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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: It's Coast to Coast AM.

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Speaker 3: Connie willis here with you, playing great music, Open lines

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Speaker 3: happening a little later on. Yes, I do want to

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Speaker 3: ask about the Elon Musk information and knows anybody knows him,

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Speaker 3: Get him to call in, Let's go. Let's go, or

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Speaker 3: at least contact him and let him know that everybody

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Speaker 3: tweet him. Just tweet him like crazy and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: Connie wants to talk to you. She's got your answers

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Speaker 3: for your UFO and alien questions. I mean, he's just

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Speaker 3: asking the wrong people. Why is he not listening to us?

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Speaker 3: What's the deal?

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Speaker 2: What's the deal?

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Speaker 3: Who is it that always said that? I know there

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Speaker 3: was a character that was to always say what's the deal?

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Speaker 3: Oh maybe that's a Seinfeld thing. Anyway, tonight, we have

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Speaker 3: a guy that is in here that you've probably heard

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Speaker 3: his voice somewhere and had no idea about. His name

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Speaker 3: is Bob Bergen, and he is he does a lot

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Speaker 3: of voices. He's here with us right now. You've already

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Speaker 3: heard a little bit from him. You know, Bob, I

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Speaker 3: just you and I got to talk a little bit

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Speaker 3: before coming on the air with me, and you have

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Speaker 3: to take the acting classes. You've got to take the

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Speaker 3: improv classes, whether you even know it or not at

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Speaker 3: the time. But it's just because it works as well.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's definitely going to help you in the career,

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Speaker 3: but it's also just fun and a part of all

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Speaker 3: of it too.

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Speaker 2: It just all works magically.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I had emailed daily from people who

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Speaker 4: want to I want to get into voiceover. Everyone tells

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Speaker 4: me I got a great voice, and there isn't such

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Speaker 4: thing as a great voice. There's only good actors and

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Speaker 4: bad actors. I always tell people, Look, if you want

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Speaker 4: to do what I do, the very first thing you

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Speaker 4: do is you study acting. Yeah, and you study improv

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Speaker 4: and then you study voiceover. And you know, nobody working

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Speaker 4: today at my level lucked into this. This was hard work.

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Speaker 4: This is something they really wanted. And no matter what

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Speaker 4: it is you want to do. I mean, I want

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Speaker 4: to do voices for cartoons. Somebody else wants to be

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Speaker 4: a painter, somebody wants to be a concert pianist. You

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Speaker 4: need to want it more than anybody else and be

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Speaker 4: willing to work harder than anybody else. There's no secret

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Speaker 4: to this. You just got to work.

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Speaker 3: And I got to tell you though, the improv work,

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Speaker 3: to me has been the most wonderful things in my career,

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Speaker 3: especially radio being a basic that was the last thing

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Speaker 3: I ever wanted to do. But these are things that

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Speaker 3: teach you to do things live and if you mess up,

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Speaker 3: you just keep on going. You don't worry about it,

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Speaker 3: you don't.

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Speaker 2: Think about it.

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Speaker 3: In fact, you use it and you just keep going

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Speaker 3: with it. And that is like something that man. When

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Speaker 3: you can perfect that and keep going and not feel

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Speaker 3: like a failure and not say cut try again, you

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Speaker 3: know that kind of thing, and you just go with it,

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Speaker 3: it really matters, especially with auditions or even doing what

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Speaker 3: you do. I mean that means you could even now

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Speaker 3: you have to tell us all more about the scripting

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Speaker 3: of it, but I'm sure they love when you can

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Speaker 3: throw in some sort of neat little ad lib that

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Speaker 3: they didn't even think about it because you're already so

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Speaker 4: Especially you know, like I said now my students, is

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Speaker 4: if you have one check for your training, study improvit

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Speaker 4: it's the greatest training.

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Speaker 2: On the planet.

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Speaker 4: I don't think I don't care everything as cartoons or Shakespeare.

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Speaker 4: It's great training. You're right, acting is reacting. So you

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Speaker 4: don't want to dishonor the writer to the point where

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Speaker 4: you're trying to improve on their work by living. But

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Speaker 4: you definitely want to, you know, bring something to the table,

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Speaker 4: especially in the in the audition. And I tell my

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Speaker 4: students the script is a skeleton. Your job is to

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Speaker 4: give it up body. What does that mean? It means

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Speaker 4: whatever your little creative mind wants to bring to that character. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: all characters have a voice, but not all voices have character.

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Speaker 4: You're creating a character, a living, breathing character. Your audition

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Speaker 4: one hundred years. And it has nothing to do with

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Speaker 4: the sound of that character. It has to do with

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Speaker 4: the personality, the relationships in the script, the environment, the

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Speaker 3: Let's hear some of your character work. Let's listen to

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Speaker 3: some of the animation that you've done.

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Speaker 1: My name is Sam Fisher. I used to be a hero.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm wanted man.

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Speaker 2: Can I put my clothes back on? And it was

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Speaker 2: called how I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna double you.

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Speaker 2: Spotts my just againts and cheating. But I could never

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Speaker 4: I'd be the prime respect. But if we killed each

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Speaker 4: other's wives, jem, it would be that little perfect rime.

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Speaker 3: Stop trying to confuse me.

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Speaker 2: Your over confidence is your weakness. Faith in your mama.

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Speaker 4: I said, your mama, so fat Tub of the Hut.

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Speaker 3: Said, you know you aren't mental exist in the outside

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Speaker 2: Oh, it just seems somewhat undressed. Quite a fashion statement.

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Speaker 2: Put me a kid, and I got a cool toy

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Speaker 2: for you.

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Speaker 4: Hi, the world's oldest Braggon proud to announce share table

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Speaker 4: for two the Mama on your way to Grandma's house.

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Speaker 4: I love the smell of fear the old man before

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Speaker 4: he was, before he was, He said, I could escape

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Speaker 2: Please help me, mister bugs, I want you to hide this.

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Speaker 4: You put it.

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Speaker 1: As you know. There is no one way to make

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Speaker 4: Do you think I like jumping down this big dummy's

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Speaker 2: No way, But that's is.

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Speaker 1: The breaks here calls mister bomber, dropping us bombs and

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Speaker 2: Duckie Dr Bunson, Honeydoo here at Muppet Labs.

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Speaker 3: Push, push it harder, you can get free.

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Speaker 2: Don't let them do to you what they've done to me.

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Speaker 1: It's so terrible.

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Speaker 3: I just wish you were on and.

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Speaker 2: I hate to be the bearer of bad news your airiness.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't find the player, your tea will be.

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Speaker 2: Fourth is not Michael is the greatest ever. That's that's

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Speaker 2: my life. That's just great stuff.

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Speaker 3: That's Bob Berg and the who we're talking to here

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Speaker 3: on Costa Cosam tonight. Those were his voices right there,

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I just find that amazing because it's being in the

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Speaker 3: world of broadcasting. You use your voice, you're constantly doing that.

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Speaker 3: People can recognize you from anywhere and you can get

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Speaker 3: excited or do this or do that, whatever the spot

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Speaker 3: just a whole nother world, and that's like the cream

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Speaker 3: of the crop for somebody like me. So congratulations that

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Speaker 4: You're so sweet. Thank you, Connie. And I got to

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Speaker 4: tell you, I do not take it for granted. It's

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Speaker 4: something I wanted to do since I was a kid.

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Speaker 4: I'm still doing it, and I swear to you every

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Speaker 4: whatever I'm recording, I literally have a moment of I'm

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Speaker 4: still doing this. I gets to do this. This is

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Speaker 4: I want people to really understand that none of us

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Speaker 4: who do this take it for granted.

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Speaker 3: I feel the same way about being on Coast to Coast.

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Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I got to tell you when I was

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Speaker 4: on hole waiting to talk to you, and bidly, can

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Speaker 4: I just give you a compliment?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, don't do that, don't you do you on.

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Speaker 4: The air is identical to talking to you off the air,

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Speaker 4: because you and I have had several conversations, and what

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Speaker 4: I love about you is you're the same person i'm

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Speaker 4: talking to now live Coast to Coast as you were

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Speaker 4: when you were going Yes, So let's just you know,

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Speaker 4: and that is that is that's a good host. That's

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Speaker 4: I've talked to many hosts where they put on hosts personality,

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Speaker 4: and you're just Connie and you're really good at doing Connie.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: That that is the best compliment I think anybody can

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Speaker 3: get in broadcasting. So thank you. And to get that

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Speaker 2: It's so fun to talk with you about it.

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Speaker 3: But along the way, I thought it was going to

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Speaker 2: Can you do this? And it's live and.

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Speaker 3: So live work for me and me being me, And

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Speaker 3: at one point I remember stopping and going, Wow, everybody

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Speaker 4: Yeah. You know, the hardest thing in the world is

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Speaker 4: You know, some of the greatest conversationalists are just authentic,

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Speaker 4: and you know, authentic is what it's all about. If

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what.

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Speaker 3: When that occurred to me that that's where I was,

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Speaker 2: Just want you.

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Speaker 3: So that's so sweet to hear that from somebody else,

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Speaker 3: to get that confirmation.

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Speaker 2: So thank you so much. I appreciate that. Yeah, oh, okay,

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Speaker 3: See improv helps you to just do that and people

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Speaker 3: go right along with you. Now, I want to get

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Speaker 3: to a ton of stories that you have, but so

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out which one to go to

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Speaker 3: for Let's go ahead and go to the man with

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Speaker 3: a smile. He's always got a smile. Let's see if

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Speaker 3: you recognize what I'm talking about. And I know you

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Speaker 3: have a story with him.

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Speaker 2: But he always spoke.

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Speaker 3: And he sounded like he always had a smile, which,

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Speaker 4: So yes, yes, because he did. He always sounded like

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Speaker 4: I had studied voiceover for about four years and I

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Speaker 4: And a few days after I thank you note, I

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Speaker 4: and he goes, Hi, Bob, it's Kasey Kayser and I

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Speaker 4: got your He did the smile because he wasn't Kasey

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Speaker 2: He's not his authentic self exactly right.

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Speaker 4: So you know, he was very sweet, he said. He

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Speaker 4: asked me all kinds of business questions I'd studied voiceover

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Speaker 2: No, they still don't, by.

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Speaker 2: But about craft, well, I was with you in that world.

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Speaker 2: If that's what I knew about his craft. No, I'm

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Speaker 2: talking business. I'd already bestly rich by now.

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Speaker 4: He said, do you have an agent? I said no.

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Speaker 4: He said, do you have a demo? I said no,

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Speaker 4: so he said, he said, make me a homemade demo

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Speaker 4: I like it, I'll give it to my agent. Well,

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Speaker 2: Connie, you did, you totally did. That's uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's more than luck, even though luck is full absolutely

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Speaker 2: Of all this, but that's that's just meant to be.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I agree with you. Luck is a

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Speaker 2: You were also ready for exactly right, Yes I was.

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Speaker 4: And you know what if if? That? By the way,

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Speaker 2: I am too. Every time I move it costs me

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to digitize everything. Yes, just you know, I've

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Speaker 4: from that.

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Speaker 3: I've got even video that's like D two and into

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Speaker 2: I got that too.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how it's gonna happen, where I can

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Speaker 3: put on the cloud or something. But you know, nowadays,

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Speaker 2: But right now it's taken up, like I have a

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Speaker 4: I also have every script I've ever done, which is

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Speaker 3: That is cool, That is cool. I might have lost

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Speaker 3: of it. But tell me, so, tell me about that. Okay,

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Speaker 3: So every dream, at least for me. But I know

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Speaker 3: You know, you start getting all this toothwork, you know, teethwork,

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Speaker 3: all of you Kentuckians here, we're not going to say

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Speaker 3: gonna sound like a midwestern You're Midwesterner. You're not going

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know who determined that Midwesterners was

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Speaker 3: and that's enough for me. But you you got to

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Speaker 4: I will tell you that, you know, the majority of

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Speaker 4: Most days I'm auditioning for something new, or I'm recording

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Speaker 2: You create it yourself.

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Speaker 3: When you go on for an audition, they say, hey,

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Speaker 4: Pretty much, so you get nice. You get the script.

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Speaker 4: There's a picture, there's a description, and there's dialogue. And

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Speaker 1: You look at the.

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Speaker 4: First line, who am I talking to? What's my relationship?

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Speaker 4: Where are we? But I have to do everything with

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Speaker 2: For emphasis a lot.

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Speaker 4: With your arms to your side, you're just talking. But

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Speaker 4: eighty percent of doing all this, eighty percent of animation

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Speaker 4: by yourself in your home studio. There's nobody there to

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Speaker 4: to do. There's also nobody there to tell you what

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