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Who Is That Girl On The Commercial · Regina Swarn Audio Series Presents

• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hi there, I'm Ratina Sworn.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to another episode of Ratina Sworn Audio Series Presents.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now this is probably one of my most important podcasts ever.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because I feel like some people just need to know.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_00: They just need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, any of you who are my friends or my family who's been friends forever, because you're my family, or if you are friends of mine for 10, 15, 20 years, or better, you know that my voice was with me long before AI.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I said it.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And thank God it's still with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I want to speak right now because I do commercials like radio and uh even some I've even recorded some television commercials um in the past.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm starting to do that again because I receive emails.
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  SPEAKER_00: People want to use my service.
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  SPEAKER_00: My voice, as I said, it's authentic.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: My first make a replacement contact me.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yay.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: I gotta get it together here because I should have brought my tea with me, but it did not.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I kind of have to suffer the consequences without my tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: T E A.
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  SPEAKER_00: T.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um but yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Contact me at swear and regina at gmail.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the place to write me to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can visit my official website, ReginaSworn.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's www.reginasworn.com.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still adding stuff to my website.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I looked at it the other day and I'm like, okay, I need to get with the website guy because there are a lot of stuff that's not there that needs to be there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like my posters, uh, my royal digital leap posters.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want them there because they they they do such a great job on those posters, and I definitely want a page that just says posters, so you can see almost all of my posters, even if that means removing another part of the website to make uh room for the posters because they are so important, and I just love the way they look, it's so beautiful and professional, as I am, as I am, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I want to talk about my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now I use my voice for a host of different things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I make money from my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that's been for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I started out doing radio ads for different commercials and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, moved it on up to some things even for television people don't know about.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I've I've kind of I I'm a background worker if you should call it that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do a lot of stuff in the background that you might hear and never ever know.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm kinda like that session player who plays, you know, not necessarily a member of the band, but someone you hire to replace someone for a day or two.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm kind of like that, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a hard hand, so to speak, and so I use my voice that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you look at my latest posters, um it lets you know I'm an independent voice personality, independent voice actress, independent independent voice talent that people have has used over the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I can go back and pull up things that you probably heard my commercials and didn't even know that it was me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did I choose the path this path right here?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm a recording artist, got records out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you pull my name up, you're gonna pull up some of my music with my sister Laura.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you all don't know by now, Laura passed away of breast cancer in 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, I miss her.
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  SPEAKER_00: I miss her so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Recording music without her is just definitely not the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's um the studio is a lonely place without my sister Laura, it really is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't feel the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thank God he gave me this idea of doing things where I can continue to stay busy, but also still bringing some comfort to other people, and thus using my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm using it for like children's commercials, children's stories, Bible stories, um, commercial ads again, that you probably hear my voice all the time and don't even know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the amazing thing about being a voice over personality or talent or actress.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to use my voice, and other people don't even know it's me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and I really enjoyed this, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: For years I recorded music, for years we recorded, we traveled, we were on some television, Bobby Jones, um, just some not just Bobby Jones, some other um television shows for gospel music.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we did quite a few things, my sister Laura, the two of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, she passed away sadly of breast cancer in 2020, and my life really hasn't been the same without her.
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  SPEAKER_00: And being honest now, yeah, totally honest, it hasn't been the same without her.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I kind of put music right here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never stop singing though.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want people to know that I'll always be a singer, I always sing, I'm a singer, I'm also a poet, I'm also a composer, I also write poetry and poem poems and things of that nature.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I have other talents besides singing, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of other talents.
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  SPEAKER_00: But singing is probably number one because of, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I still sing, but I don't do it as much.
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  SPEAKER_00: But rest assured, I never stopped singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me go on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, they kind of clear my voice there.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh probably need to go in there and get my tea.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: I like green tea, you know, especially when I'm recording.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: My voice sometimes seems to get a little crunchy, so if I drink a little tea or drink some cold water, super cold, not hot, but super cold, it clears my voice up.
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  SPEAKER_00: That works for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if it worked for everybody, but it worked for me.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been recording podcasts since 2017.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh professionally, I started doing podcasting in 2020.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never, and I'm gonna repeat this, ever stop singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Never.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll always be a singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a singer, I'm a born singer.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's what my mom taught me as a little girl, but sometimes things you you you start wanting to do things other things, and doing radio started out in radio and then on to podcasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love this because unlike music, I can tell my story, I can tell my life story, and I can tell the story of other people and have other people come on my show.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: So you guys know that to be true because some of you who are listening right now has probably been on my show, or China's Warren Audio series presents.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love using my voice for ads because every ad is different, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one ad could be for cars, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, another ad could be for the companies that um are out there, your car lots, you know, cars.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's so many ways to use my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's why I say I never stopped singing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just started doing something a little bit slightly different than singing, and um I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
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  SPEAKER_00: With the passion, I do love it.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: So oh god, you know, sometimes people and one lady asked me one day, she said, um, is that your voice?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that AI?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we know AI just got really, really popular over the last couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, but if you go and pull up any of my work over the last 10, 15, 20 years, you hear my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even in radio interviews, I would speak and you would hear my voice, you would hear me talking.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I was along before AI, and thank god I still have a career because AI has taken over everything, everything, but thank god when you're authentic and you're good at what you do, even AI can't replace it.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, there are people who mimic my voice, I'm just gonna be honest with you, and so they use it for their own advantage, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have worked with several companies to lend my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for a percentage, every time a person uses my voice, I am paid a percentage for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna name the company, it's two companies that I use, very popular companies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so every time a person wants to use a voice like mine, uh, which my voice can be cloned.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: So that's how I make money, guys.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: That's one of the ways I make money, is uh people decide okay, I like her voice.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, that's one of the ways that I make money, and I I do pretty well.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I do pretty well, especially lately.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna start really getting into it a lot more because I realize this voice is a um it's my moneymaker, it's it's my moneymaker, so on that note, you know, I have to keep it fresh and keep it, you know, oiled and greased up, or whatever you want to call it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to keep it in shape, in other words, because when you got a voice, even as a singer, I know this because I'm a singer, when you are when you have to sing as a singer, there are things that you can and cannot do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Regular people, like say the musician, like the the guitar player or the piano player or the drummer, you know, they have to keep their skill up as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the singer, all you singers out there know what I'm talking about, you have to go that extra mile in keeping your voice um oiled up, pretty much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm using that because you have to, in order to keep that voice strong over the years, especially if you use it a lot, you have to exercise the voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you have to do that, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, you do, it's not good enough with me having a pretty voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have to do things to keep it up, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I drink green tea, but I'll also just like tea in general.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: But I do drink drink green tea because it it kind of loosens up anything that's going on, you know, so it it it does it it does a job, it do what it's supposed to do, in other words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um the pleasure that I get out of say doing radio at radio companies is I get a chance to um meet a lot of people because some people ask who's the girl?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's that girl?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who's that girl?
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, just kidding.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I'm not a joker, but I shouldn't have said it just kidding, but um a lot of times people would hear my voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: I remember standing in a restaurant not too long ago and they played a commercial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Had a commercial going.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how do you know my voice came over the loud speaker?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't have to worry about panicking though because the great thing about using radio or or podcasts, you don't have to worry about sitting across from a person face to face, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's one great thing I love about audio podcasts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you don't have to worry about getting dressed, um, taking the rollers out of my hair, my long hair, uh, or doing any of those things, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just I just go in my podcast room, close the door behind me, and start re recording or podcasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the way I do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I do go into the studio.
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  SPEAKER_00: If a company hires me for a particular um ad that they want to do, now I have to go into the studio sometimes to make that, but for the most part, I don't always have to go into the studio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not always.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I really do love being a podcaster audio only, because the reason I love that so much again is I don't have to worry about getting dressed, I don't have to worry about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just I don't know, I I love what I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love what I do in order to really take something to the next level, you gotta love what you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You really do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You gotta love what you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you gotta love what you do.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thank the Lord that He has blessed me over the years.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I just wanted to come and say that I didn't want to hold a long time, you know, because a lot of people want to know, like um, they ask me all the time, they said I heard a commercial, but I didn't know if that was you or not, but it sounded just like your voice.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: So and then and they asked me, is that your voice?
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  SPEAKER_00: I said, Yeah, it was a kind of old commercial, but yeah, it's my voice.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: I had a little thought there for a moment, but thank you for joining me today, you know.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Again, like I said, you might have heard my voice more than likely, and didn't even know that it was me, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: You didn't even know it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's just the way it is sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You hear things and you just don't know.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: And so next time you're sitting in a restaurant, and especially if they got a a broadcasting where you hear a voice coming, or then they have commercials, you might just be hearing a commercial with my voice because I am a voice independent, professional, independent voice over talent, personality, actress.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: So, and I love it, I really do love it, you know, because people I guess they get a chance to people like hearing a person who can speak very well, and my voice, again, is I I try to take care of it as a singer is why I tell people I I haven't made records in a couple of years, but at the same time, you cannot take that away that I am still a singer.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still a singer, I just use my voice for other things now, but I thank God anyway.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: I thank God because even as a um voice personality, I I'm still out there in the public, but not like an actress would be out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: An actress would be out, yay, how you doing, walking the red carpet.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you might see me walk the red carpet and not even know.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god, I did not know that was you.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: So that's one thing I love about what I do.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people can hear it and just just not even know.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a beautiful thing.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, thank you for taking time.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know it wasn't that long, I tell you.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't even think we went 30 minutes, did we?
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: Did we go how long?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: We went 20 minutes so far.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but thank you for joining me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for being the best part of my podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can find my podcast up at iHeartRadio.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Slowly.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna speak very slowly.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think I get it right that time.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: I hope so.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: Regina Sworn Audio Series Presents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, which is you go and you listen, it's a place where I bring you stories of people from all walks of life, and sometimes I'm the one bringing you the story.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um again go visit my website, guys, my official website.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of places out there that got my stuff at it, but you know, I'm not really a part of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I guess it's okay, you know.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: I guess it's okay.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, thank you, thank you.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: I hope y'all you guys are staying safe out there.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Please, please keep a prayer in your heart always.
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  SPEAKER_00: Keep a prayer there, guys.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's so many bad people out there, so many.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you keep a prayer in your heart, the Lord will lead you, he'll guide you, everything to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: So thank you so much again for joining me today.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, I need something else to drink now, but thank you so much for joining me again again today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stay safe, guys.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just remember, I love you, all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take care of yourself, and we'll talk soon.