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Some history about the old classic comedy team Abbott and Costello and how changing your voice can help improve your message.

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Changing your voice for your content.

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

I wanted to mention real quick a story that I heard about Abbott and Costello, the famous comedy team, if you're not familiar with them go and check some of their stuff out on YouTube, especially their old comedy routine, who's on first as a classic.

Abbott and Costello we're a comedy team that lasted from the late 30s well into the late 50s. They had a good solid 20 year run. And within that time, they put out some great stuff, they did a lot of really good material on radio.

First they did live routines and then they did radio and then they did television, quite a lot on television. Then they started putting out movies, and one of the most strangest movies for their style. But Funny, funny, funny movie is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Definitely worth watching if you track that down and watch it.

The reason why I wanted to bring them up is because I was amazed. Well, when I was young, I didn't see a whole lot of their reruns on television. And so I happened upon them accidentally when I started getting into old time radio, old time radio programs that they used to play in the 30s 40s and 50s. And got some Abbott and Costello to listen to, and I say, Oh, these guys are funny. This is really good stuff.

Then I started talking to people who had watched them when they were alive, and they were on TV and were a thing. And they said, Yeah, they were the best!

Then you start seeing over time, you start seeing that they've had a huge impact on all of culture.

I mean, they had cartoon characters based off of them, either explicitly or specifically. They had, you know, songs written about them that were very, very big in terms of pop culture. And one thing that always kind of gotten my craw a little bit is sometimes Costello would go on and on at this really high pitched annoying voice.

And he'd sometimes he just go a bit too far into this falsetto, that was annoying. And it was really kind of meant to be annoying, but it just always seemed to be a little bit off to me and I could never quite put my finger on it.

Well, years later, I've seen interviews and everything with Lou Costello when he's talking normal. And he doesn't sound like that at all. He has a deeper voice. And they sent and I just read recently, that when Bud Abbott and Lou Costello first started doing radio, they had a difficult time with their routines because it's very specific on who's saying what.

But the problem was, they both sounded a lot alike in person, they look very different. But they sounded a lot alike on radio. So Lou Costello had to make his voice a lot more higher pitched, to be able to differentiate.

It was only because of the medium. If they were on television, if they were in a live crowd, it would not have mattered as much. But because he was able to make this unique voice. He in a sense became more popular. He became very, very recognizable.

It was very clear cut, it would just cut straight through, straight through to your ears. I mean, you could hear it coming from a mile away. And so it became a voice that people imitated his phrases and everything got pick...