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A ‘Speechervention’ at OneLegUpAlex Media 9-8-26 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Normally I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 1: sports news. By the way, PCA 41 homers since we
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  Speaker 1: last talked. Or I'm talking about regular news. But today
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  Speaker 1: I want to do a little introspective like I sometimes do.
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  Speaker 1: The whole morning today has been a dialogue about whether
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking too fast. Or mumbling on my podcast. Or
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  Speaker 1: whether it's answering phones for Mike Gallagher. Or even just
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  Speaker 1: being on the air with our local hosts here at 970.
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  Speaker 1: So on my own podcast, I want to say at
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  Speaker 1: 34 years old, I have a goal for when I
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  Speaker 1: turn 35 a month and a few days from now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to work my way back into doing voice
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  Speaker 1: work for the company I work at because I want to.
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  Speaker 1: I think that my voice is strong enough. I just
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  Speaker 1: have to get to that point. And all morning long,
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  Speaker 1: we've been discussing about my techniques and about my fast
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  Speaker 1: talking and my slurring. And so here's my question to you.
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  Speaker 1: When you listen to my podcast, and 66,000 of you
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  Speaker 1: have done that, so thank you, are 66,000 of you
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the hell I'm saying half
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  Speaker 1: the time or more than half the time? Meaning, am
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  Speaker 1: I going too fast every episode that I get into
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  Speaker 1: something I'm really excited about, really passionate about here at
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  Speaker 1: One Look Up Alex Media? Because if I start slowing down,
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  Speaker 1: And start talking a little more clear. It's not because
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  Speaker 1: I'm slurring my words because I'm drunk or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's because I'm actually trying to talk to you. And
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  Speaker 1: to train my voice to get to that level of
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  Speaker 1: being a voiceover guy again. And all morning long we've
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  Speaker 1: had this discussion. I even texted my mom who yesterday said,
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  Speaker 1: Are you speaking low or is my hearing going bad?
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'm probably speaking low. And I'm probably not enunciated.
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  Speaker 1: So here we are. A month and 12 days away
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  Speaker 1: from being 35. We're going to start the process of
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  Speaker 1: better diction, of better communication, of better talking. And so
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  Speaker 1: all those around me can actually understand what I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: and what you out there can understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm brought back to Bob Wolf. A month from
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  Speaker 1: today will be the anniversary from Don Larson's perfect game,
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  Speaker 1: which is just crazy how time is flying. And actually 56.
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  Speaker 1: So it's actually going to be, if my math is
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  Speaker 1: correct here, 70 years since the perfect game. That's wild. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Wolf trained me for about a year and a
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  Speaker 1: half on how to do live reads, on how to
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  Speaker 1: do a sports talk show, on how to do play
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  Speaker 1: by play. And all morning long, I keep thinking about him.
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  Speaker 1: Because he would always warn me back when I was
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  Speaker 1: 14 years old that my speech would just dip at
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  Speaker 1: the end of every sentence. I would be like, welcome
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  Speaker 1: inside to the One Look Up Alex Media. I'm Alex Eric. Well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe now, thinking about that and now thinking about how
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  Speaker 1: I want to be understood by all, figuratively and literally,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to work on this. I'm going to enunciate
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  Speaker 1: almost every word. Now, there are times where I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be very passionate about something and I'll just race
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  Speaker 1: through it because that's just my nature. But what if
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  Speaker 1: I slowed down, made my points with much more clarity,
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  Speaker 1: and then you wouldn't be scratching your head on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the dial saying, what is this guy saying?
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  Speaker 1: Or I guess on the other side of the streaming service,
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  Speaker 1: whichever you may hear me on, whether it's iHeartRadio, Spotify, Spreaker,
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  Speaker 1: our flagship station. And I feel like there's a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of others that carry the One Look Up Alex Media content,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm so very thankful for. But before I go
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  Speaker 1: to the U.S. Open today, I just had to rip
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  Speaker 1: this one because it's been a conversation all morning. And
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  Speaker 1: so if you find that I'm hard to understand, email me,
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  Speaker 1: alexgnyc at gmail.com. Do you know why, Ryan, I picked
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  Speaker 1: Alex at AlexGNYC.com? Because it was faster and easier to
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  Speaker 1: say than AlexG in NYC at Gmail.com. But you can
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  Speaker 1: find me at both. Alex at AlexGNYC.com. AlexG in NYC
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  Speaker 1: at Gmail.com. And I think back to my CBS 2
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  Speaker 1: appearance where I said, follow me at AlexGNYC1. I'm amazed
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  Speaker 1: 50 people were able to find that because I thought
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  Speaker 1: I was very fast with that. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say it here. AlexGNYC1 is my Instagram. AlexGNYC1. And there
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  Speaker 1: you'll find the FDNY commissioner speaking eloquently about 9-11. And
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  Speaker 1: you'll also find a beautiful rendition of God Bless America,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm probably going to play for you on this
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  Speaker 1: podcast as well, so it's memorialized on One Look Up
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  Speaker 1: Alex Media. Let me say that again. memorialized on One
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  Speaker 1: Leg Up Alex Media. See, I'm starting to hear myself
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  Speaker 1: when I speak fast. So if I say something another time,
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  Speaker 1: and I know, Ryan, you do this. You actually go
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  Speaker 1: back and say something a second time, and then they
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  Speaker 1: don't hear that edit, but I know you do that.
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  Speaker 2: 100%. When I'm doing my 10 million job spots here
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  Speaker 2: at 970 The Answer, that's exactly what I do here.
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  Speaker 1: Because we're always saying things 10 times fast, and then
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  Speaker 1: we hear it, and like, oh crap, this is too fast. So...
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  Speaker 1: If you hear me say it twice and it's a
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  Speaker 1: raw recording, don't be alarmed. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: It's natural. I'm not stroking out on you. I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: listening to it in my head as if I'm wearing
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  Speaker 1: a headset and saying, man, I said this too fast. So,
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  Speaker 1: don't be alarmed. I'm not repeating myself. I'm just hearing
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  Speaker 1: it differently now because, you know, gamblers have gamblers anonymous,
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  Speaker 1: alcoholics have alcohol anonymous... I'm having voiceover anonymous today because
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  Speaker 1: that intervention, or what did you call it? A speakervention? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a speechervention.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it was. And look, Alex, I haven't told
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people this. I used to take speech
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  Speaker 2: classes back in the day. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: were able to tell based off of how I talk now,
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  Speaker 2: but I was not a good talker as a kid. So, look,
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  Speaker 2: coming from that background of not being able to speak
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  Speaker 2: that clearly... I know, I get where you're coming from.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean, this is quite the speech intervention that
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  Speaker 2: we're having today, you know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and I'm 12 years into this job and
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  Speaker 1: you'd think that by now I would get it, but
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you need that little focus. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: find it interesting because the day after Labor Day, everything
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  Speaker 1: just gets refocused, right? Like everything comes into view. You
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  Speaker 1: got fall here, you got football here, you've got playoff
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  Speaker 1: baseball coming around the corner. But I also feel like
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  Speaker 1: In a lot of ways, even though we're not in
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  Speaker 1: school anymore, it always still feels like that first day
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  Speaker 1: of something new. I can't explain it. It's just something
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  Speaker 1: I grew up with going to school. It was always
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  Speaker 1: like that first day back, you know?
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  Speaker 2: No, exactly. And it also goes to show you can
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  Speaker 2: teach old dogs new tricks. I know you were saying
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  Speaker 2: that literally just the other day.
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  Speaker 1: I feel it, too.
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  Speaker 2: The same applies here.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been at this since I was age 21
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  Speaker 1: and mentored since I was age 14. So there's something
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  Speaker 1: to this 20-year project. And I finally understand what Bob
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  Speaker 1: Wolf was saying. what my dad was saying for all
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  Speaker 1: those years, what Matt says, what you say, what my
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  Speaker 1: mom said yesterday. And, of course, I reach out to
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  Speaker 1: my stepdad, who's this big radio guy, Vic, who you
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  Speaker 1: hear at the beginning of this podcast. This is your host,
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Garrett. That's my stepdad. So I'm getting advice because now,
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  Speaker 1: to be quite frank with you and quite raw, we
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  Speaker 1: have three people in production here, and I need to
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  Speaker 1: sort of, step up my voiceover game. So poor Ryan
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  Speaker 1: is not doing 12,000 of these voice job spots. Thank you. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm so ready to jump in. It's third time.
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  Speaker 1: It's time. I actually speak clearly and have hosts like
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  Speaker 1: Joe Piscopo, Arthur, Adela, Lucas for our, who I play
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  Speaker 1: soundbites of sometimes to not say, what the hell did
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  Speaker 1: you just say? Or can you say that again? Like
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  Speaker 1: my goal is to say something and be understood. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that will just help in my everyday life too
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  Speaker 1: when it is a communication business we're in and communicating
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  Speaker 1: clearly is definitely part of the job. And that's my
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  Speaker 1: message here at One Leg Up Alex Media.