The Poster Says...

Nate Begle
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The Poster Says... — the movie tagline podcast from voice actor, writer, producer, director and VO coach Nate Begle. Every week, Nate sits down with a fellow industry pro to dig into one film and the tagline that had to sell it: why it worked, why it didn't, and who actually wrote it. Horror to comedy, blockbuster to cult classic, 1950s to right now — no single decade, no single genre, no "films of" anybody. Episodes drop every Thursday at 7PM ET.

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    Bonnie and Clyde (1967) — "They're young... they're in love... and they kill people." (with Christian Titus)

    "They're young... they're in love... and they kill people." Nine words. Two ellipses. One period that does more work than most entire sentences. The structure is a masterpiece of weaponized grammar. "They're young" — in 1967, that single word carried the entire cultural weight of a generation. An ellipsis. Then "they're in love" — now you're in romance territory, Bogart and Bacall, screwball comedy, boy meets girl. Another ellipsis. The audience is comfortable. And then: "and they kill people." Full stop. Not an ellipsis. Not an exclamation mark. A period. Matter-of-fact. Unhurried. Unashamed. As if killing people naturally follows from being young and in love, as if this is simply the third item on the list. The anonymous Warner Bros. copywriter who wrote this made one other crucial call: choosing "kill people" over "rob banks." A documented alternate version of this tagline exists — softer, more romantic, bank robbers as folk heroes. The "kill people" version is morally harder, funnier, more confrontational, and infinitely more honest about what the film actually is. Whoever chose that word over the safer option made the right call. We don't know who they were. Here's the other thing worth knowing before you press play: Warner Bros. hated this film. Studio head Jack Warner called it a "four-piss picture." The studio tried to dump it in Texas drive-ins. This tagline was written by a marketing department working on a film their own studio had given up on — and the nine words they produced are now one of the most studied pieces of marketing copy in cinema history. Joining Nate for this one is voice actor, audio producer, voice line producer, and VO coach Christian Titus — twenty-plus years as an actor, ten-plus in voiceover, based in New York, with credits spanning commercials, corporate narration, animation, video games, podcasts, and audio drama, and voice line production credits including Grand Prix of Europe and Kayara. Christian is a fellow NAVA member and exactly the kind of performer who has thought seriously about every craft dimension of what it means to put words into a character's mouth. There is one more thing. Christian chose Bonnie and Clyde from the guest submission form thinking it was a different film. He watched the actual 1967 Arthur Penn film for the first time specifically to prepare for this episode. That first-time experience — unfiltered, no nostalgia, no childhood memory to protect — turns out to be one of the most valuable things a guest can bring to this show. The film hit him fresh. You'll hear it. 🎙️ Follow Nate Begle: natebegle.com | @natebegle on YouTube and @natebeglevo on Discord Christian Titus is a New York-based voice actor, audio producer, voice line producer, and VO coach with over 20 years as a performer and 10+ in voiceover — whose credits span commercials, corporate narration, animation, video games, audio drama, and voice line production on Grand Prix of Europe and Kayara. 🔗 christiantitus.com | christiantitusvo.com | IMDbThe Poster Says… theme by:Dr. Ariel Alexander

    Bonnie and Clyde (1967) — "They're young... they're in love... and they kill people." (with Christian Titus)

  2. Sep 3

    Sharknado (2013) — "Enough Said!" (with Kelsey Painter)

    Some taglines add mystery. Some add stakes. "Enough Said!" adds nothing — on purpose — and that's exactly why it works. This episode, voice actor Kelsey Painter joins Nate to unpack Sharknado (2013), the $2 million Syfy movie that turned a joke pitch ("Sharknado" — said once, in a room, as a bit) into a genuine cultural phenomenon. The tagline "Enough Said." is the rare anti-tagline: it points at the title, steps back, and lets SHARKNADO do all the work. Nate and Kelsey debate whether that's the laziest piece of copywriting ever produced, or the most confident. Along the way: the screenwriter named Thunder Levin (yes, really) who got paid $6,000 for the script that launched a six-film franchise. The 100+ actors who passed on the lead role before Ian Ziering said yes — for the health insurance. The poster that went viral at the Cannes Film Market months before a single frame aired. And the chainsaw. Kelsey also picked Sharknado alongside Jaws and Jurassic Park on her list of favorites — so they get into whether a $2M B-movie about flying sharks earns a seat at the table with the genre's giants. As per usual: nobody knows who wrote "Enough Said!" No credited copywriter, no agency, no name in any trade publication. Just two words that started a phenomenon, and the marketer who will probably never get the credit. 🎧 LISTEN: On ALL the platforms and of course at natebegle.com/podcast 📺 WATCH: Full video episodes on YouTube! 🎙️ Follow Nate Begle: https://www.natebegle.com | @natebegle on YouTube and @natebeglevo on Discord. Kelsey Painter — also known as The VO Opossum — is a voice actor specializing in animation, interactive/gaming, and character work, with a portfolio spanning commercials, e-learning, video games, and animated series. Represented by MCVO and Bigmouth Voices. 🔗 kelseypainter.com | @kelseypainter_voice | YouTube | IMDbThe Poster Says… theme by:Dr. Ariel Alexander

    Sharknado (2013) — "Enough Said!" (with Kelsey Painter)

  3. Aug 27

    True Lies (1994) — "When he said I do, he never said what he did." (with Rob Sogomonian)

    Welcome to the very first episode of The Poster Says... — and we're starting with a big one. True Lies (1994) was the first film in history to cross a $100 million production budget, and the third collaboration between James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger, following The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It's also got one of the cleanest, sharpest taglines we've ever broken down: "When he said I do, he never said what he did" — eleven words turning a wedding vow into a punchline, a thriller setup, and a romance hook, all at once.Nate is joined by fellow voice actor Rob Sogomonian (one of his two all-time favorite movies, alongside Predator!) to talk through: — Why nobody knows who wrote one of the cleanest taglines in '90s blockbuster history — How Schwarzenegger personally found the French film this was based on — The risk Cameron took betting an unprecedented budget on a spy-comedy — Why 1994 — the year of Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and The Lion King — was one of the greatest years in movie history, and how True Lies held its own anyway — What still holds up, and what's genuinely complicated to watch with 30+ years of hindsightNew episodes every week. Subscribe so you don't miss the next one. 🎧 LISTEN: On ALL the platforms and of course at natebegle.com/podcast 📺 WATCH: Full video episodes on YouTube!🎙️ Follow Nate Begle: https://www.natebegle.com | @natebegle on YouTube and @natebeglevo on Discord. Rob Sogomonian is a voice actor, narrator, singer, producer, director, and co-founder of Articul8 Studios — an eight-person voice acting collective currently producing the audio drama Static Shift. 🔗 robsogovo.com | @robsogovo on Instagram | @RobSogoVO on YouTube | Articul8 StudiosThe Poster Says… theme by:Dr. Ariel Alexander

    True Lies (1994) — "When he said I do, he never said what he did." (with Rob Sogomonian)

  4. Aug 9

    The Poster Says... — Official Trailer | The Movie Tagline Podcast

    THE POSTER SAYS... — OFFICIAL TRAILER You know that line on the movie poster. The one that sold you the ticket before you knew anything else about the film. Five words. Sometimes ten. Written by someone nobody remembers — and somehow, decades later, you can still recite it word for word. The Poster Says... is the movie tagline podcast. Every week, host Nate Begle sits down with a fellow industry pro — voice actors, puppeteers, writers, producers, and yes, Emmy winners — to break down one film and the tagline that had to sell it. Why it worked. Why it didn't. Who wrote it. And why the answer to that last one is, more often than not, a shrug. We're not stuck in one decade. We're not stuck in one genre. We're not doing "the films of" anybody. Horror to comedy. Blockbuster to cult classic. Nineteen-fifties to right now. Because those few words on a poster are the only thing every movie we cover has in common. 🎬 FIRST EPISODE: Thursday, August 27th at 7PM ET 🏆 THE CONTEST This trailer opens with one giant run-on sentence built entirely out of real movie taglines. The first person to correctly identify every title referenced wins a prize — some sort, some how, some way, TBD. Send your list through the contact form at the bottom of natebegle.com/podcast. 🎧 LISTEN: On ALL the platforms and of course at natebegle.com/podcast 📺 WATCH: Full video episodes on YouTube! 🎙️ Follow Nate Begle: https://www.natebegle.com | @natebegle on YouTube and @natebeglevo on Discord. The Poster Says... The movie tagline podcast. Because somebody had to.The Poster Says… theme song by:Dr. Ariel Alexander

    The Poster Says... — Official Trailer | The Movie Tagline Podcast
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The Poster Says... — the movie tagline podcast from voice actor, writer, producer, director and VO coach Nate Begle. Every week, Nate sits down with a fellow industry pro to dig into one film and the tagline that had to sell it: why it worked, why it didn't, and who actually wrote it. Horror to comedy, blockbuster to cult classic, 1950s to right now — no single decade, no single genre, no "films of" anybody. Episodes drop every Thursday at 7PM ET.

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  • Creator
    Nate Begle
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Begle Booth Studios
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