Narrator Research Behind the Scenes

 This clip didn't make the final cut to our previous episode, but now you can get a behind-the-scenes listen to our roundabout and somewhat humorous research on our favorite narrator.

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Transcript

I Hate Talking: 0:29

I definitely have some favorite narrators. Sometimes I will buy a book just for the narrator. Yeah, you want me to name him? Well, I'm interested to know if it's the same narrator. This will be interesting. I don't know if we've ever talked about this. -- We do -- because you've gotten me books because of him. You've tried to convince me like you have to read it. Or like listen to this guy, it's so and so I reads it. You don't know who I'm talking about? Well, I know who my favorite narrator is. I don't know if we're talking about the same person. All right, I'll look it up. Well, I know it. You don't know it. I know him as like my personal friend Ray Porter, the best narrator in the world. I'm not on personal terms with him. No, me and Ray don't go way back. Well, neither do we, but Yes, I definitely know the name Ray Porter because he is definitely the best narrator that I have ever encountered by far. And the guy. The book, it's been so long. What are all those like in the world books? What are they called? Going home or one second after? No, this is like 8 years ago books. 8 years ago. What are you talking about? End of the world. Oh my goodness, it's so many books in Audible. The grid never better, better never go down. -- What is the subject -- of the book? The reason you got me to move was all like that. Maybe I'll look it up. I can't find it on here. There's that there's a Christian book and the guy's like it has diabetes? No. One second. Is that it? Joe Barrett, I don't know who that is. No, that's not it then. It's, we had a ton of his books. You've got him explicitly cause I liked him. The Going Home series. It was a long time ago. Duke Fontaine narrates it, which is actually probably the author, but he's actually under a different. No. Yeah, that doesn't sound familiar. What are the books where like the guy's kid has type one diabetes and you have to like put the number on your head on whether or not lady's like I'm a 4, I lied to her. -- That's -- 1 2nd after. What? Are you sure? And who is that reader? That's who I like. OK, Joe Barrett, I don't know who that is. -- Isn't -- that who I like? I don't know. Who's the guy I like like me read all his books. OK, who are you talking about again? What's his name? Ray Porter. Ray Porter, that doesn't sound familiar. What's you read? There's a guy that you get, you get his book specifically cause I like it. No, I haven't read any of these books. It's been a while ago, but I really like him. He's a male. What's the other books like that though, not the Christian version, but the other one. -- One after -- the other one that's not Christian. There were two series. They're very similar about the grid going down. One was a Christian perspective and one wasn't. Going home is the Christian one. One second after is not. OK, so then maybe who does the going home one? Duke Fontaine. Which is actually the author under a different pen name. According to legend. -- What we have -- Ray Porter? No, Duke Fontaine. He doesn't narrate anything else because it's. He doesn't have other stuff. What's it called? Go home. Go home. No, it's a whole bunch of books I read because of him. OK, OK, OK, what about the space guy? Like he was trapped in space and there's like the robot that's like, hello, you are here in space and I'm gonna help you. And then the guy has to decide if he's gonna save the world or if he's gonna float out into space forever. What is it? That's the guy I like. -- What's -- his name? Will Wheaton. Will, I do follow a lot of Willy and stuff. Oh, that ties back to How I Met Your Mother. He's in that. He's Sheldon's arch enemy, Will Wheaton. No, that's not Will Wheaton, is it? No. He narrated Andy Ware is the author. Project Hail Mary. That sounds right. Ray Porter. OK, so we both like the same guy. On a very roundabout way, yes, we've arrived. I only took 10 minutes to figure out, but we both love the same. Narrator We do love the same narrator. Ray Porter. So