in which we’re able to connect with one another is nothing short of amazing.
Among its many marvels, it has allowed new and exciting businesses to be born. My wife and I are starting to become a little too addicted to Uber Eats - we can see exactly where the guy bringing us tacos is! Right from our phones! He’s right outside the house!
But above all else, my love for high speed internet, fast computers, and the Renaissance that is the modern internet always narrows to one thought in particular - I wouldn’t be able to do what I do for a living without it.
Twenty years ago, (or hell - even ten!), the idea of being a voice actor working from home living in Columbus, Ohio would of sounded like a pipe dream. A voice actor trying to score work in the midwest? Sorry, guy, try your luck in a city where the jobs actually are - Los Angeles, New York. Maybe Chicago? And good luck finding where to go when you get there - that’s what agents are for!
Not so much the case anymore. Thanks to a few major advances in technology like high end, reasonably priced recording equipment, file sharing services, and job sharing sites like ACX and Upwork, voice acting is now a dream attainable to anybody regardless of where they live.
It’s an exciting time to be alive to be sure. And with the rate in which it’s continuing to evolve, it’s only going to get better. Case in point, I’m now unapologetically addicted to anything Google tries to sell me. Especially Google Homes. To the uninitiated, Homes are personal assistants you can talk to, schedule appointments with, tell you any fact you ever want to know, and will probably be responsible for kicking off Skynet someday. I recently furnished my home with these little things, including my recording booth, and let me tell you - it’s changed the way I record any given chapter. Need to look up a word I don’t recognize? Translate a phrase an author wrote in Russian? Pronounce mantra?- (is it man or mon? I never remember.) Let me just talk to this inanimate clam shell shaped object for a quick second and find out!

- On a side note, I think I should now take the time to say this blog post is NOT sponsored by Google. This is not some shameless promotion. But it totally could be - Google, you have all my info. Call me! -
The point is, I absolutely love what I do for a living, and if were not for the technological advancements made over the past ten to fifteen years, it is almost a certainty that I wouldn’t be doing it today. I wouldn’t be voicing audio books, I wouldn’t know any of the incredibly talented and hard working people I’ve met in the industry, and I wouldn’t be concluding the final paragraph of this blog post I’m writing.
So in conclusion - thank you technology for being all that you are. You’re a heck of a guy, and I salute you.


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And check out Nick's newest narration, "A.J.'s Angel," by L.A. Witt on Audible.