if you’ve ever heard a recording of your own voice and hated it there’s a reason why let’s talk about that hi I’m Leanne from Grand Rapids Michigan good mythical morning good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by Blue Microphones the microphone people who make the mouse microphone that makes us sound so soothing all right morning I’m soothing the people with my voice okay tomorrow is we’re gonna do this again bring a friend to good mythical morning we appreciate all the response that you guys gave last week on this inviting your friends that the key to this growing is you inviting people to participate well isn’t it just two guys sitting at a card table talking I mean what am I supposed to watch what but one of them has a soothing voice yes in a way yeah that’s all it is but hopefully you can do a good job of so it’s a listen it may just seem like this and maybe that’s all it is but it’s great and it’ll give us something to talk about so bring them tomorrow and then you’ll have something you have some common conversation to happen today let’s talk about voice recordings played back to yourself how you react to it now everybody has had this experience released I think a lot of people have and my voice is so soothing that it sounds soothing to me when I hear it recorded no not even naughty I’m just kidding everybody has had this experience at some point where you listen to a recording of your voice and you’re like I don’t like the way I sound so what do I sound like that do I really sound like that yeah right is that is that me and you know if this could be home hope not home movies because everybody makes home movie right I don’t say cell phone movies you kind of moving into that realm I’d say it’s perfect 1987 you mean alright a perfect example is your voice mail greeting I hate that you do your voice mail hey this is link you haven’t reached me leave leave your number and sense and stuff and then you play it back it’s like wow I sound like an idiot yeah and then you do it five more times still sound like it and then you realize that like people have gathered around and they’re watching you and you’re looking at you like this like what any idiot what that’s why I got James Earl Jones to do my greeting really I’ll need to call you sometime yeah I actually tried to do my voicemail greeting one time in the bathroom a boat at rest you wanted reverb no I was when I was working for IBM I was in a stall sitting there and I decided it would be a good time to do it and that was all so stupid yeah when I came out there was a whole crowd of co-workers out there looking at me like what are you stupid you preach Linc I’m nowhere in particular right now not on the toilet or anything like that so everybody verb I was trying to harness the reader help my voice because I sound do I sound like that sounded stupid when I’m late if I could have done it at home like in the shower at least so are you about to give us comforting information I bet that will make us feel better about the fact no it’s gonna make you feel worse I’ve been doing research baby baby baby baby actually I went to the site Mental Floss good site by the way they’ve got a lot of stuff it’s he named make you feel smart okay and they had an article over there about why this is that when you hear your voice on a recording you don’t like it okay I’m not gonna tell you why I just thought I’d know I’m gonna tell you why okay so it up well first thing is enough it’s enough of a common experience that there’s an article about it so that that that’s at least the good news that everyone experiences hating their own voice in recorded format alright well I think a large percentage of people do and that is because when you talk to me link I hear your voice waves your sound waves I’m gonna get really sound scientific your sound waves leave your mouth they go into the air they bounce around in the air and then my big ears catch them and grab them and suck them into my ears and then my ear sends them to my brain that’s scientifically what happened okay so but the only thing that I’m hearing when you speak is what’s going through the air however link they don’t touch my ear when you speak you know you hear your voice in a number of ways you hear your voice going into the room and then coming back into your ears but you also hear maybe even primarily you hear it going through my head your vocal cords vibrating and going into the bones in your face in your jaw and in the muscles in your neck and this vibration kind of going directly to your ears and your ear your ear bones are picking those up and that’s a very basic warm almost muffled sound that mixes with what you hear on the outside and so in other words your voice to use in comparison to the way it sounds in a recording is very warm is gentle oh yeah I got an idea what you’re saying is if I cover my ears and talk I’m gonna hear the component of my voice that you don’t hear I’m gonna do that right now itself it sounds very warm it itself it’s very muffled kind of song but it sounds deep and I’m I’m actually developing a new level of self-esteem by listening to myself this way the problem is is that that’s not a practical thing to do well I think if you really want to go into a conversation with confidence I think the application is stuff your fingers in your ears and then all of a sudden you have a higher degree of confidence that you sound like an awesome talker that’s what I want to be in life an awesome talker what but this got me to thinking it doesn’t make sense that that you know that’s the reason but it got me to thinking I remember this being something that I experienced on a regular basis but then over the years we’ve recorded ourselves talking so much and watched back most of it a matter of fact we’re doing it right now even it it continues and so you end up hearing yourself so much coming through speakers that I think I’ve I have lost the ability to really decipher the difference between my voice recorded and my voice spoken yeah so we kind of all blended we basically come to grips with what our voices sound like to other people because we’ve been those other people in playback yeah to us to a really high degree but here’s the deal I think that it’s had another completely different effect on us hearing ourselves over and over again and I think that that my friend is we have changed the way that we speak well yeah I can’t disagree with that I definitely I mean even back when we were you know doing the the vault episodes where we showed older versions of our videos and we went back to some of our earlier earliest videos we made like we were talking about velcro the first thing we thought was well I talked different like my voice was higher in quieter and I think part of it was just not knowing how to conduct myself on camera did better hold your arms but then in turn in terms of the voice inflection and and the confidence and the power of it but even beyond that the accent I think we well I think what you’re saying is that we’ve changed our accent we’ve definitely change based off hearing ourselves well in Haiti now this is something that everybody experiences I mean there are very few people on earth who especially I would say 18 and younger people who are still developing who move into a place where everyone speaks in a certain way and they don’t change they change the way they speak this I mean this happened to me I was born in Georgia I moved to California at a young age I began talking like I was from California but then at age of six I moved Amen to North Carolina California now and then within a couple of weeks in the place called cover Lena I began talking like everybody Ginn talking like lanky what’s your name this my aunts wrecked I didn’t talk like that once I moved in North Carolina I talk more like this after a couple of months but this is probably a little bit more exaggerated thing my voice was even higher I talk like this I really bear have not exaggerated many anyway I talk like an O country woman know we had a very thick southern accent and you if you look back at the experience that we’ve had and that is growing up in North Carolina going to school at NC State University graduating from UC State University living in the Raleigh area Fuquay Varina most most of the time there wasn’t any regional influences on us that would cause us to change the way that we speak however we changed the way that we talked significantly and I want to get to the bottom of it I want to get introspective here well first of all I don’t hate southern accents I definitely don’t hate my own so accent but I don’t know maybe it just had to do with trying to reach a global audience oh uh yeah I don’t think that having a southern accent means that you are stupid but I think subconsciously there’s a lot of people out there who equate a southern accent with a lack of intelligence all those you know you sound backwoods you sound uneducated you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about and and it’s it’s unfortunate because well I have that and I’ve I’ve I’ve changed it like even when you said North Carolina North Carolina you know so why did why do we do it I think I think to to mitigate the stigma associated with our southern accent to reach more of a global audience don’t think we’re stupid please well and that’s sad okay I think that’s the truth well I think it’s true I don’t think it’s necessarily sad because I do think that having it first of all people out here know for within a one sentence that we’re from the South even now yeah there’s a lot people a you guys don’t have any accent a lot of people in the South may think we don’t have any accent but when you come out to a place like California they immediately know that we’re not from around here and that we’re from the south because we still do have somewhat of a southern accent but like whenever I see someone I say ha yeah exactly I don’t say hi I’ve noticed that ha but wait my hand like this my eyes get big ha I’m linked and they always say let’s link that’s a dead giveaway but I don’t think there’s I don’t think it’s necessarily a negative thing but I don’t but I have made a conscious decision for it not to go any further and I have made a conscious decision are you gonna regress back into your southern accent you mean it might be a little bit I think that’s good I think we might start talking we never felt like this let’s talk like this everywhere we go there’s an event you know it becomes a retro kind of a I just I’m just saying that I think we’ve got to a place where it’s a little bit of a universal way to speak to people but I don’t want it to go any further and I want people to be able to pick up on this other an accent I don’t want to lose that and I feel like it’s what makes us who we are I think the day that they can’t pick up on the southern accent is the day that we died on the inside let’s pin the wheel I’m gonna let you door today dad on the inside that go ahead and spin the wheel which way do I spin it any way you want to just do it do you do it clockwise or counterclockwise alright we’re gonna end this episode leave a comment below and let us know have you heard yourself on a recording and how did you react yeah here we go almost the Blouin shoutout to Denmark ladies and gentlemen mythical beasts we want to give a special shout out did those of you in Denmark today Denmark you are amazing it rains in your land every other day and there’s always a brisk breeze you only border one country and that one country is Germany Danish women your life expectancy is 79 years old you go girl but the main reason that you’re awesome Denmark is the fact that you are two English words put together den which is like a place where we watch television and Mark which is a common American name you gotta make it about us [Music]