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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, but you know, I would ignore what everybody else is saying. You're not twins. It's not like you're joined. You weren't. 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 your Yeah, okay, because because I told I told Charles 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?

When I you know, whenever I use the restroom, I like to do it in front of a mirrorge just so I can kind of look at myself. And when I noticed that the way I squat is the same way that he squats. Yeah, I noticed when I had cleaned the glass so well that you walked right into it. Remember it was just bam, and your little nose got 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, show me sassy, Show him sassy, Carold, show him sassy, sassier. You're embarrassing me, You're embarrassing yourself. You're embarrassing yourself. I'm 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 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 Why did you see something you like? I love? So they embarked on a journey to Hollywood. They both packed 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 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. That's us. Come on, come on now, is not the 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

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 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, 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, 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

coffee or cigarettes. To start off each story, we'll be using our trustee sentence generator as that jumping off improvised 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 and stroke and strong reverse strong reverse strong reverse strong 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 of them. Then all of a sudden there was up brick wall. Reverse strong, sure, strong to the wall. There's some there's some third wall. Can you help baby? Instead, I'm just constantly sitting up there and telling everyone wants to down. It was obvious that they had some marital problems. Alright, we were strokes, but with me. But you have to

reverse stroke tone. That's what I've been doing. All you do is boss people around. Was getting clom shark. You know, I don't think there's something else getting closer, and it's called d I D O R C E. The owner of the white Water Rafting Company, realized they had something else on their hands. Instead of providing a white water rafting experience, they had stumbled upon a new Sarah Py phenomenon. Okay, listen,

there's a wall. I know about the wall. You keep talking about the wall, and guess what I've been talking about the wall for years that there is a wall coming. We were headed right board. And if you don't go to couple of scouts with me, where's your done? There's a literal brick wall. Why can't we Why do we have to go back to we? We have to move forward. I've been saying that for a year. Has to move backwards. If we keep moving backwards, will never get past the

time that we haven't coming. They talked to the couple 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. 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 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 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

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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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

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. 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 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 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, 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, 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.

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 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 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? 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, 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,

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? 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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? 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 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 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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

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 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 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

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 air the cruel There is no more than in the ground. Yeah that's true. There is unfortulent because she is now hot, so so hot. I watch your mouse. You're gonna get me kick off here so hot, Please stop, I want

to new things to her. Please stop talking. I will now list all of the nasty things I would like to new their in alpha medical God, please don't drop the phone line. Let's call. You're on the air, kill me. I never left that I knowed intend to until I hear eno Grand Suite succulent voids. Come on.