When Worlds Collide

[figmo]

A conversation at the day job yesterday went like this:

Co-Worker: Did you know there's a woman on the radio with the same exact name as you? She's on 1590, KLIV.

Me: (Going into my usual KLIV shtick in my "radio voice") Lynn Gold, 1590, KLIV, Silicon Valley's News Station and the South Bay's home for CNN Headline News."

CW: So you've heard of her?

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Hee hee

[cat-herder.livejournal.com]

At least when I met Angie Coiro, I knew who she was. Sheesh.

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

Ah, Fame, it's so wonderful 8-)

You could tell CW that "she" is your twin, differing only in middle name, and really mess with CW's head.

Re: Hee hee

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Today's the first day I ever wondered how to spell "Coiro," and there it is. :)

(I've got a mad crush on Joe McConnell. He's not my type physically, but my oh my, that man makes traffic sexy.)

Lynn who?

[hazelchaz]

You could say, "I've never met her"... (okay, that's the best I could come up with.)

I've noticed your radio voice isn't the same as your normal speaking voice. So it's a lot less likely you'll run into someone saying "...and you sound just like her, too" if you haven't used the R.V. on them...

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

LOL!

That's ok, I've had people on the Traveller Mailing list quote my own book at me to prove themselves right.. in arguments they were having with me about my book! Without realizing that I'm the same Doug Berry.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"I've heard her lots of times..."

[tnatj.livejournal.com]

Actually, at one time during my IT career, I did have a co-worker that was a radio announcer. He did sound a lot different in person than over the radio, even when he was using his 'radio voice.'

It seems they wanted a guy with a exaggeratedly strong resonant voice. The result was sexy, yes; but it wasn't his natural voice: they accomplished the effect with a bit of low-pass filtering and amplification at the station.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

You have!? Wow! *g,d,r*

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

"You know, I've heard that she sings, too!"

[poltr1]

How about, "I've known her all my life."

Remember MAD Magazine's "Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions"? This would be a great time for one of 'em.

Oh yeah....my copy of the North American Radio & TV Station Guide, 15th Edition (1981) lists KLIV and 1590 kHz, so the station has been around for a while.

Re: Lynn who?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

When I went into my shpeel, I did it in my radio voice, which made it that much funnier when the co-worker said what he did.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I was feeling charitable (that, and the co-worker was one of the other "coffee-heads" at work).

My reply: "I am that 'Lynn Gold.'"

His eyes popped out and his mouth dropped. It was priceless.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

My radio voice is that low. They don't filter the newspeople.

What does happen, though, is the mike's pickup pattern does stuff to my voice to make it sound a bit different.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

The guys have all seen me arranging music on my laptop unit while my main computer is grinding away, so they already know that I sing and play music.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Yup. In the 60s and 70s it used to be what George Carlin referred to as "the boss station with the boss jocks playing the boss music that my boss told me to play."

Re: Lynn who?

[hazelchaz]

No, I got that part, that's not what I meant...

I mean, if I'm your co-worker, and I've just heard your normal speaking voice up until now, I may not realize who the voice on the radio with the same name but a different-sounding voice is. And, if you do your radio voice all of a sudden, it may not register that you're doing your own radio voice as opposed to a clever impression of the radio personality with the same name.

To use one example, imagine if radio personality Michael Jackson did an impression of the singer Michael Jackson...

Re: Lynn who?

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Oh. Got it.