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For as skinny as The King is, he can hold his own. I mean, look how effortlessly he can hold this 23 pound kid on his neck while at the Central Park Zoo.

The King knows how to do a lot of different things. I mean he doesn’t build houses for a living. He just builds houses for us. During the day he works in the ad business. Yes my husband is a Mad Men. (Only that he really isn’t. He just works in the industry.)

And since he works all around print ads and photos shots and commercials and copy, sometimes he ends up in those ads or on those commercials.

Print ads featuring The King used to wind up in our mail box weekly. Unfortunately I only had the insight to save two of them.

(Yes, he brought that metal water heater table home with him after the shoot. Yes, it’s our current coffee table. Yes, I know it’s tacky.)

While I like to say that The King is so hott that he’d modeled, the truth is that he was just at the right place at the right time. Meaning he worked at the photo studio and was much cheaper then a professional model. Free is always cheaper.

A few weeks ago The King was asked by a client to do some voice over work for one of their ads. They told him his voice may or may not end up on a real live commercial. He thought this was pretty cool. He brought his script home and practiced the copy. He ran it by me, but eventually made me leave the room after I started giving him suggestions. Apparently his doesn’t have enough professional license to change the wording, only the enunciation of what’s already written.

How was I supposed to know that?

We’ve been waiting patiently to be able to hear his final product, to hear his voice in action. Today he was given the link to his first ever (and let’s be honest, probably his last) voice ad. It doesn’t really sound like him. I can tell that he was forced to speak much slower then he does in real life. While I think the ad is a little silly, it’s still fun to hear.

Oh, do you guys want the link to his Horizon Air ad? Are you dying to hear The King pronounce words like badger and besieged? If so, go HERE and and click on Bridge of Heavy Sighs on the map. The King plays “Doug” and is the one writing the letter to “Larr-Dog”.

Now if we could only figure out how he could make money from doing this.