About Unmuted - The Secret Sauce of Entertainment Insiders - How The Stuff We Love is Made (by Big Karma)
How The Stuff We Love is Made!
Unmuted by Big Karma goes behind the scenes of all entertainment industries. We reveal the secret sauce ingredients and backstage stories of influential insiders from the worlds of Sports, Cinema, Gaming, Toys, Music, Creators Economy and more.
New episodes are released on Fridays.
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Voice-Over Talent, Actress, Performing Singer since the Age of 9 and Profesh Cosplayer - Santana Maynard is a NextGen "MULTI" [Unmuted S2E3]
Voice-Over Talent, Actress, Performing Singer since the Age of 9 and Profesh Cosplayer, Santana Maynard is what the cool kids today call a "MULTI".
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16 Apr 2022
The Epic Voice Guy You Heard in Deadpool, Transformers Optimus Prime & Honest Game Trailers - Jon Bailey [Unmuted S2E4]
Jon Bailey, aka. Epic Voice Guy, is one the most versatile and outstanding talents in the voice-matching game and ADR business right now. A true prodigy, you know him from the sensational YouTube series Honest Trailers and Honest Game Trailers (formerly on ScreenJunkies & Smosh, nowadays on Fandom Games), or for being the voice of Optimus Prime in Bumblebee. Jon also does a lot of behind-the-scenes voice-matching work for big name Hollywood actors like Jeff Bridges, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth or Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool, Red Notice and many other films. A complete actor, Jon has also leaned voice to dozens of video games characters.
Epic Voice Guy channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/epicvoiceguy (https://www.youtube.com/c/epicvoiceguy)
Honest Game Trailers channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/fandomgames (https://www.youtube.com/c/fandomgames)
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27 Jan 2022
Fortnite & Best Fiends Influencer Marketing Mastermind Booking Top YouTube & TikTok Creators for The Biggest Campaigns - Brittany Bagnall, CEO & Founder of CherryPick Entertainment [Unmuted S2E2]
Fortnite, Best Fiends and many more top brands trust Britt with their YouTube and TikTok Creators Campaigns. In her company we go behind-the-scenes of the biggest YouTube campaigns and collabs of the decade, and discuss the making of a great collab.
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20 Jan 2022
10 Years Rewind of YouTube, Streaming, Creator Economy, Influencer Marketing and the Upcoming Metaverse with Phil Ranta, CEO of Wormhole Labs, ex-Facebook, Full Screen & Mobcrush [Unmuted S2E1]
Phil Ranta was employee number 9 at Full Screen, once the godfather of Multi Channel Networks on YouTube, and by the time he left, their headcount had grown to 500+. After a stint at Studio 71 and head of Creators positions at Mobcrush & Facebook, he has a unique perspective on the last 10 years of growth in the Creator Economy and the Influencer Marketing activity. Now CEO of Wormhole Labs, Phil also offers visionary insights on what's to come next with the Metaverse and Decentralization.
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Host: Pascal Clarysse
30 Nov 2021
From Smosh First Sponsored Video to PewDiePie to Logan Paul to MrBeast Squid Game - A 15 Years YouTube Rewind with Influencer Marketing Pioneer Brendan Gahan [Unmuted Ep.10]
Brendan Gahan is credited as the man who booked the first ever sponsored video on YouTube, with Smosh in 2006. A pioneer in YouTube influencer marketing and now TikTok, Brendan helps analyze the growth of the platform, the various trends we've been through up until the contemporary days of the sensational Squid Game video by MrBeast, which is taking the Internet by storm as we speak. We deep dive into fascinating subjects, such as the relation between algorithmic changes and mental health issues peaking among Creators, and even why Daily Vloggers resonate with us at the very neurological level!
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Host: Pascal Clarysse
18 Nov 2021
From Space To The Metaverse - Marja Konttinen Tells Us Everything about The Voice of Avakin Life and Launching Angry Birds Space with NASA [Unmuted Ep. 9]
Marja Konttinen used to be a Marketing Director at Rovio, where she worked on Angry Birds Space with NASA, and Angry Birds Star Wars. Nowadays, she's with Lockwood, working on metaverse title Avakin Life, which has the Internet abuzz with their recent "The Voice of Avakin" collaboration with TikTok and many other music partners. In her company, we discuss the Roblox generation, how Angry Birds plush toys were sent to the International Space Station so that the "Space Launch" iconic YouTube video could happen, the stealth-learning value of video games, and oh so much more!
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Host: Pascal Clarysse
21 Oct 2021
April Holmes, Paralympic Gold Medalist for Team USA, Multiple Record-Holder in 100M Dash, Founder & CEO of Startup Hero Hangout, Inspiration for the 2009 Nike Air Jordan [Unmuted Ep.8]
Paralympic Gold Medalist, Multiple Record-Holder in 100M Dash, April Holmes evolved from Track'n'Field Sprinter into the sprint-a-thon life of Startup Founder & CEO, bringing Hero Hangout to the world, an app that lets kids engage with their favorite athletes and role models for life lessons and mentoring - Masterclass meets The Last Dance. With her, we delve into the common values between high performance athlete life and entrepreneurship. Little scoop for fellow sneakerheads: we even get into how and why April inspired the 2009 edition of the iconic Nike Air Jordan!
Host: Pascal Clarysse
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7 Oct 2021
Lifelong Diversity & Inclusion Expert Sacha Thompson Deep Dives into Where We Come From, What Time It Is and The Long Road Ahead for D&I [Unmuted Ep. 7]
Sacha Thompson has, in one way or another, spent her entire adult life in the field of what we call today Diversity & Inclusion. We converse about where we come from, what time it is and the long road ahead with oh so much left to do... and more importantly, how to take action and start practically fixing the problems one by one.
Host: Pascal Clarysse
To pay for our next coffee: https://www.patreon.com/BigKarma
1 Oct 2021
Actor CJ Jones on Starring in Baby Driver, Creating a Navi Sign Language for James Cameron's Avatar 2, Being Typecast in Hollywood, Deaf Community Stories & Netflix Disability Pledge [Unmuted Ep. 6]
Actor CJ Jones starred in Baby Driver after years of being typecast in homeless roles. In his energetic presence, we converse about the perseverance it takes to make it in "Hollywood" (or any entertainment or creative industry for that matter), his initiatives for the deaf artists community, creating a new sign language for James Cameron's Avatar 2 (and 3), the Netflix pledge for more content with lead roles representing disability and much more!
Interpret: Gary Greco
Host: Pascal Clarysse
To pay for our next coffee: https://www.patreon.com/BigKarma
24 Sept 2021
From the Pioneering Days of the Early Internet to the Current State of the Mobile Gaming Industry - The Man With The Hat, Oscar Clark [Unmuted Ep. 5]
Before founding Fundamentally Games where he serves as Chief of Curiosity, Oscar Clark had a long career in mobile, with prominent business development roles for RealNetworks, 3 UK and Unity 3D.
In his company, we have vivid conversations about the early days of mobile gaming long before the iPhone was a thing, the rise of Unity 3D engine, what we love and hate in The Last of Us, the dance between Data-Informed A/B Testing & Creativity, live ops as a service, the formative years of visionaries Kristian Segerstrale and Andrew Stalbow back when they were young Padawans, inclusive design leading to universal design and how to be a good D&I ally as a privileged cis-white man.
We also officially knight Seriously's Coach Phil Hickey a marketing Jedi for his work on Angry Birds and Best Fiends.
17 Sept 2021
The Intrapreneur Journey of Ben Grubbs: from the Early Internet Days then Heading Top Content Creators for YouTube to producing Feature Films with the Hottest Creators of This Generation [Unmuted Ep4]
Before starting CreatorPlus, Ben Grubbs was the intrapreneur in residence at various global internet unicorns, from Yahoo, Ebay or Cartoon Network to YouTube where Ben headed global relations with the top content creators on the video platform of this generation. In his company, we discuss how PewDiePie provoked riots in Singapore, kickstarting YouTube Kids, pairing up Aerosmith with Hikakin for a tour in Japan, setting up the gaming business of Cartoon Network, figuring out the commercial aspects of the Internet for Yahoo early 2000s, and now producing feature films with the hottest YouTube Creators whom you (or your kids) obsess with.
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9 Sept 2021
How to Walk on Water: From 0 to Billions of Angry Birds Downloads, then off Building a 50B$ Tunnel under the Sea between Finland & Estonia - The Mighty Eagle himself, Peter Vesterbacka. (Unmuted Ep 3)
How to walk on water? Peter Vesterbacka was the Mighty Eagle in residence at Rovio, makers of Angry Birds, back when the small Finnish startup got into hypergrowth and went from a few millions of downloads into the high billions, building the cross-media entertainment brand we know today.
We discuss the fast-lane stories of the Angry Birds craze, getting invited to Russia by President Medvedev, beating Coca-Cola in beverage sales for a day, the fearless entrepreneur mindset, the "Too Early, Too Early, Too Late" principle, how to build a 50B$ tunnel under the sea between Helsinki and Tallinn to empower the FinEst Bay Area, and oh so much more!
With your Big Karma host: Pascal Clarysse.
To support Big Karma: Patreon.com/BigKarma (https://www.patreon.com/BigKarma)
2 Sept 2021
Inside the Locker Rooms of the Paralympics with Dr. Brett Guimard, former Medical Head of Team USA at Rio 2016
In this second episode of Unmuted - the podcast about How the Stuff We Love is Made - we get inside the locker-rooms of the Paralympics, through the lens of Dr. Brett Guimard, former Medical Head of Team USA at Rio 2016.
We discuss the unique experience of working with gold medal level athletes, the luxury of working on your own time with high-performance athletes and personalize their health regimen, the dignity of risk, the right to joy, comedy within the disabled community, the educational system, the nutrition of champs and oh so much more.
With your Big Karma host: Pascal Clarysse.
To support Big Karma: Patreon.com/BigKarma (https://www.patreon.com/BigKarma)
28 Aug 2021
The Secrets of the Sports Business with Ishveen Jolly, CEO of Opensponsorship
In this first episode of Unmuted - the podcast about how the stuff we love is made - we investigate the locker-room deals of the Sports business, in the great company of Ishveen Jolly, CEO of Opensponsorship, the woman who whispers to the athletes' ears.
Going through Ishveen's 15 years experience in the sports industry, spanning over three continents, we discuss the the ins and outs of sponsorship & endorsement deals with top athletes and household brands, the Olympics & Paralympics in Tokyo, Simone Biles' withdrawal, meeting Kevin Durant in person, flying chickens for KFC at Cricket matches in India and the differences of Sports business in America compared to the rest of the world.
With your Big Karma host: Pascal Clarysse.
To support Big Karma: Patreon.com/BigKarma (https://www.patreon.com/BigKarma)
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