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Speaker 1: It's me, the gorgeous arts Simone.

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Speaker 2: And if being gorgeous, talented, brilliant and showstopping wasn't enough,

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Speaker 2: there's something else. I'm also incredible at being an investigator

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Speaker 2: kind of. I've been finding very average, every day looking

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Speaker 2: people who live remarkable lives. It might be their job, Bobby,

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Speaker 2: or a dirty little secret that makes them interesting. But

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, I will find them and I will

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Speaker 1: This is concealed with me, art Simone.

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Speaker 2: Let's meet a very average, everyday looking person, Rowl the type.

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Speaker 3: I'm Jackie Presgratz. I live in Pacifica, California, which is

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Speaker 3: with my partner and my two daughters. I'm a vocalist

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Speaker 3: San Francisco. But I am concealing something interesting about my

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Speaker 3: day job.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, how Jackie, how are you?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 3: I'm great?

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing very well. We are across the world, from

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Speaker 2: down Under to the United States.

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Speaker 1: What's it like over there? How's the weather?

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Speaker 3: It was beautiful yesterday but today is very foggy. Can

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Speaker 3: I live about a black and a half from the

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Do you like to go and dip your

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Speaker 1: toes in a bit of the water every now and then?

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Speaker 3: Definitely? The water is very cold here though.

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Speaker 2: See I'm close to the water, but I just like

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Speaker 2: be like, that's nice.

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Speaker 3: Good for you, that's nice over there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really nice. I really like that.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Now you're in front of me. You've got a beautiful

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Speaker 1: Stunning.

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Speaker 2: We're dressed in black, my favorite color, which is wee

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Speaker 2: because I'm dressed in pink. But anyway, some things behind you.

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Speaker 2: I'll see a nice landscape painting thing of a bob.

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Speaker 2: And is that you said you played electric cello? Is

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Speaker 2: that I do an electric cello on the roll? Or

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Speaker 2: is that just a cello.

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Speaker 3: There's an acoustic acoustic guitar, a banjo, and a bass ukulelely.

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Speaker 1: Okay, or so does that mean you play a lot

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Speaker 3: Yeah. My husband and I both are musicians, so we

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Speaker 3: play all these instruments in the house. But my main instrument.

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Speaker 1: Is cello, okay, and middle bands electric cello?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? What? Electric cello? And boice?

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Speaker 2: Howd you get into, you know, a little middle band,

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Speaker 1: Do you think this will work?

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Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, pretty much. My parents are classical and musicians,

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Speaker 1: Okay, so why not?

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you three questions, and from

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Speaker 2: the answers to those three questions, I have to try

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Speaker 2: and determine what it is you're.

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Speaker 1: Concealing from me. Okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So first question I have for you is what

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Speaker 3: Baked Alaska?

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Speaker 1: Baked Alaska Alaska? Well, is that like a that's a dessert,

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a very hard to make dessert.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I haven't had baked Alaska. Can

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Speaker 2: you describe it to me? What flavors are there?

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Speaker 1: You know? Is in nice sense?

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Speaker 3: So it's difficult to meet because it has ice cream

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that sounds beyond my limit.

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Speaker 2: You know, I can only cook things with a microwave

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Speaker 2: have you met successfully made a baked Alaska before? I

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Speaker 2: Question number two, what is a conspiracy theory that you

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Speaker 3: That we are all living in a simulation?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Now is that that you just hate?

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Speaker 2: That idea that people going, oh, we're all like having

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Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I wish that could be true because

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Speaker 2: And the question number three and a half for you

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Speaker 3: Swimming pools that don't have ladders?

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Speaker 2: Ah? Okay, I'm picking up some things. I'm picking up

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Speaker 2: some things. Lets me recap. Okay, baked Alaska hard to cook, Okay,

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Speaker 2: me back to one of my favorite pastimes in a

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Speaker 2: little game called The Sims, which is which you put

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: So I've previously guessed something on this podcast where I

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Speaker 2: I know, I don't want to guess that again, or

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Do you compose and write like the music for the Sims?

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Speaker 2: Am I clothes your clothes?

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Speaker 3: But no, I am the voice director slash Craft lead

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Speaker 3: for a voice for the SIMS franchise, and I direct

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Speaker 2: Yeah, firstly, how did you track this bitch down? Oh?

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Speaker 1: My god, this is so cool.

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Speaker 3: Surprise.

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Speaker 1: Oh she is. She is the voice director of the SIMS.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, all right, so here with Jackie, who is

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Speaker 2: it is a game that has been going for many,

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited. I'm very excited. That's a full circle

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Speaker 2: Okay, I feel like I manifested this, but by manifesting it,

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Speaker 1: I need to ask them all things like this more often.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I really think this person is someone

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So, actually being a musician is what got me

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Speaker 2: Wow, And could do you explain what a voice editor does?

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Speaker 2: Does that mean they just like collate the recordings and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we basically take the files, lots of files

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about creating the sounds of the game.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because it's not just voices, it's like all

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Speaker 2: So let's talk about Simblish, which is one of my

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Speaker 1: Ever.

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Speaker 2: It's as whole entire language. Obviously that started like right

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Speaker 3: Right? So, so I didn't create Simlish, but I know

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: There's been songs translated into Simlish and been featured in

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Speaker 2: It's that thing with some of the current you're like,

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: So you're saying, you sit there and you can like

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Speaker 2: to you? Like you said, I made that up? You

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Speaker 3: There's so many. I mean I have the sheet of

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Speaker 3: i'd say seventy five percent I probably wrote.

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Speaker 2: I'm really is there a word you're really proud of?

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Speaker 2: You know, like, let's a word I'm really proud of.

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Speaker 3: Well, let's see hoogaroo I did make up, which was

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Speaker 2: It's like it's kind of giving me like Pokemon vibes,

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's got to be catchy. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: Gonna have flow, right.

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Speaker 2: You know, if the words are too hard to like

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Speaker 1: Say did I say anything? Did I accidentainly say anything?

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Speaker 3: Maybe it seems one who said something, But.

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Speaker 2: I wonder do you ever like hang out with some

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Speaker 3: I sometimes hear things out in the world, or my

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Speaker 3: I'm like, that'd be really good. So much work.

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Speaker 2: you deal much with like the fandom? What's the fandom

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Speaker 2: Do they make their own dictionaries with all the words

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Speaker 1: Do you sometimes flick through and be like wrong? Wrong?

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Speaker 1: Actually doesn't mean that I don't really flick.

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Speaker 3: Through, but I do know that some of those dictionaries

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Speaker 2: I think I'm going to be wholesome for a second,

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Speaker 2: the houses, you know, saving up my dollars, Similions, Somolians those, yes,

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Speaker 3: There are a lot of players, that's all they do.

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Speaker 2: So going back to you translating, you know, songs into

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Speaker 2: I've got a couple, but you know, my latest song

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Speaker 2: When We're dead so like, if I were to audition

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Speaker 2: with it in simlish, now, would you consider putting it

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Speaker 3: I'd love to hear you're a similar version though, Oh gosh,

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Speaker 3: you really put I put myself on the spot, haven't

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Speaker 3: I here. I'm gonna I'm a translate for you right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a workshop. We've got a workshop.

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Speaker 3: Happening, neighbor zoop, sir, meet and then let's see when

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Speaker 3: we're dad weshwodmud.

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Speaker 2: the stage myself auditioning for the role of sim number two.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks leaders, Zeep Doo Doo leaders, Deep Do

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Speaker 1: Do Leavers, Dip doo Doo leader Zooper Debo Flip Lisa.

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Speaker 3: Excellent.

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Speaker 2: So Jackie is the voice director of the Sims and

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Speaker 2: I I'm claiming this one as of a victory. Put

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Speaker 2: it on this scoreboard for me here and concealed ha

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to go and bake some Alaska go

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Speaker 2: in a poodle. You've been listening to an iHeart Australia

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Speaker 2: and Kiss Production Concealed with Simone. Listen to more of

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Speaker 2: what you love on iHeart and to check out two

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Speaker 2: Wabbadi Badu's check us out on the socials. Oh by

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Speaker 2: the way, that's the end of season two of Concealed

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Speaker 2: with Artsimone.

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Speaker 1: Now don't worry.

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Speaker 2: All the episodes are still there for you to have

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Speaker 2: a little listen in the meantime. But you know who's hoping.

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Speaker 2: Let's cross our little bits for season three. Maybe see

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Speaker 2: you then Bye.