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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's the treatment.

Thank you. Santa Monica and KCOW.com. It's the treatment. So let me. So let me ask you about the way you hear voices because even as a kid, you've obviously had an ear not only for voices but

for speaking rhythms because Americans sound very different not only from the way our accents

if you pardon expression but the way we talk what does that come from for you well I think just

when you're exposed to us you know know, I was born in the Bronx,

obviously. Clearly. The South Bronx based on your accent, clearly. South Bronx, yeah. It was actually

the West Bronx, but whatever. Forgive my imposition, of course. If you want to be specific about it.

I did. Very, very different to the South Bronx.

But yeah, so I was there till I was about three and a half

and I grew up listening to

American accents and watched American TV

and American films.

And I think my dad who kind of by chance

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