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This tip from Voices.com’s always-helpful VOX DAILY Blog.

The amazing story involves grinding up a hornet with some other mystery substances, but the author claims it absolutely works…so proceed at your own caution.

Click HERE to see the interview on Vox Daily.

CourVO

(Everybody-wants-to-be) Joe Cipriano writes to update progress on the party he’s hosting for the late great Don LaFontaine on behalf of the SAG Foundation.

Click “read the rest of this entry” below to see the full report, and click HERE to go to the original invite.

If this wasn’t on a weekday night, I would SO be there.  Maybe you CAN be!

CourVO

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Look out!…has it already struck your household?…your workplace?

Are you washing your hands?  

Didja get a flu shot?

About this season, voice actors everywhere begin to frantically trade old-wives' remedies for sore throat, swollen glands, and stuffy noses like they're baseball cards.

A subscriber to one of the VO forums has already posed the question, and gotten several immediate answers.

Read below to see the litany of suggestions.  Maybe something there will work for you.

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Hydration.  Hydration.  Hydration.

Hey, I get kidneystones, so I preach this mantra all the time.  Drink water.  Lots of it.  All day long.

Luckily that solves any problem I might have in the studio with mouth clicks, dry mouth sounds, etc.

In a perfect world.

First thing in the morning, though, or after eating something salty, or anytime I forget to drink enough water is a different story.

The common wisdom among voice actors is to eat or drink something fruity or citrusy during a recording session, 'cause the pectin will help lubricate the clicks right outa your recording.

My experience is it pretty much works.  Finding he RIGHT concoction that works for you is another thing. 

I've tried the little squat Martinelli juice bottles…'love apple juice.  It works good, but I usually don't finish the bottle, and if you don't refrigerate, you end up with something soupy and gross in the bottle in a couple of days forgotten.

That's why I'm endorsing this product:  Santa Cruz Organic Sparkling Lemonade, Champagne style.  This stuff is tasty, a little sweet, but not sugary.  It gets rid of the clicks, and you can leave it sitting on a shelf in your studio for weeks without degradation.  Believe me, this is time-tested by yours truly.

I seem to only be able to find it at CostCo in a 9-pack of those 25.4 fluid oz. bottles.  15% juice, and the bottle has 3 servings, with 110 calories/serving.  But you only need an ocassional swish here 'n' there during a long session to make it work for ya.

Just passing along something that works.  Easy.  I've got a case up on a shelf in my studio.

CourVO