Oprah Has The Best Voice (and Other Vocal Thoughts)
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior supervising producer of audio, Daisy Rosario is joined by actress and director Lake Bell to talk about voices. Bell’s new audio book Inside Voice is all about her obsession with how people sound. They dig into why we should take better care of our voices, how trauma impacts our ability to speak, why candidate voices impact their electability, and more.
In Slate Plus, Lake and Daisy talk about the problem with the sexy baby voice.
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to the Waves Slate's Podcast about Gender, Feminism, and any and every issue that could fall into those camps. |
| 0:23.4 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off of our |
| 0:27.4 | minds and today you've got me, Daisy Rosario, I'm the senior supervising producer for |
| 0:32.2 | audio here at Slate and I am Joy and by an actor an artist a creator whose work I really really enjoy actress director |
| 0:41.5 | writer Lake Bell made the independent film in a world which |
| 0:45.9 | stars her as a woman who is working in the world of Hollywood voiceover and her |
| 0:51.7 | character is both the child of one of the big |
| 0:57.2 | voices in the field and also someone who is competing for some space. This Wednesday, one woman will teach another woman. |
| 1:09.0 | I just woke up so my voice is called. |
| 1:11.0 | Let's face it, the industry does not crave a female sound. I just |
| 1:15.0 | the the industry does not crave a female sound. Yeah dad you may be painfully aware of that my whole life. |
| 1:17.0 | Not being sexist that's just the truth. |
| 1:18.0 | You should stick with the accents. |
| 1:20.0 | That's what you're good at. |
| 1:21.0 | What was that great that Russian Star Wars thing used to do as a kid. |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah, I know the one you're talking about. |
| 1:25.0 | Please, let me hear. |
| 1:27.0 | These are not the droids you're looking for. |
| 1:30.0 | I just love that. It's so random. |
| 1:32.0 | It's really a fantastic movie and you should |
| 1:35.6 | definitely check it out but it's also very much why I wanted to talk to her |
| 1:38.7 | about her new project which is an audioobook all about voices. |
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