June 28, 2021 • 29 mins
This week’s theme: “Attachment.” A pooch moves onto bigger and better things, a couple finds themselves up a creek without a paddle, and a radio morning show gets a little too edgy.
Special Guest Contributor Gina Grad is a radio broadcaster in Los Angeles and is currently the longest-running anchor/co-host of “The Adam Carolla Show.” She is also the voice of “Rose” in the “Street Fighter” video game franchise.
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your first random sentence. As the years passed by, we
all know owners look more and more like their dogs.
Was this just another case of mistaken identity? Or did
this dog actually look like it's owner? Sweetheart? Really? Be honest?
Does Gerald looked like me? Maybe you favor each other,
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but you know, I would ignore what everybody else is saying.
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lit the next door that the dog was looking like me.
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like a dog. Thank you. Let me let me ask you, guys,
when you think was the first time that you noticed
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the car. Come on, boy, let's go to Hollywood. Unfortunately,
Martin had to leave his wife, wasn't sweetie. You and
I both know this day was coming. So they packed
the car and they left, driving all the way from
Utah to Los Angeles, passing Salt Lake, going through Nevada,
and they're right, there's Nevada. And they got to Los Angeles.
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their first casting. The lobby was filled with a lot
of other owners that look like they're dogs. You are beautifully.
I don't really find Precious to look much like her
at all, how about you, buddy. I'll take that as
a yes. All right? Looking for Martin and his pug.
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time for stage fright. If you guys want to just
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my name is Martin, and this is okay, great, and
then your height and uh where you were based out
of six ft four great? Okay, and just go ahead
and read the lines the way that they are right there.
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anything like that. Ahead. Look, I'm a busy single dad
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is always on the go. All right, thank you so much. God, No,
I'm sorry, now listen, try it again. What's right again?
I got a lot of people. No, no no, no, no no, no,
no, no no, please please please. The dog can read the
way the dog was cast, but Martin wasn't. No. Look,
i'm proud of you. I am proud of you. No,
it's okay, I'm proud of you. And you're gonna go
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out there and just don't forget about me, okay. As
a dog's fame started growing, Marton started questioning his position
in the whole relationship. Was he still the owner or
was he about to be taken out into the woods
and abandoned. Usually it's the opposite. Hey, buddy, two things.
First year, you're a good boy. Second. So, as you know,
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my aunt Leslie needs an operation on hip. I was
just wondering if maybe I could get a little bit
of an advance on my five. I'm his owner. Sorry,
I'm okay, I'm sorry, Mike. I just wanna can you
take a photo of us? Please? Yeah? Oh my god,
I can't believe every's going to see this photo. I'm
gonna put it on Instagram. Every means to be like,
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oh my god, do you know that? Dogs? My commercial?
I think so much. You can follow me to This
is This is American's Life. Name your host ary with
producer Andy and our special guest contributor for this episode
is China Grat. This week's theme his attachment a human
condition and you can avoid some fine attachment to a
significant other at that and some too inanimate objects like
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a show in three acts. This is This is Americans Live,
Stay with Us. Act one, the white water rafting trip
was suddenly halted by the unexpected brick wall and stroke
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as a wall reverse faster, faster, reverse. There was a
brick wall in front of the river. Nobody had seen
it there before. Even when they got into the raft
and they started paddling, they just saw water in front
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about their white Water Rafting company, which was now called
the Whitewater Counseling Company. I wanted to know exactly how
they shifted from one business model to the other. What
was was part of our court ordered mediation. We decided
to save a little bit of money in our divorce
proceedings to just mediate. But then we've we we met
a few couples who had a worse off on us.
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my suggestion to call the counseling company either or And
it was good. It was good. I was listening. I
had both bars out the door, you know what I mean.
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we can focus on other people's probably that's right, and
our seems so bad I decided to talk to some
other couples who had come originally for whitewater rafting but
ended up coming to the white water counseling rafting trip.
I can't remember what I said before, but I just
want to see how it worked for new couples. So
we we go go on whitewater rafting trip and it
was action p e. But the the the instructors, they
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started asking us about our marriage very much, questions about
the manage me and this me, and asked us how
frequent are lovemakings? We said, is this invitation? I see? Yes?
And they said absolutely not. And it was a little embarrassing.
We had the egg on the face. This the that
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is how you see it. Okay, you see we had
the egg on this. What part of the country are
you guys from. We're from Refinescent. Refiniscent, h it's a
small village. There are only three people. Um, well, well,
now because we left, yes, we live. We get in
couples counseling. They encourage us to move out of Refiniscent
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into a small cottage. So then we we move into
small cottage together because they tell us maybe the reason
why we feel so distinct is because we are not
forced to be in close proximate the of time. What
they did not realize is that Sow everybody in russ
And lives anyway. So I decided to go visit Refs
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business and see the one sole person that was there.
Now that two of the three people had left, so lonely,
so lonely, and re vision. There was a very nice couple,
but they leave. So I am here myself. You have
like a pet or a cat or something? I did
hear the pitt pitt dog. But we entered into a
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beauty contest together because he looked kind of like me?
And uh, can I see a picture? Do you have? Yes?
This is my little laughing? Doesn't he look like me
a little? What's his name? Again? Laugh? Him left leaf laughing? Sorry,
does he look like me a little? I think he
looks very much like reme. Having our time decipher well,
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then why did he win the first prize in beauty
count this in you know, Los Angeles? And they made
me go home? Why was I not also awarded be
the contest? Now he's living the good life in Los
Angeles dating some other dog. And if they're living high
on hog and now I live here alone? Can you
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answer this question for me? Do you even understand the question?
I realized if I didn't stop him, he just continue.
So anyway, so we arrived to Los Angeles through each well.
Firston that we fly to to Leoguard the other airport,
and then we drive. Why didn't we just fly the
Los Angeles? I talked to my producers. He just kept
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going and going. I didn't know exactly when it tell
him to stop. You just have to tell him to stop.
I can't you just you have to ask him to stop,
all right, I'll try that, all right? So I tried to,
and so we drove first with drive through with this
state they won Ohio fourth from most popular state, and
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the only I went back to my producers, would you
try to ask him to stop? I did, yes, And
he just kept going. And even even when I was
just trying to tell you, did you grab his hands
and uh and say listen, sir, it's very important you stopped.
Coming up Back to the first the word from our
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esteemed sponsors, Stay with us. Back to the interview with
special guest contributor Jena grad Let's get to know our
special guest contributor Gina grad Um welcome. Hi, thank you
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for having me, Thank you for being here. So, Gina,
tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm a broadcaster
here in Los Angeles. I work um with the KFI,
which is a very sort of famous AM radio station here.
I work on a Corolla show, another very famous podcast.
Been there for uh gosh, about six years and um, yeah,
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I do a lot of voice over work and a
lot of fun. Can you tell us about the first
time that you ever did radio? Yes, well, the first
time literally I ever did radio. I used to go
on with my dad when I lived in Kansas and
would give the farm report UM on a local radio station,
telling the farmers to bring in their tender vegetation at night.
After this interview, I decided to go back and look
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up the archive of footage. Hey, m four forty plas
before we get to the news of the traffic, of
the weather, and the celebrity gossipel let's check it with
the noob, the nebie, our farm report, farm reporter genus
spand okay, colder, we got twenty four minutes to fill.
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So what else? Yeah, that's the fust on the guts rost,
the what rost on the what so Gina, when you
heard your voice for the first time, did you have
any shoes with how you sounded? Yeah? Doesn't everybody you know?
You have that, like you feel like you're more high
pitched and you're talking faster. In fact, when I started
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in radio in Los Angeles, um, almost twenty years ago,
I sound very different than I do now. I have
somehow more more base in my voice, and I'm so
grateful for it. Did you ever take classes? I took
voice over classes for you know, commercial and things like that,
but not to actually, you know, not like in a
my fair lady way. Now. So I went to go
visit her voiceover teacher just to kind of get an
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idea as to how she was as a student. Yes,
she was very good student, reminded me of a young
me before of her region. Why have you heard from her?
Have I heard from her? Yeah, she's on our radio show.
She's also very successful radio personality. I don't know if
you've heard. I have not heard. I heard that. You also,
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you got married. You found somebody else in that voice
box community. I did. I found a beautiful boar. But
who also boys back like Hello, I love you, I
love you, I love you. I love you more. I
love you, bore, I love you boy. Did you guys
have any children? We had board children, mountaining baby boys,
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do bouncing baby girls? Um, Charles mean any of them? Glad?
That would Steve? Can I meet them in person? Daddie,
you may have some kid and I too. Have you
have already had people? You have already had our pieces.
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I'm going to break my toys. If you don't give
a kid, you will all be be punishing yourself because
you will be breaking your old toys. Why would you
threaten to be with breaking your old toys? Go to
your room. I hate the family. I hate that family.
Did you even know that that's what happened to your voice?
I had no idea. No, she always had this really
sort of rich voice, um, you know, really sort of
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deep but velvety. And no, I didn't know. And I
didn't know about the transitioning either. I didn't know any
of it. Um so uh sorry, my producer Andy's laughing.
Is there something funny? No? No, I'm looking at this
meme that has a tiger addressed as a a cat.
I've seen that one before, so you originally from I'm
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here Gina, Like, no, I'm from Kansas City. I was
born in Oregon, but I'm from Kansas City. How come
you guys moved around so much? My dad was a broadcaster,
and you know, we just moved from market to market,
just like you know, like an army brad almost so
it was your dad like a morning shock jocks, no
sports announcer. So did you know any morning shock jo shots?
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I'm sorry, what did you know any morning did you
know any morning shoot shock shock jocks? Sorry? I did, Um,
there was a couple of kids. I don't know if
maybe if he made it his way out here at
Johnny Dare was a big man cow we had syndicated. Um,
I've met a lot of morning shock jocks, and uh yeah,
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I kind of fell in love with radio and in
that in that vein. Um, who is your favorite shock jock?
Shock shock jock? It has to be the king of
all media. If everybody says Howard Stern, you gotta say
Howard Stern right. Well, when I say shock jock, I
was thinking more like a shock jock, like a French jacque.
Oh shock jock. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yes, yeah,
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I do have a favorite shock jack. In fact, I
was in the voice over class with a Frenchman, a
dashing Frenchman, and he wanted to get rid of his
French accent and and have more of an American accent.
He thought he was better at it than he was,
but it was always really fun to listen to him
try and have that American accent. What is that, gentle man?
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How do you say it's time to kids? It tires
and lights the fires on the big one hundred thousand
wat monster say, let's do it. Thank you so much
for bringing that tape in. Absolutely is my pleasure. I've
never heard that before. I mean, it's just how do
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you say sixty four degrees and forty five degrees? Za?
How do you say? Mountains? Lift? Texa four life? So
the second tape is from the next day. Yeah, I
tried to get as much audio as I could. How
do you say? Is six fifty four am? Money? And
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this is how do you say? You know? It was
really weird though, because I didn't realize there were so
many differences culturally between Americans and French people. So he
would do like open phones, even though I don't think
he really knew what open phones meant. I don't even
know what okay? So open phones is just like, you know,
call about anything, and people would call about things that
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I guess I don't know, Like they'd say things like,
you know, I'm a day late in a dollar short,
or you know, they'd use these colloquialisms and he didn't
understand them, but he had to pretend he did. It
was some of my favorite audio. Did late for what?
I don't know what? Color me pink? I just don't
even know what I'm thinking anymore. Color me a pink?
Request lines are not yet open, and I believe you
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mean what's bad? Let's let's think about blue sky ideas. Yeah,
how do you say what? I can tell you the weather.
I can tell you this. I can tell you the weather.
And see, how do you say traffic? Tell me more
about did you um? Did you ever have any issues
with any other um? Because I imagine maybe starting out
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in radio as a as a female, you may have
had some um run ins with some let's say men
that were not so nice. Yeah, competitive, maybe competitive? Absolutely,
you know high school, you know, it doesn't even feel
like high school. A lot of radio stations, especially you
know old you know, sort of jock talk stations feel
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like and felt like middle school, and you might as
well have a locker there instead of your work, coppy,
because everybody's at each other's throats a lot of you know,
like my soogyny, um, a lot of dusting of sexual harassment,
but you kind of deal with it because you know
that's the business. Would Gus's on, Hey, good to see here.
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I got to change my pencil quick. Sorry are you? So?
What time do you guys? Get off? I can't remember
right now? You got it here? Or get off? I'll
see the morning starts at six am and then we're well, well,
when are we adding here? I don't know. It depends
on what time she's leaving because we're so in her
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whole area. That's I mean, I get it, that's funny.
But you're joking, right, because that otherwise I'd be an
hr issue. And you guys make this real hard on me.
I gotta tell you, we're gonna make any harder on
you later after we follow you. So you had some
issues with kind of just men that we're being a
little inappropriate in a lot of different ways. Yeah, and
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you kind of want to, you know, you don't want
to be the whiner, but you also want to you know,
set boundaries. So it's it's a delicate dance. Do you
have any plans for your future and radio? Where do
you want to What do you want to do in
the next five years? Oh, that's a great question. Um, well,
you know, I love what I'm doing now and I'd
love to continue doing it. I love working with great hosts,
and uh, I would love to work with another female
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co host because you know, I have another show right
now where I work with female and it's a lot
of fun just to not have to do like the
you know, like the gender cliche stuff. So I think
I think I'd like to continue working with more female
co host in the future and do something a little
more you know, maybe relationship based sort of you know,
feelings based, more of a like sort of a love
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line for women, you know, kind of an Oprah vibe
without sound like Welcome Back to Lovers and Love starring
Gina Grad and me Tricia Thompson. Thank you, next color.
You've got a little bit of a problem. Yeah, So,
like my boyfriend is he's just not really ut. I
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feel like he doesn't respond to my text when I
texted him. Okay, he takes a really long time, and
I just feel like he's seeing somebody else's I think
I think he's tea color color. Can I just say
that this is not about you? Um? You know, I
think you're doing everything right. I think that, and I
think Tricia would agree that. You know, when when you
get a text, you expect to prompt response. And I
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don't want to be the hardass here, but um, I
think he is cheating on you because I was looking
through his text and I know there's some naked photos,
but he says that there is. Sister. Oh boy, it's
still problematic. Yeah, I don't know which one's worse. Why
does I mean, why would he have the naked pictures
of his European Have you ever been to Europe? I
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don't really do that. Ye, listen to Tricia. I just
have one question. Listen, have you seen this meme with
the tiger? That's just like coming up at three? First,
a word from our sponsors who make this high quality
program possible. Stay with us, Act three. She hadn't had
(22:15):
a cup of coffee, and that made things all the worse.
It was a caffeine free camp. People came to this
camp to try to kick coffee kick any kind of
stimulans whatsoever. It was a process that disconnected themselves from
the morning coffee. I don't know about I'm being told,
I don't know that coffee is bad even when it's cold. Well,
(22:36):
you don't drink that garbage now, we don't drink that
garbage now, Please don't drink it. Otherwise, please don't drink.
Don't drink it. Ever, don't drink coffee because it's so
you've been the drill, sergeant for this coffee is caffeine
free coffee camp, coffee free cap. What is his name
(23:00):
of this? It is Sergeant Cart rides coffee kicking camp
four people. Is there a lot of there? Is there
a dash in between some of those words? Or is
there the sergeant cart rides coffee kicking camp calling four people?
Sorry one time, sergeant, what is your problem? I'm sorry?
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Sergeant Cart rides coffee kicking camp four people calling between
camp and four people? How did you land on the
idea that you wanted to distart this camp? Well, when
I was dishonorably discharged from the Core, I had to
find something to do, and my internet had gotten disconnected,
so pornography was out, so I thought, what do people like?
They like coffee you and that's not right? So I
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started this camp here. Did you have a previous issue
with caffeine or coffee in your past? I once had
an adult in my life that I trusted doused me
with hot coffee when I was a child. That's what
was the issue I had with coffee. And I didn't
really want to dig too deep today, but I guess
here we are. Was it all to use our this
is American's lifetime machine to go back in time to
see what it was like for him to get burned
(24:07):
with that coffee at every moment in his life. Cartwright,
Yaller Cartwright, Come over here. I want to give you
a hug. I am right here, mother, google Gga Cartwright.
I know that you had a little accident on the rug,
but I just want you to come here for a second.
Nothing bad's gonna happen. Well, I trust your mother, for
you are my mother, Google Gaga. I am a child.
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Come on over here, I'm here, Why mother? Why? So?
That must have been very traumatic. It was not my
favorite and uh, from what I gather you, nothing's really
changed very much between and now a little bit of
an arrested development maybe focally. I mean, I tried to
shake this voice I have here by going to a
voice over class, but I was being sexually harassed by
(24:52):
the staff, so we decided to visit the voice over
a teacher. Cartwright is ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Oh, what a
strong and girthy voice you have. Well, thank you, And
why don't you mind putting the lid on that cup
of coffee? Gut there? Oh, no problem, it is a
little hot. So Cartwright, if you could just step on
up to that big mike, and I just want you
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to say the following phrase. She sells seashells by the seashore.
She says, seashells by the seashore. I am quite uncomfortable.
He had a hard time dealing with the voice over coach.
She was constantly smoking. She was just a rabbit cigarette smoker,
two packs a day. Oh, what's the matter? Baby doesn't
(25:38):
like smoke? Not really? Would you mind pouring that coffee
into a therm? Is? Actually I'm sorry. Oh, let me
get that coffee right out of the water. Looks like
I spilled on my looks like her cell phone started
(25:58):
ringing and she picked it up. Hello, Hi, this is
a doctor Gold, and your test results came back. I
think you should come to the office. Oh is there
a problem, doctor, let's talk in person. Okay, Cartwright, you
stay here, and I hope you're slipping into something comfortable
(26:18):
when I get back. I mean I have a jacket.
She went to the doctor's office to see what was
so urgent. Hi, doctor Gold, you wanted me. Yeah, So
your test results came back and you do have cancer
of the throat area. That's kind of all of that area.
You smoke a lot, well, I smoke as much as
(26:40):
a lady ship boy. I like your voice a lot.
Thank you doctor. Unfortunately, eventually you're going to have to
use one of these, uh these these voice boxes. Oh
I don't think so, doctor. These little cigarettes only make
me stronger, and I'm gonna sound like this at the luck.
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I decided to return the present day and see what
the voice teacher was up too. Be in hid sight,
I probably shouldn't have sloped so many zig rats, you know,
it's kind of it's fascinating. In this whole um episode,
I've been able to meet three of your students. How
are they do? They're doing pretty well. One is Gina
grab she's become a famous um for your personality. And
(27:22):
then there was a French guy. I can't remember his name.
He was a shock John Bell. He must not have
been very good if you can't remember they but it
was just in French. I'm sure he was. And then sorry, no,
I'm just thinking of all the dirty, nasty things I
would like you to do to be but I am
also laugh I get this beab that I thought. Have
(27:44):
you said the one? It is a dig? Guess what
this browd test? Yes? What it's grabs is? Are you
pressing the repeat button? Yes? Guess yes, yes, yes there
is a yes. You are hatsome, you are hats a bad.
This has been this his Americans life. Thank you to
our special guests, contributor Jane grad or producer Andy. I'm
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ari and this has been this his Americans life. During
his textay the a four for w KLS cat to
kick off another dot stop block blocks and stock docks
and stop talking and music with the laugh hey shout
out to a She'll Grid actually sued this radio station
(28:32):
for sexual harassment. That's right, she in my former co
hosts set a lot of cards all the condition that
he no longer returned to the air waves and hurt
anyone else a motionally. But that's okay. I don't need him.
Never ted. Let's hit the phone lines, calling around the
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your first random sentence. As the years passed by, we
all know owners look more and more like their dogs.
Was this just another case of mistaken identity? Or did
this dog actually look like it's owner? Sweetheart? Really? Be honest?
Does Gerald looked like me? Maybe you favor each other,
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but you know, I would ignore what everybody else is saying.
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You weren't birthed together. You just favor each other, so
we do. Look it's very sweet. I mean, you both
have that crazy sort of golden flex hair. You're both
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lit the next door that the dog was looking like me.
And he said, no, that you do not look like
a dog. So I do look like you do look
like a dog. Thank you. Let me let me ask you, guys,
when you think was the first time that you noticed
that maybe your dog was imble you as anner? Well?
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so I can kind of look at myself. And when
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way that he squats. Yeah, I noticed when I had
cleaned the glass so well that you walked right into it.
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kind of pugged up. Yeah, you look like the bun. Yeah.
And I said, you look exactly like the pug. They
went to a photo studio to try and clear this up.
All right, Martin, show me sassy, sassy, all right, Gerald,
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show me sassy, Show him sassy, Carold, show him sassy, sassier.
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not really getting sassy from that. I'm getting her. Do
you guys want me to give you five minutes. And
that's when they were approached by a commercial agent. He've
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been looking for some new talent. You've been scouring the malls, scouting.
But then they came across each other, Martin and his
bub dog. Hey, Greg, Terrenton, if you and your dog
considered it? And the dog, no, we have it? Why
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the car. Come on, boy, let's go to Hollywood. Unfortunately,
Martin had to leave his wife, wasn't sweetie. You and
I both know this day was coming. So they packed
the car and they left, driving all the way from
Utah to Los Angeles, passing Salt Lake, going through Nevada,
and they're right, there's Nevada. And they got to Los Angeles.
Here we come, Los Angeles, right boy. They went to
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their first casting. The lobby was filled with a lot
of other owners that look like they're dogs. You are beautifully.
I don't really find Precious to look much like her
at all, how about you, buddy. I'll take that as
a yes. All right? Looking for Martin and his pug.
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time for stage fright. If you guys want to just
go ahead and uh slate your name for the camera. Yes,
my name is Martin, and this is okay, great, and
then your height and uh where you were based out
of six ft four great? Okay, and just go ahead
and read the lines the way that they are right there.
There's no need to add any kind of accents or
anything like that. Ahead. Look, I'm a busy single dad
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is always on the go. All right, thank you so much. God, No,
I'm sorry, now listen, try it again. What's right again?
I got a lot of people. No, no no, no, no no, no,
no, no no, please please please. The dog can read the
way the dog was cast, but Martin wasn't. No. Look,
i'm proud of you. I am proud of you. No,
it's okay, I'm proud of you. And you're gonna go
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out there and just don't forget about me, okay. As
a dog's fame started growing, Marton started questioning his position
in the whole relationship. Was he still the owner or
was he about to be taken out into the woods
and abandoned. Usually it's the opposite. Hey, buddy, two things.
First year, you're a good boy. Second. So, as you know,
(04:23):
my aunt Leslie needs an operation on hip. I was
just wondering if maybe I could get a little bit
of an advance on my five. I'm his owner. Sorry,
I'm okay, I'm sorry, Mike. I just wanna can you
take a photo of us? Please? Yeah? Oh my god,
I can't believe every's going to see this photo. I'm
gonna put it on Instagram. Every means to be like,
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oh my god, do you know that? Dogs? My commercial?
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there's a wall. I know about the wall. You keep
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about the wall for years that there is a wall coming.
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a literal brick wall. Why can't we Why do we
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time that we haven't coming. They talked to the couple
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about their white Water Rafting company, which was now called
the Whitewater Counseling Company. I wanted to know exactly how
they shifted from one business model to the other. What
was was part of our court ordered mediation. We decided
to save a little bit of money in our divorce
proceedings to just mediate. But then we've we we met
a few couples who had a worse off on us.
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We talk about stuff all right, as a rough water.
And you know, it's funny because what I it was
my suggestion to call the counseling company either or And
it was good. It was good. I was listening. I
had both bars out the door, you know what I mean.
But then once we opened of these counselors that aren't
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we can focus on other people's probably that's right, and
our seems so bad I decided to talk to some
other couples who had come originally for whitewater rafting but
ended up coming to the white water counseling rafting trip.
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want to see how it worked for new couples. So
we we go go on whitewater rafting trip and it
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started asking us about our marriage very much, questions about
the manage me and this me, and asked us how
frequent are lovemakings? We said, is this invitation? I see? Yes?
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We had the egg on the face. This the that
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is how you see it. Okay, you see we had
the egg on this. What part of the country are
you guys from. We're from Refinescent. Refiniscent, h it's a
small village. There are only three people. Um, well, well,
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couples counseling. They encourage us to move out of Refiniscent
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into a small cottage. So then we we move into
small cottage together because they tell us maybe the reason
why we feel so distinct is because we are not
forced to be in close proximate the of time. What
they did not realize is that Sow everybody in russ
And lives anyway. So I decided to go visit Refs
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business and see the one sole person that was there.
Now that two of the three people had left, so lonely,
so lonely, and re vision. There was a very nice couple,
but they leave. So I am here myself. You have
like a pet or a cat or something? I did
hear the pitt pitt dog. But we entered into a
(09:36):
beauty contest together because he looked kind of like me?
And uh, can I see a picture? Do you have? Yes?
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a little? What's his name? Again? Laugh? Him left leaf laughing? Sorry,
does he look like me a little? I think he
looks very much like reme. Having our time decipher well,
(09:56):
then why did he win the first prize in beauty
count this in you know, Los Angeles? And they made
me go home? Why was I not also awarded be
the contest? Now he's living the good life in Los
Angeles dating some other dog. And if they're living high
on hog and now I live here alone? Can you
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answer this question for me? Do you even understand the question?
I realized if I didn't stop him, he just continue.
So anyway, so we arrived to Los Angeles through each well.
Firston that we fly to to Leoguard the other airport,
and then we drive. Why didn't we just fly the
Los Angeles? I talked to my producers. He just kept
(10:40):
going and going. I didn't know exactly when it tell
him to stop. You just have to tell him to stop.
I can't you just you have to ask him to stop,
all right, I'll try that, all right? So I tried to,
and so we drove first with drive through with this
state they won Ohio fourth from most popular state, and
(11:02):
the only I went back to my producers, would you
try to ask him to stop? I did, yes, And
he just kept going. And even even when I was
just trying to tell you, did you grab his hands
and uh and say listen, sir, it's very important you stopped.
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esteemed sponsors, Stay with us. Back to the interview with
special guest contributor Jena grad Let's get to know our
special guest contributor Gina grad Um welcome. Hi, thank you
(11:44):
for having me, Thank you for being here. So, Gina,
tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm a broadcaster
here in Los Angeles. I work um with the KFI,
which is a very sort of famous AM radio station here.
I work on a Corolla show, another very famous podcast.
Been there for uh gosh, about six years and um, yeah,
(12:07):
I do a lot of voice over work and a
lot of fun. Can you tell us about the first
time that you ever did radio? Yes, well, the first
time literally I ever did radio. I used to go
on with my dad when I lived in Kansas and
would give the farm report UM on a local radio station,
telling the farmers to bring in their tender vegetation at night.
After this interview, I decided to go back and look
(12:28):
up the archive of footage. Hey, m four forty plas
before we get to the news of the traffic, of
the weather, and the celebrity gossipel let's check it with
the noob, the nebie, our farm report, farm reporter genus
spand okay, colder, we got twenty four minutes to fill.
(12:49):
So what else? Yeah, that's the fust on the guts rost,
the what rost on the what so Gina, when you
heard your voice for the first time, did you have
any shoes with how you sounded? Yeah? Doesn't everybody you know?
You have that, like you feel like you're more high
pitched and you're talking faster. In fact, when I started
(13:09):
in radio in Los Angeles, um, almost twenty years ago,
I sound very different than I do now. I have
somehow more more base in my voice, and I'm so
grateful for it. Did you ever take classes? I took
voice over classes for you know, commercial and things like that,
but not to actually, you know, not like in a
my fair lady way. Now. So I went to go
visit her voiceover teacher just to kind of get an
(13:31):
idea as to how she was as a student. Yes,
she was very good student, reminded me of a young
me before of her region. Why have you heard from her?
Have I heard from her? Yeah, she's on our radio show.
She's also very successful radio personality. I don't know if
you've heard. I have not heard. I heard that. You also,
(13:51):
you got married. You found somebody else in that voice
box community. I did. I found a beautiful boar. But
who also boys back like Hello, I love you, I
love you, I love you. I love you more. I
love you, bore, I love you boy. Did you guys
have any children? We had board children, mountaining baby boys,
(14:14):
do bouncing baby girls? Um, Charles mean any of them? Glad?
That would Steve? Can I meet them in person? Daddie,
you may have some kid and I too. Have you
have already had people? You have already had our pieces.
(14:34):
I'm going to break my toys. If you don't give
a kid, you will all be be punishing yourself because
you will be breaking your old toys. Why would you
threaten to be with breaking your old toys? Go to
your room. I hate the family. I hate that family.
Did you even know that that's what happened to your voice?
I had no idea. No, she always had this really
sort of rich voice, um, you know, really sort of
(14:56):
deep but velvety. And no, I didn't know. And I
didn't know about the transitioning either. I didn't know any
of it. Um so uh sorry, my producer Andy's laughing.
Is there something funny? No? No, I'm looking at this
meme that has a tiger addressed as a a cat.
I've seen that one before, so you originally from I'm
(15:17):
here Gina, Like, no, I'm from Kansas City. I was
born in Oregon, but I'm from Kansas City. How come
you guys moved around so much? My dad was a broadcaster,
and you know, we just moved from market to market,
just like you know, like an army brad almost so
it was your dad like a morning shock jocks, no
sports announcer. So did you know any morning shock jo shots?
(15:39):
I'm sorry, what did you know any morning did you
know any morning shoot shock shock jocks? Sorry? I did, Um,
there was a couple of kids. I don't know if
maybe if he made it his way out here at
Johnny Dare was a big man cow we had syndicated. Um,
I've met a lot of morning shock jocks, and uh yeah,
(16:01):
I kind of fell in love with radio and in
that in that vein. Um, who is your favorite shock jock?
Shock shock jock? It has to be the king of
all media. If everybody says Howard Stern, you gotta say
Howard Stern right. Well, when I say shock jock, I
was thinking more like a shock jock, like a French jacque.
Oh shock jock. Yeah, I see what you're saying. Yes, yeah,
(16:22):
I do have a favorite shock jack. In fact, I
was in the voice over class with a Frenchman, a
dashing Frenchman, and he wanted to get rid of his
French accent and and have more of an American accent.
He thought he was better at it than he was,
but it was always really fun to listen to him
try and have that American accent. What is that, gentle man?
(16:42):
How do you say it's time to kids? It tires
and lights the fires on the big one hundred thousand
wat monster say, let's do it. Thank you so much
for bringing that tape in. Absolutely is my pleasure. I've
never heard that before. I mean, it's just how do
(17:03):
you say sixty four degrees and forty five degrees? Za?
How do you say? Mountains? Lift? Texa four life? So
the second tape is from the next day. Yeah, I
tried to get as much audio as I could. How
do you say? Is six fifty four am? Money? And
(17:25):
this is how do you say? You know? It was
really weird though, because I didn't realize there were so
many differences culturally between Americans and French people. So he
would do like open phones, even though I don't think
he really knew what open phones meant. I don't even
know what okay? So open phones is just like, you know,
call about anything, and people would call about things that
(17:45):
I guess I don't know, Like they'd say things like,
you know, I'm a day late in a dollar short,
or you know, they'd use these colloquialisms and he didn't
understand them, but he had to pretend he did. It
was some of my favorite audio. Did late for what?
I don't know what? Color me pink? I just don't
even know what I'm thinking anymore. Color me a pink?
Request lines are not yet open, and I believe you
(18:07):
mean what's bad? Let's let's think about blue sky ideas. Yeah,
how do you say what? I can tell you the weather.
I can tell you this. I can tell you the weather.
And see, how do you say traffic? Tell me more
about did you um? Did you ever have any issues
with any other um? Because I imagine maybe starting out
(18:30):
in radio as a as a female, you may have
had some um run ins with some let's say men
that were not so nice. Yeah, competitive, maybe competitive? Absolutely,
you know high school, you know, it doesn't even feel
like high school. A lot of radio stations, especially you
know old you know, sort of jock talk stations feel
(18:51):
like and felt like middle school, and you might as
well have a locker there instead of your work, coppy,
because everybody's at each other's throats a lot of you know,
like my soogyny, um, a lot of dusting of sexual harassment,
but you kind of deal with it because you know
that's the business. Would Gus's on, Hey, good to see here.
(19:13):
I got to change my pencil quick. Sorry are you? So?
What time do you guys? Get off? I can't remember
right now? You got it here? Or get off? I'll
see the morning starts at six am and then we're well, well,
when are we adding here? I don't know. It depends
on what time she's leaving because we're so in her
(19:34):
whole area. That's I mean, I get it, that's funny.
But you're joking, right, because that otherwise I'd be an
hr issue. And you guys make this real hard on me.
I gotta tell you, we're gonna make any harder on
you later after we follow you. So you had some
issues with kind of just men that we're being a
little inappropriate in a lot of different ways. Yeah, and
(19:56):
you kind of want to, you know, you don't want
to be the whiner, but you also want to you know,
set boundaries. So it's it's a delicate dance. Do you
have any plans for your future and radio? Where do
you want to What do you want to do in
the next five years? Oh, that's a great question. Um, well,
you know, I love what I'm doing now and I'd
love to continue doing it. I love working with great hosts,
and uh, I would love to work with another female
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co host because you know, I have another show right
now where I work with female and it's a lot
of fun just to not have to do like the
you know, like the gender cliche stuff. So I think
I think I'd like to continue working with more female
co host in the future and do something a little
more you know, maybe relationship based sort of you know,
feelings based, more of a like sort of a love
(20:38):
line for women, you know, kind of an Oprah vibe
without sound like Welcome Back to Lovers and Love starring
Gina Grad and me Tricia Thompson. Thank you, next color.
You've got a little bit of a problem. Yeah, So,
like my boyfriend is he's just not really ut. I
(21:01):
feel like he doesn't respond to my text when I
texted him. Okay, he takes a really long time, and
I just feel like he's seeing somebody else's I think
I think he's tea color color. Can I just say
that this is not about you? Um? You know, I
think you're doing everything right. I think that, and I
think Tricia would agree that. You know, when when you
get a text, you expect to prompt response. And I
(21:22):
don't want to be the hardass here, but um, I
think he is cheating on you because I was looking
through his text and I know there's some naked photos,
but he says that there is. Sister. Oh boy, it's
still problematic. Yeah, I don't know which one's worse. Why
does I mean, why would he have the naked pictures
of his European Have you ever been to Europe? I
(21:47):
don't really do that. Ye, listen to Tricia. I just
have one question. Listen, have you seen this meme with
the tiger? That's just like coming up at three? First,
a word from our sponsors who make this high quality
program possible. Stay with us, Act three. She hadn't had
(22:15):
a cup of coffee, and that made things all the worse.
It was a caffeine free camp. People came to this
camp to try to kick coffee kick any kind of
stimulans whatsoever. It was a process that disconnected themselves from
the morning coffee. I don't know about I'm being told,
I don't know that coffee is bad even when it's cold. Well,
(22:36):
you don't drink that garbage now, we don't drink that
garbage now, Please don't drink it. Otherwise, please don't drink.
Don't drink it. Ever, don't drink coffee because it's so
you've been the drill, sergeant for this coffee is caffeine
free coffee camp, coffee free cap. What is his name
(23:00):
of this? It is Sergeant Cart rides coffee kicking camp
four people. Is there a lot of there? Is there
a dash in between some of those words? Or is
there the sergeant cart rides coffee kicking camp calling four people?
Sorry one time, sergeant, what is your problem? I'm sorry?
(23:23):
Sergeant Cart rides coffee kicking camp four people calling between
camp and four people? How did you land on the
idea that you wanted to distart this camp? Well, when
I was dishonorably discharged from the Core, I had to
find something to do, and my internet had gotten disconnected,
so pornography was out, so I thought, what do people like?
They like coffee you and that's not right? So I
(23:45):
started this camp here. Did you have a previous issue
with caffeine or coffee in your past? I once had
an adult in my life that I trusted doused me
with hot coffee when I was a child. That's what
was the issue I had with coffee. And I didn't
really want to dig too deep today, but I guess
here we are. Was it all to use our this
is American's lifetime machine to go back in time to
see what it was like for him to get burned
(24:07):
with that coffee at every moment in his life. Cartwright,
Yaller Cartwright, Come over here. I want to give you
a hug. I am right here, mother, google Gga Cartwright.
I know that you had a little accident on the rug,
but I just want you to come here for a second.
Nothing bad's gonna happen. Well, I trust your mother, for
you are my mother, Google Gaga. I am a child.
(24:28):
Come on over here, I'm here, Why mother? Why? So?
That must have been very traumatic. It was not my
favorite and uh, from what I gather you, nothing's really
changed very much between and now a little bit of
an arrested development maybe focally. I mean, I tried to
shake this voice I have here by going to a
voice over class, but I was being sexually harassed by
(24:52):
the staff, so we decided to visit the voice over
a teacher. Cartwright is ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Oh, what a
strong and girthy voice you have. Well, thank you, And
why don't you mind putting the lid on that cup
of coffee? Gut there? Oh, no problem, it is a
little hot. So Cartwright, if you could just step on
up to that big mike, and I just want you
(25:15):
to say the following phrase. She sells seashells by the seashore.
She says, seashells by the seashore. I am quite uncomfortable.
He had a hard time dealing with the voice over coach.
She was constantly smoking. She was just a rabbit cigarette smoker,
two packs a day. Oh, what's the matter? Baby doesn't
(25:38):
like smoke? Not really? Would you mind pouring that coffee
into a therm? Is? Actually I'm sorry. Oh, let me
get that coffee right out of the water. Looks like
I spilled on my looks like her cell phone started
(25:58):
ringing and she picked it up. Hello, Hi, this is
a doctor Gold, and your test results came back. I
think you should come to the office. Oh is there
a problem, doctor, let's talk in person. Okay, Cartwright, you
stay here, and I hope you're slipping into something comfortable
(26:18):
when I get back. I mean I have a jacket.
She went to the doctor's office to see what was
so urgent. Hi, doctor Gold, you wanted me. Yeah, So
your test results came back and you do have cancer
of the throat area. That's kind of all of that area.
You smoke a lot, well, I smoke as much as
(26:40):
a lady ship boy. I like your voice a lot.
Thank you doctor. Unfortunately, eventually you're going to have to
use one of these, uh these these voice boxes. Oh
I don't think so, doctor. These little cigarettes only make
me stronger, and I'm gonna sound like this at the luck.
(27:00):
I decided to return the present day and see what
the voice teacher was up too. Be in hid sight,
I probably shouldn't have sloped so many zig rats, you know,
it's kind of it's fascinating. In this whole um episode,
I've been able to meet three of your students. How
are they do? They're doing pretty well. One is Gina
grab she's become a famous um for your personality. And
(27:22):
then there was a French guy. I can't remember his name.
He was a shock John Bell. He must not have
been very good if you can't remember they but it
was just in French. I'm sure he was. And then sorry, no,
I'm just thinking of all the dirty, nasty things I
would like you to do to be but I am
also laugh I get this beab that I thought. Have
(27:44):
you said the one? It is a dig? Guess what
this browd test? Yes? What it's grabs is? Are you
pressing the repeat button? Yes? Guess yes, yes, yes there
is a yes. You are hatsome, you are hats a bad.
This has been this his Americans life. Thank you to
our special guests, contributor Jane grad or producer Andy. I'm
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ari and this has been this his Americans life. During
his textay the a four for w KLS cat to
kick off another dot stop block blocks and stock docks
and stop talking and music with the laugh hey shout
out to a She'll Grid actually sued this radio station
(28:32):
for sexual harassment. That's right, she in my former co
hosts set a lot of cards all the condition that
he no longer returned to the air waves and hurt
anyone else a motionally. But that's okay. I don't need him.
Never ted. Let's hit the phone lines, calling around the
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