Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,

with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.

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I'll see you on the other side.

There's a famous deaf joke about the Lumberjack, it's called Timber.

And this Lumberjack goes around and he's cutting all of these different trees down.

But when the trees fall and the deaf person is telling it,

they do this mouth morpheum, It's a movement with your mouth,

where the tree comes crashing down,

and your cheeks puff up big to show density. That's Amber Galloway.

That's Amber Galloway.

She's a sign language interpreter

and is hard of hearing herself.

Amber is not actually going to tell us the punchline to that joke.

She uses the Lumberjack story to highlight a challenge of her work as a sign language interpreter,

conveying sound to someone who can't hear it.

Take the sound of a tree falling in the forest.

So it goes, p p p p p p p p p p p. right?

So your mouth goes really big like that. So I was like, wait a second. That is just like a kick drum.

This discovery led Amber to carve out a specialty as an interpreter who covers live music.

She's got over 500 concerts under her belt from Lady Gaga and

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